Sustainable, Affordable, Community Housing – the LILAC initiative…

Fran Lee from LILAC (Low Impact Living: Affordable housing: Community) in Leeds will be visiting Buckfastleigh to talk about the project and show a short film on Wed 22nd February, at 7.30pm in the Town Hall.

If you are interested in any aspect of sustainable or community housing, or in straw-bale building techniques, please come along. The talk will be followed by Questions & Answers/discussion and refreshments will be available. Price £2.00/£1.50.

Please download and display/distribute a flyer/poster here

To find out more about LILAC click here

Film Night Full!

Our showing of the multiple-award-winning film “The Economics of Happiness” was so well attended that we nearly had to turn people away!

Attendees discuss the topics raised by the film

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Buckfastleigh Fun Day 2011

It was a bright and fun-filled day at the Buckfastleigh Fun Day, and we were there to help entertain and inform those that attended.

The BTT and Buckfastleigh Community Forum stall

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Dean Court Vintage Rally & Fayre

Kathy and Neil serving tea and cakes at the Vintage Rally

Dean Court Vintage Rally & Fayre – Saturday 7th May

For more details please have a look at this page.

Dartington Christmas Tree Festival

Those of you that have been following the E-Bulletins recently will know that BTT have been preparing decorations to be put on a tree at the Dartington Christmas Tree Festival. On Thursday, all of this hard work came to fruition at the launch of the festival. Although it was a cold evening, about 200 people turned up to sing and watch as the lights on all thirteen trees were turned on.

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Christmas Café and Craft Fayre

Buck The Trend attended the Christmas Cafe and Craft Fayre at Buckfastleigh Town Hall on Saturday, and it was a very productive event!

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The Power of Community – Fri 15 Oct

We will be showing the film ‘The Power of Community – How Cuba survived Peak oil’ at the Town Hall at 7.30pm on Friday 15th October.

Look here to find out more.

Buckfastleigh Fun Day

BTT will have a stall at the Buckfastleigh Fun Day, which is to be held on the Orchard Millennium Green from 2pm until 5pm this Sunday.

We’ll have some fun things for you to try (more details can be found here), so we look forward to seeing you there to support BTT and the Buckfastleigh and District Society.

Successful Brainstorming Meeting

Buck the Trend would like to thank everyone who attended the public meeting on Wednesday 25th November.

Andy Stokes, Buck the Trend’s secretary, said:

It was great to see such a wide range of people coming along to support us and generate some good ideas for how we can make Buckfastleigh a more sustainable place to live and become a stronger community as a result. It was also encouraging to receive support from the Town Council, with the Town Mayor Councillor Peter Clarke and Councillor Ann Armstrong (of the Buckfastleigh and District Society) both attending the meeting.

The meeting was also attended by members of related groups in neighbouring towns. Andy Stokes said:

We really appreciate the fact that representatives from Sustainable South Brent and Transition Newton Abbot came to the meeting and gave us the benefit of their experience. We look forward to working more closely with them and the other groups that showed their support, including Ashburton Futures and Bovey Climate Action.

Tony Merrick from the Energy Saving Trust said:

The meeting was a great start to the project and it seems that the group contains some very knowledgeable, keen individuals. After this first meeting I am very much looking forward to progressing with Buck the Trend in their action plan. Thank you to the other community groups for coming and sharing their previous experiences and good practice with us.

Buck the Trend are now working to finalise their plans for the Green Communities programme over the next year.

Tony Merrick (EST), Councillor Peter Clarke (Town Mayor), Robert Byrnes (BTT Chairman) and Andy Stokes (BTT Secretary) at the meeting