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FEL Now Recruiting

FEL is changing our world for the better, project by project. We show people how to make everyday changes that help them, their communities and the planet thrive. FEL is now recruiting for two project officers to join our team.

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GATHER AROUND GOOD FOOD

Book your free place and help create the food system you want.

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Thinking of getting an eBike? Steve's Case Study

One of our volunteers Steve shares his experience in getting an eBike loan and what to expect. Read the full story here!

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TALKING FOOD EVENTS WITH THE STIRLING FOOD PARTNERSHIP

The Stirling Food Partnership and Stirling Community Development Team are joining forces to deliver a series of events celebrating skills sharing around food. They start this month with the theme of Sharing Food Cultures and will be hosted in a variety of community minded spaces in Stirlingshire.

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FREE BIKES FOR FORTH VALLEY VOLUNTEERS

Charity Forth Environment Link has launched a new project for 2023, offering volunteers across Forth Valley a free bike.

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GARDEN ORGANISER TRAINING TO SOW SEEDS OF NEW COMMUNITY GARDENS IN FORTH VALLEY

Applications are now open to Forth Valley groups and organisations to apply for a limited number of fully funded training places on the course that aims to increase the amount of Community Food Growing in Falkirk, Stirling and Clackmannanshire. The course will be delivered 6 – 10 March, 2023 and the deadline for applications is 6 February.

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NHS Wellbeing Week

Looking to get active in the new year? We will be at multiple NHS Forth Valley sites for wellbeing week.

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Have a Veggie Christmas with FEL

Opting to swap some meaty favourites for vegetarian or vegan choices can help save both cash and carbon. Read more to find out what veggie alternatives FEL brought to the Veggie Christmas!

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Join Clacks Good Food for a Bite and a Blether

We'll be at Menstrie Community Garden for a Bite and a Blether with the Clacks Good Food Charter to explore what it is we need from our Local Food System.

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Become a Garden Bud!

Would you like to share your skills and expertise with a Falkirk-based growing project? Apply now to take part in our Garden Buddies programme where you will be trained and matched with a local community growing project!

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Falkirk Good Food Ambassadors Programme

As part of the Falkirk Food Future Programme, we ran the Falkirk Good Food Ambassadors programme in two local high schools – Braes and Falkirk High. This programme was aimed for young people to explore more about food and growing, learn new skills and gain new experiences. Read the full story here!

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Launch of two new ForthBike stations making it Scotland’s largest cross regional bike share scheme

The Forth Bike network is set to expand with two additional electric bike rental stations in Falkirk, thanks to a collaboration between Forth Environment Link, Sustrans and the NHS.

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FEL Notice of Annual General Meeting

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FARMING, FOOD, NATURE AND PUBLIC MONEY - CONSULTATION WORKSHOP

Join Nourish Scotland to discuss the future of farming in Scotland.

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CHALLENGE POVERTY WEEK - CLIMATE FUNDING SKILLS

For Challenge Poverty Week 2022 Forth Valley Food Partnerships are hosting sessions aimed at building climate funding skills for community groups and individuals.

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COMMUNITIES REAP THE REWARDS OF FOOD FUTURES FUNDING

Community groups across Falkirk are reaping the rewards of a £300,000 funding pot for food and growing.

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FALKIRK FOOD CONVERSATIONS

Our full programme of #FalkirkFoodConversations starts next week! Events are open to anyone with an interest in food sustainability. Come and explore Falkirk as a Sustainable Food Place.

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INVITATION TO TENDER - FORTH VALLEY FOOD FUTURES WEBSITE

Forth Environment Link are inviting organisations to tender for the creation of a new website.

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CELEBRATING FALKIRK’S FIRST GOOD FOOD AMBASSADORS

Students at two local secondary schools are celebrating becoming the region’s first Good Food Ambassadors.

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CHARITY ROLLS OUT SCHOOL ACTIVE TRAVEL HUBS TO HIGH SCHOOLS

Climate charity Forth Environment Link is opening two more school based active travel hubs following a successful pilot project in Alloa.

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Board of Trustees Vacancies

Forth Environment Link is looking for new Trustees to join the organisation and help shape our future direction as we emerge from the last 2 years of working within a global pandemic

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20 min neighbourhoods in rural settings

"Even in a community highly reliant on cars, many drivers were still keen to use alternative transport - but the current infrastructure simply did not make this viable" Read this blog by Stuart Guzinski of Forth Environment Link and Richard Boddington of Drymen Community Development Trust.

