Director’s view

Gracie Bradley, Director

We’re halfway through the year already and it’s busy as ever at Friends of the Earth Scotland. We are now several months into developing our exciting new organisational strategy, which will run from 2024 – 2026. This was at the top of my list when I joined the team at the end of January this year.

We have run an open and participatory consultation process. We’ve come together to think about the basic question of what strategy is, to map our movement, and to look at what we achieved in our last strategy, and what work there still is to do. We’ve also deliberated on the political, economic and scientific contexts, whether our existing vision and mission are fit for purpose, and what our values should be.

We also sent a link to a survey to all of you, our members, in the last issue of What on Earth, which yielded some very interesting insights, as did the strategy discussion at our AGM. We held a great session for people involved in our local groups and we sent out questionnaires and held consultation meetings with other allies and critical friends.

Once I’ve synthesised all of these inputs into a draft, it will be up to our board, as representatives of our membership, to amend and sign it off in September, and then we’ll get to work on making plans for the following year.

While facing down climate and environmental harm is an increasingly daunting task, we’re confident that a well-resourced, thoughtful and agile strategy will put us on a strong footing for the hard work ahead.

Thanks as ever for your support and I hope you enjoy this edition of the magazine.