What do Transition groups do? Across the country, local people are organising practical solutions to some of the most pressing issues of our time. And it all adds up:

🥦209 groups are growing food and reinventing local food systems
⚡️ 89 are reinventing energy generation and use
🤝 103 are running community hubs and spaces
🦋 112 Transition communities are protecting nature and rewilding
🛠 106 groups are repairing, sharing and reusing local resources
🚴‍♀️ 61 are improving public transport and active travel in their places
💡51 are setting up new local economy projects and businesses
4,156 Volunteers are involved in Transition projects across the UK
Reaching a huge 105,000 people.

What if... every community had the support they needed to reimagine and rebuild their world starting local?

Find out more: https://transitiontogether.org.uk/impact/

Transition. It can mean different things to different people. Here's what it means to some of the many local changemakers involved in our movement - and why it's important...

"What I started it was all about sustainability and climate change - now I know it's about community..."

Find out more: transitiontogether.org.uk

#thisisTransition #WhatisTransition #climateaction #community #Transitiontown

Congrats to Transition Group Ludlow21 celebrated 20 years of #Fairtrade in the town with the launch of a new Shopping Guide.

It can be picked up in loads of local business and community spaces, as well as on their website. Check out the project here: https://fairtradeludlow.wordpress.com

#fairtrade #Transition #community #Transitiontown #shropshire

3 weeks ago we gathered for the Transition Assembly. Read/watch/relive what happened: https://transitiontogether.org.uk/postassembly/

Join us on 8 March for Assemble Online, a chance for folks who couldn’t attend to be part of this important discussion and what’s next for our movement: https://events.transitionmovement.org/transition-together/assemble-online/

Community climate hub, SERO has re-opened in new high street premises in Carmarthen, with it’s New2You children’s swap shop, repair cafe, seed library, scrapstore, library of things and lively series of events.

The hub’s aim is to make it easier to engage with climate action and which demonstrates a new kind of economy. One which values and normalises sharing and repairing above consuming, which connects people with neighbours and with lost skills.

Thanks to a Transition Together seed-funding grant supported by The National Lottery Community Fund, last year they were able to employ Siobhan as Welsh language worker to offer their activities and programmes to both Welsh and English speakers.

This weekend, they’ll celebrate St David’s Day with a bilingual crafts workshop.

#Transitiontown #Wales #cliamtehub #community

Time to meet another Transition group. Community Roots Permaculture Project is passionate about bringing food growing opportunities to their working class estate in Bolton.

They run a community garden where crops are shared among the local volunteers and the food bank, regular practical workshops and, funded by a Transition Together seed funding grant, went door-to-door offering to plant fruit trees in people’s gardens.

Steve Jones from the group said: “Growing food is the best tool for community cohesion there is, simply because we all eat food…. We’re not a food bank, but with succession planting, we’re giving away kilos of food. We’re feeding ourselves and people who turn up to the project.”

“It’s about food, climate and people coming back down to earth and having a sense of gratitude. Even now, I’m still absolutely humbled when I go around the garden and pick stuff to cook and eat.”

Read the full story: https://transitiontogether.org.uk/a-passion-for-working-class-permaculture/

How can our groups and projects be places that welcome, include and create space for the voices, views and action of young people?

We held a Skillshare on this topic and heard the stories, experience and advice of three Transition groups. If you missed it, watch it back here: https://youtu.be/ApV8taXtA5k?feature=shared

Last week, we were privileged to take a journey to the future with Rob Hopkins.

He shared about his forthcoming book for the first time and had advice for activists on how to give people a window into what a positive future can look, smell, sound and taste like, as a way to inspire and engage folks with the action we need to take to build it.

Watch back the recording of this brilliant session, which ranged from the landscape of beavers to Afrofuturism, music recordings to sound out the future to how art is paving the way for us to imagine different solutions. It is an inspiring way to start your year!

📽🍿 https://transitiontogether.org.uk/when-rob-hopkins-helped-us-fall-in-love-with-the-future/
#transitiontown #lovethefuture #CommunityAction #ClimateAction #robhopkins

Bridgehouse Gardens community group in South London has been on an incredible journey.

Together, they have transformed a disused, vacant tarmac site into a thriving forest garden and built by hand a new community learning space, The Winslade Barn. Along the way, participants have learnt amazing practical skills, built community and created space for wildlife.

Read their story: https://transitiontogether.org.uk/vacant-site-to-community-ecosystem/

#transitiontown #CommunityAction #ClimateAction #forestgarden

We're excited to be offering our first Train the Trainer programme, starting 18 February.

It's a fantastic and supportive opportunity to learn training and facilitation skills, how to devise and deliver your own training courses and explore how to support groups working for community-led change.

Find out more and apply here if you are ready to join: https://forms.gle/uTB4Y8EYzT1Z99bM6

Or come to our short info session on 22 January to find out more and ask questions and see if its right for you: https://events.transitionmovement.org/transition-together/trainerinfo/

How do you feel about the future? Join Rob Hopkins, Transition co-founder, this Wednesday at 7.30pm and he'll help you fall in love with it.

