RE: Do we want a Transition Woking stall at LA21 AGM on 22 June?

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

Dear Ian

Good to hear from you. Ben Eydmann is working on a flyer and has offered to person a stall with me. It would be great to have you there too, as well as the books you have, if you have the time. The BDB event also sounds a great opportunity and I think would probably allow us to reach a different audience from that the LA21 AGM is likely to appeal to. I'd need to check with family about my availability for that day. Anyone else potentially available and willing?

In the longer term would be good to have a few props/things we could do to attract people to a stall e.g. on one stall at a Transition Haslemere event, they were showing people how they could make purses out of used juice cartons and rubber bands, or make bags out of newspapers... Transition Guildford are thinking about making a bike that powers a juicer.... a small apple-press (available for hire perhaps) might be another idea.... or we could have a space where people could put up ideas for sustaianble projects or whatever... But that's all for another time...

Look forward to hearing your travelling tales...

All the best

Alexia

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From: transiti...@googlegroups.com [transiti...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ian Yates [ian.j...@gmail.com]
Sent: 16 June 2011 17:29
To: Transition Woking
Subject: Re: Do we want a Transition Wokong stall at LA21 AGM on 22 June?

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

On Jun 9, 10:45 pm, <A.C...@surrey.ac.uk> wrote:
> 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

[Susie Atterbury]

Hi All

I have to apologise for my lack of raising awareness. Indeed, Ben
sent me the flyer weeks ago, and I said something about feeling it
would be nice to have a couple of designs to look at, and didn't get
much further than that. I also started on the collating of contact
details for all organisations who may have a Transition interest in
Woking, and realised the enormity of the task. It is not finished.

I am available to attend the meeting on Wednesday night and help out
in whatever way I can.

Regards, and welcome back Ian.

Susie

On Jun 17, 9:24 am, <A.C...@surrey.ac.uk> wrote:
> Dear Ian
>
> Good to hear from you.  Ben Eydmann is working on a flyer and has offered to person a stall with me.  It would be great to have you there too, as well as the books you have, if you have the time.  The BDB event also sounds a great opportunity and I think would probably allow us to reach a different audience from that the LA21 AGM is likely to appeal to.  I'd need to check with family about my availability for that day.  Anyone else potentially available and willing?  
>
> In the longer term would be good to have a few props/things we could do to attract people to a stall e.g. on one stall at a Transition Haslemere event, they were showing people how they could make purses out of used juice cartons and rubber bands, or make bags out of newspapers... Transition Guildford are thinking about making a bike that powers a juicer.... a small apple-press (available for hire perhaps) might be another idea.... or we could have a space where people could put up ideas for sustaianble projects or whatever...  But that's all for another time...
>
> Look forward to hearing your travelling tales...
>
> All the best
>
> Alexia
>
> ________________________________________

> From: transiti...@googlegroups.com [transiti...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ian Yates [ian.j.ya...@gmail.com]

[Ben Eydmann]

Hello,

 

Unfortunaley I am no longer able to attend on Wednesday. I got my dates wrong (not uncommon) and thought it was today. I play in a softball team on Wednesdays. However, I have  a basic flyer/poster that you can porint and ask people to put up in shops. It's very basic but I think we need to start getting the word out there. There is a blank space to add the date of the next meeting in pen so we can keep using this design until we use something else. The file is too big to email so I will print some at work tonight and give the file to Susie ahead of the meeting. I can put it on to a disk I think

 

Best wishes

 

Ben

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