Eastleigh Transition Network | Low Impact Living in Eastleigh Borough

10.07
2011

Welcome to Eastleigh Transition Network

Transition is a community-led response to pressures of climate change, fossil fuel depletion and increasingly, economic stagnation. It all starts off when a small collection of motivated individuals within a community come together.

Eastleigh Transition Network

Eastleigh Transition Network aims to support everyone living or working in the Borough of Eastleigh to plan for a ‘transition’ from our current total dependency on fossil fuels – to support our local economies and move towards a more viable and sustainable future. This includes supporting our local producers and businesses.

Please take some time to view the list of our current groups that you may be interested in. If you are interested in starting a group or would like to contact us at all, please email info@etnet.org.uk

If you’d like to be part of our mailing list and receive emails about what’s going on, you can sign up here: ETNet Mailing List

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21.01
2012

Transition Open Evening

How can we make our community stronger and happier as we deal with the impacts of peak oil and economic contraction while at the same time urgently reducing CO2 emissions?

A group of people in Ashburton got together to grow their own food together – in the grounds of a local school.
A group in Todmorden constructed a sensory habitat created to support bees.
Another group in Shaftesbury tackle the issues of climate change, pollution and carbon footprints by visiting primary schools with a travelling eco-circus.

If you think such projects are important and have some time to give, then help the Chandlers Ford Transition group develop one or more such projects.

Thursday 16th February, 7.30pm, Mansfield Hall, United Reformed Church, Kings Road, Chandlers Ford.

Projects completed by the people of Chandlers Ford, for the people and community of Chandlers Ford.

There will be a stuff swap table where you will be able to bring unwanted items and swap it for another item. Please bring items along!

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31.12
2011

Eastleigh Transition Network: 2011 Review

We believe it is important to reflect on the year as it helps remind everyone what has happened in the year, and looking back on our achievements and progress we have made. The below list is a summary of what has happened throughout 2011:

2011 marks the third year since ETNet started
We have held four successful film screenings at The Point in Eastleigh: A Farm for The Future, Vanishing of the Bees, The End of the Line, and The Economics of Happiness. We hope to continue this in 2012
We have held three fantastic workshops: Fungal Foraging, How to Make a Nest for Solitary Bees, and Natural Christmas Wreath Making. These have been fantastic successes with great turnouts. We will be running 6 workshops throughout 2012.
We’ve held stalls at events such as Valley Park Woodfair, Pumpkin Festival, Bishopstoke Carnival, Swan Centre Eco Event.
Highbridge Community Farm Project has hugely improved, with further developments made, and lots more people getting involved.
A new field has been made available next to the farm for a Community Orchard, which will be an exciting new project for 2012.
We’ve had a brand new website designed for us by James Crawford and Steve Marks. We hope you all like the new website, and we will continue to look for ways in which we can improve this. We’ve also just added a forum to encourage discussion and ideas that we can use to create and build future projects.
We’ve kept you up to date with news, stories and links through our social media channels – Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
We’re now using a new newsletter tool to bring you the latest monthly news and event updates. Sign up to our mailing list if you haven’t already.
We’ve received funding from O2 Think Big and The Co-Operative, and we’ve received money from Eastleigh Borough Council and the Awards for All grant.
We’ve been featured in the Daily Echo.
We’ve started work on our new Gardenshare project, which will aim to connect people with land they cannot manage with people who wish to use land. This will launch in 2012.
We had a fantastic talk at our AGM by Sara Osman (Food Co-ops Regional Advisor, South East) on Food Co-Operatives.
We’ve made connections with the Urbane Forager, who has shared with us a local map of free wild food growing around the area. He has also started the Flash Foraging sessions which will pick back up again in 2012.
We’ve made connections with Start UK, Slow Food Solent, A World of Furniture, Friends of Hocombe Mead, Southampton Scrapstore, Eco-Centricity, and Business in the Community.
We’ve also made connections with the World Development Movement, where David Lane, our co-chair, took part in a talk about bringing climate justice to Africa. We’ve also helped with their stunt in lobbying Chris Huhne.
We’ve strengthened links with Friends of the Parks and Bay Leaves Larder.
We’ve also strengthened links with Eastleigh Borough Council, Chandlers Ford Parish Council, and One Community.
A new book shop has opened in Eastleigh – Books for Free. This gives people to take books for free, stopping books from going to landfill.
The Fair Trade shop that used in be in Southampton has now moved to Eastleigh, and is now called Shop Equality.

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14.12
2011

Merry Christmas from ETNet

We at Eastleigh Transition Network wish all of you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Our next hub meeting will be Wednesday 11th January 2012 at 7pm at Pavilion on the Park, Eastleigh.

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08.12
2011

Natural Christmas Wreath Workshop: Review

On Sunday 4th December, ETNet held it’s last Locality Sustainability Workshop of the year: a Natural Christmas Wreath Workshop, held in Chandlers Ford. The event was fully booked and had a great turnout of people fascinated by making these amazing objects. The woman who lead the talk gave an interesting demonstration of how to make the wreath, and then left us to have a go! People who attended brought along materials they had found in their gardens or local woods and we all shared these to make some amazing wreaths!

What is great about these events is the sharing of skills, and one of Transition’s aims is to share people’s skills, and to pass these skills to others, so we constantly learn. The event was a bargain, only £5, which covered hall hire, wire, and orange slices. Below are the finished wreaths! We will be holding this workshop next year, so hopefully you will be able to get involved if you missed out!