ACTIVE groups
Lewes Rain Gardens
Rain gardens are sunken gardens specifically designed to capture and absorb surface water run-off and filter it back into the soil using selected planting. As well as helping to manage surface flooding, they filter pollution and encourage biodiversity.
Contact: Juliet Oxborrow
A group from TTL (and others) are putting together firm ideas to translate into a series of policies… Our key focus is riverside connections for people and wildlife, whilst prioritising flood resilience.
Contact: Kirsten Firth
Keep It In the Ground Lewes (KIIGL)
Campaigning for the East Sussex Pension Fund to divest from fossil fuels.
Contact – Ann Link
INACTIVE groups
It’s a fricassee of high energy individuals who get together to discuss and find ways of reducing the town’s reliance on fossil fuels, re-localising our energy supplies and cutting energy consumption – in response to peak oil and climate change. Local resilience is the way forward. Read more…
Contact – Julia Waterlow
An opportunity to explore personal and inner change, in response to the outer environmental change at this transitional time. Read more…
Contact – Sue Fleming
Discovering more ethical and local investment options.
Contact – Ann Link
Lewes & Ouse Valley eco-nomics (L&OVe) – This group will be looking at the things that the Lewes economy gets from healthy local environments, with a view to recognising the value of enhancing local ecosystem health for the resilience of the local economy. Read more…
PAST groups
We’re a group of local people who feel passionate about food. We want to find ways to make sure Lewes can feed itself in future – in a way that reduces carbon emissions and uses less energy. Read more…
Contact – Eileen Bull
Supporting and promoting new businesses (from big to very, very small) that help to provide the goods and services that are essential to a fair, sustainable and thriving local economy. Whether you need support getting your own enterprise off the ground – or you have the skills and experience to help young transition businesses, we’d love to hear from you. Read more…
Contact: Juliet Oxborrow
The Waste group’s vision for Lewes in 20 years time is that we try to produce as little waste as possible and deal with as much as we can locally. Read more…
Contact – Jon Gunson
The Local Development Framework ‘does what it says on the tin’ – it sets out (frames) the issues that will be taken into account in, and the perceived priorities for, spatial planning decisions to be taken by the local authorities area over the period up to 2030.
Lewes 2030
Lewes 2030 is a project to encourage local planning and action towards 2030. It has been started by Transition Town Lewes and Ovesco with Community Energy South, which is an alliance of community energy groups in the south of England.
Contact – Ann Link
There were also groups for the following:
Transport
Schools
Textiles
TTL Support Groups
Communications
The TTL Communications Group is a strategic thinking and doing group that aims to inspire and help people make changes in their own lives or at a community level. The group’s functions have been incorporated into the Steering group for the time being.
Contact – Susan Murray
Finance
The Finance Group supervises the financial affairs of TTL in terms of keeping records and accounts of receipts and payments from the main TTL bank account. It reports monthly to the Contacts Group.
Contact – Julia Waterlow
Companies formed by Transition Town Lewes
Lewes Food Market
OVESCo
The Lewes Pound
CONTACTS
If you would like to start a new Group, please contact us. There is plenty of support available to anyone starting a new group.
See also: Guidelines for starting and running a new group…
TTL Steering Group – a meeting for all Groups held on the first Wednesday of each month (from 7.30pm). Various locations – tbc.
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