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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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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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:

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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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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!

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