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Would you love to work in sustainable travel? We are looking for a Senior Active Travel Project Officer

Forth Environment Link (FEL) has an exciting new role to work in our Active Travel team.

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NOW HIRING 2 SUSTAINABLE TRAVEL POSITIONS

Forth Environment Link (FEL) has exciting new roles to work in our Active Travel team, funded by Paths for All.

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Invitation to Tender - Brand Audit

Forth Environment Link (FEL) is looking to commission brand audit research to help us understand the strengths and weaknesses of our brand.

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TOP UP ON THE GO WITH STIRLING’S NEW E-BIKE FAST CHARGERS

Six new fast chargers have been rolled out across Stirlingshire to allow cyclists to top up their e-bike batteries on the go.

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CAPTURING FORTH VALLEYS CLIMATE STORIES

Deadline extended for our A Green Start creative competition supported by the Scottish Government's Climate Challenge Fund.

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NEW FUND GIVES A BOOST TO COMMUNITY FOOD PROJECTS IN FALKIRK

20 community food projects across Falkirk will share £300,000 in funding from the UK Government’s Community Renewal Fund.

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20 MINUTE NEIGHBOURHOOD ENGAGEMENT EVENTS

Join us for some engagement events in Drymen and surrounding villages East of Loch Lomond, we want to hear your thoughts on better living locally.

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A GREEN START CREATIVE COMPETITION

Forth Environment Link are hosting a creative competition to capture Forth Valley's inspiring climate stories, which we'll share to celebrate A Green Start to 2022.

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My Bo’ness: 20-Minute Neighbourhood Pilot

Can 20-minute neighbourhoods, places that prioritise people rather than vehicles, help reduce our impact on the environment and get Scotland closer to net zero? Locals in Bo’ness are about to find out!

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EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS 2 NEW JOBS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AGED 18 - 24, FUNDED BY SCOTTISH GOVERNMENTS YOUNG PERSON'S GUARANTEE SCHEME

Forth Environment Link (FEL) is partnering with Clackmannanshire Council and the Young person’s Guarantee Scheme from Scottish Government. We are delighted to be able to host two new project support officer roles, within two exciting projects.

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Invitation to Tender - Digital Training: Falkirk Food Futures

Forth Environment Link (FEL) is looking to work with a partner to deliver a programme of digital training to community food organisations, their volunteers and service users.

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Invitation to Tender - Mental Health Support and Counselling: Falkirk Food Futures

Forth Environment Link (FEL) is looking to work with a partner to deliver a programme of mental health support to community food organisations and their volunteers.

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Falkirk Food Futures open for applications

Our Falkirk Food Futures grant is now open for applications

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Invitation to Tender - Falkirk Food Futures

Forth Environment Link (FEL) is looking to work with a partner to support the development and evaluation of the Falkirk Food Futures grant program.

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LIVING LOCALLY: NATIONAL PARK TO HOST 20 MINUTE NEIGHBOURHOOD RURAL PILOT

Could 20-minute neighbourhoods, where people can meet their daily needs within a short walk from their home, be the answer to Scotland’s net zero ambitions?

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NINE HERITAGE TRAILS TO EXPLORE ON TWO WHEELS THIS WINTER

Charity Forth Environment Link has joined forces with local heritage consultant Alan Buchan to create a series of nine heritage trails to explore by Forth Bike this winter, showcasing Forth Valley’s hidden (and not-so-hidden) heritage.

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Announcing Falkirk Food Futures Project, Including Falkirk Food Futures Fund Online Open Information Sessions

We are delighted to share some news with you all, Forth Environment Link (FEL) is launching a new project called Falkirk Food Futures, funded by the UK Government Community Renewal Fund. The Falkirk Food Futures project will work alongside community organisations, Falkirk Council, NHS Forth Valley, CVS Falkirk and local third sector partners to build a fairer, more resilient and sustainable food future for the region.

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Exciting New Role for new Falkirk Food Futures programme, funded by the UK Government’s Community Renewal Fund

Forth Environment Link has been awarded over half a million pounds by the UK government’s Community Renewal Fund to address food insecurity in Falkirk.

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CHARITY TO GIVE FREE BIKES TO 250 CLACKS SCHOOL KIDS TO BOOST WELLBEING

250 Clackmannanshire children aged 10-12 are to be invited to take part in a pilot project offering them a free bike, as well as essential cycling skills training and bike maintenance support.

