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News from
Transition Town ForresProgrammeUpdates
Transition Town Forres welcomes
Andrea Marcus as the Coordinator
of our two major programmes on at
the moment: the Food Programme
and the Volunteer Programme. Readabout Andrea on Page 2 and the
Programmes below.
FOOD PROGRAMME
Andrea Marcus, our new
Food Programme
Coordinator, is currently
meeting providers who are
willing to offer demos and
programmes around healthy
eating themes. The aim is tocreate a bank of demonstrators so
that we can host food programmes in
the centre starting after Christmas.
(Contd on page 4)
Want to lend a hand?The TTF Centre is now open, and we are busy kitting out the kitchen,
putting together a Food Programme, a Lending Library, and more.
Its a perfect time to lend a hand to help create a vibrant Centre. You can
help staff the Centre, organise a film screening, a talk, a book group, or
whatever else interests you that aligns with TTFs vision of a more
sustainable and resilient community. (Contd on page 4)
Internet @ TTFJan 2014
Phone & internet are
due to be installed
sometime in Jan.
AGM8 Mar 2014
The annual AGM.
Come vote in new
board members and
renew your
membership.
Volunteer Drive
Help kick off the
Volunteer
Recruitment Drive
at the TTF Centre.
Starts 25 Jan 2014
TTFs Chatter Boxes
were decorated during the TTF Open Day in
September. Details on page 2.
Whats Inside
New & Good p 2Thanks to Donors p 3Opportunities
& Updates p 4Garden Group p 5From the Chair pp 6-7
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Whats New & GoodTTF Welcomes a Food Programme Co-ordinator &
Volunteeer Programme Co-ordinator
Hello! I am writing to introduce myself as thenew Volunteer and Food Programme Co-ordinator for TTF. For those of you who dontyet know, I successfully tendered for bothpositions and signed my contracts with TTF onthe 22ndof October, 2013.
My professional background is mainly ineducation and training, and I was drawn to thework of TTF as I feel that I resonate with its aimof providing alternative positive solutions to the
local community amidst the challenges of
Remember the Food BankYou can now drop off food for the Moray Food Bank
in the BLUE BIN inside the TTF Centre. Whats
needed are non-perishable food items (tins, pasta,
etc), preferably those not high in sugar or salt.
Your donations will go to good use right here in Moray,
where over 200 users have been serviced in 2013.
Thanks to a grant from Moray CouncilsCommon Good Fund, TTF was able todecorate a number of the raised beds in theparking lot. (We call these Chatter Boxes, aspeople can chat as they view or work the
plants.)
TTF brought in Kristy Puplett and her team tocreate a design that showed whats going on inthe soil roots, bugs, root vegetables, andwhatever else they could think of. We thoughtitd be an informative and fun way to showsome of what goes on under the soil surface.
The result is a fun and educational display, andwe now have the templates to do more
painting in the future.Kristy Puplett,
Jo Smithson and friends
show their creative and artistic flair with
their educational and colourful decoration of TTFs
Chatter Boxes.
climate change and depleting fossil fuels. As wellas sustainability, I have a special interest in food,particularly food as medicine.
I have lived in Moray since 2009 and beenemployed in a variety of jobs from a local socialenterprise to Moray Councils CommunityLearning and Development team. I look forwardto meeting more of you soon!
--Andrea Marcus
Environmental Education: Decoration of the Chatter Boxes
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Thanks to our Donors!
Community Kitchen Startup & PilotPeoples Postcode Trust helping us buy the
equipment we need to get started and the firststage of our pilot programme.
Community Kitchen Pilot ProjectThe following funders are helping with stage 2 ofthe pilot project, filling in gaps with equipment,funding for additional programmes anddemonstrations, and looking forward todeveloping our income-generating capacity.
Highlands & Islands EnterpriseAwards for AllFood in Focus
Volunteer Pilot Programme
Supported by the Voluntary Action Fund andthe Scottish Government, our Volunteer PilotProgramme runs from July 2013 through 20June 2014.
TTF is aiming to recruit 20-45 new volunteersduring the course of the grant.
To help make that happen, the grant isproviding support for a volunteer coordinator,uniforms, training and inductions, and more.
