Member Organisations
A key purpose of Renfrewshire Climate Action Network is to facilitate member organisations to support each other.
'Offers and Needs' at RenCAN exists to identify skills and resources some organisations can share with others, and identify gaps ('needs') within the network.
What are 'Offers and Needs'?
'Offers and Needs' can be either free or paid for services or resources. For example, one organisation may be looking for volunteer opportunities, while another organisation is in need of volunteers for their projects, so they may want to work together. Or one organisations may have tools they could lend or hire to another organisation to get a project done. Or an organisation has a space they can make available for community events.
Current 'Offers and Needs'
Below is a list of our Member Organisations and what they are currently offering or are looking for. If you would like your organisation to be featured please get in touch.
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Offers: Volunteers.
Needs: Advice, resources, partnership, space
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Offers: Transport
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Offers: Recycling (for composting)
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Offers: Carbon literacy / Qualification
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Offers: Repair Cafe; Growing space
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Offers: We offer creative programming, community engagement expertise, and event collaboration opportunities focused on cycling and the arts. Our team can support workshops, outreach, and festival planning.
Needs: We’re keen to connect with local groups, organisations, and individuals who can help us reach wider communities across Renfrewshire. Support with promotion, community engagement, and identifying potential collaborators - especially those interested in cycling, creativity, or climate action would be especially helpful.
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Offers: Carbon literacy / Qualification / Growing space
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Offers: Networking
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Offers: Ecological expertise, youth insight, starting-up support.
Needs: Volunteer management, community engagement, funding.
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Offers: Education and skill intro to courses in the construction industry which would need to be paid by the individual.
Needs: Venue, space resources and marketing / business support.
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Offers: Artistic Interventions
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Offers: Community Empowerment Skills; Venue.
Needs: Advice and resources.
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Offers: Networking / Sharing Experiences.
Needs: We would appreciate networking opportunities with other schools and organizations to share knowledge, advice, and best practices on outdoor education, biodiversity projects, and sustainability initiatives. Collaboration on resources, funding opportunities, and expert guidance would also be valuable.
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Offers: Outdoor equipment (tools etc).
Needs: We require advice to help us get started with fundraising and long term projects.
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Offers: Recycling and re-use
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Offers: Family Engagement
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Offers: Renewable Energy / Social, Economic and Environmental Research and Policy
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Offers: Venue – we have a large church hall with kitchen, and other meeting rooms.
Needs: Advice, resources, encouragement.
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Offers: Upcycling and repairing items / Companionship.
Needs: Access and advice from your network of groups.
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Offers: Composting Education
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Offers: Growing Space.
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Offers: Promoting Healthy Eating / Food Waste Reduction
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Offers: We have a gallery space open for exhibitions/public consultations/events as well as a back room/workshop space available for community groups/practical activities/meetings.
Needs: Advice on community building, skills (workshop facilitators etc).
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Offers: Food Growing; Mending & clothes recycling; Resources for energy use & cost awareness.
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Offers: Outdoor space with a community garden and cycling area for road safety awareness / self sustainable gas free venue.
Needs: Advice on growing flowers to sell as wild flower bouquets.
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Offers: Expanding awareness and engagement in alternative transport.
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Offers: Increasing food growing at our new site in Renfrewshire.
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Offers: Renewable Energy; Regenerative Agriculture; Other income generating projects.
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Offers: Polytunel share, raised beds & nursery places.
Needs: Gardening help, Handyman, soil, seeds, advice.
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Offers: Rewilding.
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Offers: Climate justice; photography.
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Offers: Bikes servicing and repairs Workshops for teaching servicing
Needs: Funding advice Workspaces
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Offers: Nature and conservation; Recycling upcycling, reuse.
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Offers: Sustainable energy; Transport; RUR; Building developments and all forms of climate action that benefit wildlife
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Offers: Utilisation of redundant ground for community climate action purposes.
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Offers: Teach children, young people and adults about the impact of climate emergency and impact of climate action, both locally and globally, through various types of action/topics/media. We are keen for fair trade to be part of climate solution.
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Offers: Linking growing projects and environmental projects around the preservation and rewilding of the Black and White Cart rivers with digital and film artists in the Region to create new and experimental environmental Digital art works.
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Offers: Social enterprise or co-operative; Nature and conservation.
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Offers: Community garden space. Gardening tools and equipment. Volunteer support and collaboration. Learning opportunities and Venue for community-led events.
Needs: Advice. Resources and materials and Collaborative partnerships.
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Offers: opportunity to collaborate and to work together on things of shared interest.
Needs: The Renfrew Development Trust will soon be taking on a pond project in Robertson Park through its Friends of Robertson Park Initiative, where we plan to add fountains as well as natural biodiversity and support features of wildlife, any support with this would be helpful.
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Offers: Venues - Paid, (Canal Lane and Dunlop Street Premises). Skills - Engaging with local young people.
Needs: Green Space to conduct sessions with local young people.
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Offers: Wood recycling.
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Offers: Skills in all of the creative industries, equipment / tech in visual art, music & film; venues in Inverclyde and Seedhill; paid artist opportunities, unpaid volunteer opportunities; training resources.
Needs: Advice on community asset transfer; trading income as a non-profit; venues or orgs in Seedhill that may be willing to take on our community groups if we are not able to secure funding for the space past March.
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Offers: Advisory; partnership working; communications.
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Offers: Transport - supports families/young people of ethnic communities, including cycling and other means of travel.
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Offers: Based in Fairlie although much work takes place in Paisley. Offers reasonably priced raised beds.
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Offers: Recycling upcycling, reuse.
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Offers: We are open for cooperation with other charities and welcome ideas of how we may be of assistance.
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Offers: Expanding on food growing and composting.
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Offers: Flood prevention.
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Offers: Reduced plastic and litter.
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Offers: Flood mitigation.
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Offers: Energy information.
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Offers: Wilding areas.
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Offers: We have a range of knowledge on Climate, biodiversity loss/restoration, pollution issues such as plastic and the ability to both teach and invest practical skills.
Needs: Help to get a poly tunnel set up and the continued development of a wildflower area (we have started, but need help to diversify the species range).
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