Making Art in Sustainable

On 25th March, The University of ’s Contact Theatre played host to an event from Art Sustainability Team (MAST) in collaboration with Julie’s Bicycle. Titled ‘Making Creative Places Sustainable’, the venue

Talent Match muck in at The Lost Plot!

On Monday 16th March, 6 young people from the Factory Youth Zone in got stuck into a volunteering activity at a community allotment as part of the Tri Volunteering programme

M:ACF and MMU collaborate!

: A Certain Future (M:ACF) and Metropolitan University collaborated to deliver a successful ‘Tell Us’ event. AfSL volunteer Matthew Millet reports on the event, read all about it here.

AGM Minutes 2015

AfSL’s AGM was held on 20th February 2015. You can see the minutes form that meeting below. AfSL minutes of the AGM 20 February 2015

Open Homes

AfSL and The Carbon Coop Join Forces to Showcase 25 Eco Homes! Green Open Homes aims to support low carbon open home events around the UK, and this

AfSL Legacy Projects

Legacy Projects 1 Action for Sustainable Living has been involved with and seeded many great projects over the years, a lot of which were initiated by the recently

Green Open Homes

Sign-up and see some Green Open Homes in Carbon Coop and Action for Sustainable Living are running an Open Homes Event on the weekends of the

The Energy Academy

The Energy Academy is back, and this time….. It’s Gorton! The Energy Academy is back to save the day! Over the next few months we’ll be working with

Alison Garrigan

Community Support Worker

Hi! I’m Ali and I joined AfSL in January as the Community Support Worker for the West Gorton Energy Academy Project.

I’ve lived in since 2005 and have been involved in environmental campaigning and activism since then, doing everything from student steering groups at university and community campaigns around airport expansion to taking direct action on the fossil fuel industry. I believe that we’re at a really crucial tipping point with regards to climate change and environmental sustainability and making the changes we need to see has to come from within communities as much as from political leaders. I’m really excited by having the opportunity to work with AfSL to generate some of this change.

For the past 5 years I’ve mostly been working in social housing doing advice and advocacy work, so the Energy Academy project is a great opportunity for me to unite these skills with my passion for working towards environmental sustainability and grassroots change.

I’ve got an unquenchable love of the outdoors so outside of working and campaigning you’re most likely to find me riding my bike, climbing mountains or learning to sea kayak!

I’m looking forwards to meeting more of the AfSL network over the next few months and if anyone has any questions about the project then you can contact me on [email protected]

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Corin Bell

Co-ordinator of Energy Academy

Corin Bell has been with AfSL since January 2012 and is a Co-ordinator for the Energy Academy Programme. Corin works directly with Housing Associations across Greater to engage and support local residents in learning about energy efficiency and sustainability, reducing their domestic energy use, and helping others to do the same. The programme aims to support tenants in reducing their carbon footprint, help those on limited incomes to reduce or avoid fuel poverty, and recruit community volunteers to help us spread the word.

Corin is a freelance sustainability worker specialising in communications, engagement, energy efficiency and sustainable food. She has been working and volunteering in sustainability for around 5 years in the public and charity sectors.

Hidden talents: making amazing curries, baking bread, correcting other people's spelling and grammar, growing (and eating) veg, and asking the question (probably far too often)…. I wonder if you can make booze out of that?

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Simon Robinson

Energy Academy Programme Manager

Simon joined AfSL in 2011 to help progress the development of the Energy Academy programme, which he now manages. He has wide experience of sustainability, built up over 20 years managing environmental projects at local, city-regional and EU levels. Simon combines his AfSL hours with working part-time at Ethical Consumer co-operative, based in Hulme, .

Hidden Talents: raised-bed construction, stopping at red lights when cycling, and not believing the hype.

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Steph Lynch

Volunteer Suppot Worker and Secretariat to M:ACF

Steph joined AfSL as Volunteer Support Worker in May 2013. Steph is responsible for recruiting volunteers to AfSL's E-Team and finding them volunteer opportunities on LPM projects and with other environmental events. Stephanie has a background of working with volunteers as she is a Campaign Lead at Friends of the Earth and a Recovery Worker at Rethink Mental Illness.

During the day, Steph is mainly thinking about bees as she is part of the Bee Cause Campaign. By night, she throws on a sparkly costume and performs bellydance at a number of venues in .