!!Crystal Palace Weekly Food Market Launches on Sat 11th May!!
Locally sourced food locally sold! The new weekly food market in Crystal Palace – Jake of the Remakery and Transition Crystal Palace has asked us to let you know about this wonderful Transition Town initiative. Launch Saturday May 11th and every following Saturday 10 am – 3pm Just off The Triangle Bottom of Haynes Lane [...]
Heart and Soul group launches two new Workshops
The Heart and soul Group is a Transition Town Brixton initiative that focuses on developing inner transition and personal wellbeing through creative and well-researched interventions. HeART and soul are excited to launch a series of workshops and facilitated events that invite you to explore, engage, develop and ultimately grow. We uphold a vision that supports [...]
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 Energy Solar 2 up and running!
Brixton Energy have now completed fundraising for their second project, Brixton Solar Energy 2 in Styles Gardens on the Loughborough Estate. The solar panels have been installed and the project is now generating electricity. Brixton Energy raised funding through a community share offer, with an expected average annual return on investment of 3% and up [...]
TTB to create London’s first Public Permaculture Demonstration Site
Transition Town Brixton will create London’s first public permaculture demonstration site and you can be a part of it. We are running a full Urban Permaculture Design Course in April and May 2013 which will transform Slade Gardens in Brixton. This unique project will apply permaculture principles of food security, efficient water use, intelligent urban [...]
BLIP blog archive: Sept 2010 to Mar 2011
This is the archive of the Bringing Land into Production project, ‘BLIP’ for short, from September 2010 to March 2011. What a transformation in just a short space of time! Many thanks to so many volunteers who have given their time so generously. As some of you may know, we were not able to continue [...]
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 [...]
TTB website visited by 57 countries last month
The Communications Group meeting last week looked at different statistics about the website, Twitter, our newsletter and so on. A couple of surprising statistics were that the website had visitors from 57 countries last month and 75% of all visitors were visiting the site for the first time. We added these and other statistics to [...]
Communications Group Formed
A new TTB Communications Group was formed last week and had it’s first meeting. The main topics were overall strategy and current priorities. There were 5 participants and apologies from several others. The meeting included a description of the different parts of TTB and areas of current communication including the newsletter, website, facebook, leaflets and [...]
Invest in Brixton’s second community-owned Solar Powerstation!
has launched Brixton Energy Solar 2! Join us in making the second inner-city co-operatively-owned solar project in the UK! If Brixton Energy Solar 2 is successful in its application for Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS), you as an investor would be eligible for 50% lump sum tax deduction in year one, on top of [...]
