Conference 2022: How to promote your project

This session looks at a range of techniques you can use to promote your project and engage the wider community. Project promotion is key to success and is needed from the start of your project through to installation and implementation.
In this session we hear from:
Calum Watkins, Director and Technical Lead at Glasgow Community Energy. Calum showcases successful community energy projects in Glasgow and provides helpful tips on how to share projects with communities through various media channels and delivering energy workshops.
Kirsty Lewin, Partnership Manager at Local Energy Scotland. Kirsty tells the story of the InfraSisters cycling campaign. She explains how she and other women developed and promoted the campaign using social and broadcast media, along with high profile mass cycle rides in Edinburgh. She highlightsactions from this campaign that could be used when promoting local renewable energy projects.
This session was held as part of the CARES Conference 2022: Community Climate Action, on Tuesday 27 September 2022.
For more information about Local Energy Scotland and The Scottish Government’s Community and Renewable Energy Scheme (CARES), visit www.localenergy.scot.