Just letting you know about an event coming up in East Devon in February 2012. As ‘recycling champion’ for Honiton, my role on the town council is to support events like this and this brings a smile to my face as I’ve wanted to do one of these myself for a little while. So I’m [...]
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Honiton Swap & Share
Posted December 24th, 2011 by sharon. Comment (0).
An Invitation to all – Winter Solstice Celebration!
Posted December 21st, 2011 by sharon. Comments (6).
Here’s a random idea for anyone up for it: Meet on Branscombe Beach 1pm Thursday 22nd December – let’s get together for the Winter Solstice – the shortest day of the year, midwinter! We can maybe go up to the Mason’s Arms in the village for hot chocolates afterwards.
I’ll be taking the kids and the [...]
Exeter Animal Aid Festival – a great success!
Posted November 28th, 2011 by sharon. Comment (0).
The South West Green Party had a stall at the South West Christmas Without Cruelty Festival yesterday. The annual event held at the Corn Exchange in Exeter was a huge success with over a thousand people attending!
Huge thanks to everyone who helped on the stall, we raised over £200 with our hampers – all donated [...]
South West Christmas Without Cruelty Festival 2011
Posted November 2nd, 2011 by sharon. Comment (0).
BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH TO PERFORM AT DEVON’S ALTERNATIVE CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL
Exeter Corn Exchange, Market Street, Exeter, EX1 1BU
Sunday 27 November 2011
10am-4.30pm
FREE ENTRY
Benjamin Zephaniah, the nation’s favourite performance poet, will be the special guest at this year’s South West Christmas Without Cruelty Festival on November 27. Benjamin will be reading poems (at around midday), signing books and chatting [...]
Pics from Embercombe Apple Day
Posted October 29th, 2011 by sharon. Comments (2).
Fruity Free-for-all at Community Market !!!
Posted October 29th, 2011 by sharon. Comment (0).
It’s just 5 weeks since our public meeting at Montgomery’s brought together enough like-minds to get a Transition Town group up and running here in Honiton. The steering group (Geoff, Chris, Charlotte, Colin, Rufus, Tina, Sharon, Michelle and Alison) are very pleased to announce the first little project – a fruity free-for-all.
Transition Town Honiton [...]
Appley Fun
Posted October 24th, 2011 by sharon. Comment (0).
Had fun at the Blackdown Hills Transition Group Apple Day yesterday. Cakes, lovely open fire, chatting, homemade soup, tea, spelt bread, spicy hot apple drinks, plants, free seeds, kids playing, crafty stuff, and lots of apples!
Community Market 5th November
Posted October 14th, 2011 by sharon. Comment (1).
The Honiton Mackarness Hall is hosting a community market from 9.30am to 12.30pm on Saturday 5th November 2011. Entry is free as is fairtrade tea & coffee on the day! There will be some yummy cakes available to have with your cuppa and after refreshments you can browse the collection of stalls.
Stallholders are not 100% [...]
Transition Town Honiton – up & running!
Posted September 29th, 2011 by sharon. Comment (0).
As of today, our little town of Honiton joins 458 muller transition initiatives across 34 countries on planet earth! We are registered on the Transition Network site https://www.transitionnetwork.org/initiatives/honiton
Being a ‘muller’ means we are in the ‘mulling it over’ or planning stage of the transition process following a successful first meeting last night. 23 people came [...]
‘Green Guru’ Satish Kumar is Guest Speaker at Recycling & Environmental Exhibition at Ottery Parish Church
Posted September 11th, 2011 by sharon. Comment (0).
This event takes place on Saturday September 24th 2011 from 10-4p.m and we will have a Green Party stall there.
This promises to be a very exciting event with inspiring talks as well as a variety of interesting stalls and stands. Satish Kumar, who will be a guest of Sustainable Ottery, will be speaking at [...]