Transition Kentish Town News and Events March 2025

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Transition Kentish Town
News and Events March 2025

The weather may be swinging between Winter chills and Springtime warmth, but the light is growing stronger and Springtime leaves and blossom are emerging in gardens and along hedgerows. And here at Transition Kentish Town we are definitely powering up with the energies of the season, with some great seasonal events and new membership and volunteering opportunities. All brought to you here in our March newsletter. Have a look and see what interests YOU. Or where you think YOUR skills, talents and energies could help reduce our carbon footprint here in Kentish Town. And make low impact living friendlier, fairer and more enjoyable.

CELEBRATE SPRING!

Join us to celebrate the joyful energies of Spring on our Spring Equinox Nature Connections Walk around Parliament Hill Fields.

Saturday 22nd March, 10.30am–12noon

Meet just inside the Heath Entrance next to Bistro Laz at the Highgate Road/ Swains Lane junction, N6 6JS.

This is a FREE event, thanks to support from the Transition Towns Network and Camden Giving, but to let us know you’d like to join the walk, please register with Eventbrite.

KENTISHTOWN VEG BOX

Spring is a great time to join us

Over 12 years ago, a group of passionate Kentish Town residents came together with a vision of offering a regenerative alternative to the mainstream food supply chain. And so Kentish Town Vegbox was born.

We may be small (~300 members), but we are mighty. By promoting and facilitating a seasonal, local, and sustainable diet, we are:

Reducing personal and systemic CO2 emissions through local sourcing and seasonal eating.
Supporting sustainable farming practices that protect biodiversity and regenerate the soil.
Paying farmers fairly – three times what supermarkets pay per pound spent – so they can thrive.
Strengthening our community by keeping profits local, offering a low income discount and reinvesting in the people who matter.
Empowering our members with weekly news and recipes from our supplying farms and sociable seasonal ‘bring a dish’ meetup meals.

Want to know more? The head over to www.vegbox.org.uk to find out how to join up.

POWER UP NORTH LONDON

PUNL is our local community energy generating and energy saving initiative that puts solar panels on the roofs of local schools, churches, sports centres and other community buildings and trains up local communities in energy saving know- how. It is run by volunteers, and the energy installations are paid for by small grass- roots local investors plus some grant funding. And it’s a BIG success!

PUNL needs new volunteers with skills and energy to help grow this innovative community energy project.

As word of its successes spread PUNL needs more volunteers to enable it to meet new opportunities; and to help more community organisations become part of the renewable energy revolution. In particular, PUNL is currently looking for people with skills for the following VOLUNTEER jobs:

Volunteer Director – Treasurer
Volunteer Engineering Director
Legal Agreements volunteer
Grant Applications volunteer
Web Design volunteer
Community Engagement volunteer

Those already involved tell us that working with PUNL is sociable and fun as well as rewarding and good for their CV. So why not find out if this could be something for you at: www.powerupnorthlondon.org/vacancies/.

RETROFIT KENTISH TOWN

UPCOMING EVENTS
RKT has two events coming up which we hope you will be able to attend:

Tuesday 25th March, 6.30-8.00pm at Kentish Town Community Centre,
17 Busby Place, NW5 2SP

PLANNING FOR 2025

Please join us to:

• Find out about RKT’s new membership scheme

• Hear from Ned Collier about a street- based solar energy scheme in Dartmouth Park

• Help plan the events RKT needs to put on to help you to progress retrofit and discuss how we might work together with our neighbours

Thursday 10th April, 6.00-8.00pm at Kentish Town Library,

262-266 Kentish Town Road, NW5 2AA

HOW IS CAMDEN CHANGING POLICIES ON BALANCING RETROFIT AND CONSERVATION?

Join us for a unique opportunity to listen and engage on how Camden is evolving its policies on retrofit and conservation.

Bethany Cullen, Camden’s Head of Development Management, and colleagues from Camden’s Sustainability and Planning teams, will share with us the new shifts in policies being applied within the Council. Bethany and colleagues will also update us on the relaunched Camden Climate Fund, and the new free advice for people seeking funding for retrofit works. This is a joint event with Belsize Society

Please sign up via Eventbrite here

COMMUNITY GARDENS

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR SPRING & SUMMER WATERING
TKT has helped to create many beautiful gardens around Kentish Town that have gone on to be managed by local volunteers in Health Centres, schools and housing estates. We’re also continuing to develop and manage the Cottage Garden on Platform 1 of Kentish Town Thameslink Station and the ‘Greening Our Footprint Garden’ on the forecourt of Kentish Town Fire Station.

These are both container and raised bed based gardens that require regular spring and summer watering to keep them bringing pollen and nectar to local pollinators - and joy to local hearts. Which is where seasonal watering volunteers come in. For H&S reasons both involve watering from cans filled at a tap or water butt, rather than by using a hose, so you do need to be capable of carrying cans of water from one growing bed to another. Usually a couple of times a week for about 30 minutes. But it's very satisfying work. So if this could be you, please contact our Community Gardens Watering Co-ordinator, Ian Grant at: [email protected].

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