We aim to learn and do a lot to strengthen oursystems for volunteer outreach, managementand support.
Wish List
Please check www.ttforres.org for the most recent
Wish List.
Sofa (2-3 seater) and/or armchair in good condition
Small coffee table or storage chest
Wall clock
Cloth to cover our plastic 2x6 tables
Shelving and cabinets (bathroom, kitchen)
Cleaning supplies (washing up & hand soap, etc)
A guillotine for cutting paper
Books or small items for the Lending Library
Paper
Paper-punch
Toilet roll holder x2
Toilet brush x2
Office chairs
Cement paint (2 liters)
Bucket & mop
Floor lamp
Vacuum cleaner
Book shelves
Lending Library Donation
In October, TTF received a very generous donation of
books from the T Colin Campbell Foundation, who
shipped from the US 3 copies of The China Study and
copies of Whole.Those books and more are available
now from the TTF Lending Library.
Books like The China Study and Whole can be
borrowed from TTFs new Lending Library
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Opportunities
(continued from page 1, Lend a hand)
Our biggest need right now is with help in staffing
the Centre each day Tues-Sat.Can you volunteer for a
2-hour shift? The Centre will be mostly closed throughthe holidays, but well need help from mid Jan.
A few of the many ways to help:
Help create flyers
Help write & distribute press releases
Help keep the Centre open and welcome visitors
Take part in an event or work day
Gardening (anything from weeding to hedge trimming)
And theres loads more. If theres something in
particular you want to do, please do let us know.
Interested? You can sign up at the Centre, or contact
Andrea at andrea.ttforres@gmail.com.
Many ways to lend a hand Were catching our breath with fundraising, with theemphasis having shifted for the time being from
writing more grant applications to managing the
funds weve received.
One important point to note is that while we have
quite a lot in restricted funds, those have to be spent
on particular projects. And we have virtually no
unrestricted funds. So your personal donations,
which are used for things like heating and theinternet, are still extremely helpful, and very much
appreciated.
For the next few months there will be few if any
grant applications going out. Though if you have a
particular project that you would be happy to do the
fundraising for and do all the project management,
wed be happy to have a conversation about that.
There is no shortage of ideas, but person-power and
energy are limited at the moment. So for the time
being, we are focusing managing the funds that we
have worked so very hard over the last year to raise.
-- Claralynn Nunamaker
Update: Fundraising
(continued from page 1, Programme updates)
VOLUNTEER PROGRAMME
In the Volunteer Programme, we are
aiming to recruit new volunteers and
also achieve the Volunteer Friendly
Award.
We intend to have a Volunteer
Recruitment Drive in January and/or
February, so please watch the website,
the TTF Facebook page, and your
email inbox for more information.
At the moment we are busy with writing
forms and policies such as the Volunteer
Registration Form, the Volunteer Policy
and more. Having robust policies in place
provides a good framework for all
involved, providing clear boundaries for
when things go well and when they dont.
Whilst these documents are an integral part of ouraim to achieve the Volunteer Friendly Award,
Youthful energy
abounded at the TTF Community Garden when Elgin Youth Cafs Delta
Force arrived in mid Nov. Eight volunteers took to vigorously turning the
huge pile of leaves in the Community Garden. -Photo by Kate Chandler,
they are equally important to both the organisationwho is hosting the volunteers as well as volunteers
themselves.
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www.ttforres.org twitter.com/TTForres www.facebook.com/TransitionTownForres
The end of another growingseason, which has seen the usualmix of success and failure,mostly with the late fine weathercrops have been very good.
Bees have been busy workingestablishing the new hive andhopefully will produce honey for
Daphne next year.
The redevelopment of thechicken area has started andthanks to a massive effort fromBert Logie the new compostingarea has started to take shape.This will be the focus of the nextwork day; it should also allowspace for another growing areaas well.
The better weather made workdays a lot easier, and it wasgood to see some of the newmembers getting involved. Themore the merrier and the morewe can achieve. Again nextyear will see some people leaveand new people join. Welcometo those joining us, and letshope the weather will be kind
and we get another successfulyear.
