Climate Action Towns Update

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MAKI _ Climate Action Towns Update 
August 2022 
About Climate Action Towns 
Climate Action Towns is a Scottish Government pilot run by Architecture & Design Scotland.
The pilot aims to support place-based climate action in a network of seven small Scottish
towns, working collaboratively with local communities. From this, Architecture and Design
Scotland will develop learning that can be applied in places across Scotland. 
Campbeltown has been selected as one of the Climate Action Towns. The 7 towns were
selected using a data-driven approach; firstly  the Scottish Government's Urban Rural
Classifications (2016) and Census data (2011) were used to identify 156 towns in Scotland
with a population under 10,000. These 156 towns were then assessed against a number of
indicators to narrow down to 7 Climate Action Towns - including the SIMD, flood risk, sea
levels, receipt of Climate Challenge Funding and whether A&DS had previously engaged with
the place. 
To date we have been focusing our support around the development of the Campbeltown
Community Action Plan, to ensure it considers future climate change and climate risks. Over
the past year we have helped involve local people and businesses in developing the action
plan. 
Since the last MAKI meeting we have:
Agreed our focus for Year 2 with local partners and where we can support implementation
of the Community Action Plan (CAP) with climate change considerations: 
o Ad-hoc support and guidance around specific CAP actions, which South Kintyre
Development Trust, Campbeltown Community Council and Inspiralba have
already started implementing. 
o Help identify funding opportunities 
o Convening and supporting local groups to take forwards CAP actions under
‘Resilience’ section. Including bringing together local partners and people to
develop of a climate change strategy for Campbeltown, which links into the CAP 
o Convene regional and national stakeholders around deliverability of CAP actions 
o Training with Scottish Communities Development Council to get more local
people involved in community organising 
We have also supported the Campbeltown Community Council to work with Campbeltown
Grammar School's pupil council, so that young people's voices are heard in local decision
making. This has led to a potential project around improving recycling in the school and
town, due to start autumn 2022. 
Our learnings from Year 1 across all 7 Climate Action Towns have now been published. To
take a look please visit: https://www.ads.org.uk/resource/climate-action-towns-year-one-
lessons-report    
If you'd like to get involved or find out more please email chiara.fingland@ads.org.uk