The impact of Transition. In numbers.

23 Apr 2014

The impact of Transition. In numbers.

Here’s something we’d love your help with. How can we capture the impact of Transition in numbers? We’ve done our best with what we can find, and we’d love to know what you would add from your local initiative. Any numbers you can put to your impact? Number of meetings? Amount of funding? Amount raised in a share option? Number of carrots grown on a train station? It’s over to you. Let us know (use the comments box below), and we’ll publish the final version at the end of the month…

The Impact of Transition in numbers
Number of countries with active TIs	44
Number of Transition initiatives registered with Transition Network	1,130
Number of initiatives in Japan registered with Transition Network	5
Number of initiatives in Japan registered on national Japanese Transition site	40
Percentage of those involved in Transition who are women	58% ⁴
Subscribers to the Transition Network newsletter in March 2014	17,929
Subscribers to the Transition Network newsletter in January 2011	9,309
Number of people who have done Transition Training in the UK and US	3,637
Percentage of those still active in Transition 4 years after doing Transition Training	86%
Number of UK pupils who have been involved in Transition Network’s Schools in Transition pilot	Over 3,700
Percentage of Bristol Mayor George Ferguson’s salary paid in Bristol Pounds	100%
Number of members of the EU’s Economic & Social Committee who spent a day with their local Transition initiative	19 (all of them)
Percentage of TIs considering themselves “very” or “fairly successful”	75.7% ¹
Number of times ‘Transition’ appears in UK government’s ‘Community Energy Strategy’ (2014)	10
Number of Transition Trainers in the world	137 in 25 countries
Number of initiatives in Brazil registered with Transition Network	4
Number of initiatives in Brazil registered on national Brazilian Transition site	61
Number of people involved in the average successful TI	189.5 ¹
Transition Network’s Twitter followers	13,500
Percentage of TIs that are legally constituted	64% ¹
Theme most frequently tackled by TIs	Food ¹
Amount raised through share launch by Transition Bath/Corsham’s community energy company (Bath & West Community Energy)	£750,000
Amount West Solent Solar Co-op (set up by New Forest Transition) is seeking to raise through shares for a community solar farm	£2,200,000
Average percentage of TI core group members who’ve done Transition Training	3 ¹
Turnover of 20 highly replicable Transition-oriented enterprises identified by the REconomy Project	£3.5m
Number of people they employ between them	109
Number of national Transition hubs formulating a strategy to support REconomy type activity in their country	7
Outside temperature that didn’t put off 100 people from attending the first ever Latvian REconomy event	20 below
Percentage of TIs who think they are “not good at diversity”	55.9% ¹
Number of initiatives in Sweden registered with Transition Network	7
Number of initiatives in Sweden registered on national Swedish Transition site	192
Amount of CO2 saved per household by Transition Streets participants in Totnes	1.2 tonnes ⁵
Number of households in the town that took part	550 ⁵
Amount of Google returns for the term ‘Transition Town’ (although some will also be people who live in towns and are undergoing gender realignment)	75,800,000
Number of times 2013 Guardian article about Transition was shared through social media	Over 10,000
Number of weeks The Power of Just Doing Stuff was No 1. In the Guardian Bookstores best sellers list	2
Number of times In Transition 2.0 was viewed on YouTube in its first 6 weeks there	26,000 ⁶
Number of page views on TransitionNetwork.org during 12 months up to March 2013.	1,182,360
Number of downloads for Transition Network’s 3 recent Economic Evaluation reports	4,922
Percentage of people for whom Transition is their first experience of activism	32% ²
Number of States in the US where Transition is active	37
Number of languages in which In Transition 2.0 is subtitled.	22 ⁶
Number of UK local currency schemes inspired through Transition	6
Bank of England’s estimate of amount of local currencies in circulation in the UK	£385,000
And their estimate of the amount of Sterling in circulation	£54.2 billion
Percentage of TIs that are city-based	27.5% ³
Percentage of TIs engaged in projects around food and growing	40% ⁴
Number of initiatives in New Zealand registered with Transition Network	11
Number of initiatives in New Zealand registered on national Transition site	70
Number of Transition initiatives set up by local councils.	0 ⁴
Percentage of TIs reporting “attracting wider interest” as their biggest obstacle	76%
Percentage of TIs who have begun ‘building a bridge to local government’	83% ⁴
Numbers of people estimated to read each edition of Transition Free Press	30-40,000
Number of people attending a Transition Training in Nagymágocs, a central-south Hungarian village.	8 (should have been more but “most of the participants chose to go to a pig slaughter instead”.