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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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Transition Together is seeking to embed the principles and practices of Just Transition at the heart of our work supporting community-led action.  To do that, we have created a new staff role, to bring in extra capacity, experience and knowledge to support our team and the wider Transition movement of local groups in England & Wales.  We are seeking someone who will work collaboratively with our small team and the movement to articulate how a just transition is key to reimagining [...]

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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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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.

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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.

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If the last few years have revealed anything, it is that shocks and uncertainty happen - and how well we endure and recover has a great deal to do with our resilience. Here we explore how are Transition groups and others building skills, connections and infrastructure to grow the resilience of our communities?

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A Transition group is exploring a new way to make it cheaper and easier for residents to install solar panels on their roofs. Sustainable Bridport has negotiated a bulk discount for solar panels, and is helping people explore if its the right option for them.

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Recent years have seen rising interest in community scale grain growing projects. Part food security experiments, part community arts projects, part research initiatives that could just turn out to be vital to our food future, Transition Together’s Rob Hopkins meets some community grain growing pioneers and finds out why some people are flailing, winnowing and stooking their way back to community resilience.

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