The solar PV installation at Capital City Academy has been running since June 17 and they will be reaping the benefits of reduced electricity bills in the region of £15,000 p.a. There are still some details to be sorted out like a display system in reception to show solar data, etc. and an export power purchase agreement. After that we'll carry on with our next project or two.  Possibilities are Preston Manor school Wembley, Gladstone Park school and Willesden sports centre.  Ideally, we go…

£1000 available for Kensal to Kilburn community project ideas

Transition Town Kensal to Kilburn (TTKK) is inviting local residents to take part in a competition this spring.

Our volunteer organisation has created three grants - one £500 grant and two £250 grants.

To enter the competition, participants need to fulfill the following criteria :

- live in the Kensal to Kilburn area,

- submit an idea for a community project that would benefit residents…

Hello All

I’m contacting you from Extinction Rebellion, a major direct action campaign set to begin this November. Our demands to the government are simple. We want UK carbon emissions reduced to ZERO and the global ecological overshoot decreased to half a planet by 2025. We want the reversal of policies and practices that are causing the sixth mass extinction of life on this planet. And, we want a national…

My daughter holds a caterpillar in her hand, determined to take the pale, earth covered creature home as a newly beloved addition to our family. She proudly introduces  ‘Pillar’ around the group of gardeners who, taking a rest from shovelling farm yard manure onto the allotment beds,  lean on tool handles and smile indulgently in turn. We all wonder whether it will become a moth or a butterfly, and we all want it far, far away from our budding vegetable plots.…

Standing with my two feet firmly stationed on the brick walls of the raised bed, I bend down, grab the underside of the large root ball and lift a sage plant high up into my arms, dirt loosening and crumbling down beneath it. The herb has reached shrub like proportions and I can barely see around its woody stems as I cradle its mass against my chest. As I jump…

If any of you reading this work at, have contacts or influence at these places, please get in touch with me:

Alperton, ARK Elvin, Capital City, JFS, Kilburn Park, Kingsbury, Leopold, Michaela, Preston Manor, Wembley primary,  Wykeham  (Schools)  Wembley High Technology College

Chalkhill, Lonsdale, Wembley Health & Care, (Medical/Community centres)

Willesden Sports Centre

Now read on to find out why.....

Our first installation on Queens…

Aged gravestones, inscriptions effaced by time, sit heavily at angles in ancient rows. Carved angels and women, draped in sorrow, melt into the stone plaques, their faces covered in lichen, their feet hidden in tufts of grass. Surrounding, covering and emerging from these stony beds: the unstoppable verdant life of goosegrass, bramble, hawthorn and…

The bookshelf is a series of lime green squares, each holding a haphazard collection of books. Titles range from ‘Hermeneutic Philosophy and the Sociology of Art’ to ‘Around Bruges in 80 Beers’, from ‘Fundamentals of Industrial Administration Vol. 1’ to ‘Dragon Bones’. I crouch with curiosity, head tipped to read the vertical spines. My fingers track through tall hardbacks and thin dog eared paperbacks as I assess the titles, often pulling books out to read the blurb. I’m at the…

“We journey towards a home not of our flesh. Its chestnut trees are not of our bones.”

                                             – Mahmoud Darwish We Journey Towards Home[i]

“My hometown, like the stars just blinking on,

Is somewhere on the other side of a wide, wide river  -

More sensation, more memory than town.”   …

"To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow" - Audrey Hepburn

I arrive home, arms weighed down with Kilburn High road spoils, to find a small square box nestled against the door. The shopping bags thunk disregarded to the ground as I kneel to read the label on the box: “If not home leave in a cool/safe spot”. I smile. This could only mean one…

January: darkened days, morning frosts melting into winter gloom, and an email sent around from the Meanwhile @ the Corrib organising team confirming that we’ve pulled out. We’re no longer going ahead with Meanwhile @ the Corrib community hub.

There’s a moment of mental disconnect when you receive bad news about something for which you’ve been holding out hope, however tenuous. Time seems suspended as your brain absorbs this disappointing information and then, with an almost…

The Corrib Rest, 76-78 Salusbury Rd, NW6 6PA

October 18th 2016

Hub:

1. The central part of a wheel, rotating on or with the axle, and from which the spokes radiate.

2. The effective centre of an activity, region, or network.

The large downstairs room at the Corrib Rest was positively thriving. Long held friendships and connections were evident as people grouped together, conversing with familiar ease. …

11.10.2016

“In every one of them, in spite of their diversity, their different people and settings, he found the same spirit, the same sense of people coming home to the place, to each other”

-          ‘ What the long, red-legged…

I enter the flat to the overwhelming smell of buttery popcorn. The scent brings such strong associations that my mind relaxes into the expectation of passive movie night viewing. While we, the Meanwhile @ The Corrib planning group, are gathering together to view something, it will be a much more active viewing process than the popcorn suggests. We are at our ‘vision’ workshop, facilitated by local ideas development coach Emma Rae. The plan is to extract the individual Meanwhile @ The…

One minute action:Go to the consultation http://lcc.org.uk/articles/take-action-support-brents-carlton-vale-tracks  and click on Start survey.

Click "Yes" to agree to the proposals and give your details on the second page.

Ideally, in the comments box, add your thoughts on the scheme in your own words. Brent Cyclists suggest asking for: semi-segregated measures or "stepped" tracks on the…

One minute action:Go to the consultation http://lcc.org.uk/articles/take-action-support-brents-carlton-vale-tracks  and click on Start survey.

Click "Yes" to agree to the proposals and give your details on the second page.

Ideally, in the comments box, add your thoughts on the scheme in your own words. Brent Cyclists suggest asking for: semi-segregated measures or "stepped" tracks on the…

Kensal to Kilburn Fruit Harvesters Fryent Country Park Event

Sunday 2^nd October 2016

Fryent Country Park, Fryent Way NW9 9SE

The undergrowth within the hedgerow is a tangled mass of thistles, bramble and nettles held together in stringy nets of coiling bind weed.  Littered amidst the tangle lie misshapen spheres of brown, gold, green and red: fallen apples. Crumpled flesh softens through brown bruising, the doomed…

Unthinkable Drinkable Brent wine making event

Saturday 24^th September 2016

Harvist Rd, Queens Park

Tumbling, overflowing crates fill the front garden, mimicking the  flow of people spilling onto the pavement. Convivial chatter, bursts of laughter and many ready smiles pass between the crowd as glasses of sangria…

Dear all

I have a series of more than 2 years worth of this wonderful and inspirational magazine (featuring the columnist and TTK2K member Leo Johnson what's more!).  Has been a great bonus to me to have these - but alas as I am travelling away they need a new home.  Do contact me... including ideas of a community space they may go to. 

Dear all 

Do have a look at the report Sue Arthur and I have put together about how we went about doing this Transition project.  We have added resources in case you want to do a similar project.  This has also been part of our evaluation to the Heritage Lottery Fund who part-funded the project.  

We would also like to thank TT K2K and the core group who have been and continue to be such supporters of the concept from the beginning.  Your practical support and…