transitiontownbrixton.org - March-April Events

TTB Programme of Events: is now on the website on the events page. A couple of points still need finalising. It will then be published in leaflet form.

Permaculture Introductory Weekend: 21-22 June, venue tbc but will include site visit and hands on action learning.

£120 for whole weekend (concessions available). Contact TTB to register your interest.

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TTB Events Programme
will be announced soon! Highlights for your diary include

LOCAL ECONOMY DAY on Thursday 19 June, a whole day exploration of how money and the globalised economy works (or doesn't) and how a localised economy could work.
Outreach events such as the Lambeth Climate Change Conference, Friday 13 June, Lambeth Country Show 26-27 July and the Urban Green Fair Sunday 31 August when we will be running workshops and events and will need as much help as we can get.
Practical Reskilling classes in mending and 'refashioning' clothes, bike maintenance, Permaculture and more.

We also want TTB to be actively outreaching to community groups, neighbours, faith groups, local businesses, the voluntary and public sectors... We plan to organising training to enable you to outreach to your 'sphere of influence'.

Thank you to all who have volunteered and helped. We need to develop our capacity to use your energy more constructively. Groups are meeting independently and pursuing their own TTB agenda. Do get involved.

Group Meetings:
There is now a Group Meetings Calendar page on the TTB WIKI site
Business and Economy Group: Wednesday 7 May, 6.30, central Brixton. please contact Mamading Ceesay if you would like to join us. We will be focussing on organising the LOCAL ECONOMY DAY, outreaching to Brixton businesses, and developing a local currency for Brixton.

Monday 7 April, 7-9pm, Brixton St Vincent's Community Centre, Talma Road, SW2 1AS

Local Trade with Local Money

Why, how and what's in it for me?

A workshop with John Rogers of Value for People & David Boyle, author of The Little Money Book.

John Rogers has set up Local Exchange Trading (LETS) schemes and time banks. He was director of the South Wales Institute for Community Currencies and now runs a consultancy helping support the emergence of sustainable Community Currencies. David Boyle has written 'Funny Money' and 'The Little Money Book' and writes a column on localism. We will look at how money works and is evolving. What's wrong with the globalised, debt-based economy we have? Why have community currencies? How do they work? How might we move forward in Brixton? We will explore what 'value' means and experience 'local trade'. (The Brixton LETs scheme is planning to reform. Imagine trading with your neighbours in Bricks).

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