Ealing Transition Initiative

Last Updated: 8 days ago

Practical local action on climate change, energy and food security.

Ealing Transition Initiative has been set up with the following aims:

To develop awareness of climate change, and motivate people to change accordingly;

To describe a low energy future and plan how to get there;

To help build Ealing’s self-reliance in areas such as food, energy, jobs, community and economy

To act as a focal point / hub for the people of Ealing to exchange ideas and skills.

Hub London & South East

Number of people in group:

Active participants in last year:

200

We have a live contact list of 1250 Steering Group is 8. Projects approx 8

Group started:

2009

Paid roles?

Legal Structure:

Unconstituted (a group of individuals)

How active is your group?

Very Active

Live Projects:

Community Growing
Other food projects
Nature
Community hub or activities
Community visioning / imagination work
Building local networks
Share, Repair or reuse
Energy
Other

We manage a Community Garden/allotment, care for a Community Orchard also used as an outdoor classroom by Forest School groups, host a Repair Cafe, a Bee Project (CSA model), host an Air Quality Monitor with Mums for Lungs, facilitate the Solar Schools Project a partnership which has 17 installations so far & received 5 rounds of funding from the Mayor of London, helped found and engage with ActForEaling a community partnership including the Council which works for community engagement, have run around 70 public events, including film showings, talks, reskilling festivals and community planning Open Space events. We took the lead in pressing the Council to declare a Climate Emergency and then help create a Climate Action Plan through community involvement. Curently we are working in partnership with West London University, Ealing Food Partnerhip and ActForEaling on a programme around sustainable, healthy and accessible food.

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