--Ian Osgood, Garden Group Chair
News from the Community Garden
The Garden
Group Update
TTF gardener Daphne Francis tends to the beehive, wearing her
protective clothing. She hopes the bees will produce some yummyhoney in 2014. photos by Ian Osgood
Where to find TTF online
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Activities in our new Centre
Since our last newsletter in August I have learnedto prune apples with Chris Pepper, a most usefuland therapeutic skill. He holds a follow upworkshop Sunday 8thDecember on how to graftapples, at our TTF Centre. Contact me for moredetails (carinschwartz@gmail.com).
Permaculture, Ludwig Appeltans is hosting get-
together evenings for permaculture enthusiasts.Contact him for dates and times. He is also running
an introduction to permaculture on Friday 13thDecember. Contact Ludwig at Earth Ways :info@earth-ways.co.uk. In the spring he has plansfor a full permaculture design course at our cenre.
Local Growers.10 local growers got together in
our centre in October to discuss how they can worktogether and how TTF can be supportive. Wemade two site visits to two of them and plan onmore. We are now working on ideas for sellinglocally-produced food at the TTF Centre in a
market fashion. Details to follow. Please contactme if you have thoughts or ideas about this topic.
DrummingCarol Scorer runs drumming classes on
Monday nights. Contact her oncocarol@talktalk.netfor more details.
Confidence to CookNHS is running a two-day
workshop next week for people all over Moray tobecome trainers in their program calledConfidence to Cook. This means we can later
run our own courses to support peoples confidenceto cook.Over the next year we have plans to run a largenumber of cooking demonstrations and foodprograms on a variety of topics.
Growing food As spring approaches we will start
up various growing classes. Please give us yoursupport and ideas for what classes you would liketo see.
News from the Chair
Potato dayThis is very early notice but it is so
important that I think you should mark yourcalendar already. On Saturday the 8thMarchTTF is proud to welcome Agric Hadron fromTransition Black Isle, with literally tons ofpotatoes. Agric is very knowledgable in the art ofpotatoes and TBI have run successful tattiedays for many years. Agric will give usinformation about various aspects of potatogrowing and we will be selling seed potatoes onthe day. This is also the day of our AnnualGeneral Meeting. More information to follow.
Kitchen
In December and the first two weeks of Januaryour new kitchen will be built. Local buildersJason Caddy, Ruaraidh & Aljocha will give us akitchen fit for community activities. During thistime the TTF Centre will not be openas usual
but we welcome visits by appointment, so call orwrite to us if you have ideas to discuss.(continued on page 7)
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(continued from page 6)
Transition Free
Press
The latest issue isnow available at thecentre.
Transition Streets
TTF is running a pilot Transition Streets programwith 8 local residents. This is a very interestingprogram designed and developed by people inTotnes.
The local Transition Streets group will meet 7times over a number of months to discuss howwe individually use energy, transport, food,water and how we deal with waste. At the endwe will see if we managed to save money bywhat we learn from each other. Watch this space.If it goes well, TTF will support other streetsand neighbourhoods to run this program as well.
MoneyThis is a topic that evokes dread, fear and
joy. What is money, what can we do to increase
the flow of exchange? Where does it comefrom and what is wrong with the financialsystem? We are planning on running a discussiongroup in the early part of next year. Contact me ifyou are interested.
Centre phone and broadbandWe are waiting
day by day for our own telephone and broadbandconnection in the centre to be installed. BTinadvertently cancelled our booking for this week
but we are hopeful that by January you should beable to call us directly and also be able to use youcomputer in the Centre.
TTF is a member of thelocal LETS system
and assuch we accept rent for thecentre, or payment ofselected classes, by part inLETS.
In between the activities in the centre Ive also pumy own pod to bed for the winter. This was donewith amazing help from a young American studewho despite rain and strong winds wanted to give
her support. Thank you Sarah.
Plans for the futureAs you notice there are a lot
things going on now, and all of it is possiblebecause volunteers are supporting us. We needyour input, both with practical help but also withideas of what would make YOU come down tovisit us. What is YOUR part in creating a moreresilient Forres, in making the future a more fun
and vibrant place. Do you want to run aworkshop? Do you have skills to share? Would yowant to meet up to discuss a special topic?Tell us, come down, or write to me, either atTTForres@gmail.comorcarinschwartz@gmail.com.
Wishing you a very merry Christmas,
Carin
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