墨尔本地区的过渡

枢纽 英格兰和威尔士

小组人数：

8

去年的积极参与者：

500

400+ members for Whistlewood Common but at most 10% are active. Melbourne Area Transition exists really only in name now (Dec 2023) because Whistlewood takes all our energies.

开始分组：

2008

有偿角色？

没有

法律结构：

CIC （社区利益公司）

你们的小组有多活跃？

非常活跃

现场项目：

• 社区成长
• 自然
• 社区中心或活动
• 节日、集市或活动
• 艺术/创造力
• 建立当地网络
• 地方经济或新经济项目
• 福祉或内心过渡

An initiative centred around the small South Derbyshire town of Melbourne, in existence since 2008 and with several successful projects to its credit including a 10kW Solar PV system on the roof of a grade 1 listed parish church. Since 2013 the largest of these projects, the community purchase of 10 acres of land (www.whistlewoodcommon.org), takes up most of our energies. We are transforming the landscape here to benefit community resilience, social cohesion, education around the big issues, and biodiversity, using permaculture agroforestry design techniques.

The global problems seem ever more insistent and urgent. We would always like to do more than resources allow and invite all similar-minded folk in and around our vicinity to join us in doing what we can – and actually having quite a bit of fun in the process…