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Doing it for the Kids: Transition Chipping Norton. 

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.
Rob Hopkins
30 November 2023
10 minute read

“Runner Beans Not Runways” Forest, art and community in Heathrow’s flight path

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.
Rob Hopkins
9 November 2023
7 minute read

How seed funding nourishes community action

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. 
Chris McCartney
19 October 2023
8 minute read

United by the flow of the River Exe

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.
Rob Hopkins
4 October 2023
7 minute read

Transition job: Training & Support Lead

Transition groups are the beating heart of our movement. We are seeking a Training and Group Support Lead to join […]
Chris McCartney
28 September 2023
2 minute read

Apple Abundance in Chesterfield

At this time of the year, many Transition groups gather apples that wouldn’t otherwise be harvested, and make sure they […]
Chris McCartney
28 September 2023
2 minute read

Head, heart, hands and dancing feet at the Land Skills Fair

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.
Yaz Brien
5 September 2023
11 minute read

We’re recruiting – Just Transition Lead

Transition Together is seeking to embed the principles and practices of Just Transition at the heart of our work supporting […]
Chris McCartney
15 August 2023
2 minute read

“It helped make the future visible” – Reflections on our spring gatherings

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.
Chris McCartney
22 June 2023
10 minute read

Transition City rewards local businesses for eco efforts

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…
Chris McCartney
19 June 2023
5 minute read

The Transition care farm with room for all

It all started with four people from a small Transition group and a derelict former farm site. Today, Greenslate community-owned farm is a hive of community activity, with hundreds of people visiting, volunteering and learning each month.
Chris McCartney
23 May 2023
6 minute read

Orchard, forest, a fruit tree for every home: communities planting trees for the future

Creating a new forest may seem a big ambition for a community group. In his latest blog, Transition Together’s Rob Hopkins talks to some of the Transition’s movements most prolific tree planters about how and why they’re seeking to make their communities shadier, leafier and fruitier.
Rob Hopkins
27 April 2023
9 minute read
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