Transition Towns attempt in their local area to find, support and create positive projects for change. Reskilling people to rely less on oil, in a low-carbon economy, reducing their personal carbon footprint, and rebuilding a sense of community.
Transition Town Poole Meetings
Transition Town Poole meets monthly, days vary. Happy New Year everyone.
The next meeting is planned for
- Tues 14th February 2012 7:30pm, venue Friends Meeting House, 54 Wimborne Road, Poole
Please contact Andy H on 01202 389782 for details.
Friends of Turners Nursery – Let’s plant some *** Trees !
Great news. After much debate, and a memorable quote from Leisure Services, the council have [almost!] agreed to let us work on part of the old Turners Nursery at Uppleby Road in Upper Parkstone, so we are busy surveying the site and existing species. This will continue to be managed as a wild space, with a community orchard incorporated at the eastern end (furthest from the schools).
If you want to get involved and help define how this plot will look, contact Harriet on 01202 735758, or check our Facebook page.
Poole Tidal Energy Partnership
We are bidding for funds for a feasibility study into extracting energy from the tidal power in Poole Harbour. We didn’t get a community energy grants at http://www.energyshare.com/poole-tidal-energy-partnership/ , but we are trying other sources, the DECC LEAF grants and EU monies.
Give and Take event
- Plannned for sometime soon St Paul’s Church Hall, Canford Heath. Members of the public are encouraged to bring unwanted items to give away, and/or to pick up items for free – giving the items a new lease of life, and saving waste from going to landfill. These have been successfully held in other areas, but TT Poole are breaking new ground in the borough by holding this event.
How well do you know your neighbours ?
Two years ago, the Eden project in Cornwall challenged everyone to throw a party in your own street – invite all the neighbours, and reconnect with those around you. It is easy to get depressed by the news of far off events, but far more important to link to the people nearby. And it’s easy if everyone pitches in. This year, the date is set for Sun 5th June www.thebiglunch.com, but actually any date you like to make an effort is good enough.
Transition BH Green Drinks
An informal opportunity to talk about green issues with likeminded folk. See Facebook . Second Thursday of the month. Venues alternate between;
| Chaplins/Cellar Bar, Boscombe | |||
| Angel Inn, Poole | |||
| Goat and Tricycle, Bournemouth |
Our Projects
We are currently working especially on the following projects;
- Abundance – cropping fruit and nuts that might otherwise be wasted
- Renewable Energy – potential for a community bid for funding
- food issues - consumer co-op, and supporting local small businesses and food producers
- Transition Together – small groups of friends exploring potential change (Transition BH link)
- Turners Field – a wild area in Upper Parkstone that could be a great wild/community space for the people of Poole
but please also check on the right the ideas and other projects we are working on and keen to pursue
Poole Town from Seaview
If you live, work or play in Poole, you are invited to join the group, or just to take some of our ideas and apply them to your own life. We are part of the Transition BH hub, with other groups in Bournemouth, Christchurch, Wimborne and Purbeck.
We have a Google group, which allows members to share ideas, http://groups.google.com/group/transition-poole
And if you live elsewhere, good luck in finding a Transition group near you, or setting one up – check the transition network Google map !
just to remind you that as a person who was brought up in upper parkstone(linden road)the piece of land you want to plant trees in is a glass tip which is why branksome heath who the enclosed piece was given to, never put the football pitch on it and why it was watched carefully when the dealers and gypsies put their ponies on it. also, turner gave the field on a 100 year lease so people could just enjoy the green space as it is. there are natural scrumping trees and loads of space for people to run walk and play and in the winter it makes a good sledge run too.
Thanks for your comments. From what we have learned, the land was sold to the council, with no such lease. We are keen to work with the people living close by to improve and protect public access, preserving it largely as it is, and ensuring it doesnt fall to developers. The bramble growth makes it very difficult to imagine that the closed off bit can be great for running, walking, playing or sledging, the open area that is managed by Leisure as grass is good for all that. We are also working with the two schools to enhance the use as nature classroom on their doorstep. As to glass, we’d heard that the greenhouses were demolished by shaking the glass out, but I’ve not seen any. The council are being helpful, and we need people like you with views to get involved. We’re not looking to change it massively, just for everyone to love it a bit better.
Andy