The Worthing Heritage Alliance
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MEMBER : Transition Town Worthing – Living Heritage Activities
th AsTRANSITION at: May 15 201 WORTHING7
ABOUT US:
The Transition Movement is a world wide network of community groups looking to adapt practically and creatively towards solving environmental problems especially fallout from climate change with associated changes in seasonal weather patterns & flood-drought cycles. Also Food security. Projects, events and activities foster pro-active learning of skills that help us to live more sustainably within our homes & built environs whilst protecting and enhancing the natural environment, land & seas, that provides us with essential raw materials and the ‘Ecosystem Services’ necessary for future survival.
TTW is restructuring towards charitable status and has a new website and Facebook page. To see what is going on visit: www.ttworthing.org If you would like to join in activities then membership is free to Worthing residents. You can sign up on line and receive a monthly e-newsletter. Provisional dates for ongoing ‘Living Heritage’ activities are listed in the calendar below. All are in the spirit of:- creating habitat & planting trees -capturing carbon & enhancing the beauty of gardens, parks, school grounds etc. growing and preparing more food locally, including Worthing Tomatoes (!), and not wasting it! cleaning up plastic from the living seas thereby enhancing Marine Conservation and Sustainable Fishing projects showcasing EcoOpen Houses that show good practice in energy ,water and garden habitat management
NOTE: Worthing Community Green Spaces Project TTW, along with some WHA members and other Heritage and/or Green Space sites, belongs to this generative, buzzy, Urban Living Landscapes Network. Community interest groups and volunteers garden, do conservation work, and make the town more beautiful and enjoyable for all. TCV/The Conservation Volunteers project manage this venture with AWC The group has regular meetings and can be contacted on http://www.adur-worthing.gov.uk/community-greenspaces Some details of the related Green Dreams: Food & Community Green Spaces Festival – are on the WHA calendar.
LATEST NEWS – Living Heritage Activities
Annual Sow, Grow, and Seed Swap Spring Fair
th SaturdayCHAIRMAN 4 February : 2017: Oak Grove ColleCONTACTge, Durrington : Barbara The event Shaw hosted a onmix 205363of seed, Eplant,-Mail produce,: [email protected] bee keeping, wildlife gardening, eco-art, and community stands, with an atmospheric pop-up café featuring scrummy home prepared goodies. The WEB SITE : http://transitiontownworthing.ning.com ANNUAL SUB weather was kind! Out in the school grounds folk from HLF local food projects cooked a choice of hot soups, from locally grown or sourced ingredients, on an open fire. Youngsters joined the Sussex Wildlife Trust learning about wildlife gardening, pollinator projects, and the ‘rotters’ that make compost from garden & kitchen vegetable waste. The very Eco-Mayor busied himself with local Councillors ‘digging in’ Sussex heritage fruit trees. He not only endorses Worthing’s highly imaginative Empty Plate Food Waste UPCYCLING Project based in Worthing Homes’ Love It Hub, but he is also a great champion of TREE planting. Talks were high calibre
but attendance was down this year especially families and younger people. This was partly due to changes in local infrastructures & publicity networks, struggles with printing flyers, and in targeting an ever- expanding and increasingly diffuse network of potentially
interested organisations! AWC/TCV Green Spaces and EYE Eco-Schools (Going for Green Grounds) Projects were essential parts of the event. TCV showed a map of AWC Greenspaces, and showcased sites for members who could not present their own vibrant Thegardening orWorthing produce stands. They also Heritage dovetailed potential newAlliance volunteers attending this event with organisations at sites requiring help or expertise. AWC Parks Rangers were available to give advice too. South Downs Folks Singers successfully serenaded us on the stairs and in the café with Heritage folk songs significantly about farmers and horticulturalists coping with previous bad times - problems with that dreadful pest theNEWSLETTER Turmut (Sussex dialect for turnip) fly and Poor Froze Out Gardeners who were unemployed in winter.