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BO'NESS 20 MINUTE TOWN ACTION PLAN

Save the date for our consultation events and activities

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3 Exciting Roles in Active Travel & Bike Maintenance

If you are a qualified bike mechanic, have a passion for cycling and walking, and want to take practical action against climate change, we want to hear from you.

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FORTH VALLEY FOR NET ZERO, JOIN THE CAMPAIGN FOR #NETZERO BY 2045

As the world marked #EarthOvershootDay a new campaign was launched in our region, Forth Valley for Net Zero, to show the actions Forth Valley businesses and communities can take to tackle the #ClimateEmergency and achieve #NetZero by 2045.

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CHARITY HELPS LAUNCH CAMPAIGN TO TACKLE CLIMATE EMERGENCY

Charity Forth Environment Link and pupils from Bantaskin Primary, Falkirk helped launch a major TV, radio and digital campaign to encourage people across Scotland to come together to tackle the climate emergency on 3rd June.

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Gather Around Local Food 3rd Annual Event

This 9 June, lets Gather Around Local Food. Join Forth Environment Link for a programme of talks and live steams hosted by our Rural Online Food Markets project.

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FINDING SOLUTIONS TO FOOD INSECURITY IN FORTH VALLEY

Forth Environment Link is set to launch a study seeking sustainable and dignified solutions to food insecurity in Forth Valley.

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A CHECK IN WITH OUR CLIMATE KITCHEN GARDEN PROJECT

As part of National Gardening Week 2021 we share news from our current Climate Kitchen Garden project based in Falkirk

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Board of Trustees Vacancies

Forth Environment Link are recruiting new Trustees to join the organisation and help shape our future direction as we emerge from the last 12 months of working within a global pandemic.

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FREE NEXTBIKE STIRLING RIDES INITIATIVE EXTENDED UNTIL JUNE

A popular initiative making nextbike journeys free for Stirling residents has been extended until June 2021.

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Extension to support rural online markets for local food

FEL is delighted to announce it has been awarded additional funding from the LEADER Cooperation Fund for an extension of our project between April and August 2021. FEL will be funded to offer support to markets in Borders, Fife, Forth Valley & Lomond, Perth & Kinross, but all NeighbourFood hosts, or those considering launching their own market, anywhere in Scotland are very welcome to all but one-to-one sessions.

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FORTH VALLEY’S EBIKERS CIRCLE GLOBE THREE TIMES

Forth Bike users have clocked up over 83,000 miles since the electric bike scheme was launched in summer 2019 – that’s more than 3 times round the globe.

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ONLINE FARMERS’ MARKETS MAKE QUARTER OF A MILLION FOR RURAL ECONOMY

A project to roll out click and collect farmers’ markets across Scotland has injected nearly a quarter of a million pounds into the rural economy - helping keep food and drink producers afloat at a critical time for the industry.

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FIVE NEW FORTH BIKE STATIONS FOR FALKIRK

Five new Forth Bike stations opened in Falkirk on Monday 1 March, doubling the number of electric bike hire points across the area thanks to funding from SP Energy Networks’ Green Economy Fund, Energy Saving Trust and Falkirk Council.

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2 Exciting New Roles for young people in Clackmannanshire, funded by Scottish Government's Young Person's Guarantee Scheme

*** Now closed to applications *** Are you aged 18-24 and interested in supporting projects to act on Climate Change? We have 2 exciting new Project Support Officer roles within our Active Travel and Food & Reuse Teams.

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Green Christmas 2020 Online Event

Forth Environment Link are excited to launch an online version of their Green Christmas Event which has previously run from their Falkirk premises over the last two years. Green Christmas is all about providing an alternative way of enjoying the festive season without costing the earth or our purse strings.

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NEW LOCAL FOOD PODCAST LAUNCHED

FEL’s Regional Food Project is pleased to announce the launch of Grow and Tell a new podcast for people who love local food, and want to know how to get more of it on to their plates.

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BIKE MEDICS TO THE RESCUE

Charity Forth Environment Link is set to launch a free roadside bike repair service for NHS key workers to encourage them to keep on cycling to work during the coronavirus pandemic. The Bike Medic scheme responds to a surge in the number of NHS Forth Valley staff commuting by bike or e-bike and will be available from Monday 28 September.

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FREE BIKE INITIATIVE EXTENDED UNTIL LATE AUTUMN

An initiative offering Stirling residents free access to bikes has been extended until late autumn thanks to funding from Paths for All’s Smarter Choices, Smarter Places Local Authority Fund.

