The education zone at the launch got off to a fantastic start with a sling workshop run by babalitious and then after a hasty shuffle around to find dry inside space we had a range of activities for children and their adults - junk modelling, decorating plant pots, face painting, making edible hanging baskets to take home and planting the new sensory planter in the middle of Riverside playground. Sarah and her team from the National Trust made recycled plant pots and bug hats and outside Steve Anderson did a great demonstration of his pole lathing skills and many people were able to have a go and learn some traditional green woodworking skills. We were also lucky to have the hottest knitters arouund - needles and Pin ups who ran a fantastic knitting circle with delitious cakes for people that wanted to knit and knatter and learn new skills or brush up their old ones. Round on Holme Street Outta Place did a great recycled art session aimed at Hebden's young people who could enjoy the music and create art at the same time.There were interactive workshops on Eco schools and Forest schools through out the day and the zone was decorated with a great photo display of many of the sustainable projects that are currently happening in Hebden Bridges' schools. The Education zone would like to thank al of the fantastic volunteersand the organisations that supported outr area - Babalitious, Word of Mouth, Needles and Pin ups, the National Trust, Steve Anderson, Eddie and Sarah from Redacre food growing project, Action Earth for sponsering the sensory planter, The Old Tree House for sponsering some of the childrens' activities, Outta place and Ros, Lisa and Jude for their face painting skills. The Education workshop saw a lively debate about what we meant by sustainable education and how we could then put that into practice as part of the transition town in Hebden Bridge. A whole host of ideas around transport to school, reducing the number of children being driven to school, rcreating safer routes to school were discussed. We also looked at the skills that we would want within our community and discussed ideas around a whole range of ways of skilling up through courses such as how to power down, practical food producing skills, what educacation would need to look like in order to skill up the next generation for a low carbon future, using new technology as well as looking at older technologies from the past. We looked at ways of learning from the elders in the community and how to gather that knowledge to help us shape the way that we wanted to be. All in all it was a lively and creative workshop with a range of perspectives and ideas so come along to the next meeting and get involved!