I’ve not been to any food group meetings yet, but will try to attend in future.
Some of us help out as volunteers at the primary school garden, planting flowers and veg. This is a great way to get young children interested in gardening and growing food. We are in desperate need of other helpers, so anyone interested should contact me or turn up on friday mornings (about 11am). We try to get there every friday, but don’t always make it due to other commitments.

I also use someone elses garden as my ‘allotment’, although this was established privately three years ago…it works really well and I would recommend it.

I now work professionally as a gardener (just set up ) and would be keen to help out with teaching people to grow veg if I have spare time, or with community gardening in general.

I hope you don’t mind me contacting you.

I am undertaking some research at the International Centre for Responsible Tourism (based in Leeds, UK) looking at tourism development within sustainable communities in the UK. The purpose of this ground-breaking research is to find out to what extent tourism is being incorporated into sustainable community initiatives. I plan to send a short survey around all the Transition Initiatives in the UK currently listed on the Transition website and hopefully select from those 2 or 3 to case study. I believe that in some communities (responsible) tourism could be used as a tool to link the different core elements of sustainability together to drive change and I am looking to explore ways in which this could be done. It is therefore a very practically-based piece of research and I am hoping that this project will prove beneficial to the wider cause and make a practical difference, as well as helping to gather support and momentum for the Transition Movement by demonstrating how Transition communities could become responsible tourism “beacons” for others to learn from. It is my intention that any success stories or useful lessons learnt can be shared across the Transition Network and more widely.

I realise that you are volunteers and desperately busy, but I wonder whether I could send you through the survey - it shouldn’t take more than 15 minutes to fill out?

Many thanks for your time

It’s on the 28/29th of June from 10-6 each day. It’s currently fully booked, but you’d be the first person on the waiting list, so maybe worth going on if you don’t mind the uncertainty!

Cheers! Eva

I am wondering if you lovely people over the border can help me.

Transition Kendal, newly formed and very much in its infancy has asked me to investigate how other Transition Towns have approached businesses and if you have formed any business sub groups. Any info would be much appreciated to help get things moving down here in the sunny Lake District.
Thanks and good luck with your TT.