Thanks to a successful funding application to the Electrical Safety Fund, Portable Appliance Testing (PAT) training is being organised for those of our brilliant repair volunteers who are happy to tackle small electrical repairs! Watch this space for more info.
Transition Tynedale Annual Meeting December 2023
The Transition Tynedale annual meeting, incorporating our formal AGM, will be held on Saturday 2nd December 2023, 10:00-11:30, at Hexham Community Centre. Note this AGM is for the year 1st August 2022-31 July 2023; the meeting held on 25th March this year was the delayed AGM for the year 1st August 2021-31 July 2022.
Keynote speakers at the meeting will be Andy Lees, our lead for Hexham Space for Nature, and Jane Kysow, lead for Prudhoe Space for Nature. There will be coffee and mingling once the meeting and talks are complete. Come along to find out more.
Links to papers for the AGM are below.
DIRECTORS’ REPORT
FINANCE REPORT
https://transitiontynedale.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/tt-balance-sheet-year-ending-31-7-2023.pdf
AGM AGENDA
https://transitiontynedale.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/agm-02.12.23-agenda.pdf
MINUTES OF MARCH 2023 AGM
https://transitiontynedale.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/2023-agm-minutes.pdf
It’s nearly apple pressing time …
Our popular apple pressing event will take place at Hexham Farmers’ Market on Saturday 14th October, 09:00-13:30.
Start saving your apples and small bottles now. We welcome help with organising, or with pressing on the day – and of course any donations of apples! Contact info@transitiontynedale.org.
Just Fix It – Hexham
Are you about to replace your food mixer? Struggling to mend that zip? Curious to know how to make a visible mend or sharpen your shears?
Transition Tynedale’s latest project is Just Fix It, a community repair event which offer free repairs for household items that you might be tempted to throw away or replace.
Repair events are also learning opportunities – free, fun and friendly!
Starting in Hexham, the aim is to take Just Fix It to partner with other destinations in Tynedale.
But we can’t do it without repairers. So if you know someone with handy skills to share, who likes people and problem solving, Transition Tynedale would like to hear from you!
We are looking for volunteer electricians, stitchers, darners, joiners, upholsterers, book and toy menders – and others with skills to offer that we may not have thought of.
We also need friendly hosts who are happy to meet and greet, check registrations, and manage a queue. One of them might be a keen Instagram user who could help us share stories of successful mends.
Repair events are popping up all over the country to help meet the challenge of waste. Repairing and upgrading extends the useful life of our products, saves them from landfill and reduces the need to send stuff for recycling.
You are invited to come to Hexham’s Queens Hall on September 23rd where the library is hosting the Climate Cafe from 11-1 and Lowri Potts (Director, Transition Tynedale) will be reporting on Just Fix It progress, and available to chat to people in the foyer afterwards. If you are interested in volunteering, please drop an email to lowrirepairs@gmail.com
2023 Hexham Hidden Gardens event – details below
Checkout our Annual Spring Plant Swap Stall
Transition Tynedale Annual Meeting 2023
The Transition Tynedale annual meeting, incorporating our formal AGM, will be held on Saturday 25th March 2023, 10:00-11:00am, at the Queen’s Hall in Hexham. The meeting will be in the White Room, which is on the 2nd floor overlooking the Sele.
This year the formal AGM business will be kept to 30 minutes, allowing time for a keynote talk on the potential for community renewable energy schemes. Our speaker is Andy Dean, CEO of Community Action Northumberland.
When our meeting concludes at 11:00am the intention is to move to the Climate Cafe which is being held in the Queen’s Hall library (ground floor) that day, starting at 11:00am. All are welcome to join us there to continue discussions on how Transition Tynedale can continue to deliver local solutions to global problems.
Links to papers for the AGM are below.
CANDIDATES FOR ELECTION TO DIRECTOR, SECRETARY AND TREASURER ROLES
Annual General Meeting and Social
Thursday 24th February, 7pm at the Hexham Community Centre.
Our short AGM will be followed by an informal session where we can talk projects, develop our plans for 2022 and beyond, and have a long-overdue social get-together. Drinks and light nibbles will be provided. Please put the date in your diaries because we would love to see you all there!
Everyone in Tynedale is welcome, whether you are a TT member or not. Come along to find out more and chip in on local projects to help address the climate and biodiversity emergencies.
Read our later newsletter here. If you want to get it regularly sign up via the link on the right of this page!
Why not also like our Facebook page and check for details of our next 30 minute talk?
Papers for the AGM can be found on these links:
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Lady Bird Johnson
Latest News and Postponed AGM
If you are not on our mailing list you will not have heard that the AGM has been postponed due to covid, that a 30 minute zoom talk will be given by the Deputy CEO of Tyne Rivers Trust on 26th Jan followed by 30 minutes Q&A or about our call for more volunteer directors… Why not sign up to our email using the link to the right of this article…
Rake and Cake
At Hexham Community Garden
Saturday 30th October 10.00 – 13.00
- Do you know about the Hexham Community Garden?
- Want to find out more?
- Need a bit of Saturday morning exercise?
- Like cake?
Come along to find out more!
Hexham Community Garden – below the old Hexham Middle School, near Di and Jims Nursery. Follow the signs to Rake and Cake at the Community Garden.
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