Huddersfield Transition Town

Transition towns are planning a self sufficient future – in preparation for when the oil runs out. There is a transition town group in Huddersfield and they have just launched their own website which says it far better than I could.

A Transition Town Medly

As well as our event  on Tuesday with Incredible Edible Todmorden, there are also a couple of other events you may wish to attend, both of them arranged by Marsden and Slaithwaite Transition Towns.

 

The first, on Saturday 15th November costs £15 and involves films, food and  live music from 2 bands including Paprika Balkanicus……if their last event (a Cuban Night) is anything to go by it will be informative, great fun -  and will go on late into the night!

 

I have attached the poster. Tickets can be either collected in the town or organised by phone. 

 

There is also an opportunity to get involved with Permaculture (a way of building  ‘resilience’ through design and growing methods) through a weekend on November 29th/30th November with Andy Goldring, and I have copied in the information below.

 

The rather beautiful poster, also attached, tells  of a longer course to be held in the new year based in Hebden Bridge where there is also a fledgling Transition Community.  

 

Transition towns

Greetings everyone,

This is a reminder of the full meeting to be held on Tues. October 7th at 7.30 at the Quaker Meeting House,
Paddock.

The first hour will be given over to Andrew Cooper and a discussion of Community Renewable Energy. (confirmed).

The inaugural meeting of the Interim Steering Committee will have taken place and matters arising from that will complete the evening.

There are three events which may also be of interest. If you are aware of anyone in the relevant district- particularly for the Bradford event it would be appreciated if you would forward on the information.

Sat.Oct. 4th. Leeds Met.
Schumacher North is holding a days conference, “Transforming the Global Economy. Solutions for a Sustainable World Order, speakers -Susan George, Ann Pettifor , Andrew Simms. tickets £20 details from Schumacher North Website.

Sun.Oct. 5th.Trades Club Hebden Bridge.
The fledgling Transition Town Group is hosting a talk on Permaculture/Transition Movement beginning with a vegetarian dinner (£4) speaker Andy Goldring of the Permaculture AssociationQuite a trek but it will be an interesting evening if previous events are anything to go by.(lift offered from Salandine Nook side of Huddersfield).

Wed. Oct. 8th. a special schools event at Birkenshaw C.E. F&N School
Featuring at 7pm a performance by year 3 children with Climate Change as the theme, followed by a talk by Paul Hudson, BBC Meteorologist and discussion of the possible effects of Climate Change on our area.
Details and poster for this event is attached.

Susan.

Tuesday 22nd July starting at 19.30 – Brett Fletcher has arranged the Friends Meeting House, Church Street, Huddersfield HD1 4TR (“Google” it for how to get there)

David Browning will lead the early discussion by developing some of the ideas on food projects that we discussed at the last meeting and exploring the future potential of the Kirklees allotments strategy.

We will also discuss the possibilities for the Transition Town “awareness event” which we plan to run with Kirklees Environmental Partnership possibly on a Saturday in October. Finally, we will start to address the question “how to start a Transition Community” that has now been asked by people from several local neighbourhoods in the town and its environs.

There will be a couple of copies of the Transition Handbook* (essential, broad ranging and readable) for sale at the next meeting, and also a copy available to borrow on the understanding that it is brought (or posted) back in time for the next meeting.

Tuesday 12th August (19.30 Friends Meeting House, Paddock) – format to be decided on 22nd July – food projects (cont).

Tuesday 9th September (19.30 Friends Meeting House, Paddock) – Theme: the local possibilities for micro-generation – an evening on energy projects led by Cllr Andrew Cooper with an explanation new ways of funding domestic and community schemes.

Transition Towns groups Meeting

Transition Communities Meeting Tuesday July 1st

at 7.30 p.m. on Tuesday, July 1st, at the Methodists Mission in Huddersfield.

We aim to use this second meeting to discuss what support each of you would hope for from the “hub” as you consider initiating a transition community, what our options are generally and where we would like to go from here.

We are also planning an event in the Autumn, for which it would be good to get your input, and it may be that we are able to host a training weekend if enough would be able to attend.

Talk on Transition Towns

We’ve been lucky enough to get the chance to host one of the talks that Ben Brangwn is doing during his “Northern Tour”.

He is one of the leading lights of the Transition Town movement and based in Totnes, one of the first towns to be in transition, so if you’ve ever wanted to get to know more about this movement here is your chance.

He’s starting at 3pm with a teach-in for those keen to be able to promote the idea of Transition Initiatives, and then at 6pm there will be food available from “Kitchen Garden Cook”and a showing of “An Incontestable Truth” which establishes the case for Contraction and Convergence.

Ben’s talk starts at 7.30 and there will be time for questions/discussion afterwards.

It’s going to be held at the Methodists Mission,Lord Street Huddersfield HD1 1QA, (10 minutes walk through town from either the bus or train station).

It should be an interesting evening-and it would be really helpful if you could let us know if you are coming – particularly if you are interested in the training session or would like some food.

Susan Thomas
Chas Ball

p.s. Have pasted in a flyer in case you feel you can promote it at all -Thanks!

HUDDERSFIELD TRANSITION TOWNS ORGANISING GROUP PRESENTS:

“…An unprecedented abundance of opportunity..”

A TALK BY BEN BRANGWYN of TRANSITION TOWNS TOTNES.

Exploring the potential for TRANSITION COMMUNITIES to respond to the challenge of CLIMATE CHANGE and PEAK OIL.

THURSDAY JUNE 5TH.

· 3.PM TRAINING AVAILABLE FOR PRESENTATION VOLUNTEERS – contact sthomasal@aol.com

· 6.PM ONWARDS. WHOLEFOODS BUFFET FOR THE “EARLYBIRDS”(small charge) Short Film show.

· 7.30 TALK BY BEN BRANGWYN

· 8.15 OPEN DISCUSSION , plus opportunity for local communities to introduce their plans.

THERE WILL BE SPACE AVAILABLE THROUGHOUT THE EVENING FOR POSTERS/LEAFLETS ETC. AT THE METHODIST MISSION, LORD STREET, HUDDERSFIELD HD1 1QA (10 MINUTES WALK THROUGH TOWN FROM BUS OR TRAIN )