Food and growing group twitter
The food and growing group now has a twitter feed- http://twitter.com/TTB_food# Follow us for the latest news and events from the group!
Vote £100,000 for Brixton Reuse Centre
Please vote for £100,000 funding for the Brixton Reuse Centre (BRC) – a community space for repair, reuse and re-skilling – see here for more info about BRC and a 2 minute film. The deadline for votes is Wednesday 1 December. We are trying to mobilise everyone who lives or is a student in Lambeth [...]
TTB Community Shop may end!
Transition Town Brixton has been in the Community Shop now for 11 months mainly staffed by volunteers organised by Sibylle Mansour TTB’s ‘shop manager’, assistant coordinator, reskilling coordinator. It has an office and resource centre above. Our Future Jobs Fund workers on the Brixton Pound, Remade in Brixton and TTB, and our many volunteers have [...]
Sign-up process update
Currently we have several different spreadsheets and databases and these are filled in manually. We need to develop a streamlined process to make this automatic. Also, Brixton Remade and the Brixton Pound have their own website signups, so there is some duplication. We also want to have the ability for people to create and update [...]
Current discussions about membership and how TTB is run
Click here for our previous governance discussion archived from our previous website with extensive details and comments. The current situation is that the directors and the working group forum are meeting jointly and have a agreed a 3 month trial of consensus decision making. Membership possibilities are being explored.
Facilitating Better Decisions Workshop
‘Facilitating Better Decisions’, a workshop to help you better lead or contribute to decision-making Monday 22 November, 11am – 4pm, £5 – 75 donation according to ability to pay. Moorlands Community Centre, Moorlands Estate, 50A Corry Drive, Brixton, London SW9 8QT (less than 10 minutes walk from Brixton tube station, 4th left along Somerlyton Rd [...]
Library and bookshop catalogue
TTB has a good library of films, books and pamphlets relevant to Transition, Climate Change, Peak Oil, Permaculture and practical ways of rethinking the way we do everything. It is now online in database form here. Previously we had an arrangement that you could borrow books for 1 month by leaving verifiable contact details. Currently [...]
Image testing post
I want to see why the flickr images don’t appear as thumbnails in the post listings.
Food and Growing Group Task list updated
I have just updated the task list, except for the current events sheet. Click here to view the spreadsheet.
Gardeners’ Questiontime for Community Gardeners at the Garden Museum, 4th Nov, 2010
The following notes were kindly given to me by Annick Alet who posed the following question for us relating to the Age Concern Gardens at the Vida Walsh Centre: We have just started a small community plot in the centre of Brixton and are growing vegetables as well as plants for wildlife. It is in [...]
