Transition Tynedale Limited will be holding their Annual General Meeting on Wednesday 8th February, 2017 at Scott’s Café, Forum Cinema, Hexham.
This page explains the processes that we follow when electing our Directors, and Officers.
You’re invited to join our wassail on Saturday 7 January
Event starts from 12 noon
We invite you to join an event which continues an ancient tradition while planting a legacy for the future.
The physic garden is open from 12 noon – 2pm. Please feel free to bring snacks and sandwiches; there are plenty of benches to sit on, or lawns to lie on if you bring a rug.
From 1pm – 2pm, join in song and ceremony to toast our orchard trees.
Wassail is an Old English word meaning ‘be healthy’ or ‘be whole’ – ‘hale and hearty’. Wassailing the trees in the orchard wakes them from their winter sleep and brings a bountiful crop of fruit in season. This ancient tradition recognizes the importance of our relationship to nature.
Local druids will toast a chosen fruit tree with an offering of cider poured over its roots. This is followed by a sharing of the wassail bowl, and the singing of carols, led by members of the local community choir. We encourage the making of much noise by all present! A family event, come in costume if you wish – but remember your weather proof footwear!
Transition Tynedale provide the cider from recent apple pressing days.
From 2-3pm, you can join in a weather dependent walk through Dukeshouse Woods to Hexham Middle School, where tree planting takes place from 3:15pm. Sound therapist Johanna Sheehan will be leading a reflection on our connection to the earth during this final part of the event.
Transition Tynedale’s blog can be accessed here
This event is open to all and unticketed. Donations to the physic garden, an independent, local charity, will be much appreciated.
For more on wassailing, please click here and here.
Participation in all activities is at the individual’s own risk.
Tynedale was once a thriving fruit growing area but with the march of supermarkets and the ‘perfect’ red apple most local orchards have been lost and yet another connection to the source of our food gone. We aim to replace some of these orchards and show that local apples are easy to grow and help to build resilience into our local food supply. Why go to the supermarket when you can get and grow local supplies ?
What better place to start than in a school ?
Saturday 26h November saw 4 hardy Transition volunteers join parents, children and headteacher Angela of Acomb First School come together to plant 14 trees donated by Transition Tynedale. These were given for a new school orchard in the school grounds where they will provide not only a delicious harvest in the future but also a valuable learning environment or ‘outdoor classroom’ for the children.
Many thanks to Matty for organising this and to Gareth, Sue and Phil for help planting the trees. More tree planting days are planned in Hexham in 2017 and if anyone has suggestions for areas which could benefit from fruit trees then please get in touch.
The new google map is now available for public view to help you all find free fruit in the hedges and fields of Tynedale. The map is ongoing. Everyone is encouraged to send in findings of new trees and they will be entered onto the map. Click on the link above to access the map.
Please keep your eyes open for fruit trees when out and about and send details of type of tree (apple / pear/ plum etc) and location to me at suehick3@gmail.com and I will enter them.
This year is a bumper crop for fruit – happy foraging !!
Sue Hick
In just a few days over 140,000 people have signed the petition asking for our parks and cherished green spaces to be properly protected by the government.
The group of MPs tasked with protecting our parks want to hear what the public thinks – but the deadline to have our say is next Friday.
Please will you share the petition with your friends, family and colleagues to help make the petition as big as possible before then? The more of us that sign, the stronger our message will be: parks are for everyone, don’t let them be sold off, or shut down.
To sign the petition visit https://speakout.38degrees.org.uk/campaigns/1355?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=blast2016-09-21
Apologies for the link only – please open to see the event details.
The move comes following analysis of road traffic collisions (RTCs) which has resulted in the force concluding that prosecution is the only way to encourage drivers to be more aware of vulnerable road users.
Lots of good wording except for use of ‘pavement’ instead of ‘footway’.