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GATHER AROUND LOCAL FOOD

Forth Environment Link are excited to announce a week-long programme of online events that invite people to Gather Around Local Food. These events have been shaped by and serve to share experiences and skills from our NeighbourFood Scotland partners as part of our Regional Online Food Markets project.

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FORTH BIKE USERS CIRCLE GLOBE TWICE IN FIRST YEAR

Forth Bike users have clocked up nearly 45,000 miles in the electric bike scheme’s first year – that’s almost twice round the globe!

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COMMUNITY GROUPS DIG WINDOW BOX GROWING

Community groups and organisations across Falkirk are taking part in a pilot project to get them growing their own produce from their windowsill.

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Free Bikes for Stirling Residents through Bike Share

A surge in people cycling prompts an innovative partnership initiative to offer three-month free bike trial in the city. The latest statistics show the numbers of people cycling in Cornton Road in Stirling increased by 61 per cent compared to May 2019.

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FREE BIKE HIRE FOR FORTH VALLEY’S KEY WORKERS

Forth Environment Link and Recyke-a-Bike have joined forces with Cycling Scotland to make the region’s two bike share schemes, nextbike and Forth Bike, free to key workers during April.

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CHARITY OFFERS NHS KEY WORKERS FREE USE OF AN E-BIKE

Forth Environment Link is offering NHS key workers free use of an electric bike during the Covid-19 crisis, allowing them to get to and from work and between hospital sites without using public transport.

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COVID–19 Update

The wellbeing, health and safety of all our staff, volunteers and customers is a priority for Forth Environment Link. Due to COVID-19, we have closed all our offices including our active travel hubs.

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Pupil Pedal Power

A fourth local school has joined Stirling’s popular bike share network, nextbike. St Modan’s High School, joins Bannockburn, Stirling, and Wallace, in the first school-based bike share scheme in the UK – making it free and easy for pupils aged 14 and over to bike to class.

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FLAVOUR SCHOOL INSPIRES KIDS TO EXPLORE NEW FOODS

Forth Environment Link and Forth Valley Sensory Centre have joined forces to create a ‘Flavour School’ thanks to funding from Falkirk Council and the Central Scotland Green Network Fund.

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SCOTLAND’S LARGEST ELECTRIC BIKE SCHEME LAUNCHED

Scotland’s largest electric bike hire scheme, Forth Bike, will be launched today in Forth Valley. Overtaking city-wide schemes planned for Glasgow and Edinburgh, the 120 e-bike project by charity Forth Environment Link will also be the UK’s first cross regional e-bike scheme connecting three Council areas: Stirling, Falkirk and Clackmannanshire.

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E-Bike Library Boost

Forth Environment Link’s drive to get locals moving is picking up the pace thanks to the delivery of 16 new e-bikes just in time for Bike Week (8-16 June).

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Delighted to Introduce our Two New Starts into our Active Travel Team

Falkirk Active Travel Hub has recently recruited two new team members helping to promote and support more people in the Forth Valley to choose active travel as part of their everyday journeys!

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Forth Valley charity becomes first employer in Scotland to achieve Walk at Work Award

Paths for All congratulates Forth Environment Link on its commitment to everyday walking

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Charity's Campaign to Tackle Transport Poverty Set in Motion

Forth Environment Link is starting 2019 in a wheely good way by giving out 250 discount vouchers for Stirling’s public bike share scheme, nextbike.

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Top Rural Innovation Award for Online Farmers' Market

Stirling NeighbourFood, run by local charity Forth Environment Link, has been named as an outstanding rural innovation at the 2018 Scottish Rural Innovators Awards.

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UK’s First Cross Regional EBike Scheme Powers Ahead

Forth Valley’s e-bike scheme is powering ahead thanks to the appointment of Bewegen.

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Why Shop When You Can Swap?

Forth Environment Link is urging Falkirk shoppers to swap not shop this May.

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Stirling Pupils to Grow Knowledge of Local Food

Pupils at Stirling High School will be growing their knowledge of local food and nutrition thanks to a new community partnership with Stirling Food Assembly.

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City To Launch Scotland's First Large Scale Electric Bike Scheme

Forth Environment Link has been awarded £270,000 from Transport Scotland to create Scotland’s first large scale electric bike scheme. The news comes as the charity celebrates the runaway success of its bike rental scheme, which turns three this Friday (27 October).

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Pocket Allotments to Hit The High Street

A pocket allotment project is to be launched in Falkirk town centre later this month (Wednesday 24 May) to showcase what can be grown in even the tiniest of urban gardens.

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