Forthcoming events: (Don’t forget our regular monthly events listed below too)
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Sunday 24 September 2017, 2-4pm: Lindow Common Tree Walk
Stop Press! There seems to be a problem with this eventbrite registration! If you can’t get it to work, please just come along anyway. We would love to see you. A lovely walk for everyone, children will enjoy it, and you can ask all the tree questions you have!
Come and find out about trees with our specialist arborist, as we walk around Lindow Common. Learn about identification, ecology, diseases, care, and management. Bring your questions too!
Meet at 2pm at the Lindow Common car park near The Boddington Arms
A free event, but please sign up at http://bit.ly/2sI9yCV (no fee)
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Saturday 4 November 2017: A mushroom day with James Wood: book now!
Meet 11am The Carrs Car Park, finish 3pm after an open air meal of freshly cooked fungi with the one and only James Wood, expert forager, of totallywilduk. Learn what not to pick and how to identify edible fungi. Tickets £25, accompanied children under 18 no charge. Book on line via https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mushroom-foraging-with-transition-wilmslow-tickets-37754205846
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Friday 24 November 2017, 7.30pm: The Second Annual Transition Wilmslow Lecture.
Professor Chris Baines: “Wildlife Gardening and the Wider Green Landscape”
Wilmslow Guild, Bourne St, Wilmslow, SK9 5HD.
This is a great opportunity to hear the incredible Chris Baines, writer and broadcaster talking about wildlife gardening and urban greening.
£8 entry, booking via https://www.wilmslowguild.org/courses/-wildlife-gardening-and-the-wider-green-landscape-friday-24-november-2017/784/
More about Professor Chris Baines
Professor Chris Baines is regarded as one of the UK’s leading independent environmentalists. He is an award winning writer and broadcaster, and has been a high profile champion of urban ecology, wildlife gardening and the importance of green infrastructure for more than 40 years. He is a national vice president of the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts and has received both the Sir Peter Scott lifetime achievement award and the RSPB annual medal for his contribution to conservation and sustainability.
Chris first promoted the idea of wildlife gardening on BBC Gardeners’ World as long ago at 1979. He created the very first wildlife garden at Chelsea Flower Show in 1985 and his bestselling book How to Make a Wildlife Garden has been in print ever since. It has recently been published in an updated and redesigned edition as the Royal Horticultural Society’s Companion to Wildlife Gardening. His book The Wild Side of Town won the UK’s first conservation book prize and his Children’s TV series, The Ark won an International Wildscreen Award.
In the past Professor Baines has served as a trustee of the UK’s National Lottery, which has invested more than one billion euros in urban parks and green spaces. He chairs a landscape partnership for the Wyre Forest, England’s most extensive area of ancient woodland, and he is also president of the Thames Estuary Partnership. He is a horticulturist and a landscape architect by profession and works as an independent adviser to senior executives in the water, minerals, energy and housing industries. He is also an adviser to the UK government and is a highly experienced facilitator and public speaker. He is frequently employed as a broker of creative partnership between the public, private and voluntary sectors.
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Thursday 18th January 2018 7pm
Come to Wilmslow’s only showing of this inspirational, multi award winning film, “Tomorrow”
Be inspired by how the future is in OUR hands and we can shape it
The Old Dancer Upstairs, Grove Street, 7pm Chilli supper (vegetarian options available), bar open, film at 8pm sharp. Tickets £12 to include supper and film. All details and registration via https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tomorrow-the-film-with-chilli-supper-tickets-38035335713?utm_term=eventurl_text
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Regular Events
Steering Group: now normally meeting on the second Thursday of the month.
Our October meeting will be on Thursday 12th October 2017.
Further details from transitionwilmslow@gmail.com
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Group Meetings
Details of our upcoming Group Meetings are listed below. These meetings are open to all, so if you’re interested in getting involved in a particular group please come along. Feel free to contact us on transitionwilmslow@gmail.com for group contact details if you’d like to get in touch beforehand.
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Food Group: usually meeting on the fourth Wednesday of every month at The Kings Arms, Alderley Road, Wilmslow SK9 1PZ
Next Meeting: to be arranged
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Energy Group:
Thursday 28 September: Energy Group Meeting
Contact Ali (alisonberry@me.com) for details
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