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Plastic Free Worthing Beach Clean – 24th Sept

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Plastic Free Worthing have reformed with a new team. The next beach clean will take place on the last Sunday of the month (i.e. 24th Sept).

They have not yet decided where, but you can find updates on their social media platforms.
For those who can access Facebook, info can be found here nearer the time of the next event:
https://www.facebook.com/plasticfreeworthing

Green Dreams Festival – Sept 17th

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Finally, after many months of organising, it’s our lovely Green Dreams Festival this month – Sunday 17th September from 10.30am – 4pm at Field Place, Worthing, BN13 1NP.

Please see poster and programme for details, but we have a great line up of community stalls, some great street food and drink and there’s a wide range of entertainment and workshops all day – something for all ages and for families. Do check out the programme. (Timing may change slightly, but this is the programme as it stands at the moment!)

This festival is designed to showcase what some of our wonderful community groups and small businesses do locally to support nature, the environment and our town, so please do come along and enjoy the fun! Massive thanks to our fellow committee members and all our sponsors, but in particular to South Downs Leisure who very generously allow us to use this prestige site for free, and whose staff give their time freely to help all year on the committee, and on the day.

This event will move indoors if it’s raining so come whatever the weather, we will all be there!

Breathing Spaces – Bread for all and Roses Too

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Our next Garden Club session at CREW is Wed August 9th from 7-9pm and this month we’re going to be sharing tips about seed-saving, doing some harvest-swapping and making some simple bee-logs for solitary bees.

Bring along any fruit, veg, herbs you’ve grown and want to swap. Book a place through Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bread-for-all-and-roses-too-with-breathing-spaces-a-transition-town-worthi-tickets-679426762737

We are not doing a session in September but will be back on October 11.

We’ve had some really great sessions since we started, including learning to identify wildflowers, permaculture, increasing biodiversity of our gardens and our guts, how to eat 30 different plants a week even in the Hungry Gap, Awe & Wonder and Abundance. We’ve sown seeds, potted on, done interactive learning and made sauerkraut. We were so taken with the idea of a Gift Economy – building relationships and resilience through sharing rather than economies based on cash transactions – that we decided to gift our Breathing Spaces fresh flowers to Broadwater Community Support Hub, South Farm Road. They are available there on a ‘give-as-you-can basis’ and any donations are for the Hub. (We are also drying some of our flowers and they will be available to buy later in the year from HISBE.)

Our next volunteer morning at Dankton Barnyard, Sompting is Sunday Aug 6th 11am-1pm (last day of the Big Butterfly Watch), and then every first Sunday of the month. We are at Maybridge Keystone Centre every Thursday morning 10.30am-12.30pm. Get in touch if you would like to help us at either site: [email protected]

TTW Repair Café – Book now for August

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Book now for our next Repair Café session on Saturday 26th August– 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, computers, small household electrical/electronic items, small items of furniture, costume jewellery and restringing necklaces 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:

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

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

TTW Repair Café – Book now for July

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Book now for our next Repair Café session on Saturday 29th July – 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:

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

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

Mapping Project

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TTW will be helping One Planet run fortnightly online Masterclasses from early July, for anyone who wants to learn how to set up their own resource map or eco-system, or create a climate strategy for their organisation or business.

One of the community partners is using it to create a resource map for the homeless; it’s very inspiring to see the myriad ways in which people are using this technology in order to help others and the planet.

One Planet have redesigned their website and it’s now much more user friendly and easy to navigate:
https://our.oneplanet.com/. Do have a look around. TTW’s plan is featured (under Case Studies) and a video about how TTW got involved in this (under Community Partners).

If you would like to know more, do email Pauline at [email protected].

Summer Solstice Event – Tues 20th June – 6-9pm

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Once again Coast Café have very obligingly agreed to co-host a Solstice event with TTW and local celebrant and healer, Amanda Waring. Details are as follows:

Please arrive any time from 6pm. We will be on the beach in front of Coast (https://www.coastworthing.co.uk/) and will get a fire going on the beach (in a fire pit) for people to sing around, warm themselves and generally enjoy. Please bring some wood for the fire if you can.

At 7pm we will have a ceremony on the beach, led by Amanda (https://www.amandawaringcelebrant.com/). Please bring a flower or two to blow your blessings and prayers/wishes into. These will be placed in a flower heart on the beach (it’s low tide at 7.30pm). Amanda will be leading a sound bath in the cafe and peace songs around the fire, and we also hope to have some surprise guests, to be confirmed and weather dependent.

Coast will be providing refreshments for sale – drinks as well as light snacks (baguettes, sausage rolls etc) so do please support their efforts.

This event will go ahead, whatever the weather, as we can gather in the café if it’s wet, but we hope for a fine, clear night to make the most of this lovely community event. All welcome.

https://www.facebook.com/events/985474905812422

TTW Repair Café – Book now for June

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Book now for our next Repair Café session on Saturday 24th June– 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:

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

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

Traffic Pollution Event Round Up

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On 11th May the TTW Transport Group hosted a seminar by SUSTRANS on Air pollution from traffic with much discussion plus questions & answers. Here’s some interesting links:

Presentation – https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/158V-WwrmGqyEZUfooOftE4p525LMf6YcCtNWVAwuVtk/edit?usp=sharing

National Air Quality Map – https://naei.beis.gov.uk/emissionsapp/

Sustrans Volunteering – https://www.sustrans.org.uk/get-involved/volunteer

Sustrans National Cycle Network – https://explore.osmaps.com/?lat=51.776100&lon=-1.894300&zoom=7.0000&style=Standard&type=2d

Air Sussex Real Time Monitoring – https://sussex-air.net/air-quality-near-me/latest-readings/