Today sees the launch of a great new funding opportunity from the Big Lottery Fund. Called ‘Communities Living Sustainably’, it is framed as being about supporting communities in England to live and work in a more sustainable way. Grants of up to £1 million are being distributed between 10 successful projects. It is fascinating how resilience has now entered the criteria alongside sustainability, meaning that this could be an ideal funding opportunity for Transition initiatives. You can find more information here, but below are the salient points.
Today we have a guest post from Jo Homan of Transition Finsbury Park about Edible Landscapes London (originally published here). It is one of the many projects that appears in the Transition Network projects database. Do submit your projects! Let’s start with a short film about the project, before we move on to an article Jo wrote about it:
It’s a brisk Autumnal Monday morning. I’m at Edible Landscapes London, an offshoot of Transition Finsbury Park. This is the cutting edge of no-dig, agroforestry, predominantly perennial and definitely low-maintenance gardening and our practice challenges conventional gardening wisdom. I’m talking about deeply ingrained habits of digging and tidiness.
This is the last week of the Energyshare voting process, where the final shortlist of community energy projects in 3 categories, large, medium and small projects is now being voted for, the winner of each category receiving £100,000. There are four Transition initiatives in the running: in the large project category there’s the Hexham Hydro project, in the medium project category there’s the Portobello and Leith Community Wind Energy Project, and in the small category there’s are two, the Shrewsbury hydro project and All Saints Wokingham. Do please give them your support, and click on this link and vote for them. I’m sure they’ll all the very grateful…
While there has been much discussion in terms of Transition and diversity over the past few years, little has been said about the issue of age. It’s not something we’ve explored here at Transition Culture in the past. Sometimes it is suggested that Transition only appeals to older people, whereas Occupy, for example, tends to attract more younger people. But is that the case? Is it that straightforward? How might Transition best serve people at the different stages in their lives, and what might they, in turn, bring to it? What are the things that attract people of different ages and what do they hope to get out of their engagement? I ask these questions by way of stimulating discussion, and thought a useful framing might be William Shakespeare’s Seven Ages of Man (with apologies to female readers for Shakespeare’s gender focus), from ‘As You Like It’. It begins:
“All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players,
I already posted a clever thing here that mixed the slides and the audio from a talk I gave the RESOLVE conference in May, well here now is the film of the talk, in case you’re interested…
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Today sees the launch of a great new funding opportunity from the Big Lottery Fund. Called ‘Communities Living Sustainably’, it is framed as being about supporting communities in England to live and work in a more sustainable way. Grants of up to £1 million are being distributed between 10 successful projects. It is fascinating how resilience has now entered the criteria alongside sustainability, meaning that this could be an ideal funding opportunity for Transition initiatives. You can find more information here, but below are the salient points.
