Events

National Emergency Briefing Film – 23rd June

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National Emergency Briefing is being shown at the Community Hub, New Pavilion, (next to Palm Court Cafe) Beach House Park, Lyndhurst Road, Worthing BN11 2DB on Thurs 23rd June at 11am.

If you care about local flooding, air pollution, food prices, cost of energy you may wish to see this. For details see: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-peoples-emergency-briefing-film-tickets-1989984613548

If you can’t make this date, you can find a screening near you on the map here.

In connection with the film, Chris Packham has now lodged an official UK Parliamentary petition for a UK-wide briefing on the climate and nature crisis. The aim is to reach 100,000 signatures to secure a Parliamentary debate – generating media attention, and significantly raising the profile of the National Emergency Briefing in Parliament.

If you support this idea, please could you sign – and, crucially, share it with friends, family or colleagues who might be interested?

Petition link: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/767687

The public deserves clear, trusted information about the risks we face – from extreme weather and food insecurity to economic disruption and national security threats – and about what we can do together in response.

This petition runs alongside the Parliamentary Call for the government to stage a televised emergency briefing. You can enter your postcode here to check if your MP has joined the Parliamentary Call yet. This postcode tool helps you email your MP.

Day of Transition Practise 2026 

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Day of Transition Practise 2026 – Friday 24th April
Join Transition Network International for a very special global gathering, as Transitioners from around the world come together to share ideas, inspiration and practical learning.

The Day of Transition Practice 2026 is a unique opportunity to tap into the collective wisdom, experience and creativity of this growing global movement. Hosted by Transition Network International and shaped by changemakers across the world, the day will be full of inspiring sessions, real-life stories and practical tools for community action.

Explore the fantastic programme, help spread the word, and register to receive the link to attend live.

Find out more and sign up here:
https://practise.transitionmovement.org/day-of-transition-practise-2026-full-programme/

Eco Open Houses, Gardens and More…. 7-19 April 2026

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Eco Open Houses, Gardens and More….  A collaboration between Transition Towns Worthing and Shoreham and Greening Steyning.

Brochures are printed and delivered to their pick up points (Worthing Town Hall and all Worthing Libraries), posters will be going up over the next couple of weeks, banners will be up in various places in March and April, so do have a look at our online brochure if you haven’t done so already and book fringe events, some of which are filling up fast: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/transition-town-worthing-29435819407

If you go to the Eco Open Houses section of our website: https://www.ttworthing.org/events/#eco-open-houses you will find links to case studies and our “At a Glance Programme of Events“.  Please keep the dates free, we have put a vast amount of time into organising this event and it’s unlikely that there will be a collaboration like this again, so do make the most of it!  There’s a lot of expertise available, it’s inspiring, fun, informative and the majority of it is free!

Seed Swap, Sow & Grow – March 14th

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Seed Swap, Sow & Grow: March 14th 2026, 10.30am-3pm, Maybridge Keystone Centre BN12 6JD

We have got such a great line up of stalls, talks and demonstrations for TTW’s annual celebration of sustainable growing, local products, sharing, resilience and community! As always the Seed Swap is the heart of the event where you can swap or donate for seeds (including Heritage Seed Library saves). All day (til supplies run out) Culberry Nursery will be selling herbs and seed potatoes and a number of local projects will be selling lovely products like dried flowers, succulents, soaps, honey and beeswax products, seaweed fertiliser, biochar, kombucha, jams, chutneys, milkshakes, eggs, upcycled garden products and art, willow baskets (including demo), wooden bowls, printed T-shirts, gardening books and more besides.

As well as the usual TTW stall, there will be a range of climate, nature and sustainable food action groups on hand to talk to, like Adur & Worthing Food Partnership, Green Tides green-space groups network, The Wildflower Trail, the RSPB, the Climate Resilience Centre Worthing, Fairtrade, Greenpeace, WSCC Waste Prevention. And there will be fun activities for all ages about reducing food and packaging waste.

Talks:
11.00am Home composting with Debbie from Lilly’s Cottage
11.30am ‘Challenges facing growers today’ with Dr Steve Millam from Chichester College
1pm Preserves & Pickles demo with Soraya from Taarof Table/From Scratch and, last but not least;
2pm ‘Agroforestry from the Amazon to the Arun’ with Nicola Peel.

From 12 noon there will be wood-fired pizza slices in our lovely woodland garden and a Mindfulness session in the yurt tba.

Hot drinks and cold drinks, savoury snacks and cakes all day from the café kitchen.

We hope for sunshine but almost everything is indoors so come along whatever the weather!

Parking on site is only for people with disabilities or mobility challenges. Train, bus stops and free on-street parking nearby.

Eco Open Houses 2026

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Our team have been working really hard organising this event, please go to the Eco Open Homes section on our website, where you will find all the information you need.

We have 20 properties to visit to learn how to save money on energy and water bills, how to do the very best you can to reduce your impact on the planet whilst having warm, cosy, stylish properties to live and work in. We’ve also been working on surface water flood prevention recommendations and fixes too, so keep the dates free and book your place on any of our 20 fringe events right now!

Huge Thanks
We wish to say a huge thank you to our sponsors for the Eco Open Houses event and TTW in general – without these injections of funding we could not run our events, projects or even TTW in general.

