The next TBH Forum meeting is at 7.30pm on Wed 29 October at The Werks, 45 Church Street, Hove (map). Forum meetings are the main general meetings for all TBH members, and are always held on the last Wednesday of each month. All transition interest groups should send a representative to report on progress on the group's mission and current milestones. Everyone old and new is welcome to attend.
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TBH Forum meeting – Wed 24 September
The next TBH Forum meeting is at 7.30pm on Wed 24 September at The Werks, 45 Church Street, Hove (map). Forum meetings are always held on the last Wednesday of each month. All transition interest groups should send a representative to report on progress on the group's mission and current milestones. Everyone old and new is welcome to attend.
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Notes from TBH Forum meeting – Wed 27 August
[Present – Stephen Watson, Jacqui Cuff, Ann Baldridge, Martin Grimshaw, David Greenop, John Bristow, Sean, Doly Garcia, Jim Adams, Maureen Winder, Vicky Wakefield-Jarrett]
Feedback from Interest Groups
Local Government Liason Group
Community & Voluntary Sector Forum AGM (10th September)
• JC to attend and vote for agreed three candidates on City Sustainability Partnership (including herself!)
Also to vote for agreed candidate for 2020 Community Partnership, and Crime Reduction Partnership.
• Anyone in another group registered with CVSF, please lobby them to vote for the TBH rep, Jacqui Cuff, for CSP.
Weekly Sustainability Bulletin from council sustainability team –
• AB to forward to interested members,
• JC to ask council to but TBH group coordinators on their mailing list.
One Planet City workshop (these are X happening Y) have been published on TBH website & in August newsletter.
• VWJ to email group co-ordinators re relevant workshops.
Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution consultation on Adaption to Climate Change. Written evidence deadline is 10/10/08. This consultation would help us to look out, not inwards. We should consider responding, or at least look at the questions.
• MW to pick out some relevant Questions.
• MW to canvass interest & convene a TBH group to gather a response.
• Document to be sent to TBH network (by MW or Chris Callard?)
Energy
There is a government consultation open on renewable energy.
• JA to write Energy Group’s response, and ask interest groups to contribute.
Submitted response to BHCC Core Strategy
Visited Shoreham power station and have discussed potential for waste heat from it to be used for a local CHP plant providing heat to local area.
There is no potential for offshore wind at Shoreham until (2009?). There will be a change in the way planning for windfarms is decided in 2009, but there is no industry interest/availability
Textiles
Has had some very successful events (swaporama etc) but felt these needed stronger linking to the reasons for transition.
Have lots of email contacts from these events.
Kat Neeser has a blueprint of how the group might work/progress, but needs more people to push it forwards.
Business & Economics
Needs more people involved to build capacity.
Has almost finished mission statement.
Has an almost finished leaflet (which was trailed with local businesses at Greenwave Festival)
Have a list of project ideas.
Food
Meet on 3rd Tuesday of the month.
No mission statement yet.
Held a Jam making day, which went well.
-Sat 6th September is an allotment work day (half planning, and half clearing/preparing site). After this there will be regular work days.
-Sat 27th September – Bread day, led by Simon Porter, at Brighton Unemployed Centre
-4th October – Foraging day (limited to 10 people)
Brighton & Hove Food Partnership have a bid for a local food program. It would be good to get TBH on board. This includes a ‘grow your neighbours own’ scheme, teaming up volunteers with under used gardens!
• AB to discuss with JB how this might happen.
University of Brighton have asked TBH to get on board with their edible campus scheme, led by Andre Vilijaen. (JB has more info)
-11th September - Food Partnership Debate, speakers are Tim Lang, Caroline Steel, and Rob Lyons. At Thistle hotel.
Transport
Have a draft version of a mission statement
Car Free Day 21st September, TBH stall on Middle Street. (Streets around Brighton Town Hall will be shut)
• DG to email MG details of car free day plans. MG to send details to Greenspeak mailing list.
Heart and Soul
A regular date for meetings has been agreed (see website).
Have had a talk from an Eco-psychologist.
Waste & Recycling
There is a potential project with Marie Harder on Brighton University, re waste awareness.
Dan, from Tiger Enterprises, attended a SEEDA conference.
Energy Descent and Resilience Action Plan
Doly has initiated the process of looking at EDRAP, but wants to talk to BioRegional/the council re their One Planet Living plan before going much further.
Held first meeting, [minutes] with TBH members and outside experts. It is currently essentially an evidence gathering process.
There was a plea from the forum to publicise the TBH EDRAP process again.
EDRAP is intended to be a living document, perhaps in the form of a blog or wiki so it can be easily contributed to.
An idea to work closer with the councils sustainability team as a volunteers as part of our process writing the EDRAP.
Need to begin harvesting visions, these need to come from the widest possible audience.
All projects should tie into the EDRAP
Jacqui Cuff, Vicki ( and Maureen???check) asked to be added into mailing list as edrap members for next meeting)
Doly to publicise on next newsletter and set up second EDRAP meeting and encourage wide attendanace from across TBH
Library
We need to take a strategic look at what we would like to have in a TBH library, rather than the current list of what individual members happen to have on their bookshelves.
• MW to lead on this
Should have a slot at a future forum to brainstorm categories / needs.
