France/Ploërmel. AGM of Polen: balance sheet and projects

Published on 26/09/2021 | La rédaction

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The members of the Polen association met for a general assembly on Friday evening, September 24, on the first floor of the village hall in Ploërmel.

While members were renewing their annual membership before the meeting, the different workshops were presented. It was therefore possible to attend their exhibition:

cooking workshops, led every 6 weeks by Marie and Marie-Rose,

gardening, with the animators: Jean and Bernard,

beekeeping, with Julien, Robert, Jean and Bernard,

DIY, with Christian who leads a monthly session,

the mobility group, presented by Aléxia on a slide show

the eco-housing group, with Thierry, Dominique, Martine and Mathieu,

and the local currency, led by Jean-Christophe.

The different workshops were very interesting and the participants exchanged a lot of information...

Review of past activities:

The biggest activity of Polen was the bike festival and its 9 km circuit in a loop in Ploërmel, last June 6, with 400 participants and many partners and visitors.

The partnership, in March, with the association of Cigales de Bretagne and the educational videoconference on the project and on personal savings in common, to participate in the financing of local projects with several people.

The mobilization to defend the climate on May 9th, which coincided with the public consultation of the PCAET (Plan Climat Air Energie Territorial) of Ploërmel Communauté! The collected proposals were then sent to the elected officials.

-The workshops were slow with little activity overall, with the exception of the DIY workshop run by Christian. It is located at the entrance of the Poète ferrailleur site in Lizio. He has maintained his woodworking activity, on Fridays and Saturdays from 2pm to 5pm. Christian recovers wood from rubbish dumps and pallets and builds birdhouses, insect hotels, etc...

As for the gardeners, they have made up for the lack of meetings due to Covid, by producing 6 issues of the Polen Gardeners' Gazette!

-The meetings with schoolchildren have been maintained: Roselyne and Jo accompany the volunteer pupils of the Beaumanoir nature class for one hour per month...

Future projects :

The mobility group, around Alexia Lopez, will continue to work on short walking-bike routes and on longer routes.

The bike festival has shown that it is possible to ride a bike safely in the city! The mobility group will be more interested in car-sharing, car-pooling and public transport...

The eco-housing workshop will have to be relaunched! It has indeed suffered a lot from the absence of conferences and visits of ecological houses, since the arrival of the epidemic... "We have several objectives: Firstly, with regard to construction and renovation, we will have to communicate, with the collaboration of the Community of Communes, on the new standards in force. Secondly, we are going to program visits to 2 houses built in earth, with either an earth-straw coating or a hemp coating. The last project is to set up meeting groups, between people who have taken the step and are owners of an ecological house and others who are still hesitating, who lack information. The Polen eco-housing group will be present to put people in touch with each other and to inform them as much as possible..." explains Thierry.

Let's remember that the Board of Directors of the Polen association works in a collegial governance and that following elections, the office has been renewed...

PRACTICAL INFORMATION :

A questionnaire is available on the Polen website: it will only take a few minutes...

Its purpose is to imagine what a Training Centre dedicated to Eco-Construction in South Brittany would be like, to identify the expectations and needs of the population to date, in order to complete the existing offer within the sector!

Survey for professionals: https: //forms.gle/ScgEMMNP34uTLvATA

Survey for individuals: https: //forms.gle/qeDHmSxe6T7Beqnb8

Source: www.lesinfosdupaysgallo.com


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