Transition Waltham Forest

Recycled Craft: Sun 5th June

Second meeting: Sunday 5th June
3 for 3.30 start*
Scott’s Road, E10
* This should allow you time to attend the Big Lunch Picnic (see above) beforehand.

We will discuss:
1. Proposed Make do and Mend event (provisionally Sunday 25th September) What can we contribute?
2. Objectives of Transition Leytonstone Recycled Craft Group (notes from our first meeting attached)

Also:
3. Recycled Craft Resources Directory
4. E11 Arts Trail 2012 - possible involvement
5. Other recycled craft support

For full address please conatct Helen Griffith: 0208 556 9131  helengriffith4@hotmail.com
If you attended the first meeting and know where I am, please let me know if you plan to come.

The Big Picnic Lunch: Sun 5th June

Sunday 5th June, 12 noon - 2.30 pm
Garden of Pastures Youth Centre, Davies Lane, E11
Entry is free, but donations towards costs are welcome

Bring a blanket or chair and a picnic to share with others
To reduce waste, please bring your own plates, cups and cutlery

We’ll be selling soft drinks, and there will be a pedal-powered smoothie-maker!

This will also be a chance for you to see the possible site for a community garden for Leytonstone.

The Big Lunch was started by the Eden Project in 2009, to encourage as many people as possible across the whole of the UK to have lunch with their neighbours in a simple act of community, friendship and fun:  www.thebiglunch.com

For more information please contact Ros Bedlow: 0208 556 0885  rosbedlow@hotmail.com

Curtain Lining Workshop

Sunday 15th May 2011, 2 – 6 pm
Leytonstone United Free Church, 55 Wallwood Road, Leytonstone E11 1AY (corner Fairlop Road)
Charge: £10 or £5 (low income)
Please book, as we need to make sure we have enough sewing machines and space!
For more information, and to book, please contact Jan Ashford: janashford@talktalk.net 
Tel: 07896 698810
 
Premium quality lining material will be available to buy:
 
Thermal  blackout lining (for bedrooms): £3.50/meter
Thermal lining:  £2.80/meter
 
You will need to bring your own curtains, and matching thread. If you have scissors please bring them, although some pairs will be provided.

A Community Garden in Leytonstone

A community garden can be a place for people of all ages to enjoy growing food, learning and sharing skills, and enjoying the harvest.  After our showing of A Farm for the Future in March, we invited people to discuss this idea, and there was a lot of interest and enthusiasm.
We’ve been looking into ways to help make it happen, so we are holding a public meeting at the Centre to discuss ideas.  The meeting will be attended by representatives of Davies Lane School, and Pastures Youth Centre, who are very supportive of the idea.
Meeting details:
 
Thursday 19th May, 6.30 – 8.30 pm
St John’s Church Hall, Between the church and Matalan, off the High Road

We’d like to hear as many perspectives and ideas as possible, so please come along.

Ros Bedlow rosbedlow@hotmail.com

Transition Leytonstone: Quiz night

QUIZ NIGHT
Transition Leytonstone’s Spring Quiz will be held on Thursday May 26th at The Star of India, 875 High Road, Leytonstone, LONDON E11 1HR

(Tube: Leytonstone.     Map: http://bit.ly/hwoXOU )

The Spring Quiz is the first of a series of quarterly seasonal quizzes to be organised by Transition Leytonstone, with questions on a range of topics but with an emphasis on green, local and seasonal. We are raising funds so that we may continue our work in building a resilient community in the face of peak oil, climate change and economic meltdown.

Doors open 7pm for a delicious buffet meal (mainly vegetarian).
Quiz starts 8pm.

Raffle -  Fantastic prizes include: a £40 meal voucher for The Star of India, a therapeutic Gong Bath worth £50 from Being Sound, a Home Energy assessment worth £50, a seasonal hamper from OrganicLea, a Fairtrade hamper and a Zaytoun hamper.

