Community Orchard – exhibition of watercolours by Graham Burnett 10 – 17 May 2008

Transition Town Westcliff’s first foray into the world of the arts is in partnership with the Westcliff Art Trail, Scarlett Fireplaces and Spiralseed, presenting a series of watercolours based on the rather wonderful but little known traditional orchard in Eastwoodbury Lane. Ten paintings by Graham Burnett will be displayed in Jay and Mel Scarlett’s showroom [...]

WEN Earth Day 2008 – Food Security Open Space at Porters

Transition Town Westcliff ran our first experiment in using ‘open space’ at the Earth Day organised by South East Essex Women’s Environment Network at Porters, the Mayor of Southend’s official residence on Saturday 19th April.
The theme of the WEN event this year was ‘positive news’, so this seemd a great opportunity to present the TTW [...]

Westcliff – the 47th Transition Town!

We are pleased to announce that Transition Town Westcliff has now been recognised as an official Transition initiative by the Transition Towns Network!
Here is part of an email that we recieved from Ben Brangwyn of TTN;
“Great work – You’re town number 47, so one of the historic first 50!
I recall your first email in July-07: [...]