Particular thanks go to:

Henry House, Worthing Homes, Worthing Community Chest, Adur and Worthing Council CIL Fund, Worthing Lions, The National Lottery Community Fund and finally our lovely members Richard Battson and Merry Curd, who have supported TTW in countless ways since we began – for their very kind and generous donation. Whatever would we do without all this support.

Seed Swap 2026

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Seed Swap, Sow & Grow: March 14th 2026, 10.30am-3pm, Maybridge Keystone Centre BN12 6JD

We hope to see you at TTW’s annual celebration of sustainable growing, local products, sharing, resilience and community, which will be bigger and even better this year! As always the Seed Swap is the heart of the event where you can swap or donate for seeds (including Heritage Seed Library saves).

All day (until supplies run out) Culberry Nursery will be selling herbs and seed potatoes and a number of local projects will be selling lovely products like dried flowers, soaps, honey and beeswax products, seaweed fertiliser, jams, chutneys, arts and crafts including willow baskets, gardening books and more besides. There will be a range of climate, nature and sustainable food action groups on hand to talk to, like Adur & Worthing Food Partnership, Green Tides green-space groups network, The Wildflower Trail, the RSPB, The Seaweed Guy, the Climate Resilience Centre Worthing, Fairtrade, Greenpeace, WSCC Waste Prevention. And there will be fun activities for all ages about reducing food and packaging waste.

Don’t miss Dr Steve Millam from Chichester College doing an inspiring talk on ‘Challenges facing growers today’ at 11.30am with Q&A, or wonderful Taarof Table demonstrating preserving and pickling garden produce in the afternoon! From 12 noon there will be wood-fired pizza slices in our lovely woodland garden as well as hot drinks, savoury snacks and cakes during the day.

As always, we welcome donations of cakes and savoury snacks for us to sell in the café and offers to help on TTW stalls and in the café, and if anyone can help make pizza dough, please let us know. Contact Claire or Lisa on: [email protected]

Seed Swap 2026

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Seed Swap, Sow & Grow: March 14th 2026, 10.30am-3pm, Maybridge Keystone Centre BN12 6JD

Please save the date for TTW’s annual Spring Fair! It’s a great opportunity to get your seedy supplies, buy locally made sustainable products, find out about outdoor volunteering opportunities, and enjoy some delicious hot drinks and cakes indoors or wood-fired pizza cooked outside. We’re expanding into a second hall for interactive stalls and talks on the ‘food cycle’: reducing food packaging and food waste, confidence with cooking, preparing and preserving food, growing food, pollinators and composting.

As always, we welcome donations of cakes for us to sell in the café and offers to help on TTW stalls and in the café. And we would be really grateful if anyone could use their culinary skills to prepare a big batch of pizza dough (ideally sourdough), so we don’t have to buy it in. Contact Claire or Lisa on: [email protected]

More details of the full programme to follow in due course – please join us for a day about sustainability, climate, nature, community, solidarity and resilience!

Eco Open Houses 2026

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Our team have been working really hard to get the case studies and fringe events organised and we are now well on the way with the brochure design, which we hope to be able to share with you soon.

We have 20 properties to visit to learn how to save money on energy and water bills, how to do the very best you can to reduce your impact on the planet whilst having warm, cosy, stylish properties to live and work in. We’ve also been working on surface water flood prevention recommendations and fixes too.

We will publish a full list of dates, times, events etc soon but please do keep the dates free – 7th-19th April – open houses on both weekend and fringe events during the weekday (daytimes and evenings). We’ll have tours, talks/presentations and workshops, and a film to take part in.

We will need lots of stewards to help meet and greet, record visitor numbers and encourage people to fill in feedback forms. If you’d like to help, please email us at [email protected]. You’ll be a vital part of a lovely team – and we need your help!

Huge Thanks
We wish to say a huge thank you to those who have offered to sponsor our Eco Open Houses event and TTW in general – without these injections of funding we could not run our events, projects or even TTW in general.

Particular thanks go to:
Henry House, Worthing Homes, Worthing Community Chest, Adur and Worthing Council CIL Fund, Worthing Lions and finally our lovely members Richard Battson and Merry Curd, who have supported TTW in countless ways since we began – for their very kind and generous donation. Whatever would we do without all this support..

Save The Date: Seed Swap 2026

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Please keep the date free for our next Seed Swap event, which will be held again at Maybridge Keystone Centre, Raleigh Way, Goring-by-Sea, Worthing BN12 6JD on Saturday 14th March 2026.

Opening times to be announced nearer the time but we will need volunteers please to help man stalls, do refreshments and generally help out, so if you can put the date in your diary now, that would be really helpful.

Also do start saving seeds and plants now!

TTW AGM – Sunday 23rd November

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Just a reminder to our members that we will be holding our AGM on 23rd November at 6–8.30pm, at the Quaker Friends Meeting House, 34 Mill Rd, Worthing, BN11 5DR.

Please do let us know asap if you are able to attend via [email protected]

The business of the meeting will be brief and it’s a good opportunity to chat to other members, enjoy a shared supper and even make some new friends maybe.

If you are not a member and would like to be, you can sign up via: https://www.ttworthing.org/get-involved/