C4C Environmental Check
The purpose of the check C4C, Communities for Climate, was to protect nature in Bergslagen. The result was eight sub-projects that together contributes to our achieving the goal of "Protecting the environment".
About the project
The project is completed and the results are presented below. C4C has journal number 2024-996 with the Swedish Board of Agriculture.
In C4C, it also included that the environmental inspirers Soxbo and Sundh helped Leader Bergslagen with two lectures. One at Färna manor, one at Grythyttan's Inn.
Our environmental inspirers Soxbo and Sundh
In addition to the inspirational lectures, Maria Soxbo and Emma Sundh conducted digital coaching conversations with potential project owners.
Emma writes
It's brimming with lots of exciting, important, creative ideas and now we want them to come to fruition!
Emma Sundh is a freelance journalist and transition consultant. http://emmasundh.com
Maria Soxbo is a freelance journalist and lecturer.
Together they run
Equipment for birdwatching
CASE
The project's goal is to develop the association's youth branch with the help of new equipment. The goal is to let young people in northern Västmanland try birdwatching.
Purpose
The purpose of the project is to increase the quality of life for young people in Bergslagen by welcoming them to a new and interesting hobby in nature with fresh air, exercise, and rich nature experiences.
Justification
The sub-activity is granted support as BirdLife Västmanland's project idea follows the ambitions of the environmental check C4C, Communities for Climate.
Birdlife Sweden states that Sweden's bird fauna is already clearly affected by the climate changes we have been exposed to in recent decades. Activities where young people get to go out and birdwatch with good equipment and learn about our most common birds can create an understanding of how important it is to protect our nature.
Leader Bergslagen believes it is fun that BirdLife Västmanland wants to arrange birdwatching where young people from both Skinnskatteberg, Fagersta, and Norberg are welcomed to try out, starting in the Summer Carousel 2026.
Development of Grecksåsars Bygdegård
CASE
The goal is to develop Grecksåsars Bygdegård with environmentally and climate-smart activities.
Purpose
The purpose of the project is to protect nature by thinking long-term about how a community center can be used for activities and how it can be heated in an environmentally sustainable way.
Justification
Together, the members of the community center want to preserve their house for the future, install a heat pump, and have environmentally related lectures. The energy-saving heating system will improve the conditions for utilizing the community center and thus also increase the quality of life and improve the service for the villagers.
Business development Bang mile
CASE
The project's goal is to develop operations and carpentry together at the Knallis Kolmila visitor attraction.
Purpose
The purpose of the project is to protect nature by creating greater interest in locally produced food and biodiversity.
The sub-activity is granted support as it fits into the ambition of Communities 4 Climate, where villagers gather around a common protection of cultural history, local production of goods and nature.
Easily movable feed fence for free-range livestock
CASE
The goal is to create a prototype for a new feed fence that is not available on the market today.
Purpose
The purpose of the project is to protect nature and people by solving problems that farmers have with unwieldy feedlots.
The sub-activity is granted support because the inventors' association's idea fits into the ambition of Communities 4 Climate, where associations work to increase organic and local food production, something that in the long run also protects nature and biodiversity.
Business development Bang mile
CASE
The project's goal is to develop operations and carpentry together at the Knallis Kolmila visitor attraction.
Purpose
The purpose of the project is to protect nature by creating greater interest in locally produced food and biodiversity.
The sub-activity is granted support as it fits into the ambition of Communities 4 Climate, where villagers gather around a common protection of cultural history, local production of goods and nature.
Flowers and insects at Västmannagården
CASE
The project's goal is to prepare the land and create a flower meadow outside Västmannagården in Sundbo, Fagersta.
Purpose
The purpose of the project is to protect biodiversity.
The sub-activity is granted support as it follows the ambitions of the C4C, Communities for Climate, environmental check, to turn the association's lawn into a flower meadow. IOGT-NTO protects nature in a way that also benefits the residents of and around Sundbo in a beautiful way.
Bara Bada Sauna for all ages
CASE
The project's goal is to renovate the cottage by Lake Avlången in Virsbo and arrange fun days with participants of all ages.
Purpose
The purpose of the project is to increase interest in spending time in nature and thereby create incentives to protect it.
The sub-activity is granted support as it follows the ambitions of the C4C, Communities for Climate, environmental check, to increase interest in socializing and enjoying the peace and quiet of nature. The blessing of slowness and simplicity is found in staying in a cabin in the forest, and taking a sauna together.
Permaculture spread like seeds! Anniversary Gyttorp school garden
CASE
The project's goal was to celebrate the anniversary in Gyttorp's school garden with a fire show/magician, a bench for the labyrinth, and planting fruit trees, shrubs, plants with associated plant signs and entrance signs.
Purpose
The purpose of the project was to protect the environment through business development in the form of joint planting of plants, development of a meeting place and a fun show for the guests!
The sub-activity is granted support as it follows the ambition of the umbrella project C4C, Communities for Climate, to develop operations and celebrate their community farms. The board of Leader Bergslagen believes that this is an interesting and important initiative to support in Gyttorp.
About the project
Project period
2024-2026
Project owner
Leader Bergslagen LAG
Project Manager
Lars Lindblom, Chairman of LAG
lars.lindblom@samarkand2015.com
Contact the office for questions.
About the project
The LAG board has chosen to prioritize the C4C umbrella project with approval as it will in its entirety lead to goal achievement according to the local development strategy.
The LAG board believes that umbrella projects are a good way to stimulate small-scale local development ideas. It is interesting to take inspiration from the ongoing EU project Communities for Climate C4C, which we can do with this umbrella project.
About financing
Granted leader support
132,000 SEK
Co-financing from the EU/Swedish Board of Agriculture
SEK 268,000
Total financing
400,000 SEK
Leader support consists of funding from the EU, the state and Leader Bergslagen.
Incoming EU funds have been granted from:
Rural Development Fund