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 Meeting Dates
We meet on the Second Tuesday of each month, . All welcome, the next meetings are planned for
- Tues 14 May 2013 7:30pm, at Community Cafe, High Street, Poole.
- Tues 11 June 2013 7:30pm, at Friends Meeting House, 52 Wimborne Road, Poole.
- other events around the county, see the Dorset Sustainable Events Calander (Green Dates link to the right)
Please contact Andy H on 01202 389782 for details.
Some of our key projects;
Friends of Turner’s Nursery Poole Tidal Energy Partnership
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 2nd 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 – Poole Tidal Energy Partnership- community bidding 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
as long as you are only going in the wild bit that was given to branksome heath then thats ok i suppose but please leave the rest of it alone. also please leave uppleby rotten as it is as it is a fun private road to go up:)
seems im the ony one that uses this page lol:)
You’re not the only one, others have commented on the Turners Field page http://transitionpoole.org.uk/?page_id=516 and on the Friends of Turners Nursery Facebook page. The recent discussions with Wessex Water suggested that they thought no-one cared for the wild patch. Lots of people do !
Andy
Heya terrific blog! Does running a blog like this take a great deal of work? I have absolutely no knowledge of computer programming but I was hoping to start my own blog soon. Anyways, should you have any recommendations or tips for new blog owners please share. I know this is off topic however I simply needed to ask. Appreciate it!
It is easy to write a blog, you don’t even have to host it yourself, our site is in WordPress, and if you go to WordPress.com you can set up a blog on their site very easily. Or download the software to host yourself. You can easily pick a theme and start adding text and pictures with no programming knowledge needed. You can choose whether people first see a page, or the blog itself, this site shows a page. You can also share authoring with others.
The biggest hassle is dealing with comments, as most of them are spam. Hence when I get an email telling me there are comments there is a high probability that it is just junk advertising sunglasses etc, so I only go to the site occasionally to bin them all. But I do check each in case they are genuine. There are add-ons that you can use to help protect from the junk.
Don’t know whether you’re local and/or interested in Transition. Thanks for the compliments.
Andy
an Icebrg as big as Poole has broken from Greenland.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18896770
Hello,
I am a student at Bournemouth University, and I was wondering whether I would be able to come to the meeting on the Tuesday this September to find out more information.
Thanks
Cat
Hi,
There is a free composting workshop on 23rd Feb at Upton Country Park. You may be interested in sharing this at your upcomign meeting. There are still some spaces. I have a poster which I am happy to email to you if you like?
Do you have a Facebook page? I couldn’t find it.
Many thanks