Events
Open Meetings 2012
Every 2nd Thursday of the month, The Marshall room, Ashtead Peace Memorial Hall. 7.30-9pm. Each month we will have a topic and have a film and/or speakers plus a discussion. Open to everyone. Free entry, but donations welcome.
9th February What is the Transition movement?
FILM ‘In Transition’ made by people in the Transition movement from across the world, sharing their views about the challenges of Climate Change, Peak Oil and environmental issues in general. Find out why and how transition groups form and the sort of projects they do. We will have a discussion afterwards about the issues raised and what we can do here in Ashtead.
8th March – Growing Food Locally.
20min FILM ‘Growing Food Locally’ Made for Transition Forest Row, this video looks at the need to grow more food locally and some of the different ways that can happen in a community. These include, garden share, allotments, CSA farms, and more.
2nd short FILM ‘Palm Oil & Peat lands’ examines the reasons why peat wetland areas are important as carbon stores, and the effects draining them have on the environment. We will look at the alternatives to using peat in our gardens, and discuss the issues arising from the two films.
12th April FILM David Attenborough ‘The Truth about Climate Change’ 2006.
A personal journey to discover how global warming is changing the planet he knows so well. He examines the evidence for this confusing phenomenon and explores the personal and technological changes we can make to avert catastrophe. Followed by a discussion about what we can do personally to make a difference.
10th May. Conserving Water
14th June,. Energy issues
12th July. Recycling and Waste
Surrey Eco Homes Event 24/25th March 2012
Action Surrey, an organisation set up by originally by Woking Borough Council, is organising a Surrey Eco Homes event on the weekend of 24/25th March to inspire members of the public and homeowners to learn about energy saving measures and renewable technology from those who have already been there and done it.
Several of Surrey’s Borough and District Councils and other groups including Transitions Ashtead, Bookham, Dorking and Guildford, the Epsom Energy Group and Sustainable Redhill are working with Action Surrey on this. Similar events have been held recently in Brighton, Oxford and elsewhere.
We are looking for homeowners to open their doors for one day, under controlled conditions, to members of the public to demonstrate and discuss what they have done in their homes to make it more environmentally friendly and/or energy efficient.
We want to showcase a range of techniques and technologies, including high-quality loft and wall insulation, photovoltaic panels, solar thermal panels, heat pumps, wood-fired boilers and others.
If you might be prepared to open (part of) your house for others to look around, then please contact Action Surrey for more details. (Contact details at the end of this page.)
What we would need from you:
- For you to open your house for 1 day (either Saturday 24th or Sunday 25th March)
- Complete a risk assessment of your property – Action Surrey will provide a template for this.
- Provide a very short description of your property type and energy saving measures installed
- Decide on your opening hours, how many tours you wish to take and duration of tours
- Provide us with a photo of your property
- Identify rooms you are happy for people to enter or not enter (previous events similar to this use a bit of red tape/ribbon/no entry signs to indicate which rooms are off limits).
- Talk to members of the public about what you have done on the day
Action Surrey will ensure we have verifiable contact information of visitors who will be required to book in advance, and bring identification with them on the day that matches their booking information.
Children under 14 will not be permitted to register or be part of a visiting group.
How will it work?
Action Surrey will handle the publicity but may need a quote or couple of photos from homeowners. They are developing a brochure and a brief outline of what each house has installed in it. Homeowners will be given guidance on how to manage visitors, a FAQ sheet and be required to agree to a disclaimer. Action Surrey has arranged insurance cover for the event, and is setting up a web-based booking scheme
Bookings
- Members of the public register their details (email, address, contact) with Action Surrey online or by telephone.
- They are directed to a web page with the eco-houses featured on a map (non-identifiable), with a very basic bit of text, image and description of what is installed there. They can also download more information here.
- People can click on the house they wish to visit and be sent through to an event page for that property. Here they can book free tickets to visit that house and will have to provide personal contact information.
- They can then visit the property where the homeowners will be expecting them.
- Tickets will be limited. The maximum size of groups and the number and timing of groups are decided by the homeowner.
- If visitors wish to book to see more than one house they will need to do so separately through the dedicated web pages for each property.
- There will be a web-based and/or paper-based feedback system to request feedback information from the visitors.
Tours and managing visitors
Homeowners can run as many tours as they like but we suggest the following;
- 3-4 tours in a day between 10am-4pm
- Max of 8 people per tour
- Tours to take up to 30 minutes.
What to do now
If interested please contact ben@actionwoking.org or ring Action Surrey at 0800 783 2503 to register your interest and find out more.
We need to have the list of properties complete by February 9th so that the event can be properly publicised.
