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Pausing Transition Town Wimborne

Dave Crossland — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 11:58:01 +0000

Its time to draw a line under TTW, for now.

It seems that although there’s a lot of vague, generalised goodwill out there, very few people have the time or the inclination to actually do anything about it. Those of us who have been involved so far would now like to do other things… Doors seemed to open a crack, then close. It’s time for us to let it rest and move on.

If you would like to spark a Transition Town Wimborne back into life one day, please do!

We have some funds in cash – not much! About £65, which will go into the TransitionBH kitty, where the £150 from the Co-op has remained. We are sure they will hand it back to Wimborne if anyone ever resurrects TTW.

We will call a Green Drinks meeting in the early summer to discuss this and why TTW didn’t get anywhere; the Transition Network are interested in why some groups don’t get off the ground, so that other groups can learn from it. This may not be a comfortable process for us, but worthwhile as part of the bigger picture.

It just remains to say a big thank you to you all, and to everyone who has tried to start Wimborne on its transition to a post-carbon future!

Snowed off!

Angie Corbet — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 17:07:42 +0000

Thanks to the weather, the only sensible thing to do is cancel tonight’s meeting; the pavements are like glissades up in town and I’ve seen several cars slide straight into bollards today, so please don’t leave home & get cold unless you really have to. I will email round & provisionally call another meeting next Tuesday evening at 7.30 in the White Hart; watch this space!

Christmas Parade – upcoming!

Angie Corbet — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 19:50:47 +0000

If you have any ideas for decorating our float for the Christmas Parade, please come along to the White Hart this Thursday, 2nd December, for the last chance to see your ideas on the street, on the day! Also – … Continue reading →

Come and see us…

Angie Corbet — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 21:40:31 +0000

…at the Wimborne In Bloom annual Charities Fair at the Allendale Centre on Saturday 13th, from 10 a.m. We’ll be up on the stage – could this be our chance of fame at last?!
Next meeting, Thursday 18th, 7.30 onwards, in the White Hart – reports of progress so far with plans for next spring, and ideas & arrangements for the Save The Children Christmas Parade to discuss!

Update 22/10/10

Angie Corbet — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 19:01:53 +0000

A quick update from last night’s meeting; we are going to aim to organise some kind of “energy event” early next Spring, provisionally called The Powerdown Day; much depends on securing a good venue but we hope to put on a comprehensive, informative & thought-provoking show. We’d also like to run a series of informal evenings on things we can do at a household or neighbourhood level, led by local people who are already doing them rather than by experts, including demonstrations & tastings. We have a stall booked at the Wimborne in Bloom Charity Fair on 13th November (volunteers welcomed!) and we’ll be taking part in the Save The Children Christmas Parade on 11th December with some kind of carbon-neutral transport; ideas & suggestions welcomed, the most appropriate & practical so far being a convoy of wheelbarrows! There are lots of other ideas on the back burner too, so please keep watching this space. Next meeting is scheduled for Thursday 4th November in the White Hart from 7.30 to discuss ideas for the Parade. Hope to see you there!

Green Drinks tonight, 21st October

Angie Corbet — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 07:48:22 +0000

Just a quick reminder that there is a Green Drinks session tonight, 21st October, 7.30 onwards, starting in the White Hart; it got rather noisy last time, so we may move on in search of somewhere we can hear ourselves think! To help any newcomers identify us, I will be wearing or carrying my pink glittery shawl.
We’ll be discussing the ideas that have come up for events to organise for next Spring & Summer, including a possible Energy Event, as well as ideas like Transition Neighbourhoods. Hope to see you there!

Transition Town Wimborne & the Priest’s House Museum…

Angie Corbet — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 21:44:34 +0000

…would like to invite everyone to join us next Saturday, 25th September, from 10.30 -4 pm for a “Re-Skilling” day. Local craftspeople will be demonstrating traditional & modern skills from basketmaking & beekeeping through embroidery, knitting & patchwork to spinnning & weaving throughout the day, many of them on a have-a-go basis. Come along & try your hand at something practical & creative you’ve always wanted to be able to do & get to know local people already doing it. Bring the family & enjoy yourselves; entry is at a reduced rate of £1.50 per person for the day.

TTW’s next meeting is this Thursday, 23rd September, 7.30 pm onwards in the White Hart. Theme for the evening is energy conservation.

Quite a few people came for the Foraging Walk – it was nice to meet everyone! My elderberries are in the freezer waiting for me to have some time to do something intelligent with them…

On the future of Transition Town Wimborne

Dave Crossland — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 02:30:17 +0000

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

Report: Steph Bradley’s visit to Wimborne

Dave Crossland — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:54:34 +0000

Steph Bradley is walking around the UK, visiting Transition Towns everywhere. She came to Wimborne in April and Angie wrote of the visit:

“Well, what a lovely lady! And what an inspired idea and a Grand Adventure. Steph’s walking around most of the Transition Towns, cities & villages of England over the next 6 months, entirely on foot, collecting up our stories as she goes. I met her on Canford Bridge, brought her back to my home for a lunch of nettle-and-leftover veg soup and homemade bread, accompanied by my daughter’s very refreshing home-made ginger beer, a rest in my comfortable post-op chair & footstool (rescued from the Tip for a fiver) and a good natter; the budgies couldn’t get a word in edgeways. Then we strolled through Wimborne, noting the course of the rivers & millstreams that used to power the town, & marking all the genuinely local shops we have left like Burtons the Butchers and Minster Greens.

We’d just inspected the Jubilee herb Garden behind the Town Hall when we met up with Tom from Gaunt’s House, who had kindly offered to host her for the night. I may have been feeling a bit down in the dumps before her visit, that we hadn’t really managed to achieve anything much here yet… But she’s left me feeling inspired and energised, and Nicky’s 100% right with the idea that we just keep on popping up, nibbling away at people’s consciousness, until we break through. Steph’s advice is that whilst it may look as if nothing’s happening, momentum is quietly building in the background. So, onwards and upwards!

I’m going to be trying to arrange the Re-Skilling day this week. With any luck we’ll be able to go for the week before the Folk Festival, ie the first weekend of June, which is also the first weekend of halfterm, which doesn’t leave long to organise things. As I’m also organsing the Dorset WSD Guild’s stand for the County Show, as well as attending various Craft Fairs in my own right over the summer, I’d be glad of some help on the organisational front, if anyone could spare the odd half-hour?”

Suggest New Cycle Routes!

Dave Crossland — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:17:41 +0000

Michael, Chair of the Dorset Cycle Network and Transition Town Wimborne member, would you bring to attention that the County Council wants to get everyone’s suggestions of where new cycle routes are needed. The deadline is 26 February. Ideas can be drawn on a map with the mouse, or sent as text – and this handy address can be easily emailed to people you know in the area:

http://tinyurl.com/cycleroutesdorset