Transition Town Brixton is Recruiting Events Volunteers
Do you want to be part of promoting a more self-sufficient Brixton? Are you inspired by meeting other people in the local community and coming up with our own solutions for a better future for the area? Do you have experience of running events? Our groups have been working hard over the last 5 years [...]
Affirmative Applique and Communications at Shared Space
Join Transition Town Brixton’s shared space this Monday for affirmative applique, to meet the communications group, delicious food and wonderful people. Bring friends and family! Maggie Winnall, founder of TTB Textile and Clothing group and the Sewin’ Studio invites us to join in hand stitching, reusing cloth and using letters to create short affirmations. Her work [...]
Get Your Local Greens Christmas Community Herb Bunches
Local Greens are offering some very local herb bunches in their Christmas veg bags this year. The bunches will be made up of Bay (for your Bread sauce), Sage (for your Stuffing), Rosemary (for your roast potatoes) and Thyme (for your Turkey – or nut roast of course). We are buying the herbs from community [...]
Brixton Pound in Council Payroll: A UK First
For the first time this month some Lambeth Council employees will be part paid in Brixton Pounds. The scheme gives all Lambeth Council employees the chance of receiving a portion of their salary in electronic Brixton Pounds (B£e). Employees can then spend their B£e with local, independent businesses or donate to local charities and social [...]
Make Christmas with Transition Town Brixton
Christmas is coming so we’re sharing ideas for homemade gifts, cards and recipes. Come along to our next shared space event to connect with great people in your community and get those creative juices flowing. Learn how to make beautiful presents from re-used materials. Get to grips with environmentally-friendly gift-wrapping. Have other ideas? Bring them [...]
What’s going on at Garage Block 1?
Remakery Brixton are meeting each Thursday to transform a disused garage block. Throughout October and November volunteers have been heading down to the Paulet Road Estate near Myatt’s Inn Fields to create an affordable, co-working space to incubate recycling, repair and re-use projects. The vision? To bring together waste resources, hidden skills and business development [...]
Transition Network Launch training
Saturday 1 December and Sunday 2 December at the Islington Ecology Centre – Advance booking only. This is the 2 day Transition Network `Launch’ training. Designed for people who want to deepen their understanding of Transition principles and practice and meet others involved in Transition initiatives in London, it includes ideas on how to set [...]
South London community farm vacancies
Exciting vacancies at a community farm 8 miles from Brixton: Managing Director (maternity cover), Growing Training Manager, Organic Growers. They are also looking for people who can help out with local delivieries (paid). But if you’re not looking for a job you can also volunteer and support the farm through Farm membership. Sutton Community Farm, a [...]
July newsletter out now
TTB’s latest newsletter includes details of the Lambeth Sustainability Forum on 3 July, the Future Brixton planning workshop on 4 July, plus an account of the ‘Who Feeds Lambeth?’ discussion convened by Incredible Edible Lambeth. And congratulations to Duncan Law, who was made a Lambeth Champion in May for his work on Transition Town Brixton. [...]
Invitation to join Community Draught Busters Management Board
Community Draught Busters invite people to join their management board. We would like more people to have their say and input in what and how we do things around energy efficiency advise and draught proofing in Brixton, Lambeth and beyond. If you are interested in becoming a vivid part of our successful social enterprise model, [...]
