Coffee, Cakes and Candy Cafe, 34 High Street Poole

Facilitated by Brendan and Jamie

Theme : Practical projects for 2010 – ideas to B&J if you want a project to go forwards.

We all met, many of us cycling down on a cold winters evening for the

first time in Poole town centre high street coffee shop and enjoyed
some local ‘Piddle brewery’ beers, teas and coffees with comfortable
seating upstairs.

Jamie handed out printouts containing keywords to start people
thinking about the following:

Feelings when you are satisfied/not satisfied along with Needs/Values/
Desires (connection, physical well-being, honesty, play, peace,
meaning and autonomy) which was discussed in pairs for 10 minutes.
Then we made two groups of five to discuss, and finally the whole room
to summarise their feelings.

We covered a wide range of topics such as community connections, air
being a resource, time, regulations limiting personal choice and
independence, consumers being and feeling far removed from the source
and people providing a large number goods and services in recent
times.

Then an overview of some of the transition projects

1. Essential Trading Co-Operative, looking at bulk ordering organic
and fair trade goods -Jamie
2. Turners Field leaflets handed around for a community orchid –
Jamie
3. Abundance, looking into the cropping, sharing and distribution of
surplus crops – Cherie (spelling?)
4. Big Lunch, encouraging neighbours to meet each other, eat, drink
and fun – Ian
5. Transition Together, working through transition handbooks –
Harriet
6. Seed Swap, learning how to crop, store and swap seeds, possibly
distribution outside
7. Sainsbury on a weekend – Harriet
8. Garden Parties, visiting each others homes to offer advice and
assistance on transition principles – Gary
9. Film Events, venues being discussed for film screening, Food Ink
maybe at the lighthouse – Harriet
10. Moors Bags, making of bags from recycled materials – Jackie
11. Groove on the Green, 10th July – Julie
12. Transition Seminar BIC, promoting sustainable tourism – Harriet
13. Tolbit Heath Development 900 housing development Bournevalley,
concerns over wildlife distance being reduced from 400 to 50m, rare
species of wildlife, road systems and food security – Harriet
14. Voting for Ourselves, alternatives to the current voting and
political representation – Jamie
15. Publishing locations and venues for sub groups – Jamie
16. Energy Group – Andy

We also briefly discussed how we might get the most out our monthly
meetings, possibly following a meeting example from the Transition
handbook?

Next meeting on Wednesday 10th March has been arranged to be held at
Poole high street coffee shop and confirmed with the owner opening for
us between 19:30 and 22:00, hosted by Cherry and Jackie (TBC as she was
not present)

Cheers Brendan

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