Food Drop is a new project started by Bath University volunteers to distribute waste food to local charities. Initially they have agreed to deliver spare food from Pret a Manger once a week to 3 local charities funded by £300 grant from the ‘O2 Think Big’ fund. “The charities support young people with drug and […]
First Bus and Wessex in combination with local biogas bus pioneer Geneco have lost out in a bid to get government funding for 130 biogas buses powered by human waste from Wessex Water’s Avonmouth sewage treatment plant. They were unsuccessful in their bid for funding to the government’s £30million low emission bus scheme for 2016 […]
Climate change hustings | Foraging walk & picnic | Chelsea Road View this email in your browser September Newsletter In this newsletter, along with other local sustainability news, we are very happy to announce that Transition Bath have been awarded a £7K grant by the Open Data Institute, to develop a website to teach primary […]
Following many years of service as trustees for which we are very grateful Ailsa Masterton and Paul Stansall who are stepping down from their roles. We are therefore looking for new trustees. The role involves meeting 2 to 4 times a year for about 2 hours, and ensures that Transition Bath meets its commitments as […]
Vegmead, the veg garden we created in a circular flowerbed in Hedgemead Park in 2011, is now being looked after by a different group and is thriving. Earlier in the year, the Council’s Parks department asked us to improve the look of Vegmead and we replanted it, using plants we’d raised from seed or dug […]
Several Transition Bath core group members live in the Bear Flat area of Bath, and have been running a monthly community market in a church hall for the past three years. The idea behind the market is to promote local food, to provide an outlet for people making delicious edibles at home and to act […]
If you have lots of spare apples this year, Transition Bath has a crusher, press and pasteuriser available for hire (£6 per day, £10 for a weekend), To get hold of the kit email food@transitionbath.org . The hirer needs to be trained in use of the equipment so, if you haven’t attended an apple juicing workshop before, please contact […]
At the Bath Community Energy Forum event on September 8th 2016, local community energy groups gave short talks on what they were currently working on. We thought it would be helpful to provide a list, if you find any of these items interesting we are sure the individual groups would be very happy to discuss […]
Transition Bath in combination with Bath: Hacked, Resource Futures and B&NES Council have been awarded a grant by the ODI to develop a website which aims to teach primary school children about energy. The website will provide graphs of schools’ smart meter data, and allow schools through gamification to compete to save energy. The aim […]
Work in continuing apace on the water wheel on the River Avon at Batheaston. Much of the construction work for the race has been completed, see photo to right, and construction of the wheel itself is in progress in Germany – see photo above. More news about the project is available on the BWCE website.