Sustainable Killearn – Website Creation
To show the wide variety of seed grant possibilities, read on to find out about how Killearn Community Futures Company used their 2024 Seed Grant to create a their website “Sustainable Killearn”.
“The main challenge for Sustainable Killearn is the wide spread of information balanced against the ephemeral nature of Facebook posts. The latter are quite good for raising awareness or for directing people to a website but on their own they are too transitory to be an information repository and form the foundation for future work. Hence the need for a Sustainable Killearn website.”
“While there are a number of great sites that give good information on climate change and sustainability these tend to be specialist in a particular theme (energy or ecology) and quite high level (UK or Scotland national). This site draws from and link back to them but provides examples of local groups delivering in this space and of things people can do for themselves to be more sustainable.”
“I anticipate around 20 to 25 pages of web content with a mix of links to external sites (or other parts of KCFC) and a range of generated content providing information on each of the five Sustainable Themes. Each section would help site visitors find out more or tell them about actions they can take to make their own and their families lives more sustainable. Some of the pages will have generic images initially but the intent would be to replace these with local images/taken photos of ideas in action.”
“We are hoping community awareness will increase over the coming months using the website as a foundation for further activity.”
“The website helped to build connections between different community groups and organisations and identified a range of community organisations by placing them in a climate change context. Development of the website required additional engagement with a wide spectrum of community groups and organisations and this in turn helped build connections between groups.”
“An integral facet of the website is identifying what actions individual members of the community can take to play their role in addressing climate change. Site visitors are invited to take individual actions and to participate in group/organisational actions to advocate for climate action.”
“Including Wellbeing as one of the six themes of Sustainable Killearn enabled the introduction of issues that were wider than traditional net zero concerns. The utilisation of a Wellbeing model should also encourage volunteering by a wider cross section of the community.”
“Previous community engagement had relied upon Facebook posts and the Courier (local magazine) these are both good but are ephemeral. With the website there is now a secure base to build upon in outreach and engagement.”
“Preparation work had been undertaken to identify the key themes and some of the potential organisations and activities which would be highlighted in the website. However, it had been anticipated that development would take place over a longer period of time and involve a wider number of people in capturing images/ writing text. The tighter timelines required to meet the grant conditions meant that more of the images and writing had to be done by one person.”
“As described in the answer above the site ended up being written by one person. However, it is now being soft launched to key stakeholders and will have a “launch event” within the sustainability community prior to wider engagement in the village. This will enable crowd-proof reading and refining and create engagement with/ownership of the site by a larger cross section of the community.”
Visit Sustainable Killearn here and explore their new website.
