What they had...

Winchester Action on Climate Change (WinACC) was coming up to its first birthday and had a lot of plans to expand their website's features, community involvment and content. They had an existing blog-style site created using Wordpress that was fine as a blog but didn't allow them to expand in the directions they needed.

What was needed...

WinACC wanted to better let their visitors and stakeholders be informed of news and climate change related events in and around the Winchester area, gaining more control over how the site was arranged and stepping away from the purely blog-based format. They have many different Action Groups who need supporting with forums and a stronger web presence. They needed a website platform that could grow with their ambitious plans to create a strong low-carbon movement in the Winchester district.

The biggest single reason for the upgrade was to allow a richer membership system that would allow people to register, sign up to newsletters and report their carbon footprints. These 'Carbon Footprint Reports' are seen as a tool to inspire and motivate people to take resposibility for their carbon footprints whilst building up a picture of what people are doing to cut back and how much they're responsible for emitting.