Party
Have set aside day of Sunday 28th September for TBH 1st anniversary party.
• Neil to check price of the Hanover Centre, and get back to JB.
• Volunteer needed to take it from there!
Intro Sessions
There will be two ‘courses’, one for those already active in TBH, and one for new comers. A lot of the same info will be covered in both, including intros to Peak Oil and the way we work.
Each course will be lead by two trained up facilitators (but we need a pool of trained people). They will be very participatory (not lectures).
• DG to co-ordinate establishment & launch of a training/intro talk project group. Invite people & publicise it.
(already involved/expressing an interest – DG,SW,JB, MG, VWJ, DG, Joe, Charly, Chris C)
Neighbourhood Groups
A network is establishing of group co-ordinators, with a meeting and email contact already happening.
• MG to talk to Jess Gwyne (Hollingdean) re a contact for their film/media project (a talking heads short film).
Website
USE IT!
Interest groups, please upload your meetings/minutes/projects to the website. This needn’t be the role of the co-ordinator, but try and find someone in group to commit to doing it.
There will always be a problem with forums that you need to make an effort to visit instead of emails where most people regularly check anyway.
Communication on the website forum keeps it open, more accessible than email lists.
• Invite Chris Callard (webmaster) to September forum meeting.
• Set aside 15 minutes at September forum to discuss website.
Talks
Needs more volunteers to help co-ordinate.
• JB to re-launch group. (include MG, JC & Jess Gwyne)
Graphic design/media/coms group (working title)
• MG temporary co-ordinator. Contact Matt Dunton (did Xmas card 2007); Chloe Hanks (first TBH leaflet) & any others that have worked for us before.
Need to keep our group updates snappier. If anyone has an egg-timer (or other visual aid) please bring to next forum!
Next Forum Wednesday 24th September, 7.30pm
TBH forum meeting – Wed 30 July
The next TBH forum meeting is from 7.30–9.30pm on Wed 30 July at The Werks, 45 Church Street, Hove (map). Please note that from this point on forum meetings will always be at 7.30pm on the last Wednesday of each month. All welcome.
Agenda for this meeting
1. Renew and agree our Mission statement
building on what we have so far so that it is inspiring, clear, memorable, with
observable and measurable aims and outcomes.
2. Have an update from each of the Transition Interest Groups and the Neighbourhood Groups.
3. Check where we are at in getting input from each group on our response to the Council’s core strategy consultation – due by Friday 8th August.
4. Agree a date for our 1st anniversary party in early September!
Notes on TBH forum meeting – Wed 2 July
Notes by Chris Callard
This forum meeting was facilitated by Frank Jay of New Era Associates. Frank has many years experience of putting teams together for various projects and came along to lay out his idea for structuring our meetings and groups to make them more productive and appealing to newcomers.
Permanent date for meetings
In order to make establish TBH meetings in people's minds they should be at the same time each month and at the same venue – forum meetings will now be on the last Wednesday of every month at The Werks. When the introductory sessions have started they shall be on the same day each month.
Clear and measurable statement of the group's aims
Frank also pointed out that one of TBH's weaknesses is that we don't have a clear and memorable mission statement. This applies both to the group as a whole and to each of the interest groups. The missions statement (reflecting TBH's aim to be a community response to climate change and peak oil) should be stated at the beginning of each meeting and each step in our progress measured against this statement. The statement should be clear and measurable and able to be reeled off by any member of TBH when asked. The hub are to clarify this mission statement at their next meeting, then it will be put up on the website and drummed in to members far and wide. Each interest group should also have a measurable mission statement which reflects their part of the whole groups aims e.g. the Food group's might be that B&H be responsible for producing all its own food by 2020.
Format of meetings to make them more productive
In order that all meetings are engaging to those present and reflect progress towards a goal, Frank suggested the following format for every meeting:
• Chair of the meeting to restate TBH's/the interest group's mission statement
• A reminder of the last milestone objective set by the group
• An update on how we are doing towards that milestone
• Questioning what's next towards that milestone
First TBH Forum meeting – Thu 5 June
At a general meeting in early May we decided to start a monthly Forum for all those actively involved in TB&H. This will include someone from each working group (Transition Interest Groups, Functional groups – such as funds and finance, publicity and media, education and training, Project Groups and any Neighbourhood group) – but everyone else is welcome to attend. These Forum meetings, and introductory evenings for newcomers, will replace general monthly meetings. The first Forum meeting is at 7.30pm on Thu 5 June at the Salvation Army Hall, 1 Park Crescent (Off Union Road, North Side of The Level: map).
The aim of the Forum: it is proposed the Forum will support and co-ordinate all projects going on in TB&H, decide on strategic or organisational issues, and an ongoing plan to realise our aims. We need to agree this proposal at this first meeting.
Aims and Principles of TB&H: we decided on 7th May to draft our purpose and aims (building on the aims or objects already in our constitution) and the principles that will guide how we work together, make decisions and carry out our projects. These aims and principles will provide a structure so that our groups can self-organise and take on initiatives. We plan to do this as an interactive group exercise.
We need at the end to agree how we divide our time at future Forum meetings between project support (with an open agenda) and strategic or organisational issues. We already have in the pipeline looking at the output from the 7th May review of TB&H, deciding how to move forward from here and to plan the way ahead over the next 6 months or year.
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