Transition Town Altrincham

Welcome to Transition Town Altrincham, Hale & Bowdon.

Transition Town Altrincham, Hale and Bowdon is a group of local people concerned with how we can best respond to the challenges of climate change in a way that helps the community thrive.

Looking at areas including housing, energy, transport, food and shopping, the Transition Town group is all about finding positive, practical ways to work together to improve our collective and individual quality of life through sustainable living.

New members are always welcome; we meet monthly.  Please see the Events page for more details

Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=163137525927

Twitter page: @TTAltrincham

Yahoo group: ttahb-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

 

Don’t forget – Pizza in January!

Just a quick reminder that our next  relaxed, no-agenda, no-actions get-together is tomorrow – Tuesday 25th Jan.

It’s will be an evening of pizza with like-minded people at Pizza Express in Hale at 7.30, come and welcome the new year with us!

Let me know if you’re coming by email or through the contact form – looks like a good turnout so far,

See you there!

Andrew

 

Pizza in January

After a great catch-up at the Christmas drinks we’re going to have another relaxed, no-agenda, no-actions get-together.

The next meeting will be an evening of pizza with like-minded people at Pizza Express in Hale – 7.30 on Jan 25th 2011, come and welcome the new year with us!

Let me know if you’re coming by email or through the contact form, so I can book the table.

See you there!

Andrew

 

Christmas Drinks

This year’s had its ups and downs, and the main organisers of Transition Altrincham, Hale and Bowdon have been so busy that meetings have slipped. But we don’t want to let go of the great group of people who we’ve met – on and off – throughout the year.

So we’re going back to where it all started – drinks at the Cheshire Midland, Hale, 7.30pm, Monday 29th November.

Come along for a drink – no agenda or specific actions, just a good get together.

First-timers? I’ll make sure I have a Transition book on the table.

See you all there. Andrew

 

Monthly meeting

Hi all – sorry no monthly meeting for September either – all our meeting organisers seem to be having late holidays this year so there is nobody to organise.

We’ll be regrouping in October so watch this space

regards Kate

 

Hi everyone,

No monthly meeting this month as lots of peeps are on holiday. But I’ve been contacted by Abundance Manchester, a project which picks surplus or unwanted fruit from gardens and public trees around South Manchester and distributes it to local groups and communities.They’ve had calls from a couple of people in Hale who have trees which they can’t pick and/or has too much fruit for them.

If anybody else is interested I’d be happy to work with you to see if we can find a couple of hours in the next couple of weeks to see if we can go and pick some fruit!If you’d like to help out please contact me at ttahb@hotmail.co.uk and I’ll see if I can find a time for us all to do some picking….no firm commitment at this stage just let me know if you are interested- as we’d have to sort out things like ladders, boxes, pickers etc….but I don’t want to start organising anything if its just me…

Please let me know this week so I can get back to the Abundance team.
thanks, Kate

 

July 15th – TTAHB Monthly Meeting

Hi – well woosh that month went by quickly and our monthly open meeting has come around again already. It’s this Thursday 15th July and we’ve got Jacqui Brocklehurst, a local herbologist from Ridgeway Road Nursery coming to talk to us about the many uses of herbs and bring some in for us to see too.

We’re in The Hub again this month (The Hub, Pownall Road, Altrincham WA14 2SZ) and it all kicks off at 7.30pm. If you can’t make it you can find out more about Jacqui here http://www.colourmygarden.co.uk/

Hope to see some new faces again this month – we’ve been welcoming one or two new people each month which is great.

There’s no meeting in August due to holidays so if you can’t make this one we’ll see you in September

Cheers Kate

 

Visit to the Trafford Eco-House 17th June

Hi all, Just a quick reminder of our next Transition Town Altrincham, Hale & Bowdon meeting which is this Thursday, June 17th.

We’re doing a visit to the Trafford Eco-House to look at how we’re trying to prepare a 3-bed thirties house for a post-peak-oil life. All welcome!

