One of the suggestions from Rob Hopkins for starting a Transition Town is to “let it go where it wants to go.”
After 12 monthly meetings, it seem to be that the Wimborne Transition Town initiative wants to go slowly. There are many groups in our town doing specific activities that relate to the transition to a post-peak-oil society, and many of us are committed to the ideas that Transition represents.
Our meetings over the last 12 months have often been well attended, but everyone who has come by has many others things going on in their lives to commit to this too. I myself have not been living in Wimborne since September, although I’ve maintained the website and made up posters for meetings. So, speaking to the other wonderful people who have been involved so far, Transition Town Wimborne is going to drop down a gear for now: We will simply do the “Green Drinks” thing and irregular special events for the next while.
Hopefully there soon will be enough people willing to take this project forward, as the need for it becomes more apparent and the success of others Transition initiatives nearby and nationally is seen and heard.
Future events:
- The reskilling day is going ahead on the last Saturday of September, in conjunction with and at the Priest’s House Museum
- We’ll be organising our Apple Days soon too; we have the use of two small cider presses for free
- The next Wimborne Green Drinks will be at 7pm on Thursday 26th August in the White Hart