Seedling Swap on Sat 26th May 2012, 9.30-11am

Dawlish Transition are holding a Seedling Swap on Saturday  26th May 2012, 9.30-11 am outside the URC, The Strand, Dawlish as part of  Delicious Dawlish - growing food anywhere and everywhere.

Bring along your spare vegetable seedlings to exchange or buy young food plants for sale at bargain prices.

“Delicious Dawlish” launch Thursday 8th March

Dawlish Transition “Delicious Dawlish” launch

Thursday 8th March, 7pm, The White Room, South Devon Inn, Strand Hill, Dawlish

We are holding a social and information evening to help everyone reduce costs by growing food in whatever space is available. Toby Buckland, well known as a presenter on BBC Garden Live and a local online garden nursery owner, will be talking about growing edible plants anywhere and everywhere. This will follow a short film about the successful “Incredible Edible Todmorden” initiative. The group is hoping that experienced and new gardeners will come along and be involved in a seed swap and put their gardening questions to Toby Buckland and a panel of local experts

Everyone is welcome to come along and enjoy the ‘Delicious Dawlish’ evening at the South Devon Inn on Thursday March 8th from 7pm. Places can be booked by calling 01626 862063. Entry costs just £1 per person, all welcome.

Home Energy Saving Exhibition - Sat October 15th

We are hosting a Home Energy Saving Exhibition at the Strand Centre (URC) on Saturday 15h October from 11am to 4pm.

The Teignbridge Affordable Warmth Home Energy Officer will be giving information about grants and low income loans to help with installing energy saving technologies such as loft insulation.

We have invited businesses who provide and install a range of sustainable and renewable heat capture systems and also businesses providing energy saving solutions for the domestic market.

Winning Renewable energy bids for Dawlish - YOUR help needed

 The short story - "Please just sign up as we need more members to win the bid"...  http://www.energyshare.com/dawlish-transition/join/ 

The long story -We have registered Dawlish Transition as an energyshare group. Under this scheme we will be eligible to bid for funding to put in place community energy projects. This is funded by British Gas and supported by River Cottage and Friends of the Earth. In order to be eligible to apply for grant funding we need to gather as many supporters as possible before 30th June 2011, for a Community energy project. So it is important that you register as a member and supporter of the group, and drum up as much support as possible.

I have put forward the idea of making the Manor House more energy efficient by gaining funding to put in place the recommendations of the Save the Manor Group Report 2010- eg. provision of roof insulation, energy saving lighting, radiator heat controls etc. The roof may also be suitable for the installation of photovoltaic panels to generate electricity for use during sunshine hours. Everyone in Dawlish would benefit through reduced council costs and less energy use by community groups like us who hire the building.

You may have other Community schemes that could be put in place in mind...as well,

About Energyshare

energyshare is a community. It brings people together in person and online, to challenge the status quo and get more control over:

• Where your energy comes from
• How much you use
• How much you pay for it

Please follow next link to accept, sign-up, and join: http://www.energyshare.com/dawlish-transition/join/

Dawlish Transition is a renewable energy community group on energyshare.
Once you've registered you could....

Hope to see you on www.energyshare.com soon!

Next meeting 26th April 2011

Next Dawlish Transition meeting:  

 

Tuesday 26th April 7.15pm, 

The Manor House Dawlish

                                                                                                            

All Welcome

Next meeting, 22nd March, 7pm, Manor House

The next Transition meeting will be held on 22nd March, at 7pm  Room 4a, The Manor House, Dawlish and you are all warmly invited to attend. If you can, please come along.

The meeting is to decide what sort of activities and facilities we would like to see developed here in Dawlish as part our Transition Town movement, and to give information about progress with any ideas that have already been started. We value your input and ideas and look forward to seeing you there,

best wishes,

Carolyn

Dawlish Transition member

PRSD link to Transition launch and bag competiton

People's Republic of South Devon have covered the bag competition and launch here. 

http://www.peoplesrepublicofsouthdevon.co.uk/2011/03/02/dont-forget-your-old-bag-dawlish-transition-town-comes-to-life/