Sustainability

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]

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!

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].

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!

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

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.

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.

Our Sustainable Worthing Map Is Now Live!

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After many months of gathering and inputting information, our map is finally live here:
https://oneplanet.com/published/resource-map/plans/transition-town-worthing

If you scroll down and go to “download PDF” you will see, under the 10 principles, what we have included so far to help you take action.

If you go to the resource map:
https://app.oneplanet.com/published/transition-town-worthing/plans/transition-town-worthing/mindmap and wait a minute for it to load, then you can click on any of the icons on the map and it will take you directly to information about that resource as well as contact details, website etc. so that you can find out more and maybe support that initiative in whatever way you can.

It’s been created (thanks to funding from www.tnlcommunityfund.org.uk and the expertise of https://oneplanet.com) to signpost what’s already going on locally and we hope that this will enable people to support our community in countless ways and there’s no better time than now to find out how you can do just that.

Please explore it and maybe base your New Year’s Resolutions on what you find. It’s a call to action, to support local businesses and organisations that are doing what they can to reduce their own carbon footprint or lessen their impact on the environment. It’s designed to let people know what initiatives already exist, so a lot of the leg work has been done, and we know that any help or support you can give will be most appreciated.

We’re a tiny team so can’t cope with being bombarded but if you spot any glaring mistakes or things that don’t work, please let us know about any glitches and we’ll do our best to sort them out. It’s a work in progress and we still need to tidy things up a bit and, with anything like this, things will change and need updating but it’s a start…. We hope you have fun playing with it!

Sustainable Christmas Market – Sun 4th Dec

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The next Sustainable Market will be on Sunday 4th December from 9.30am-1.30pm at Freedom Works car park – opposite the Assembly Hall, Stoke Abbott Road, Worthing, BN11 1HJ.

The last one had to be cancelled due to high winds and heavy rain so we hope this one will be able to go ahead, as we have lots of plants available and various bric a brac items, as well as Twitten Maps.