Climate FORTH is aiming to Further Our Resilience Through Heritage. Run by a partnership of: RSPB Scotland (lead agency), Clackmannanshire Council, Green Action Trust,  Falkirk Council, Fife Council, NatureScot, Stirling Council, Sustrans and including advisory partner Historic Environment Scotland. The Evaluator is delighted to be working with the partnership to develop a monitoring and evaluation framework including developing some dedicated tools to measure climate resilience in organisations and individuals.

As Climate FORTH is a project aiming to tackle climate resilience, we started thinking about how this is the ability to bounce back or to weather the storm. This led us onto the idea of creating self-scoring checklists which equate your own or your organisations resilience with the Beaufort Scale. Can you weather a gale? Or just a light breeze? This is what we are working on at present.

The official project description is below;

The Inner Forth Futures partnership is engaged in an ambitious and innovative programme to study, scope and co-design activities with local communities around the unique resilience needs of this landscape. The wealth of existing social, natural and built heritage in this area provides both challenges for adaptation and vital opportunities to facilitate economic and climate readiness.
Across the Inner Forth, from Stirling City to Forth Bridges, heritage and communities, have historically been, entwined in narratives of change and adaptation – whether that be economic, environmental, or societal.

Today, changing climate,  flood susceptibility, built development, economic change, recreation and Covid-19 are putting new pressures on people and place.
The Climate FORTH project covers areas of Clackmannanshire, Falkirk, Stirling and Fife that comprise the Inner Forth.

Climate FORTH aims to:
• Promote the value of local heritage, and use it to inspire positive action towards societal and climate change, particularly towards Scotland’s net zero climate targets.
• Increase the resilience of the Inner Forth’s natural and built heritage assets to societal and climate change.
• Increase resilience to change for people and places within the Inner Forth through heritage supporting the economy, healthy lifestyles, sustainable choices, and a just transition.

Climate FORTH is funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund and is currently in it’s development phase. You can read more about the project by clicking the link here.