If you don’t want to take part as a homeowner but would like to take part as a visitor monitor the www.actionsurrey.org website. This website is still under preparation, for the time being see www.actionwoking.org
Please pass this message on to any individuals or groups that you think might be interested.
The Future
We plan to set up a Surrey-wide buyers’ club for energy-generating and energy-saving technologies, inspired by the success of similar clubs in Marlow and Wimbledon, using in part the interest generated by this event.
PS There is a national climate change week (see www.climateweek.com) from 21st -27th March which our event is timed to coincide with.
Solar Energy Event
Photovoltaic panels
Our speaker is Richard Warren from Solstice Energy, an approved PV and Solar thermal systems installer – Solstice have recently installed a PV system on Tony Cooper’s house here in Ashtead.
TA Energy Group
Have you got lots of apples on your trees?
Are you wondering what to do with them all?
Come to the Craft Fair at Ashtead Peace Memorial Hall on Saturday 9th October 10am to 3pm, bring a bag of clean apples and a empty bottle and get freshly pressed apple juice! We will charge a small fee for the pressing and you will receive about a fifth of the weight of your apples as juice.
Hope to see you there!
Garden Share Information event
Come and ask us about Garden Sharing at Ashtead Park Garden Centre, on Wednesday 16th June, 6-8pm
Have you got a large garden with space to spare?
Do you want to grow your own food but have no garden?
Ashtead Garden Share aims to put people who have spare garden space in touch with people who want to grow their own food. The idea is very simple – people with gardens they cannot manage, offer to share them with people who would like to grow food but have nowhere to grow.
The grower gets a free allotment, and the owner gets a share of the tasty produce grown in their garden.
Come along to Ashtead Park Garden Centre on Wednesday 16th June between 6 and 8pm and ask us all about Garden Sharing!
We hope to see you there!
Ashtead Village Day
Come and meet Transition Ashtead at Ashtead Village Day on 12th June. The Food Group will be there to talk about the Garden Share Scheme and The Home Energy Group will have info, demos and ideas about how to reduce home energy consumption. Come and find our stall and have a chat!
Transition Drinks
We hope you can come to The Brewery at 8pm on Monday 14th June for Transition drinks.
Find out about Transition Ashtead Garden Share, how to save money on home energy and all things Sustainable!
An informal evening – a glass of wine, a few beers… no presentations, no agenda, just a drink or two and a chat! Hope to see you there.
We hold Transition Drinks on the second and forth Mndays of every month – so make a note in your diaries!
Plant sale at Barnett Wood School
Transition Ashte
ad will be having a stall at the Barnett Wood School Plant sale on Sunday 16th May between 1 and 3pm. It is held in the school playground. You can buy fruit, vegetables, annuals and perennials at the sale. We will have some plants for sale and information about Transition Ashtead Garden Share. Come for a chat and a browse!
Garden Share Information event
Ashtead Garden Share
Come and ask us about Garden Sharing at Ashtead Park Garden Centre, on Saturday 1st May, 12-4pm
Have you got a large garden with space to spare?
Do you want to grow your own food but have no garden?
Ashtead Garden Share aims to put people who have spare garden space in touch with people who want to grow their own food. The idea is very simple – people with gardens they cannot manage, offer to share them with people who would like to grow food but have nowhere to grow.
The grower gets a free allotment, and the owner gets a share of the tasty produce grown in their garden.
Come along to Ashtead Park Garden Centre on May 1st between 12 and 4pm and ask us all about Garden Sharing!
We hope to see you there!
Best regards
Transition Ashtead
email Derek@ TransitionAshtead.org.uk
phone: Derek Smith on 01372 378914
Transition Ashtead drinks
We hope you can come to The Brewery 8pm tonight Monday 26th April for Transition drinks.
Find out about Transition Ashtead Garden Share, how to save money on home energy and all things Sustainable!
An informal evening – a glass of wine, a few beers… no presentations, no agenda, just a drink or two and a chat! Hope to see you there.
Transition Ashtead’s birthday!
Transition Ashtead is One Year Old! Please join us for a Fund Raising Curry Night to celebrate!
It’s at The Moghul Dynasty, Craddocks Parade, Ashtead
On Tuesday 20th April, 7.30 pm
£15 per ticket
Contact Derek Smith on 01372 378914 to reserve your ticket.
The ticket price includes a starter, main course, shared side dish
(1 between 2), shared naan (1 between 2), shared rice (1 between 2), Coffee
Selections can be made from the normal menu-excluding any dishes with King Prawn. Drinks & deserts are not included in the ticket price
Funds are being raised to support the following activities – all of which are aimed at making Ashtead a more sustainable place;
Food Group, Energy Group, Ashtead National Bike Week Event
We hope you can make it!
