Save the World Club

Info:  Award-winning charity Save the World Club have been providing hundreds of children’s and family based holiday clubs, after school clubs and workshops in Kingston for the past five years covering a range of exciting topics such as community mosaic, bicycle repairs, sculpture and scrap arts, painting and design, circus skills and events and festival organisation.

The success of the group, especially in attracting, and maintaining, continued relationships with some of the most disadvantaged families and citizens in our community, has made a real impact on the confidence of many people previously considered a problem in their local community. Kingston has several pockets of deprivation, including central Norbiton, central Kingston’s Acre Road, the Kingsnympton Estate and others and Save the World Club has run a range of successful children’s families and adult classes in these areas since 1997.

Over 3,000 adults and children have contributed creatively to the regeneration of some of the worst eyesores in the town through the group’s huge award-winning community mosaic workshops during 2003 and 2004. The 2004 project: Study of Hundertwasser for the Skerne Road and Canbury Passage is reputed to be the largest piece of community artwork in the UK today and is due to open in March 2005.

South Devon CSF

Info:  South Devon Community Supported Farming group (CSF) is a community group based in South Devon which works with the local community to provide access to farms, small holdings and land projects through the hosting of vegetable planting and harvesting days and family-friendly guided walks, talks and rural activities and skills training. The long term aim of CSF is to incubate a cluster of local food enterprises affiliated with the Neighbourhood Farm Network. The goal is for each enterprise to be a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) scheme based around local community investment and benefits.

CSF is a voluntary not-for profit local group which was constituted in the Spring of 2003. It currently hosts 13 sites in the South Hams for members to participate in which are part of the Neighbourhood Farm Network (see sites page) . CSF produce is grown and harvested at some of these sites and includes outdoor cooking of the fresh harvest at annual harvest events and ongoing family vegetable-tending days. Other sites host rural arts and education events such as fungal forays, willow cropping & eco building - check our events listings as events are constantly updated. Membership cost little and events are generally free of charge.

The Village - Building Sustainable Community

Info:  The Village aims come under the following headings:


- Human Scale:- A place that can down-size the institutions that provide housing, food, waste disposal, transportation, health care, education, social interaction and democracy, and contain these systems in a community where direct human involvement in the institutions is promoted.
- Human activities that are harmlessly integrated into the natural world
- A place supportive to healthy human development
- A community that can be successfully continued into the indefinite future

Transition Towns Wiki

Info:  The mission of our embryonic charity is:

- to inspire
- to encourage
- to network
- to support and
- to train

   .....communities as they consider, adopt, adapt and implement the transition model in order to establish a Transition Initiative in their locale. The transition model emboldens communities to look peak oil and climate change squarely in the eye and unleash the collective genius of their own people to find the answers to this big question:

  - for all those aspects of life that this community needs in order
  - to sustain itself and thrive, how are we going to:

      - significantly rebuild resilience (in response to peak oil)
      - drastically reduce carbon emissions (in response to climate change)?

Typically, self-determined solutions will involve some flavour of relocalisation.

Wholewoods - environmental arts

Info:  The natural world reaches the parts that modern life forgets. There are moments of awe, wonder and inspiration that melt even the tough nuts among us. On these special days life's troubles drift away.

Sharing stories by the fireside, carving timbers or munching wild food are the timeless skills of our ancestors. Given the chance I think we'd like to spend more time this way. These are the environmental arts, a reminder of our cultural heritage and inspiration for the sustainable world of tomorrow.

So why woodlands? Is it the wildness, the dappled light or the desire for men in tights? We don't really know. None the less our heart, head and hands approach has been inspired by these intriguing habitats where wisdom and inspiration grow.

Wholewoods is a not for profit enterprise committed to what we know to be right, and to having fun. Join us for a timeless experience, some freedom, and a good challenge.