Transition Town AGM



On September 22nd we held our AGM as part of the visioning evening at St.

Anne's. The Initiating Committee was disbanded and re-elected to include

John Smith (Chair) George Latham (Secretary) and David Young (Treasurer).

The members of the core group are Elaine Henderson, Careen Hertzog, Nadia

Rojas, and Michael Stuart. Any local Transition members who'd like to join

the Initiating Group were and are invited to speak to existing members…

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Tiverton Rejuvenation: After 26 years of neglect, there is now a plan to renovate the old tennis courts on Tiverton Green. The new facilities will lift the Green and give a real boost to the area. They will give your children somewhere safe to ride their bikes and skate, play football, basketball,…

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If you are 50 plus and have always dreamed of being able to cycle
confidently on the road
London cycling campaign are funding a course at the Castlehaven Road
Centre in Camden Town which consists of 5 weekly sessions starting in
August. The cost is £10 to attend the course .
Telephone 0207 234 9317 to book a place
Spaces are still availalble

Initiating Group minutes – Transition Kensal to Kilburn 18/07/11

 

Present – Elaine Henderson, Careen Hertzog, Michael Stuart, Chris Wells, John Smith, George Latham

 

• John and Miko have both been talking about setting up a food box delivery scheme.  Miko is taking this forward and has set up a questionnaire on the website.
• Chris was at the Transition Network conference in Liverpool at the beginning of July and fed back on some of his insights/…

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FOOD GROUP: MINUTES OF MEETING HELD ON:

TUESDAY 19 July at William Dunbar/Saville Meeting Room

Chair: Michael, Minutes: Jen and Marjory

Present: Michael, Marjory, Jen, Heather, Miko and Molly

Apologies: Ash and sorry there may have been others but I didnt catch who they were

Guest Speaker: Catherine from River of Flowers

River of Flowers

Guiding Ethos:

. Plant to encourage pollinators which are vital in pollinating food

. Grow flowers, both…

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This is the website for Transition Streets - started in Totnes: http://www.transitiontogether.org.uk/

But I liked hearing how one Transition Street group got on... I've copied and pasted from the website below:

 

Jo explains how her group went from strength to strength

The TTT leaflet fell through my door one morning in mid March 2010.  It was…

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Initiating Group Meeting Minutes – 28/6/11

 

Present – Careen, David, Nadezhda, Michael, Elaine, Viv

Apologies – Chris and John

 

• We discussed venues for the AGM.  We haven’t been able to arrange a date and film through the Lexi.  Other venues discussed were the Tin Tabernacle, The Constitution Club, St Anne’s Church and the Paradise Pub.  The Tin Tabernacle is a possible future venue, but we haven’t been able to arrange this in time.  Father Fergus…

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Minutes of Buildings and Energy Group         Thursday 16^th June  8-10pm                  20 Hopefield Avenue

 

Present:   Nick Hartley (hosting), Sarah Nicholl (from Belsize TT), Phil Leask, Siobhan Cross, Marina V (post-graduate Environmental Technologies student), Alex Groszek (Trainee Architect).

Apology for absence:   Tom Wright

 

Our 3rd meeting.

 

Alex mentioned some very useful websites: …

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Food Group meeting June 15th 2011

 

Transition Town Kensal to Kilburn Present: Heather, John S, Maggie, Marjory, Matthew, Michael, Miko, Sanchia, Taaliba

 

Veg box scheme

John presented his idea of getting veg delivered by a farmer from within 30-40 miles, volunteers breaking the delivery down and either a collect or simple delivery. Pointed to Stoke Newington as a success (600 customers) and suggested South…

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Initiating Group meeting minutes – Mon 16th May 2011

 

Attending: Careen Hertzog, Elaine Henderson, Nadezhda Rojas, Chris Wells, John Smith, George Latham, Michael Stuart.

• Firstly with thanks to David Young, who is going to step down from the Initiating Group for the moment in order to concentrate on the BeeKeeping Group and the 5-ways community allotment.
• John is considering setting up a vegetable box scheme in the Carlton Vale area. He has…

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Minutes of Buildings and Energy Group   held   Tuesday 17^th May 8-10pm

 

Present:  Tom Wright, Phil Leask, Nick Hartley, Siobhan Cross, George Latham, Armstrong Yakubu

 

 

Actions arising:

 

1)      To produce a leaflet on energy saving (see below).  Nick, Tom, Siobhan.  Chris Wells to help with design.…

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