Events

A Great Day At The Farmers’ Market

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How lovely to be able to be part of the The Great Little Farmers’ Market CIC on the Goring Road on 1st May (despite the rain at the end) – it’s been over a year since we’ve been able to do a public event and it was good to be back!

We took donations for plants, seeds, books, preserves and bags and did really well.

Big thanks to Steve, Julia, Sarah, Francoise, Alan and Richard for giving up their Saturday morning to help, and to all the lovely people who stopped to chat and we are most grateful to Sharon Leppard for allowing us to be part of this delightful local event.

TTW at Goring Road Farmers Market 1st May

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TTW are looking forward to running a stall at the great local Goring Road Farmers’ Market on Saturday 1st May from 9am – 1pm.

We will be offering seeds, plants and books in return for donations and of course lots of info and updates about our activities and future plans! This will also provide us with the first perfect opportunity of the year to chat with you all about what you would like to see happening with TTW and how you may be able to contribute in whatever way you can.

Please save the date and we hope to see you there!

Seed Swap In A Box!

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It was such a shame that we were unable to hold our Seed Swap & Spring Fair this year as we always greatly look forward to it and to seeing you all.

In order to ensure that the seeds we have all collected over the last couple of years are not left unused, we shall be making up seed packets and making them available for you to rummage through and choose a selection, in return for a small donation!

We have a variety of both vegetable (salad leaves, heritage beans, brassicas, tomatoes etc) and flower (perennials, annuals, wildflowers etc) seeds available and these will be placed in a box by the doorstep at the left of Henry House, 189 Heene Road, Worthing, BN11 4NN.

Many thanks to Karen Simporis who has kindly offered her doorstep as a collection point!

The seed box shall be there from Friday 2nd April until the end of the month, unless we run out sooner of course. I shall be regularly topping up when needed.

If making a donation please can you place this in an envelope marked “seeds” and put it through Karen’s door (please don’t leave it in the seed box). If you are not sure how much to donate, we would suggest 50p-£1 per packet, but please feel free to give what you wish! It will all help to boost TTW’s ever depleting funds for our general running costs, which our annual Seed Swap event normally helps to cover every year. Alternatively, you may wish to donate via our website here: https://www.ttworthing.org/donate/

Greenpeace – Worthing Promenade Quiz Trail

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Work off all those chocolate eggs whilst highlighting the need for local cycling routes by taking part in the Arun & Adur Greenpeace Worthing Promenade Quiz Trail throughout April!

Cycle or walk the route through Worthing and submit your quiz answers by 1st May for a chance to win a Greenpeace Fairtrade prize bundle.

Route and questions available via Arun & Adur Greenpeace Facebook page post.

Submit answers here: https://tinyurl.com/promquiz

 

 

Local & Live Revived – Nature Talks

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The dates for the final events in the Local and Live festival: a celebration of local creativity funded by the Arts Council and produced in partnership between Shoreham Wordfest and Ropetackle Arts Centre have been announced.

The events include two talks by the Sussex Wildlife  Trust:

Rewilding the Seas – Henri Brocklehurst SWT – Tuesday 25 May 7.30pm

https://www.shorehamwordfest.com/events/rewilding-the-seas-henri-brocklehurst-sussex-wildlife-trust/

What Have Plants Ever Done for Us? – Dr. Tony Whitbread SWT – Thursday 3 June 7.30pm

https://www.shorehamwordfest.com/events/what-have-plants-ever-done-for-us-dr-tony-whitbread-sussex-wildlife-trust/

Tickets cost £10 for each event.

For more information: www.shorehamwordfest.com

Green Tides – Wildflower Trail 

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The local forum and partnership for Friends groups and environmental volunteers, Green Tides (now also a CIC), is excited to launch the Wildflower Trail.

The idea, first conceived of by a new volunteer during the glorious spring of our first lockdown, has been made real. The Wildflower Trail maps a variety of sites across our area who have wildflower spaces already. We are now busy making special school packs, with seeds for planting and information about the flowers and insects who will benefit.

If you want your school to bee involved (sorry, couldn’t resist), please get in touch with Chris at [email protected].

Visit the website here: https://www.thewildflowertrail.org/

Transition Summit Catch-up!

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We hope that those of you who took part in the Transition Networks What Next? Summit found it really inspiring.

2,000 community activists came together across 3 weeks, to listen to over 70 speakers and take part in a mesmerising multiplicity of conversations about positive changes in our communities.

The What Next? Summit aimed to connect up people within and between movements and organisation, to provide inspiration and deep reflective thinking from a diversity of perspectives, to highlight some big picture thinking that enables people to see their role and the role of others in creating change, and to empower people to self-organise and create impactful change.

Transition Bounce Forward hosted nearly 50 events over 3 weeks, exploring climate change, social justice, community organising, collective imagination, and much much more.

If you missed any of the sessions and would like to catch up you can do so via the Transition Bounce Forward YouTube playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzYHfM4__lhlSHeoZiRxcsOnRSBcs0ie6

Green Books: Investing to save the planet

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The next Green Books talk from Greening Steyning, on Thursday 1st April, is focusing on a really important topic – how we use our savings and investments to help the planet, rather than trashing it.

Financial Times journalist Alice Ross will be talking about her new book on “Investing to Save the Planet”.

It’s on Thursday 1st April from 7.30-8.30pm.

For tickets see:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/green-books-alice-ross-investing-to-save-the-planet-tickets-143075535779

Wonder of Nature – Series of Talks & Walks

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The wonderful and inspirational Nicola Peel has announced that she will be holding a series of online talks and a guided walk round the beautiful Pulborough Brooks in the coming months.

Events include:

Nature as Teacher – Nature has the answers we just have to ask the right questions – Thursday 1st April – Tickets

What are we investing our money in – Part of the Horsham Climate Café – Saturday 3rd April – Tickets

Solutions in the Amazon – A day in the life of a Solutionist – Tuesday 4th May – Tickets

This is What Biodiversity Looks Like! – A photographic journey into the world of biodiversity – Tuesday 1st June – Tickets

Biomimicry Nature Walk – RSPB Pulborough, West Sussex – Sunday June 27th – Tickets

For more information about Nicola see:

www.nicolapeel.com

https://eyesofgaia.com/

 

Fairtrade Fortnight Festival

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If you missed any of the festivities, dozens of Choose the world you want festival events are still available to watch via the Fairtrade Foundation website here: https://www.fairtrade.org.uk/choose-the-world-you-want/

Although the Choose the world you want festival may now be over, efforts to Choose the world we want certainly are not, so please keep standing with farmers facing a climate crisis.

Major international climate conferences are coming to the UK this year, and you can help convince world leaders to listen to the people already facing the worst of the climate crisis – the farmers and workers whom we may have met throughout Fairtrade Fortnight. Ideas from Fairtrade on how to do this are coming soon but in the meantime, do check out the Fairtrade and Climate Justice campaign page for more ways you can get involved: https://www.fairtrade.org.uk/get-involved/current-campaigns/fairtrade-and-climate-justice/