Steering Group Meeting Minutes 17.01.11

 Meeting Held on 17th January 2011,
 8.00pm Three Compasses

Present:  Kate, Cathrina, Rebecca, Andy, Gillian (chair) Tilly (minutes)

Apologies:  George, Rachel, Kate Allerdyce

Agenda Items

Planning the TCE AGM

We decided to hold an AGM, hopefully at HVCC in March and will see if the following dates are available; 5^th 6^th or 13^th March.

Confronting Climate Change conference

Rebecca fedback after attending this conference on 16^th December 2010. She heard inspiring talks from Rob Hopkins, Polly Higgins,a barrister and Michael Meacher. Polly Higgins is hoping to support international legislation to outlaw ‘ecocide’ and also discussed working on acts to enable the work of transition initiatives. For more information contact Rebecca.

Staement of our funds

Current funds:

TCE cash fund (currently held by Gillian):   £257.01

TCE bank account balance:                       £1008.30

£500 being from Capital Growth fund received in Decmeber and to be spent on the Transition Kitchen Garden at HVCC. £350 being from the smoothie bike award.

Cycle Generator workshop

The idea of holding a workshop on how to construct bicycle electricity generators was discussed.

Action: Gillian will discuss with the company and see if they would be interested in running a workshop locally

TCE Communications

Gillian has set up Transition Crouch End Facebook, Blogspot and Twitter. Twitter has 70-80 followers. It was agreed by those present that it would also be useful to have a simple website, as many/most other well established transition initiatives have. We discussed how to proceed

Action: Tilly to buy a domain name as the first step

Action: Those interested to look at other transition websites and see what hosts they use.

Forthcoming TCE or TCE related events:

1)TCE Draughtbusting Workshop

This will be held by Cathrina and Kate on Jan 30^th. Spaces limited.

Action: Kate and Cathrina to advertise

2)Events at Knowing Through Growing, Stroud Green library

Rebecca running Self development and planning day 31^st Jan

Low Maintenance Gardening talk 18^th Feb

Recycled mosaic making starting early February

Details from Rebecca

3) Spring Growing Spaces event at HVCC – 3.00-6.00pm Sat 26^th March

Details to be confirmed- contact Tilly and  Gillian

4) Green on the Screen- dates for films on 2^rd Feb, 2^nd March and 6^th April

Next TCE Steering Group Meeting:

8.00pm Monday 7^th February

Upstairs meeting room, Three Compasses Pub