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.

AGM AGENDA

DIRECTORS’ REPORT

FINANCIAL STATEMENT

CANDIDATES FOR ELECTION TO DIRECTOR, SECRETARY AND TREASURER ROLES

MINUTES OF 2022 AGM

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.

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Papers for the AGM can be found on these links:

Thanks for Reading.

“The environment is where we all meet; where we all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.”

Lady Bird Johnson

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…

At Hexham Community Garden

Saturday 30^th 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.

– local growing, great eating! 

Walk and eat your way around Hexham, be inspired to grow your own and help reduce food miles. That’s the message in our new ‘Edible Hexham Trail’. The easy three kilometre (two mile) trail mixes local food history with a walk around all the Edible Hexham beds and the Community Garden. You can pick up recipes using locally grown ingredients on the way and there’s also an extension that takes you to Tyne Green and the Community Orchard. The trail is being launched at the Hexham Farmers Market this Saturday, 1th September as part of Heritage Open Days.   

The Edible Hexham beds dotted around the town are managed by Transition Tynedale volunteers and everyone is invited to pick and use the various leaves, herbs and fruit that grow in them. With climate change and potential food shortages increasingly on the agenda, the Transition Tynedale team suggest that it is more important than ever to think and grow local as much as we can. The Edible Hexham beds and the Community Garden give examples of what can be grown right here, even in small spaces. 

Recipes created for Transition Tynedale by Jane Torday, local food writer, take things one step further and give some great ideas for using those herbs and leaves. 

Why wait, download your copy of the Trail and Recipes and get started now!

Some good things coming up from Transition Tynedale – a brief update

• Edible Hexham and Heritage Open days – Market stall Saturday 11^th September

This Saturday! Market Stall promoting our new Edible Hexham Trail, a lovely local walk. Come along to get your copy and find out more. So important to do all we can to encourage local growing and reduce those food miles. Also find out about what the Hexham Community Partnership has pulled together for the week of Heritage Open Days

Contact Jane to offer help with the stall

• Transition Tynedale open meeting – Thursday 16^th September, 7.30, Forum Cinema

It’s been a long time since we’ve met for real inside! Come along, all welcome

• Apple Pressing – at the Market Saturday 9^th October

Another welcome return. We will be pressing apples, talking apples and creating lovely local apple juice. Contact Megan about apple donations and help with the stall or bring apples along on the day.

 

Thanks all and hope to see you at one of these soon

Our annual plant swap stall at the Hexham Farmers Market will this year be on May 22nd from 9am-1.30pm. Bring along any spare veg or fruit seedlings, seeds or pollinator plants to the stall to swap with something you don’t have; please label plants with the variety.  This is a good chance to try something new or replace failed crops, you never know what you might find…  If you have nothing to swap don’t worry – just leave a small donation – all proceeds to go to the Food Bank!   If you can’t make the date you can drop plants at Chris & Megan’s house any time during the week before (Barrowden, Osborne Avenue, NE46 3JN – just leave on the driveway).  We will also need willing volunteers to help on the day – no expertise required though keen gardeners are always helpful to answer those tricky questions!

We are greatly looking forward to this event, particularly with the Covid related hiatus of last year. 

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Our next monthly meeting will be held on Thursday 15 April 2021 at 19:30.

Everyone is very welcome. Come along to hear of and share new ideas for Tynedale. We hope to see you there!

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Hexham Space for Nature volunteers working on the Sele last Sunday 

Tues 6th April, 8pm – 9pm, Transition Tynedale Talk: Hexham Swift ProjectKeith Buchanan will introduce our latest project: Hexham Swift Heaven, aiming to increase the population of swifts around Hexham. Find out why swifts are so special, why they are in trouble and what Hexham is doing about it!Zoom link: https://bit.ly/3er9UIS Passcode: swifts

Some brilliant news for Hexham Space for Nature! At the meeting of Hexham Town Council on 8 March 2021, the Mayor, Councillor Bob Hull, made his 2021 Environment Award to the community organisation Hexham Space for Nature, part of Transition Tynedale, in recognition of their work in raising awareness of the importance of wildlife and nature in the green spaces of Hexham. Volunteers had planted wildflowers on the West Road entrance to the town in cooperation with the Town Council as well as planting wildflowers around the edge of The Sele.

In giving the award, Councillor Hull said: 

“This award for 2021 goes to Hexham Space for Nature, part of Transition Tynedale, whose expert volunteers have worked with both the Town Council and indeed the County Council to try to make Hexham’s residents more aware of the importance of wildlife and nature for the town’s open spaces and gardens and including the Sele and the Abbey Grounds. In the case of the Sele volunteers have planted wild flower plugs along its edges and we should see more evidence of their labours very soon. In addition they have worked with the Town Council on the road verges on the West Road leading into the town with the aim of making a wild flower haven and display and reducing the cutting of those verges. Again volunteers last year planted wild flower plugs to enhance that entrance to the town. Currently Hexham Space for Nature is also looking at possibilities for actions in relation to our award winning Cemetery. All of this is in line with the recommendations in the Hexham Neighbourhood Plan.

I am delighted therefore to make this Award and to thank Hexham Space for Nature’s volunteers for their work to improve the biodiversity credential of the town in the years ahead. Andy Lees who is one of the key volunteers is with us tonight and I hope to be able to present him with the Award certificate later this week.”

Congratulations to Andy and all the Space for Nature team!