Transition Town Brixton
Supporting transition to a sustainable Brixton
“Local Food is the Business” event
Monday 22 April, 6.30 for local food and networking, start 7pm – 9.30pm at Open Project Night at the Impact Hub Brixton, (back of POPBrixton) 49 Brixton Station Road, SW9 8PQ.
Book your FREE ticket here
There are a lot of really great innovative food projects in Lambeth. We have a range of community farms, greenhouses, box schemes, [...]
Bank of Lambeth update
February’s Brixton Bugle features a good introduction our plans for the Bank of Lambeth.
Our facebook page is now live and will be posting interesting stuff twice weekly. Please like, follow, share posts and invite friends. We have a target of 100 likes by the end of February.
A small but growing project group meets every second [...]
Urban Permaculture Design Course
Social Landscapes is running a full accredited Permaculture Design Course starting in April. The course puts special emphasis on the use of Permaculture in the urban context: small scale food growing, retrofitting of houses, water in the home, working in groups, livelihood and transition, while not ignoring other topics, such as agroforestry, natural building and [...]
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Permaculture and Gardening Workshops by Social Landscapes
Streatham Hill based Community Interest Company Social Landscapes are running a series of workshops this Autumn, starting with a 2-hour Orchard Care and Maintenance session with the Open Orchard Project in Hillside Gardens Park, the a 2-day Introduction to Permaculture the last weekend of September and three 2-hour gardening sessions at Bandstand Beds on Clapham [...]
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TTB REconomy and Enterprise Group relaunch
Every Second Monday TTB holds the space for REconomy – inventing the new economy – at the amazing Open Project Night organised by Hub Brixton and TTB. You may have noticed our Local Food is Growing event in July.
On September 12 we will be relaunching the TTB REconomy and Enterprise Group (new economy inventors) and launching a project we’ve been working on [...]
Bank of Lambeth project
In November 2015, almost 1500 people raised, in 35 days, £62,095 to help Brixton cycles during their transition to a new location (forced out due to gentrification). Their bank failed to provide them the help required. But the community around Brixton showed their support through a successful crowdfunding campaign.
Economy is the basis of a society. [...]
Next Transition Town Brixton meeting 25th August
Transition Town Brixton is meeting at the new Brixton Pound cafe which opened in July 2016 (more info here). It’s Brixton’s first pay-what-you-feel cafe!
We will be there on Thursday 25th August from 6.30-8pm at 77 Atlantic Road, SW9 8PU
We will be trying some of their delicious food which they are aiming to source from local [...]
Social Landscapes is Recruiting a Gardener
Social Landscapes is a Lambeth-based Social Enterprise with the vision of generating urban cultures in which people and planet prosper. We do this through Permaculture Design Training, Community Engagement and Participatory Design as well as Placemaking and Green Space Managament. We are now recruiting a Maintenance Gardener. See the advert from their webpage below:
We’re Recruiting [...]