We would like to invite everyone to a talk by Hans Zomer of Global Action Plan on “Skerries and the Sustainable Development Goals – How together, we can make Skerries even better than ‘good enough.’” – and to our Annual Meeting. This is open to anyone interested in attending. Please sign up using this link!

• Sustainable Skerries Annual Meeting, Thursday 25 January 2024, from 7.30 pm, The Little Theatre, Old School, Skerries Community Centre, Thomas Hand Street
  Incorporating an informal seed exchange. Bring seeds in small, labelled envelopes! 

Traditionally (before Covid and before the time of most committee members), Sustainable Skerries used to hold an annual meeting. We feel that this is a useful way of touching base with the wider Sustainable Skerries community – those who subscribe to our newsletter, as well as those who are members of our WhatsApp group “Chat4SustainableSkerries.”

While this meeting is open to everyone interested, any decisions can only be made by Sustainable Skerries members (those on the newsletter and WhatsApp chat group lists). Don’t forget to sign up using this link!

Sustainable Skerries is a committee of The Skerries Community Association CLG (SCA – which of course holds its own AGMs). We feed into the SCA Annual Report, Financial Statements (which are then audited) and are represented by a committee member on the SCA Board of Directors.

Agenda:

1. Guest Speaker: Hans Zomer, CEO, Global Action Plan: Skerries and the Sustainable Development Goals – How together, we can make Skerries even better than “good enough.”
   Followed by Questions and Answers
2. A series of short (3 min) reports on the work of Sustainable Skerries in 2023
   plus preview on projects already in the pipeline for 2024
   Followed by Questions and Answers
   Biodiversity Action Plan – Charlie Heasman
   Skerries Open Orchards Project – Sabine McKenna
   Consultations / Submissions – Miriam Sweeney
   Skerries Eco Festival – Sabine McKenna
   Water Management Action Plan – Helen Scullion
   Sustainable Skerries and the Skerries Community Association – Helen Scullion
   Followed by Questions and Answers
3. Some formalities:
   Approval of committee members;
   brief overview of our finances (treasurer: Breda Naddy)
4. Discussions: What we can do in 2024:
   Spreading the word –
   Skerries Eco Festival, Skerries Eco Nights: What focus would be best for these?
   Sustainable Skerries Survey (to form the basis of an article on actions people in Skerries can take): Who would like to cooperate on this?
   Tangible projects – in addition to what’s already in the pipeline:
   Community Climate Action Projects Fingal? Keen to be Green in Skerries?
5. Any Other Business / next committee meeting

The meeting is open to anyone interested in attending. If you know anyone else who’d like to attend, please forward this email to them and ask them to sign up using this link!

See you there!

Sabine & the rest of the committee