TRANSITION TOWN LETCHWORTH

PAST EVENTS

Have a look below at some of our past events. If you are inspired to run or get involved with the next one, please do not hesitate to get in touch.

COME PICK MY FRUIT - See the Forum page where you can register any fruit you are growing or have spotted that's going spare. Also find fruit you want to pick...

FORAGING WALK on Sunday 16th October: Discover the abundance on our doorstep and join us for a walk with a local foraging expert who will show us what’s good to eat for free at this time of year. Meet at 2pm in the Norton Common car park, SG6 4UF. Please let us know beforehand if you’re coming by dropping us an email. That said, if you show up on the day we are likely to be able to accommodate you...

TALK Big Society and Transition - by Oliver Heald MP on Thursday 13th October 2011. With David's Bookshop, we have invited him to a public meeting to explain how the coalition's policy of Big Society will work on a practical level in our town. This should be particularly interesting to anyone involved in the voluntary or public sector. Oliver's talk will be followed by an open Q&A session. Venue: Letchworth Arts Centre, 2 The Arcade, SG6 3EW. Doors open 7:45pm for 8:00pm. Tickets @ £3 from David's Bookshop or from the Arts Centre. Read more... 

CRAFT MARKET on Saturday 1st October: held every first Saturday of the month in Garden Square Shopping Centre from 9am to 4pm.

CEILIDH - next in Hitchin Town Hall on Friday 30th September at 8 p.m.

WILDLIFE GARDENING on 27 September - Activity and Talk: Hear TTL member Diane Ketcher talk about how to encourage wildlife into your garden. There will be practical information on harvesting seeds and a produce swap. Tea/coffee from 7.15pm. No need to join or book, just come along.

CELEBRATING OUR TOWN "Who do you think you are, Letchworth?" July 2-3 2011: we had lots of activities, interest and fun, along with like-minded community groups!

OUR SUMMER GARDEN PARTY - Tuesday 26th July "... a celebration of all we've achieved under the banner of TTL.  If you'd like to get more involved with some of the work we do, this would be great time to get to know us better.  ..." - ask us for details.

APPLE PRESSING EVENTS Apple Pressing event on Sunday 2nd October, 11:15am to 2:00pm at St Thomas Church, Bedford Road, SG6 4DU. Suggested donation £3 to cover costs. Kids free.
On September 26th - the TTL Food Group provided simple equipment and help for people to press their own fruit: "All you have to do is bring your main crop apples to us at harvest time, bring some empty bottles and take home some delicious juice from your own apples. Why not make it a family occasion and get your children to help pick the apples and make the juice?"

GARAGE SALES Saturday 19th June 2010: for the second year, as part of the Letchworth Festival, we co-ordinated garage sales across the town.

CHRISTMAS BASH (Belated) ...2010 We finally celebrated TTL's most successful year to date with a seasonal knees-up at 7pm on Saturday 30th January. We arranged transport from Letchworth to take us to Church Farm Ardeley where we feasted on the Christmas meal with the lowest food miles in the land. See the menu on the old booking page. Hope you can join us next year!

NEW YEAR'S WALK 2010 Radwell Meadow saw a group of us blow the cobwebs away and share our pledges for 2010.

CYCLUS - CYCLE - CYKLUS - CYCLE - CYCLUS - CYCLE - CYCLUS - CYCLE To raise awareness of the summit in Copenhagen in December 2009, we cycled around the centre of Letchworth, spreading the word on our eclectic mix of tandems, tricyles and bikes. We then went as a group to the Wave - a demonstration in London to show support for the green agenda.

BLACKBERRY CRAWL - Sunday 30th August 2009 Blackberry picking followed by picnic tea. Recipe sharing, cake tasting and fun was had by all.

TRANSITION TOTS PICNIC - Friday 21st August 2.30-4.30pm 2009 Summer picnic for aspiring parents of the greenist children around.

THE LETCHWORTH FESTIVAL - Letchworth-wide garage sale and GreenDay 2009 We ran two major events during the Letchworth Festival. People wanting to hold garage sales in the town put themselves on our map and customers went round picking up useful bargains. We also held a seed and produce 'swap and buy' in the town centre. Transition Tots sold their products made from salvaged material, cakes sold like, well hot cakes (made from local ingredients of course) and we made lots of new friends to join the Transition fun.

Sunday 14th June: Norton Walkabout - spot the TTL contingent 2009 Over 20 gardens open, flower display at St Nicholas Church plus entertainment on the Green with brass band and maypole dancing. Norton Archaeology display and dig. Cream teas and refreshments. Organised by St Nicholas Norton Preservation Trust. At Norton Road Green, end of Croft Lane, from 11am until 6pm. Admission on the day £3.50; seniors and advance tickets £2.50; children under 16 free. Contact Neil Greatorex 01462 682702

Work on Waste - an evening of group research and discussion on possible solutions to our waste problem. We got together (with the internet at our fingertips) and spent the evening researching and putting together some preliminary proposals that we might feasibly put to our local authority.

Community Harvest and the Hills Organic Box Scheme on Thursday 21st May from 7:30 pm at St Thomas' Church on Bedford Road: 
Caroline Smith, a previous Letchworth resident, visiting from Melbourne, Australia gave a presentation on Community Harvest ("An example of a bioregional network organised in local ‘cluster groups’, for the purpose of developing community food security...") and the Hills Organic Box Scheme (HOBS). Have a look at their website for more info:
http://www.communityharvestproject.org.au/