West Bridgford in Transition - Time for change: Business of Transition

Transition Matlock has been working with the East Midlands School for Social Entrepreneurs (EMSSE) discussing what types of help community groups need to set up social enterprise projects.The result is this free event aimed at all sustainable/ transition / community groups who want to set up projects to make things happen in their community.

Please can you let as many people as possible know about this free event. EMSSE have given Transition Matlock lots of practical support and advice in setting up our Community Supported Agriculture Project and I am sure other groups will benefit from coming along to this free practical workshop day in Belper on the 24th April.

Please can people book places in advance as we need to get an idea of numbers to cater for the lunch.

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hope to see some of you soon

Helen

12 Step plan

Set up a steering group and design it's demise from the outset. A core team to drive the project forward during the initial phases. Awareness raising. (see who is in the steering group)

Build crucial networks and prepare the community in general. Lay the foundations. Network with existing groups.
(pedals, Notts Wild life trust, Skills Exchange, WB Summer Gathering)

Organise the ‘great unleashing’. Create a memorable milestone to mark the project’s ‘coming of age’, moving the project into the community.

Form working groups. Set up smaller groups to focus on specific aspects of the process.

Use open space an effective approach to running meetings for Transition Initiatives.

Develop visible, practical manifestations of the project. Create practical, high visibility manifestations in your community.
(bike trailer hand out)

Facilitate the great re-skilling. Reverse the ‘great deskilling’ of the last 40 years by offering training in a range of skills.

Build a bridge to local government. Cultivate a positive and productive relationship with your local authority.

Honour the elders. Engage with those who remember the transition to cheap oil.

Let it go where it wants to go… Act as a catalyst for the community to design its own transition.

Create an Energy Descent Action Plan. Combine the practical actions to form the Energy Descent Action Plan.

West Bridgford in Transition - Time for change

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