AGM VISION
- Where community members have the power to shape their world, with enough local opportunities for a good living and a fulfilling life, and with access to the knowledge, skills, and resources necessary to enable them to do so.
- Where community members can live in harmony with the environment with a greater sense of well-being, and live confidently knowing that they are safeguarding the future.
AGM MISSION
- AGM will create opportunities for the community of people living in Melrose and surrounding area to explore ways of living in a more nature-friendly way through local actions in e.g. transport, food, energy, resources, land use and economic activities in general.
- AGM will strengthen public awareness and knowledge, skills, and resource sharing with a view to enabling members of the community to shape their local space, livelihoods and lifestyles.
- AGM will actively promote greater inter-connectedness within its own membership and beyond by adopting a community-led approach in all its activities.
- AGM will actively engage with other stakeholders (e.g. local council, businesses, think tanks, schools, other citizen action groups etc) to amplify the impact of our actions.
- AGM will be an effective and efficient organisation, with members being guided by the Transition Network principles to lead and be actively involved in delivering its vision.
Who are we?
We are a community in the central Scottish Borders who share a goal of creating a future where man lives truly in harmony with the environment for the benefit of both, and where we feel empowered to do something beyond recycling plastic, adopting and testing new ideas to achieve our goal.
We are guided by the Transition Network’s ethos of change through hand (action), head (knowledge) and heart (feeling)
We are an incorporated charity (SCIO), with a constitution, vision and mission, supported by a straightforward decision-making process and a number of on-going activities on transport, food and community outreach in particular.
Our actions are supported by a group of about 15 active volunteers. We hold regular indoor and outdoor events that attract between 40 – 60 attendants and have a 300+ list of followers. We have considerable assets and regularly attract funding. We work with other groups across the Borders where our aims and projects can achieve more through collaboration.
We maintain close communications with the Scottish Borders Council, and South of Scotland Enterprise, and are a member of the Scottish Community Action, and are a founding member of the Scottish Borders Climate Action Network.
What are we aiming to be?
We are seeking to expand our reach and deepen our impact. More specifically:
- We would like Greener Melrose to become a place where young people feel more at home with a feeling of agency over their future
- We would like to reach out to a wider and more diverse community across our catchment area, especially those who would like to influence the future but maybe do not know where to start
- We would like to increase and diversify our membership
- We would like to see Greener Melrose develop into an organisation that can do much more
- We would like to develop our capacity to measure, evaluate and celebrate our impacts