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TTW Repair Café – Book now for May

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Book now for our next Repair Café session on Saturday 27th May – 10am-4pm at the Quaker Meeting House, 34 Mill Road, Worthing, BN11 5DR.

As usual our amazing team of volunteers will be on hand to share their skills and help you to repair your clothes, toys, bicycles, laptops, small household electrical/electronic items, small items of furniture and knife/scissor sharpening. Refreshments of hot and cold drinks and cakes will be available at a small cost.

Please book via the online booking form here:

https://www.ttworthing.org/repair-cafe/#repair-booking-form

Any questions, please do email us at:
[email protected]

Sustainable Worthing Map

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If you want to find out how and why we need to scale up what we are doing, in order to support our town and our planet, do take a look at these latest resources.

On 19th April, Sussex Green Ideas looked at how oneplanet.com technology is developing a Community Partnership arrangement so that local & environmental groups can utilise the full extent of the platform and services without cost being a barrier.

Here is a very informative and helpful recording of that event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ET44ej568o (which features TTW and CREW) and explains how this technology can enable community groups to map their strategic outcomes, actions and indicators with other groups, councils, businesses etc to form an “ecosystem” creating a framework for potential collaboration.

TTW’s project to map Sustainable Worthing has led to a collaboration between other organisations in the UK and One Planet, to develop the system further. It is now being used by local governments including Horsham District Council and eco businesses like https://www.compostclub.online/ to connect people to organisations via a Community Action Map and Ecosystem Plan. This little video gives you an overview of how it works: https://youtu.be/CN6k8_goXY0

If you’d like to find out how you can easily reduce your own personal carbon footprint, or that of any organisation, group or business, TTW have created an online map to enable our community to find out what is going on locally and where, regarding living more sustainably: https://www.ttworthing.org/resources/ – just scroll down for instructions about how to use it and you can even create your own free map if you wish!

TTW Community Event Exploring Air Pollution

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This event will be held at CREW 8/9 South St Worthing BN11 3AL
Tues 9th May at 2pm Admission free

Air pollution is damaging our environment and our health. Between 28,000 and 36,000 early deaths are attributable to air pollution each year in the UK. Road transport is responsible for 80% of roadside NO2 pollution where legal limits are being broken. Urgent and increased action by governments is necessary to reduce air pollution to safer levels. In the transport sector, governments must be set ambitious modal shift targets underpinned by significant leadership and investment. Governments must do more to help people leave their cars at home for everyday journeys and make more sustainable trips (by foot, cycle or on public transport).

For more details and to reserve your space, visit:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/exploring-air-pollution-a-community-event-tickets-602249001977

Breathing Spaces at CREW – 12th April

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Our next Bread & Roses evening at CREW, 8/9 South St, Worthing BN11 3AL on April 12th, 7-9pm is going to be about Permaculture. We’ll have at least one guest, Pauline from TTW, and we’ll try to introduce you to this fascinating subject (in 2 hours!).

Permaculture is about designing resilience, so it’s not just about gardens and growing, and really it will change the way you think about everything! We’ll have our usual mindful beginning and a look at pattern in nature, there’ll be local examples and interaction, and even a cuppa.

Book a place via CREW’s Eventbrite booking system: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bread-for-all-and-roses-too-monthly-garden-club-with-breathing-spaces-tickets-519575713947

Exploring The Sustainable Worthing Map Event

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Reduce Your Carbon Footprint – Exploring The Sustainable Worthing Map – Sat 1st April, 1pm-3.30pm at CREW

If you’d like to find out how you can easily reduce your carbon footprint and support the environment, this workshop can point you in the right direction. TTW have created an online map to enable the community to find out what is going on locally and where, regarding living more sustainably. You can even create your own free map if you wish.

Demo given but you might like to bring your laptop or tablet to access the map on your own device.

Free workshop, light refreshments provided. Booking essential please.

To be held at CREW, Climate Resilience Centre Worthing, 8/9 South St, Worthing BN11 3AL on Saturday 1st April from 1pm-3.30pm (which includes a short break for refreshments).

To book a place please go to:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reduce-your-carbon-footprint-exploring-the-sustainable-worthing-map-tickets-561571544607

Breathing Spaces at CREW – 8th March

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“Once you develop a relationship with a little patch of earth, it becomes a seed itself.”