In this special conversation, he'll share a sneak peak at his new book - the first time he's talked publicly about it, talk about his new vinyl record recorded in 2030 and share thoughts about the future of our communities, the Transition movement and the world.

Register to join us here: https://events.transitionmovement.org/transition-together/lovethefuture/

#climatediary #Transition #community #future #imagination #climate #climateaction

Scale up is a flexible, tailored programme to support Transition groups to focus on developing on particular project or aspect of their work.

It covers one-to-one mentoring, an optional residential and online sessions with groups around the country and it's a fantastic opportunity to invest in scaling up an area of work that's important to you.

Applications are now open, and will close by 3 February, or sooner if all the funding is allocated, so get in their soon! Find out more and apply here: https://transitiontogether.org.uk/training/

#justtransition #transition #community #climateaction #training

In one month, Transitioners from across the country gather for a weekend to connect, inspire & shape the future of our movement at our first Transition Assembly. Book now if you want to be part of it! Childcare & financial support available. Find out more: https://events.transitionmovement.org/transition.../TA2025/

#Transition #justtransition #community #climateaction

How do you like our Transition Assembly picture?

Created by amazing illustrator and screen-printer Imogen Donegan, we love how she’s captured the way the Assembly will bring us and the different threads of experience we hold together in a strong and vibrant pattern.

It’s just seven weeks away - and we’d love to see you there. If you or your group been invited to attend, you have until 17 January to book and claim your place. Then these tickets will be released to allow other people who are waiting for a space to attend.

Speak to us about anything that would support you to attend, including on-site childcare and bursary help with travel and accommodation costs.

Find out more and register here:
https://events.transitionmovement.org/transition-together/TA2025/

#transition #transitiontown #community #climateaction #peoplesassembly

Something to get in your new diary for the New Year...

As we approach the first Transition Assembly, join Transition co-founder Rob Hopkins on 15 January for a sneak peek at his forthcoming book (June 2025) “How To fall in love with the future: A Time Traveller’s Guide to Changing the World”.

He'll also share a glimpse of his 'Field Recordings from the Future' music project scheduled for release at the same time and discuss how he imagines what's next for our communities, the Transition Movement and our world, why 'Cat-Women of the Moon' might be one of the most important films ever made, and why the cultivation of longing is one of the most vital skills for us to master.

Book a ticket today, and start 2025 on a high note: https://events.transitionmovement.org/transition-together/lovethefuture/

#Transition #Transitiontown #Climate #whatson #imagination #Climatediary

Something to get in your new diary for the New Year...

As we approach the first Transition Assembly, join Transition co-founder Rob Hopkins on 15 January for a sneak peek at his forthcoming book (June 2025) “How To fall in love with the future: A Time Traveller’s Guide to Changing the World”.

He'll also share a glimpse of his 'Field Recordings from the Future' music project scheduled for release at the same time and discuss how he imagines what's next for our communities, the Transition Movement and our world, why 'Cat-Women of the Moon' might be one of the most important films ever made, and why the cultivation of longing is one of the most vital skills for us to master.

Book a ticket today, and start 2025 on a high note: https://events.transitionmovement.org/transition-together/lovethefuture/

Find out what Transition groups in Wales are up to, four brilliant stories of community-led action recently shared at #WalesClimateWeek.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwqPxC-v8P0&list=PLHBVoCVw4XZRAaEFQs01B0neXusu1Vx8T&index=40

#Transition #Transitiontown #Wales #Climate

We're building a new online resource hub - a place to share and discover wonderful guides, advice and case studies to help communities create change.
We know Transition groups have a wealth of experience and love to share and help others get new projects off the ground. So to help us get it started, we’re inviting Transition groups to create a simple guide to setting up and running different types of practical projects they have experience of.

We'll make it as easy as possible, by providing a template with key questions to answer and a small fee for your project as a contribution for your time.

If you have a project you think is worth sharing, find out more and fill in our expression of interest form here: https://forms.gle/3vBrw5pR17Hj8ExZ7

#transition #learning #community #share #peersupport #climateaction @TransitionTelford @transitionfalmouth

Transition group @playthinkbrink welcomed broadcaster and activist Chris Packham for campfire tea and chat at their meantime use space in the centre of Belfast recently.

Gawain Morrison, co-founder of Brink, said: "Just as it was about to snow, we sat round our fire pit & chatted about this part of the city, the heritage growing project on the site, with our partners Grow NI & quarto, the broken food system, renewables, activism & punk bands. Not a bad way to start the morning."

The project aims to spark conversations and new thinking about how their city of Belfast can transition to a better future. Chris added a message on heritage linen to their story ring: “Winning is not giving up and the fuel is love and rage”

#chrispackham #thisistransition #transitiontown #reimaginethefuture #storytelling #campfire #dontgiveup #belfast