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Save the Dates
News from
Transition Town Forres
Work DaysMake the new Centre YOUR
Centre, too!
Join us for Work Days, plannedfor the first Saturday of each
month, starting 1 May. Well
decide shortly before each day
exactly what the tasks will be.
Tasks will include things like
moving items (both large and
small), painting, tending to the
outdoor plants, organizing and
freshening up various spaces.
Look to the website
(www.ttforres.org) for details on
each upcoming work day.
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Additionally, there will be an
impromptu workday sometime in
March or April to paint windows.
Please email [email protected]
to register interest.
Let the Building Works Begin!Work has begun in earnest on the Environmental Education and Healthy
Living Centre. Anticipated to take approximately 12-16 weeks, we arehoping to have works complete some time in May, and an official
opening a month or so after that.
Its a busy time for the directors & Treasurer, who are working very hard
with the architect and the builders to sort out the many questions arising.
Please see pages 2-3 for details on the Centre and proposed programmes.
Swedish Visit23-24 April 2013
Swedish delegation
visits Forres
Photo by Carin Schwartz
Work Day4 May, 10am
First of the monthly
work days, scheduled
for the 1st Saturday of
each month.
Coffee Morning
Coffee Morning at
Forres Town Hall
6 July, 10 am -noon
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Whats New & Good
TTF + Transition Sweden
From April 22-23, our Swedish Transition colleagues will bevisiting Forres and elsewhere in Moray. We are working
closely with LEADER to plan the visit, which will include
the Community Gardens, the building site (perhaps simply
looking into the building site) for the Environmental
Education & Healthy Living Centre, and more.
Are you interested in helping out or joining us when we
show our Swedish guests around Bogton Road? If yes,
please contact Carin at [email protected].
Help Shape Future OfferingsWe are currently brainstorming and fundraising for
projects and programmes to put in place oncebuilding works are complete for our new Centre.
Help us prioritise them by giving rankings 1 7
(1 means its most important to you, 7 means its
least important.) Or send in your own idea!
__ Cozy Community Corner a place in the Centre
to hang out, with comfy seats, reading material,
bulletin boards, etc.
__ Electric Vehicle Charging Station.
__ Healthy Eating Demonstration kitchen(fridge, freezer, hobs, utensils, juicers, etc for
cookery workshops) and demos, workshops, etc.
__ Hub space for community groups in
Environmental Education & Healthy living to
share resources.
__ Market /Farmers Market a regular market forlocal producers.
__ Mens Shed (outwith the Centre) a space for
people to work together, mostly quietly, e.g. fixingtools, woodworking, etc.
__ Talk the Talk, Walk the Walk regular talks,
films, etc with discussion, planning and action.
If you have another idea, please write it here:
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You can email responses to [email protected], or
post them to TTF, c/o The Hub, 20 Tolbooth
Street, Forres IV36 1PH.
Save up now for the Food BankOne of the many uses we envision for our new Centre is that
it will serve as a drop-off point for the new Food Bank.
Community Food Moray co-ordinates the programme, and
we want to support their fantastic efforts to help people put
food on the table.
Its not too soon to start setting aside non-perishable food
items. We anticipate the Food Bank Drop-Off Spot will be
ready for the first donations in June.
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Environmental Ed & Health Livin Centre
We were able to secure enough funding that, with
scaling the project back a bit, work was able tobegin. Contracts were signed in January, and work
began shortly thereafter.
Youll see at the Bogton site that the building
works area is fenced off, and will remain so until
works are complete. We anticipate that will be in
May.
The builders will leave for us a fabulous areaready for us to work with. It will be a bit of a
blank canvas, and there will still be lots to do: painting walls and windows,
moving in furniture, sorting out files and equipment, putting up bulletin boards, organising the kitchen space,
creating a Cozy Community Corner, and more.
Why not join in for a work day so that it really becomes your Centre, too? Whether or not you have special
skills, your help will be very much appreciated and will make a difference.
Colours, colours
We are choosing colours for the flooring and walls andwelcome your input. The possible colours are up on the TTF
website. Take a look and send us your thoughts. Briefly, if
possible, and with the awareness that the best we can do is
take all the input on board to make the final decisions.
Thank-you to our Donors!
We thank our charitable and government
donors:
LEADER ~ The Robertson Trust ~
Hugh Fraser Foundation ~ Garfield-
Weston Foundation ~ Trusthouse
Charitable Foundation ~ Margaret
Cameron Trust ~ York &
Clydesdale Bank Trust
Work has started
Get involved through work days
And our private donors through the RocketHub crowd-
funding bid, which raised over 700 in total.
Brian Colgate ~ Jane Duncan Rogers ~
Mike Grenville ~ Steve Hull ~ Joanna Legard
Karen Leudtke ~ Yvonne Magee ~
Annie Murphy ~ Claralynn Nunamaker ~
Alison Ozgur ~ Dorota Owen ~ Kamil
Pachalko ~ Carin Schwartz ~ Catherine ~
anonymous donor 1 ~ anonymous donor 2
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SPRING 2013TRANSITION TOWN FORRES
The TTF website has a beautiful
new look thanks to our new Web
Services Coordinator, Diana
McPartlin.