Tickets £12 inclusive of buffet, booking essential.

Please send your cheque made out to ‘Transition Leytonstone’, stating clearly your name and contact details, and the number of people in your booking to Transition Leytonstone, 61 Forest Drive East, London E11 1JX

We will acknowledge your payment by telephone or email.

diana@pixelent.freeserve.co.uk

Night of the green poets Fri 6th May

NIGHT OF THE GREEN POETS
Featuring Transition Leytonstone’s ecopoetry performance group, E11 Eco, with Ru Litherland, OrganicLea’s blogger and resident poet, alongside Danny Chivers, ecopoet, activist and author of the new No Nonsense Guide to Climate Change.

Come along to The Hornbeam, 458 Hoe Street, London E17 9AH, on Friday May 6th at 7.30pm for an evening of cutting edge ecopoetry and entertainment.  Danny will also be signing his book.

In addition the evening will feature Live Jazz and Folk, lip-smackingly delicious hot food and vegan cocktails.

Space is limited, so you are advised to book early to avoid disappointment (also cheaper).

Booking line: (0)20 8558 6880 or phone Rachel on 07590 295 250

Tickets in advance £4
On the door: £4.50

Cut the cold, cut the cost: Sun 27 March

Saving energy with Transition Leytonstone and the HEET Project

Sunday 27th March 2011, 2 – 5 pm
Leytonstone Methodist Church Hall, High Road, E11 3DA

Find out about:
• Energy efficiency grants and discounts
• Renewable energy
• EcoTeams
• DIY draught proofing – sign up for a draught busting session
• How to line curtains – watch a demo and sign up for a workshop

Activities:
• Make a draught excluder
• Have a go on the bike generator
• Make a pledge, try the quiz

Radiator panels and draught strip for sale at wholesale prices
• Try zero cost, zero carbon sewing with a hand sewing machine.
• Bring along your old machine and Dr Sewing Machine will get it going again. If you’d like to donate it, we’ll find a good home for it.

Transition Leytonstone contact:

Ros Bedlow rosbedlow@hotmail.com • phone 020 8556 0885
www.transitionnetwork.org

A Farm for the Future - Free Screening Wednesday March 16th

for the Future, Rebecca Hosking’s forthright investigation of peak
oil, its implications for farming and food production, and an overview
of potential solutions. The screening is being hosted by Transition
Leytonstone.

The screening will be followed by an audience discussion.

Theme: `What can we grow in Leytonstone?’
Setting the tone, delicious local food from Hornbeam Café will be served at the event.

If you’d like to know more about Transition Leytonstone or get involved, please contact Ros Bedlow on 020 8556 0885, email rosbedlow@hotmail.com or visit www.transitionnetwork.org/initiatives/leytonstone

6.30pm – Food and refreshments

7pm – Film starts
Leytonstone Library
6 Church Lane
London
E11 1HG

Green Winterfaith Festival

Transition Leytonstone in partnership with Arts Versa: www.artsversa.co.uk A celebration of food, hospitality, music and poetry for all people, of all faiths and no faith
The Epicentre, West Street, Leytonstone E11
Saturday 5^th February 2011 2.30 – 10 pm
Sunday 6^th February 2011 3 – 8 pm
This will be our winter seasonal food event, and much more! It will include a feast of food from different cultures, early seed-sowing for spring and summer, as well as poetry, music, story-telling, exhibitions, film, a book launch, stalls… 

Contact rosbedlow@hotmail.com

Climate Change? – No Thanks

Transition Lerytonstone shows a film followed by panel discussion at Leytonstone Library, Church Lane.

Wednesday 12^th January 2011

Doors open 6.30 pm – delicious food. Film starts 7 pm

First UK preview of Change Media Film’s controversial new documentary looking at attitudes to climate change impacts, filmed in Tamil Nadu, South India.

Contact rosbedlow@hotmail.com