Events

TTW Repair Café – Book now for April

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Book now for our next Repair Café session on Saturday 27th April– 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]

Breathing Spaces Rain Garden Event – 20th April

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What difference can one household make to reducing flood risk?
Find out what a rain garden is, how they reduce surface water run-off to the drains during heavy rainfall, and learn how to make one for the smallest of spaces, cheaply and simply.

Breathing Spaces will talk you through, step-by-step with photos and a video, how to divert your downpipe to a water butt and then to a storm water planter and/or other water-retaining features.

Learn the ratio of the planter box to the size of roof, what soil mix to use, which plants are appropriate and beautiful. There are many different ways of designing a rain garden that suits your home. And even if you need to park a car in it, you can still have drainage that doesn’t add to surface water run-off to our overloaded drains.

Rain Gardens: Reducing Flood Risk One House at a Time
Sat, 20 Apr 2024 14:00 – 15:30
CREW Centre, 8/9 South Street Worthing BN11 3AL

For more info see:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rain-gardens-reducing-flood-risk-one-house-at-a-time-tickets-841332396847

TTW Repair Café – Book now for March

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Book now for our next Repair Café session on Saturday 30th March– 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]

Goring Gap under threat – again!

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Persimmon own most of the land that forms our green lungs between Goring and Ferring and they would dearly love to build on all that land. They have appealed against our Council’s decision to leave the Chatsmore Farm area as open space and the Inquiry starts on 6th Feb: https://www.adur-worthing.gov.uk/news/pr23-153.html if anyone wishes to attend.

We have just heard that a local developer who has bought a parcel of land adjacent to the Persimmon land in Goring Gap (south of the land that is already under threat and right next to the coast) has applied for a licence to sell alcohol on that land, building a new bar there (which he has not yet applied for permission to construct), as a pre-cursor to building houses on it. Is this a Trojan horse situation to set a precedent for developing that land?

If you wish to comment on the licence application you can do so here (by 28th Feb)

Any objections have to be quite specific, i.e. that to grant a licence would undermine:
– Crime & Disorder
– Public Safety
– Prevention of Public Nuisance
– Protection of Children from Harm

There is a lot of background information on this issue but it appears that this is the first step towards covering our green lungs in concrete and building on a flood plain, if no-one objects to this. We will keep you updated as things progress. If you want to help, you might like to attend the community protest that has been organised for this Saturday 3rd Feb on the Chatsmore Farm site at the junction of The Strand/Goring Street. Please gather at 11:50am, for a photo at 12 noon. Google Maps – https://w3w.co/best.deed.humid

Seed Swap & Workshop – Sat 17th Feb

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We will be running a scaled down version of our annual Seed Swap event but at least this year we will be in the warm!

If you have any plants or seeds that you can donate for Seed Swap but will be unable to be there yourself, please contact Pauline at [email protected] to arrange collection a week or two before 17th Feb. We will also need home-made cakes and savouries for refreshments, so if you can help please contact Pauline to arrange handover.

Pauline, Claire and Lisa (from Breathing Spaces) will be running a fun and interactive workshop after Seed Swap where we will imagine:
What it would be like if Worthing was able to feed itself in the near future?
We will step through a portal into a future Worthing where lots of things are done differently. You will hear a short story to help you imagine how we feed ourselves in this future – where our food is grown, who’s growing or harvesting it, how it is being sold or shared, how it is sustainable.

In pairs or small groups we will use drawings, magazine photos and maps to make pictures of a local, healthy, resilient food system for Worthing. It will be a playful way to create together the beginnings of a positive vision in which things turn out to be better than they are now.

If you’d like to attend, please book your place here asap: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/what-if-worthing-could-feed-itself-tickets-790051775127 Details under event listing.

Winter Solstice Event – 21st Dec

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Thursday 21st December – 5.30 – 9pm – ceremony 6.30pm Venue: on the beach in front of Coast Café and inside.
All invited to this free collaborative event – please bring something to put on the fire – small sticks, flowers, herbs, a drawing, something written – that you can blow your prayers/blessings into for yourselves, your community and the planet.

We will provide the fire pit and some wood (please bring more).
Local celebrant Amanda Waring will lead the ceremony at 6.30pm and then do a sound healing session in the café. She will then be joined by local musicians for some musical surprises!

You are welcome to arrive any time from 5.30pm to purchase hot soup and a roll as well, as drinks and light snacks from Coast Café. Maybe stay on after the ceremony to warm up with a hot drink…. Please support Coast Café as they are staying open specially for this event.

This event will go ahead whatever the weather, so wrap up well to keep cosy and dry. The ceremony will move from the beach to inside Coast if it’s too wet out there!

For more about the co-hosts please go to:
http://www.amandawaring.com
https://www.ttworthing.org/
https://www.facebook.com/events/1158675581780426

Mapping Project and Climate Conference

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Finally, we have the pleasure of co-presenting the Community Climate Conference at The Assembly Hall on Thursday 19th October from 3-7pm.

This conference was designed to bring community groups and businesses together to share ideas, hopes, dreams and best practice around climate and environment issues, but anyone is welcome to come. We hope to see some of you there.

Do book your place now at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/working-together-to-reach-net-zero-community-conference-registration-680027369167

Please pass the word around, especially if you know of local businesses or organisations who could benefit from the wide range of expertise available on the day. There’s a really great line up of speakers and workshop leaders, including Pooran Desai from One Planet, who designed our Sustainable Worthing Map (https://www.ttworthing.org/resources/).

This event is a collaborative community-led project organised by TTW, CREW, Green Tides and Community Works.

Transition Network Skillshare Event on Mapping

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TTW were invited to present our Map at an online skillshare on mapping on 13th September.

Speakers were:

Anna McIvor of Transition Cambridge with the Cambridge Resilience Web
Margaret Smith with the Mersey Green Map project
Pauline Cory of Transition Town Worthing with our Worthing Sustainability Map
Martin Hood of Green Durham with the Green Durham map project.

The event was recorded and you can watch it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYf1kj-vzN8

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]