hursday 27th April: Worthing Friends’ Meeting House CHAIRMAN - James Gradisher and Board of Trustees – all contactable via website below. Sussex wildlife Trust Wetland Landscape Project Manager – www.sussexwildlifetrust.org.uk - gave the big picture in WEBSITE : www.ttworthing.org ANNUAL SUB : Membership free. Join up to join in online via website relation to local geography, geology and the Living Landscape, explaining how natural ecosystems like trees and coastal
marshes help absorb and retain water whilst also capturing & holding carbon. Integrating natural systems into sea defences can be beautifully creative and much more effective longer term than inflexibly built often very costlyPage hard G -sea01 defences. The Worthing Heritage Alliance
SOCIETY NEWS
MEMBER : Transition Town Worthing – Living Heritage Activities
th AsTRANSITION at: May 15 201 WORTHING7
LATEST NEWS – Living Heritage Activities (Continued)
Slow the Flow Flood Action – proposing setting up a flood action group: Public Meeting Thursday 27th April: Worthing Friends’ Meeting House Sussex wildlife Trust Wetland Landscape Project Manager – www.sussexwildlifetrust.org.uk - gave the big picture in relation to local geography, geology and the Living Landscape, explaining how natural ecosystems like trees and coastal marshes help absorb and retain water whilst also capturing & holding carbon. Integrating natural systems into sea defences can be beautifully creative and much more effective longer term than inflexibly built often very costly hard sea defences. The Living Coast, Brighton & Lewes Downs UNESCO World Biosphere Region Project Manager explained Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems, SuDS, where natural habitat is created in parks and along pavements. www.thelivingcoast.org.uk Members of Transition Worthing’s EcoOpen Housing Project described a simple but imaginative & fun rain water catchment garden set up at the front of their terraced property. www.ttworthing.org Also attending were reps from AWC Parks & Foreshore, WSCC Community Engagement Manager, WSCC Operation Watershed, Environment Agency and Southern Water.
CHAIRMAN - James Gradisher and Board of Trustees – all contactable via website below.
WEBSITE : www.ttworthing.org ANNUAL SUB : Membership free. Join up to join in online via website
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The Worthing Heritage Alliance
NEWSLETTER
MEMBER: Transition Town Worthing – Living Heritage Activities
As At : MAY 15th 2017
CALENDAR OF FORTHCOMING EVENTS
EVENT LOCATION DATE EVENT DETAILS & TIME Worthing EYE Schools ECO-SUMMIT Workshops on - Biodiversity & Composting in School Grounds; Energy Davison High School and Water in school buildings; Waste & Recycling; Wellbeing & East Worthing Healthy Living; Global Citizenship Tues 20th June Worthing & Adur Schools wishing to join the EYE project should contact the Project Manager via the website www.eyeproject.co.uk
Coastal Heritage Fair and Beach Clean Sat 16th September Beach House Grounds & Foreshore The Marine Conservation Society’s MOST IMPORTANT ANNUAL LITTER
SURVEY and GREAT BEACH CLEAN always takes place on 3rd weekend Timing – mid a.m. to early p.m. September. It involves volunteers locally, throughout the UK, & abroad. Great
Citizen Science! Details, published the following March, are used to inform
Governments on pollution issues especially PLASTIC. Worthing’s details will be
posted on:- www.mcsuk.org www.ttworthing.org.uk
www.visitworthing.co.uk
Worthing Food Festival – Flavour of the Seaside Sat 16th & Sun 17th Sept Steyne Gardens A Town Centre initiative in partnership with Proto Restaurant Group Worthing Town Centre (Fish Factory, Food etc.) www.visitworthing.co.uk
www.worthingtowncentre.co.uk
This popular big event runs all weekend and alongside MCS GREAT Beach
Clean (see above) on the Saturday. The two events are linked through the
Worthing Food Pioneers HLF sustainable fishing project The Last Fisherman
Standing – www.foodpioneers.org.uk through AWC Foreshore & Parks/
Greenspaces and through Litter, Waste & Recycling.
th Sat 30 September We’re For Wildlife - Foraging for Nature! A no pick Hill Barn Lane CP. TBC! Hedgerow Harvest Ramble that alternates between Hill
Barn & High Salvington looking at tree and woodland habitats
created and/or managed by Worthing Green Spaces
Volunteers - including Worthing Millenium Woodland
Group/WMWG and Worthing Conservation Volunteers/WCV.
Guides & participants share knowledge and expertise on wild
herbs, woodland management, wildlife conservation, and on
harvesting the autumn glut of wild nuts & berries without
detriment to wildlife. If happening? then details will be
posted on www.ttworthing.org and
www.worthingdownlanders.org.uk This event is also linked to Green Dreams Festival
Sun 1st October Green Dreams Food and Community Green Spaces Festival Autumn harvest fest & apple day featuring produce Field Place from AWC/TCV Communities Green Space sites and their The Boulevard volunteer activities. www.visitworthing.co.uk www.vaworthing.org.uk www.ttworthing.org.uk Sat 3rd February 2018 Sow, Grow and Seedy Spring Fair Oak Grove College Date provisional - TBC
CHAIRMAN - James Gradisher and Board of Trustees all contactable via website WEBSITE :www.ttworthing.org ANNUAL SUB : Membership free. Join up to join in online via website
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