This quote from Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass, was one of the inspiring quotes we considered at the Garden Club we run at CREW once a month to explore gardening in a climate and nature crisis. Our theme in February was seeds and how growing your own seed for next year will eventually result in plants better adapted to local soil and climate, as well as being free! We looked at seasonal foliage and flowers, mindfully sowed some beans, and had a chat over tea about restoring relationship between land and people. One of our attendees said afterwards:

“I felt more confident about how I could use seeds in the garden… and I was particularly struck with the chat we had about awe and wonder and felt that for me, gardening brings a lot of this into my life in various ways.”

Another said “I came away feeling peaceful and relaxed. With our observations of the changing of the seasons and your basket of plants I felt more appreciative of the beauty around us at this time of year.”

Our theme on March 8th is wildflowers and we will look at identifying them as they come into growth (but before flowering), and we will sow some, whilst talking about what we can learn from them for gardening in changing climate conditions. We will be joined by Emma from Worthing Climate Action Network and Debbie from Worthing Wildflower Trail to discuss how we can encourage more wildflowers in our gardens, urban streets and public spaces and why we need to do that. The sessions are free and you don’t need to commit to coming every month, it’s not a course as such. Please join us by booking here:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bread-for-all-and-roses-too-monthly-garden-club-with-breathing-spaces-tickets-519575713947?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

And if you want to get your hands dirty, we are back every Thursday morning at the Flower Farm (10.30-12.30) and once a month at Dankton Barnyard (March 12th, 11am-1pm and then every first Sunday of the month). Get in touch: [email protected]

Seed Swap Event Sunday 5th March

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TTW will have a couple of stalls for Seed and Plant Swapping (you can also buy them) at the Sustainable Market on Sat 5th March in the usual place – Freedom Works Covered Car Park, Stoke Abbott Road, Worthing, BN11 1HJ (opposite the Assembly Hall) from 9.30am – 1.30pm. Do bring your plants and seeds to swap if you have any. There will be the usual traders as well as some local community stalls.

TTW Transport Group

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The next TTW Transport Group meeting is Fri 3rd Feb at 2pm at The Brewhouse Wykeham Rd, Worthing BN11 4JD all welcome to join us.

There are two local campaigns going on at the moment on cycling were you can have your say:

Lancing and Sompting (consultation ends 27 Feb) Western Road corridor (Red Route): A27/Busticle Lane in the north to A259/Western Road in the south A2025 Grinstead Lane corridor (Orange Route): A27/Grinstead Lane in the north to A259/South Street in the south East-West corridor (Green Route): Lambleys Lane/Upper Brighton Road in the west to A2025 Grinstead Lane/Crabtree Lane in the east
https://yourvoice.westsussex.gov.uk/lancing-and-sompting

Shoreham to Hove (consultation ends 27 Feb)
The proposed scheme consists of a mostly two-way cycle lane, separated from the road and footway, on the southern side of the A259, between the junction of East Street and the Adur Ferry Bridge in the west, to the Brighton & Hove boundary in the east.
https://yourvoice.westsussex.gov.uk/a259-shoreham-to-brighton

Sustainability Map of Worthing Online Event

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Having done a soft launch of our Sustainable Worthing Map for New Year, we are now contacting all the organisations involved to check entries and to invite them to join us for our next free mapping event (kindly organised by SECA) on Thurs 9th Feb at 6.30pm, details of which can be found here:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/seca-knowledge-sharing-oneplanet-technology-in-action-tickets-503447002537

You are all most welcome to sign up for this if you’d like to find out more about the map, how to use it and how to create your own map. As it’s an online (Zoom) event, we have more flexibility with numbers so do join us if you wish.

TTW Repair Café – Book now for Feb. Nearly full!

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Book now for our next Repair Café session on Saturday 25th February – 10am-4pm at the Quaker Meeting House, 34 Mill Road, Worthing, BN11 5DR.

As usual our amazing team of volunteers will be on hand to share their skills and help you to repair your clothes, toys, bicycles, laptops, small household electrical/electronic items, small items of furniture and knife/scissor sharpening. Refreshments of hot and cold drinks and cakes will be available at a small cost.

We had no Repair Café in December so this is having a knock on effect for the start of this year! Our January session was fully booked and very busy and our February session is already almost full too, so if you want to book anything in, you’ll need to do that now!

https://www.ttworthing.org/repair-cafe/#repair-booking-form

Any questions, please do email us at:
[email protected]