Dear all, download the latest NHTT Bulletin or read on to get the latest.

Items covered are:

• North Howe Transition Staff Appointed
• Community Gathering,  Sat 15th , Collessie Village Hall
• North Howe Transition Toun e Barter
• Transition Training
• Recording CIK (Contributions In Kind)
• Transition Regional Gathering
• NHTT Local Food Group
• Energy Group
• Successful Climate Challenge Bid - Summary and Budget
• Monimail Tower Permaculture Course
• Dates for Diary.....

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North Howe Transition staff appointed

The NHTT are delighted to welcome Louise Barron & Peter Holt our newly appointed Support Worker and Project Manager to the organisation. Louise brings a wealth of community support work experience and Peter has been a project manager within the oil & gas industry for 30 years.

Louise will be doing a combination role whereby supporting the NHTT organisation and also the project manager. Peter will be taking a lead to help us deliver our CCF projects.

To contact Louise please email northhowetransitiontoun@googlemail.com or telephone 01337 810225
To contact Peter please email peter_holt127@hotmail.com

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Community Gathering,  Sat 15 June Collessie Village Hall

Last weekend's Community Gathering in Collessie was a great success with some new interest from the community within the NHTT area. We had lots of new people signing up as members as well as expressing interest in becoming involved in the individual projects.

The informal consultation was followed by a delicious homemade feast provided by members of the food group, so a big thank you to all who contributed. Hamid's presentation and video ‘In Transition' were well received and all agreed that Samadi is a star in the making. Future screenings will be in the calendar soon.

NHTT open day success - News article 19 June

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North Howe Transition Toun e Barter

The North Howe Transition Toun e Barter Google Group is now up and running for the exchange of your produce or services within the community. The Group works by notifying members when new items have been posted for a swap.

Members can either receive an email for every item posted or select to get one mail a day. Alternatively if you don't want to be notified by email you can simply log on to the Group site at your convenience. If you would like to sign up to this please email Louise who will be more than happy to help you get up and running.

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Transition Training

There is still a place available for the Transition training on Sat 4th and Sun 5th July in Forres. This two-day workshop is both a practical and informative introduction to Transition and a powerful personal journey to greater personal resilience.

It weaves together practice and theory, information and experiential, our inner Transition with our outer Transition, and personal and community Transition. The feedback from participants indicates that this two day journey holds key insights, understanding and awarenesses to help them to contribute to the most important journey of our times; the journey to a peaceful and resilient world.

All active members of NHTT are eligible to apply. An active member is currently defined as: Those who live work or operate in the area of NHTT (as outlined by OS maps available) and who regularly attend, and contribute to the work of, an action group.

Please email Hamid for further details and to notify interest: h.h.vankoten@dundee.ac.uk

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Contribution in Kind  

All Contribution in Kind will now be collated centrally by Louise. DOWNLOAD THE TEMPLATE which should be used for recording your time, it can then be sent to Louise at the end of each month.

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Transition Regional Gathering

The Central East Regional Transition Gathering is taking place on Saturday, 27th June 2009 in Falkland Village Hall from, 9.30am-5pm. If you are interested in attending this please email Hamid h.h.vankoten@dundee.ac.uk

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NHTT Local Food Group

The next meeting will take place on Tuesday 21st July at 7.30pm at Giffordtown Village Hall. Newburgh Orchard Group will be giving a presentation on their history and work. The meeting is free to attend and everyone is welcome.

On average we have 15 people attend each meeting, some different people each time. For more information regarding the Local Food Group call Hayley Mills 01337 810342 or email hayley.mills@phonecoop.coop

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Energy Group

The energy group has now successfully completed the first stage of the Carbon Reduction in Buildings Project and has submitted a bid to the Climate Challenge Fund for further funding proposing an in depth energy analysis of a number of North Howe buildings, and so to develop strategies for energy descend.

The outcome of this award application will be announced by the Climate Challenge Fund towards the end of July. Anyone interested in the Energy Group is most welcome to come along to the next meeting in July. Our Energy Contacts are:

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Successful Climate Challenge Bid

At the Community Gathering event North Howe Transition Toun unpacked the details of our Climate Challenge Bid. If you weren't at the meeting here follows a very brief summary of how the money has been allocated:

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Monimail Tower Permaculture Course

Monimail Tower Project is hosting a 2 week residential permaculture design course. The course content will include all the core permaculture topics but will also include other topics like natural building techniques and practical, nutrition, medicinal herb growing and use, wine and beer making, woodland management and maybe a few others.

If you are interested please see the course leaflet for further information. 

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Dates for Diary...

• Food Group Meeting- Tuesday 21st July, Giffordtown Hall
• Energy Group Meeting- Tuesday 14th July, Ash Cottage, Monimail
• Co-coordinating Group Meeting - Monday 22nd June, Monimail Cottage, Monimail
• Letham Nights - Saturday 22nd August , Bex Marshall and Guests
• Collessie Gala, Sunday 21st June

If you have any information that you would like to go in future Bulletins please email them to me at northhowetransitiontoun@googlemail.com.

Any problems or questions re content please do not hesitate to contact me.

Kind regards,
Louise, NHTT Support Worker, Tel 01337 810225

The North Howe Transition Toun is an Unincorporated Not-For-Profit Association that covers the community council areas of Collessie, Giffordtown and Monimail/Letham
and aims to work on addressing the issues around Peak Oil and Climate Change at a local level.

Postal address: Monimail Cottage, Monimail, Cupar, Fife, KY15 7RJ.
Contact: Leilani van Koten, Tel. 01337 810 346 or leilani@dsl.pipex.com
Web page: http://transitiontowns.org/North-Howe