A series of workshops are to be held next month (May) on how communities and businesses can save money on energy bills and cut carbon emissions.

The workshops will be delivered by North Yorkshire Council in conjunction with the York and North Yorkshire Local Enterprise Partnership.

They aim to deliver a programme to help tackle climate change and reduce harmful emissions as part of the North Yorkshire UK Shared Prosperity Fund.  

The council has allocated £780,000 for three strands of work to create a programme to support and build capacity for community climate action as well as business-based decarbonisation programmes to reduce energy costs and carbon emissions.

Executive member for climate change, Cllr Greg White, said: “If we are to mitigate its scale and impact, climate change requires an urgent and effective response from all of us.

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“These workshops aim to involve local community groups, businesses and stakeholders to get an overarching view on how the work should progress – what is required to reach net zero and the types of support that will be needed.”

The sessions will take place across the county, including in Scarborough.

Workshops will take place in the town on May 30 in the Sea View Conference room in Scarborough Town Hall.

There will be a ‘Developing Business Net Zero’ programme’ from 3pm to 5pm and a Developing a Community Climate Action’ programme from 9.30am to 12pm.

To sign-up to one of the workshops, log on to www.northyorks.gov.uk/UKSPF