Youll find the new site is very
similar to the old but now has
more consistent formatting and is
linked in with the social networks
Twitter & Facebook.
www.ttforres.org
twitter.com/TTForres
www.facebook.com/
TransitionTownForres
Many thanks to Diana McPartlin
for making it happen.
Opportunity Knocks!
TTF now has in hand the Transition Streets materials.
And we are eager to start a group in or near Forres.
Whats needed is a neighbourhood with 6 households
interested in meeting 7-8 times over about 4 months.
Two neighbourhoods have shown interest but have
yet to reach the critical mass of 6 households.
Could your neighbourhood be the first?
What TTF will do is:
* help set up your group and come to at least the
first meeting to facilitate,
* make sure you get copies of the Transition Streets
materials, and
* help you come up with your own action plan tosave money and reduce your carbon footprint.
If youre interested in building community, this is a
terrific way to do so while learning something new,
having fun, and getting to know your neighbours.
Sound interesting? Please contact Claralynn on 01309
671 555, or email her at [email protected] .
Pro ect Re orts & U dates
Transition Streets
Revised TTF Website
TTF is growing and theres room for a few new key
players. Could that be you?
Roles that need to be filled include:
Secretary
Business Development Officer
Events Coordinator
External Publicity & Media Coordinator
Membership Coordinator
Fundraising Coordinator
Volunteers Coordinator
If youd like to volunteer in one of these (or another)area, please write to [email protected]. Please note
that we do ask our volunteers:
* to be a TTF member (it is free);
* to give 2 or more hours a week on a regular basis;
* to be willing to use email for correspondence.
Volunteers - Help Wanted!
The garden has been very quiet over
the winter, with the last meeting being
cancelled due to unforeseen
circumstances. The hope is to have a
meeting in early of March, and to set a
number of workdays for the year.
The relatively mild winter has allowed
the keener gardeners to continue
harvesting some of the hardier crops,
and the stores have survived reasonablywell. The recent sunny days have
hinted at the promise of spring
around the corner, and the cycle of
planting can start again.
It is good to see the work on thepavilion underway, and we look
forward to seeing the project
completed and the site used
productively. (Continued next column)
The Garden Group
Two members of the garden group
have started the Moray Beekeeperscourse. So we will see the return of
some hives to the site soon and
have the hope of bumper crops as
the bees start their work. Fingers
crossed for a good growing season.
The Make & Mend group
continues to meet on Mondays
at Forres House. This is a drop-
in group, and new people are
very welcome to join in.
Project leader Kay Fielding
encourages people to bring their
own projects if theyd like. She
adds that the group is aboutideas for living as well as
projects.
Make & Mend
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Whos on the Board?The TTF board has had a few changes since the last
newsletter. Here is an updated list.
TTF Directors
Carin Schwartz, chair
Kay Fielding
George Goudsmit
Bisong Guo
Sandra Maclennan
Claralynn Nunamaker
Donald Rodgie
Key individuals
Ian Osgoode, Garden Group
Chair
Tony Pinner, Treasurer
Diana McPartlin, Web Services
Coordinator
The last year has primarily
been spent on funding
applications. TTF hassubmitted over 20 applications
and successfully secured
90,000. This is what is now
enabling us to start the
conversion of our shed to an
Environmental Education and
Healthy Living Centre.
A lot of work has gone on in
the background with plans,
planning applications, boardmeetings and a great many
planning meetings. Now comes
the fun part of making colour
decisions and then to plan what
will eventually happen at the
Centre.
First we will need to find a
catchy name. Any suggestions?
Environmental Education andHealthy Living Centre doesnt
exactly roll of the tongue. So
what would you like it to be
known as?
Spring is around the corner,
and any day now we could start
work down at the Community
Garden for those who have
Updates From the Board
Were very pleased to have secured
enough funding to go forward with
the Centre building project!
Additionally, the Forres Common
Good Fund has granted us 400 forthe decoration of twelve of our
Chatterboxes. These are the outdoor
raised beds. We aim to work with a
local artist, a local environmental
educator, and children to decorate
these boxes in a way that is fun,educational, and very artistic.
Currently we are working on 4
further funding applications for
programmes and projects in the newCentre.
Claralynn Nunamaker
Fundraising
Committee
Notes From the Chair
plots. For those of you who
would like to dip your toe ingardening, you could come
down and help to establish the
boxes that we are increasingly
filling the parking area with.
They are just slightly bigger
than a square meter but yield a
substantial amount of food.
They need more soil and some
care before planting.
We will have a number of
projects at Bogton, would youlike to add some of your own?
The initial ones are:
Mens Shed, Farmers Market,
Cozy Community corner,
Healthy Eating.
We anticipate that the shed
will be ready for painting inlate April or early May. We
then need to arrange a great
and fantastic opening weekend.
Would you like to help?
If youd like to volunteer or let
us know your ideas, please
write us at [email protected].
Carin Schwartz, Chair
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