Category: News

A year ago, we looked back on the activity and impact of Transition Together. As upsetting and traumatic events are all too present in the world and in our minds, it feels important to look back again over the year just gone, to take stock, celebrate what’s gone well and renew our intentions to focus on the work that is yet to be completed.

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Equity, soulcraft, transformation, resilience: Monica Cru-Hall shares what the Caretaker Group discovered as core to a Hub to support the Transition movement in Wales and England. And invites you to step closer to help shape the emerging hub in practice.

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Steve Jones has a passion for bringing permaculture and Transition to working class communities. He tells Chris McCartney how the group is using food to bring people together across race and ethic difference, and helping grow access to fresh, affordable, local food on their estate.

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Rob Hopkins hears how Transition Chipping Norton used seed funding grants to reboot their group, while also mobilising young people through an outdoor youth club, to help shape their community.

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For 11 years, Grow Heathrow activists transformed a former market garden into a space for community, food growing and resistance to airport expansion. But what’s happened since the site was shut down and activists evicted? Rob Hopkins discovers how Transition seed funding is nurturing new shoots of community power and imagination in the villages that lie in the path of a proposed new runway.

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As we announce the latest round of seed funding, find out how these small grants are unlocking big change in communities and showing how a fairer, more resilient future is not only possible, it’s already being created. 

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Last month, the River Exe came alive with song, nightswimming, stories and a wild salmon run for the first Festival of the River Exe. Transition co-founder Rob Hopkins hears about the three Transition groups who collaborated to protect, restore and celebrate their local river, harnessing public outrage at the state of our water and transforming it into local action.

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Transition groups are the beating heart of our movement. We are seeking a Training and Group Support Lead to join our team, responding to the challenges of community-led change and helping our groups unlock their full potential. Over the past two years, we have developed a lively training programme to help groups in England, Wales and Northern Ireland to launch and thrive, as well as one-off topical events to dive deeper into specific skills and issues. Our new Training [...]

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At this time of the year, many Transition groups gather apples that wouldn’t otherwise be harvested, and make sure they can be eaten and enjoyed. Transition Chesterfield set up their Abundance Project when they noticed some of the autumn bounty in their area was shrivelling and going to waste. Now volunteers offer to pick unwanted fruit and ensure it gets to local groups and individuals who want to make good use of it. To demonstrate ways of storing the fruit, they [...]

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We’re part of a rich eco-system of many groups working for change - it makes sense to connect, share, learn and collaborate. So when Yaz Brien from our team attended this year’s Land Skills Fair, they were excited to connect with the landworkers’ movement in the UK and draw inspiration for our work of Transition.

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It was the first time Transitioners had been able to gather beyond their local area for some years - and what a few years it has been for community-led action. Here we bring together different voices and responses from participants, as the events explored the future of our groups, movements and wider society.

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How can Transition groups connect with, support and promote small firms that want to have a positive impact on community and planet? Salisbury Transition City’s Green Business Association and awards scheme is doing just that, and could be a model for other places too…

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