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Dear {usertag:name}
I have been looking at suggestions and giving some thought to topics for our meeting on Sunday. When they are all boiled down the most obvious common thread is ‘engaging the community’. The aims of Transition The Grove may be summarised as ‘achieving community resilience’ so I propose a broad topic for Sunday’s meeting as:
Promoting Community Resilience
The idea of community resilience is well defined by the Federal Department of Families Housing Community Services and Indigenous Affairs as “the capacity of groups to withstand recover from and respond positively to crisis or adversity”.
Across the Transition Towns movement internationally in SE Queensland and in our own neighbourhood there is wealth of accumulated experience of many approaches to promoting our aims. Some of these are:
- Public meetings usually with a movie discussion guest speakers etc. These need suitable facilities and effective local advertising.
- Community projects related to local food water conservation health alternative energy transport (i.e.car pooling) environmental conservation.
- Addressing and supporting community groups (i.e. service clubs sports clubs P&Cs) and projects (i.e. school fetes local festivities)
- Market Stalls at local markets school fetes local festivals (e.g. Arana Ausfest 9 October)
Advertising these activities might include letterbox drops local newspapers local radio email and social media word-of-mouth and community newsletters from local councillors schools etc.
I’m sure there are many more ideas along these lines so please come along on Sunday to put your ideas on the table and discuss the resources and facilities needed to implement them. Hopefully our Food & Gardening group will return from their travels in time to share in at least part of this meeting.
When: Sunday 12 September 2010 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Where: Arana Hills Library Nerellan Park Cobbity Crescent Arana Hills
Tea and coffee will be provided.
If you plan to attend please login to the web-site and register by checking the box at the bottom of this page so that we have some idea of numbers. We look forward to seeing you there.
Regards
John Tennock
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