Greenpeace are running a campaign asking all Prospective Parliamentary Candidates to oppose Fracking. To date in Bath Steve Bradley (Lib Dem), Loraine Morgan Brinkhurst (Independent) and Dominic Tristram (Greens) have all signed. However Julian Deverell (UKIP), Ben Howlett (Conservative) and Ollie Middleton (Labour) haven’t. This compares well with what the candidates said at our hustings, with the […]
The complete list of BWCE Community Fund grants for this year have been announced: Age UK Bath & North East Somerset £4,882 Outreach project to reduce fuel poverty and improve comfort of the elderly in B&NES Bathampton Community Cooperative (Dry Arch) £1,000 Solar Powered Watering System Bath Canoe Club £4,100 Solar Powered heating system Freshford […]
*|MC:SUBJECT|* Welcome to this month’s Transition happenings in Bath… View this email in your browser March Newsletter The most important item in this month’s newsletter is our parliamentary Hustings which we have organised for Monday 23rd March 2015. Please book a ticket and make an entry in your diaries and help us with crowd-sourcing […]
Could you start collecting tokens if you use Waitrose? Transition Bath is one of 3 nominated organisations for their distribution of £1,000 during April? As an organisation we have no direct income apart from grants for specific projects. We need about £1,200 to keep running each year (insurances, accounting etc.) and the Waitrose grant would […]
As the BWCE 2.3MW Wilmington Solar Farm, just to the west of Marksbury nears completion they have produced a video shot from a drone overflying the site while under construction:
On March 23rd 2015 we will be holding our Parliamentary Hustings for the prospective parliamentary candidates for Bath at BRSLI in Queens Square. In preparation we would like to crowd-source some questions for the event and would like your help? The aim of the event is to find out where each of the candidates stands on making […]
On April 14th we will be holding our annual project planning meeting to decide which projects we are going to be running in the coming year. This will involve both new projects and continuing work with existing projects. Potential new and old projects include: Thermal Imaging: how should we go forward (there will be a […]
The Energy Group has decided to start a new project, which is to construct or purchase a blower door to test air permeability in buildings. Blower doors are used in the building industry to see how leaky new homes are and building regulations require that they are better than 10 m3/m2/hour. Blower doors use very […]
We have just been notified that we have won a £1,500 grant from the BWCE Community Fund to enhance our LED Try-before-you-buy kit which has been receiving rave reviews. We aim to use the money to: produce 4 more down-lighter kits, 3 of which will be available from Bath Central Library, and one will be […]
Our Transport & Built Environment Group’s Chelsea Road project considered the potential of local centres to support walking and cycling. Chelsea Road was selected as a residential community in which around a quarter of households have no car. Following a questionnaire sent to 2,000 residents, meetings with residents & traders and a traffic survey carried […]