Do we want a Transition Wokong stall at LA21 AGM on 22 June?

[A.C...@surrey.ac.uk]

Hi everyone

 

Just emailing to see if there is interest in us having a stall at the LA21 AGM on 22 June (starts 7,30pm, but would need to set up around 7pm).  I'm happy to woman a stall (with anyone else who'd like to be there -- Emily Brown from Compassion for World Farming and formerly the Food and Climate Research Network will be speaking about.... food).  But I think we need some form of leaflet/info to give people which I'm afraid I don't have time to put together.  I can bring the books I have from Transiton Network for people to browse.  Any interest/ideas/thoughts???

 

And there is the possibility the council might fund some Transition network,,,, if non-Transiton people can attend too, e.g. councillors.   Having been on a Transiton core group training myself, I'm not sure how appropriate the full training would be for people not wanting to actually start a Transition Initiative, but perhaps we cold talk with the trainers about tailoring something for a braoder audience.  Thoughts???

 

All the best

 

Alexia 

[A.C...@surrey.ac.uk]

Apologies for all the typos.... been a rather long day!

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Subject: Do we want a Transition Wokong stall at LA21 AGM on 22 June?

[Ian Yates]

Hi Alexia and thanks for your post. I'm now back in the UK (although
currently in the midlands) and have started going through all the
hundreds of emails etc in my own inbox and that of Transition Woking!

I'd be interested in helping attend a stall at the AGM if needed. I
also have the books listed in the library section of our webite, which
I can bring along. I would like to design some awareness raising
flyers or similar but I don't think I'm going to be able to do so
before the 22nd. I could still try if people are OK with the
possibility of my failure to meet the deadline! Is anyone else
interested in doing some design work? I think there should be some
materials in the training pack that might make the job a lot easier
than starting from scratch.

There's also an email from the Ribat Institute, which I will forward
on separately. It invites us to have a stall at a community fair they
are hosting at Bishop David Brown School on the 29th of June. That
would give us a few extra days to get materials prepared if I don't
manage to get something done in time for the 22nd. If we want to go
for that, I expect we need to respond to their invitation very quickly
now, since they sent it on the 17th of May. What do others think?

Regarding the training, I'm pretty sure a large proportion of the
people on the session I went to were not starting an initiative -
they were simply from a corporation whose policy is to send all its
staff on Transition training sessions. So I would have thought the
Transition people would be happy to tailor a training session to
include councillors etc. I can make enquiries (and/or if you bump into
Gerri Smyth at a Transition Guildford meeting you could get her
thoughts on it).

ian