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Reasons Revisited

More power to you: how we can all help to make a change

Reasons Revisited

Geoff Lloyd

Society & Culture, Government, News, Politics

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

As this chapter of Reasons to be Cheerful almost draws to a close we wanted to leave you feeling motivated and inspired to take action on the things you care most about, from climate change to inequality. Feeling disempowered and frustrated with the state of the world? Our three guests are here to tell you why doing your bit can be joyful, fun and might just restore your faith in humanity a little bit! We hear from Froi Legaspi from Citizens UK who tells us about his journey into community organising, from Emily Bolton who's working with Grimsby Football Club to build a more optimistic future for the town, and to Dan McCallum, who back in 1998 started an energy co-op in Wales that's now the biggest rooftop solar co-op in the UK.


Plus: Keep sending us your messages of what you've learnt from the pod since 2017! We'd love to hear from you at [email protected]


Guests

Froi Legaspi, Senior Organiser, Citizens UK (@FroilanLegaspi @CitizensUK)

Emily Bolton, Founder, Our Future (@EmilyJBolton_ / @OurFutureGY)

Dan McCallum, Co-Founder & Manager, Awel Aman Tawe (@AwelAmanTawe)


More information

Check out the work of Citizens UK including their local chapters

Read more about the work of Our Future and of Awel Aman Tawe

Want to set up your own project? Go to Community Energy EnglandWales & Scotland

Dan also mentioned Energy4All

Learn more about the work of We're Right Here, the campaign for a Community Power Act and of Locality

UCL's Policy Lab is undertaking a new project called Ordinary Hope, find out more here



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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is to be cheerful with Ed Millie Band and Jeff Lloyd.

0:12.0

Well hello, hello, how are you?

0:14.0

Do you think we're like those people who sort of fake their own demise

0:18.0

and then in order to get lots of praise?

0:20.0

Don't people usually do that for the life insurance payout?

0:22.0

I don't think there is one of those for reasons to be cheerful.

0:25.4

No, no, as we said last week, the podcast in its current form, we're drawing that to a close. But we'd like to carry on chatting.

0:33.8

We would.

0:34.8

We've had a lot of nice email from people saying,

0:37.6

yeah, if you're going to carry on chatting, I wouldn't mind Eves dropping in on that.

0:40.7

So we're just figuring out, well, that may or may not be but I don't

0:44.5

think it's quite like announcing your farewell concert and then doing a come back

0:48.8

tour the following week. Was it Sinatra who was known for doing more farewell?

0:52.0

Oh yeah yeah yeah yeah you think we're not in Sinatra territory?

0:56.0

I don't think we're quite in Sinatra territory in a number of ways, both good and bad.

1:00.5

For those who weren't, didn't she in last week maybe we should say why we?

1:04.0

Yeah if for some reason you didn't hear last week's episode there's going to be an election sooner or later.

1:09.3

For Jeff's neighborhood watch. For my neighborhood watch.

1:12.0

Do you think that joke is still funny?

1:13.7

I mean it wasn't that funny the first time, but you think the joke is still funny?

1:16.3

No, no, but let's ring every last drop out of it, as is our want.

1:20.8

So we've had to make a decision to say goodbye to podcast in its current form with all the

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