Resilient Powys Event
Resilient Powys Event Summary
The Resilient Powys event brought together over 120 participants, spanning town and community councils, voluntary organisations, nature groups, energy innovators, food system actors, transport campaigners, and public bodies. The day demonstrated that there is a strong, distributed, and diverse climate‑action ecosystem across Powys, but that it is one that remains fragmented, variable in capacity, and needing strategic coordination, long‑term support, and system‑level alignment.
Across the plenary sessions, workshops, contribution cards and feedback forms, a clear picture emerged: Powys possesses an unprecedented volume of community‑led climate and nature activity, but its ability to achieve population‑scale impact depends on PSB leadership, improved cross‑sector coordination, better communication pathways, and removal of system-level barriers that inhibit community-led action.
Key highlights from the event include
New shared insights into the lived climate challenges facing Powys’ communities and what motivates or constrains them.
Clear case studies and shared learnings across energy, travel, food, nature, economy, and community engagement.
A strong community mandate for accelerating action, improving coordination, and sustaining support.
Evidence of appetite for continued collective work, including annual events, regional sessions, better cross-border working, and structured follow-up.
It has created a foundation for whole-system action on climate resilience, community capacity, food security, biodiversity, renewable energy, and sustainable transport.
We now have better visibility of:
The scale of Powys’ community‑led energy, food, transport, nature restoration, and circular‑economy initiatives
How these initiatives correlate with local resilience mapping (repair cafés, food share, community orchards, local coordination groups, energy projects, biodiversity activity)
The barriers limiting climate and nature action in Powys including lack of funding stability, insufficient communication channels between public bodies and communities, fragmented action due to rurality and lack of cross border coordination.
Event Feedback
The event was well received- 85% of people said the event helped build a shared understanding of climate and nature challenges and opportunities in Powys and 90% of people stating that the event strengthened collaboration between communities, organisations and public bodies
