Jumble Sale on Sat May 18th 11-2
Join us on Saturday 18th May for a sale of items from the Transition Centre 6-8 Robsart Street, SW9 ODJ (map) between 11 and 2. Refreshments will be served. 200 items and more must go! Anything from loft panels, pinboards and white boards to boxes of crayons and scissors We hope to make a good [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
TTB Open Day
1-9pm Saturday 5th May, at the Transition Centre, 6-8 Robsart St, (opp Brixton Jamm, off Brixton Road) SW9 0DJ. An exciting opportunity to see some of the work of TTB, with displays, stalls, talks, practical workshops, culminating with delicious Pakistani food at 6pm, and a screening of the movie In Transition 2.0 at 7pm followed [...]
Brixton Energy Share Offer opens
The day has finally come. The launch of inner London’s first co-operatively owned solar power station! Look at the website, read the prospectus and support us! Brixton Energy Solar 1 is a new Co-operative set up to enable local people to invest in renewable energy generation in Brixton and raise funds for energy efficiency initiatives. If you invest in Brixton [...]
TTB Family Group gathering
After a very enjoyable first meeting the TTB Family Group will meet again on Saturday 4 February, 11-2pm, at the Transition Centre, 6-8 Robsart St SW9 0DJ. Bring something to share for lunch. Tea, coffee and juice provided. (Regular 3rd Saturdays of the month are still pencilled in the Transition Centre diary) Some things we [...]
Family Group gardening lunch
TTB Family Group gathered to plant broad beans, share lunch and discuss the future.
TTB Family Group Gardening Lunch
Plant broad beans in the TTB growing space (see above) (11-12.30, bring warmth) BYO picnic food to share (12.30 – 1.30 lunch) If you have a trowel or small fork that would be helpful. Indoor shoes too so we don’t bring the mud inside. All ages welcome. Bring friends. Bring ideas. Bring food to share. [...]
