Worcester

Transition Worcester will be at the annual Volunteer Fair, to be held at the Guildhall on Friday 1st June – if you are interested in how you can be involved in Transition Worcester or another group, why not pop along? Details on the poster above, please call the Worcester Volunteer Centre on 01905 24741 if you have any queries.

This May, people across the UK will be leaving their cars at home and taking to their feet in the Great British Walking Challenge. National Walk to Work Week, 14-18 May, is one event taking place during the month long challenge which encourages commuters to walk their way to a health lifestyle. With the latest figures showing that a quarter of UK adults are now classified as obese and government...

Remember our very successful elderflower forage last year? Or perhaps you couldn’t make it but wanted to? On Saturday 2nd June, we’ll be re-running this really popular and fun event. Meet us at Cherry Orchard Nature Reserve (at 10am) for a guided walk through to Cripplegate Park, stopping to pick elderflowers en route. Once in Cripplegate Park, you can try some cordial prepared before...

On Saturday 26th May, Transition Worcester will take over the new Hive, the Library and History Centre recently built on The Butts. Are you interested in the future of Worcester? Come and have a chat about your ideas and thoughts with Transition Worcester. We’ve got the Hive for the day (so it’s a chance to see some of it before the official opening!) and will be hosting informal...

Transition Worcester are looking for experienced, road-confident cyclists to help lead a series of group rides to events this summer and autumn. The idea is to encourage less experienced cyclists to get out into the wider countryside, by using thier bikes to get to fun events instead of their cars. So far, trips we have planned are West Fest (West Malvern Community Festival) on the 14th July, and...

Our annual Plant Swap takes place outside the Guildhall on Saturday 21 April – please come along! If you have plants that you’d like to swap for something new and different that would be great but please come and talk to us even if you haven’t. In addition to plants to swap, we’ll have lots of advice available for people who want to start growing more of their own food and...

            Panic Buying Whilst we do not wish harm or difficulty towards people just trying to get by, we’d like to point out that the difficulties we’ve had recently are exactly what is going to be on the cards in the mid-term future. Peak Oil is about the amount of oil produced in the whole world not being enough to meet demand. There will be empty forecourts,...

 If you have a great idea for how communities can work together to buy goods or services collectively, and save money, then you are being encouraged to apply for a pot of funding from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. The new ‘Buy Better Together Challenge’ is designed to promote community buying models in the UK. Community buying involves groups of individuals...

Do you receive our newsletter by email? If not, and you would like to, please do sign up using our online form. Our March newsletter was published recently and contains details of many upcoming events and other newsworthy items. Take a look to get the latest updates: Transition Worcester Newsletter March 2012.

Join the Worcestershire Literary Festival with Transition Worcester for an unplugged evening of poetry, spoken word, music and fun on Saturday 31st March, from 7.00. We will be celebrating ‘Earth Hour’, the WWF campaign to get everyone to switch off their lights that evening. Tickets cost £5 or £3 for concessions and are available on the door on the night. If you wish to purchase one...