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08 Jul 2011 Local Economy Showcase Sat 16th July alanm

From 12.30pm Saturday 16th July 2011, Riverside School and Holme Street Download the booklet here. A year since successful launch of Transition Town Hebden Bridge at Riverside School, we're holding another exciting event at the same venue. Our valley is fortunate to have such a wealth of excellent community projects, social enterprises, green businesses and creative ideas, all playing a part in the transition towards sustainability and helping make our local economy and our livelihoods safer against the threats we face, such as rising oil and food prices; the people who put so much energy, perseverance and sheer hard work into the well-being of our town need our support. That’s the thinking behind the local economy showcase. A great opportunity for everybody to come and find out more about some of the inspirational things that are happening locally, perhaps even get involved or to come and talk about your own great idea or project. Meet the people behind the projects and businesses; from woodlands to LED lighting, organic veg to education and Totally-Locally to community housing. Find out more about what they are doing, why they are doing it and what would really help them move forward to make an even bigger difference. And we have three new initiatives launching at the event: 1 – 1.15 p.m. THE DRUM MACHINE. A performance followed by 3 short taster workshops throughout the afternoon for people to join in. Band members will be at hand all day to chat to people about what the drum machine could bring into their lives. 1.30 p.m. Treesponsibility: Launch of THE SOURCE project - “If you want to save the earth, save the bog”. Ecological restoration and tree-planting near the source of the River Calder. 4 p.m. CHLOE, JAKE AND THE MAGIC BOOK. The Transition Puppeteers launch a new production - What will the children learn as they step inside the pages? Trades Club. So whether you may be interested as a potential customer or perhaps you have time, experience or expertise to share, maybe land for food growing or tree planting to offer, or even cash to donate or invest, please get involved. There will be stalls, talks, films, food and drink and lots more exciting things going on. And we are joining up with the Trades Club Street Party, so there’s plenty of musical entertainment from 4.30 until late too! So put Saturday 16th July into your diary now, come along for a fun and informative day out and support your sustainable community and the Trades Club too.

10 Mar 2011 Organising showcase event admin
The Group is mainly focused on the proposed showcase/event. This will be a day and evening indoor and outdoor extravaganza based around the Trades Club and Holme Street, to showcase and celebrate what we do. A reminder to all other groups: we all need to be developing ideas, after the initial chat in February. We are looking at combining the street party idea with the showcase idea, which may mean a date later in the year, we're proposing this gets fixed at the general meeting on 23rd March.
15 Jul 2010 Update after our last meeting... admin
The Local Economy Group (LEG) of Hebden Bridge Transition Town aims to create the conditions for all the other transition projects to prosper. We are facing a threefold crisis of economic turmoil, resource depletion and climate change, so how can our town navigate the choppy waters in the century ahead without dumping on communities elsewhere or worsening inequalities closer to home. At our last meeting we came up with some ideas:- We all agreed that TT Leg should be a resource for transition town projects and green start-ups. Collectively we can help with business plans, funding advice, experience of collective and co-operative working. The group also has a role in helping to bring community assets into community control – e.g. council owned land. We intend to forge links with the Town Hall group, and will email them asking if the transition town can have a noticeboard there. We will promote the freeconomy, and help our town build up its “social capital”. We will seek to influence existing businesses in the town – e.g. the co-op and local business landlords. Treesponsibility’s transition support worker (Natja) is employed to December, and we should aim to get businesses (and everyone else!) signed up to Ecotricity – an energy company which invests all its surplus into new renewable energy projects. We are interested in the development of a local goods database and ordering service. We like the idea of promoting a transition micro-credit scheme to provide capital. This list is not complete! If you think we are missing something, and if you are the sort of person who likes meetings with action points, rather than talking shops, then come our working group’s next meet up on Wednesday 21st July, and every second Wednesday thereafter at 8pm. Provisional venue Nutclough Housing Co-op. If you want to come, or if you would like to join our email list, please contact us on localeconomyhbtt@googlegroups.com, so we can let you know if venue details change.
14 Jul 2010 First Steps admin
First steps: Those of us at the inaugural meeting on 9 June decided on a two-pronged approach: the local economy group as a resource and the group as strategist. 1. Resource - We think we can develop a 'resource bank', and a source of mentoring, for business/enterprise ideas generated by the other Transition Town groups, so we're an incubator for ideas that need the leap into business development. 2. Strategy - Our first idea is to examine how the Cooperative Store in Hebden Bridge could become a genuinely local supermarket, a model for how a supermarket could truly be a catalyst in a changing local economy.