Transition Town Tooting

Tag: Governance

  • April TTT Meeting Notes

    Thanks to Resina for chairing the April TTT meeting. Subjects covered included:

    • Project income for TTT – Richard
    • New Governance – Richard
    • The Woodfield Project – Emma
    • Ecobricking – Resina
    • Big Day Out – Resina
    • Plastic Free Furzedown – Moira from PFF
    • Foodival – David
    • BWTUC Press statement – Graham

    The full notes can be found HERE.  

    Our next open meeting is scheduled for Tuesday 14th May at 7.30 p.m. and will be chaired by Lucy.  Venue TBC.  All welcome to offer items for the agenda, speak or just come to listen in and discover what TTT is about.

  • Time for New Leaders – Could It Be You?

    Transition Town Tooting is looking for new leaders ready for the AGM in February 2019 as the current leadership team will have completed their two year terms and we will be voting in new role holders. Do you fancy getting involved?

    If you do you could be joining an evolving and collaborative team making change in how we live, where we live, in light of climate change. There’s a spirit of celebration and creativity in everything we do, be it south London’s biggest sustainable food festival, urban growing in the community garden, carbon reduction workshops or neighbourhood planning. We open up spaces for local people to connect with each other, imagine possibilities and make positive changes for the community and the environment.


    We have evolved a system where 2 people share being chair of the group for a two year period and both of these spots are up for grabs in 2019.  We are also interested in hearing from anyone who would like to try their hand at being Treasurer or Secretary and help shape and re-imagine our activities and impact over the next two years.

    You’ll be joining a great team of volunteers and core members who coordinate projects. There are also other ways to volunteer with us from just attending events, leading a specific event or perhaps you would like to try being the newsletter Editor.  

    For more information about these roles click here.  

    We would love to hear from anyone who is interested.  Even if you are not sure but want to find out more do please CONTACT US and we will be happy to answer any questions you may have, or alternatively come along to the next meeting on Tuesday 13th November at the Antelope in Tooting to find out more about these opportunities.

  • Welcome to TTT’s new governance team!

    There’s been another election recently in Tooting: TTT has a new governance team who will be carrying out their roles until spring 2019.

    TTT was established in 2008, and by 2011 we agreed to formalise the key governance roles and also fill them with willing volunteers who serve a term of two years. That means that:

    • no one has to do (or get stuck doing) the same role ‘for ever’
    • there’s an expectation that different individuals can step into these roles and carry them out in their own diverse & fresh ways
    • we share between us the responsibility for doing these useful roles which support us all in TTT

    Give them a wave! Welcome to TTT’s new governance team:

    From the left: meet the Treasurer David, the two Co-Chairs Jeni and Sharon and the Secretary Eleanor. They look forward to meeting you!

    All these roles are voluntary, and these four people work alongside TTT’s project co-ordinators – and maybe lead TTT projects themselves. Earlier in the year we shared the role profiles. The Co-Chairs, for example, fulfil a leadership rather than a management role for TTT as a whole.

    The election was part of TTT’s Annual Celebratory Extravaganza, where we invited partners, volunteers and the curious to join us to recap strategy and activities in the previous year and look forward to the next.

    We had an evening full of energy and heard from many colleagues who explored 15 projects large or small, long-term or one-off:

    • Thank you to all who spoke about projects and asked questions – and brought refreshments
    • Thank you to Dr Rosena Allin-Khan MP for her vivid summary of the value of bringing people together in a practical and creative way across the Tooting community’s diversity of views, voices and concerns.

    One group game we did was partly aimed at meeting new people and finding out who was in the room, and partly aimed at imagining (on the spot) some new potential taglines for TTT. There are some great comments written on these balloons! You’ll have to click to read them.

    There’s plenty to be involved with right now in TTT – no need to wait for the 2019 AGM. Please read the events listing and blog, sign up to our monthly email and keep an eye on facebook & twitter. Come and chat!