Venue: Trafford Eco House, 107, Clough Avenue, Sale M33 4HT (Last house on Clough Avenue, with a red door. Cycle parking is available. Bus stop is Washway Road/The Drive, Closest Tram is Timperley (15 mins).

Time: 7.30 – 8.30

 

Next TTAHB Meeting – Thursday 20th May

Hi all, Just a quick reminder of our next Transition Town Altrincham, Hale & Bowdon meeting which is tonight (or tomorrow if you pick this up late on Weds night) – Thursday 20th May and we’re showing a short film about how to run a farm with a lot less oil around. Do come and join us if you haven’t been before – we are a friendly bunch!
cheers Kate (on behalf of TTAHB)

Venue: The Hub, Pownall Road, Altrincham WA14 2SZ
Time: 7.30 – 8.30
Screening of “A Farm for the Future“ – Wildlife film maker Rebecca Hosking investigates how to transform her family’s farm in Devon into a low energy farm for the future, and discovers that nature holds the key. With her father close to retirement, Rebecca returns to her family’s wildlife-friendly farm in Devon, to become the next generation to farm the land. But last year’s high fuel prices were a wake-up call for Rebecca.
Realising that all food production in the UK is completely dependent on abundant cheap fossil fuel, particularly oil, she sets out to discover just how secure this oil supply is. Alarmed by the answers, she explores ways of farming without using fossil fuel. With the help of pioneering farmers and growers, Rebecca learns that it is actually nature that holds the key to farming in a low-energy future

 

Food Group Meeting – 13th May

Just a reminder that the next food group meeting is nearly upon us – it’s at the Market Tavern, this Thursday May 13th at 7.30.

There’s plenty to feedback on progress at the Oldfield Brow Allotments – come along for an update and a Pint.

 

Hi all - please feel free to invite anybody to our meetings who might be interested,

The whole point of this group is for us to take collective action locally and our Food Group is already doing great stuff on lobbying to bring some unused land back into allotment use.  If you’ve been watching from the edges from now then our Open Meetings are a great way to get involved so do come along and say hello – we are very friendly bunch and you aren’t going to get signed up to do anything you don’t want to. We normally just discuss a few issues and then mull things over in the pub afterwards……

Please find below plans for the next couple of meetings:

Thursday 20th May
Venue: The Hub
Time: 7.30 – 8.30 Screening of “A Farm for the Future“  - Wildlife film maker Rebecca Hosking investigates how to transform her family’s farm in Devon into a low energy farm for the future, and discovers that nature holds the key.

With her father close to retirement, Rebecca returns to her family’s wildlife-friendly farm in Devon, to become the next generation to farm the land. But last year’s high fuel prices were a wake-up call for Rebecca. Realising that all food production in the UK is completely dependent on abundant cheap fossil fuel, particularly oil, she sets out to discover just how secure this oil supply is.

Alarmed by the answers, she explores ways of farming without using fossil fuel. With the help of pioneering farmers and growers, Rebecca learns that it is actually nature that holds the key to farming in a low-energy future

Thursday 17th June – don’t worry we’ve checked the schedules to make sure we don’t clash with any England World Cup games
Venue: Site visit to Trafford Eco House
Time: 7.30-8.30
Andrew Leask – one of TTAHB’s members lives in the Trafford Eco House – which has its own blog here http://traffordecohouse.wordpress.com/ and is Andrew and his family’s attempts to green their pre-war house in Sale. We’ll probably try and do some lift shares from Altrincham to the site and back so if you can make the meeting and would like or can offer a lift please post a message.

Thursday 15th July – topic tbc – The steering group has got a couple of ideas of speakers who might be able to attend but we’d really like to hear from you about what you are interested in and if there are any films you’d like to see or topics you’d like to discuss so please do get in touch.

Cheers

Kate Radford – for Transition Town Altrincham, Hale & Bowdon