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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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WINTER -- DEC 2013TRANSITION TOWN FORRES

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 [email protected].

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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WINTER -- DEC 2013TRANSITION TOWN FORRESx

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 ([email protected]).

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 :[email protected]. 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 [email protected] 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 [email protected]@gmail.com.

Wishing you a very merry Christmas,

Carin


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