Our Achievements |
2015 |
Our past |
THB works with other community organisations to develop, promote and deliver events and activities. So far this year we have:
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THB Achievements in 2015
Monthly get-togethers with special guest Michael Stewart from Newport Folk Club (Apr). Altona, Newport & Williamstown Fruit & Vegie Swaps Sustainable Food Forum - Is Small Scale Farming Enough? Forum hosted by Sustainable Education Initiatives with star studded speakers in Williamstown - Feb Workshop on sewing funky upcycled cloth bags at the Loom Room in Williamstown - Feb Electric vehicle car chat - viewings of the new Tesla and other electric vehicles in Spotswood - Feb Sewed and gifted Morsbags to Welcome West Wagon for including in gift hampers - Mar Passata workshop in Newport - Mar Autumn Equinox Potluck Pizza in backyard cob pizza oven in Newport - Mar Terracycle and Recycling Guide Launch at Walker Close in Altona North - Apr Permaculture Practice Group - Introduction to Design process in Newport - Mar & Apr Inner West Commons started a Local Exchange Trading System (LETS) using the "bluey" for a virtual currency. Introduction session in Seddon - May |
Participated in Council's celebration of World Environment Day - Jun Winter solstice potluck celebration for Altona THB-ers - Jun Workshop on making cloth bunting in Williamstown - Jun Inner West Commons trading night in Williamstown. 1000 blueys traded to date - July Flourishing Ferments Fair, part of the Newport Folk Festival - July Pop up garden at the Newport Community Initiated Garden, part of the Newport Folk Festival - July Bushgarden Grow at AMPS, Altona Meadows - Aug Comedy night with Rod Quantock in Newport, raising funds for Bunches of Lunches - Aug Spoke at the launch of the remediated Jack Madigan Reserve in Newport - Aug Wrote letter to Hobsons Bay Council asking that they stop spraying with carcinogenic chemicals - Aug Letter to Wade Noonan, State MP for Williamstown asking for immediate action to impose a moratorium on the use of glyphosate by all councils across Victoria |
Livelihoods group -
first meet-up - Feb careers support session - Mar business group discussion - Mar LETS planning - Apr careers support session - May Inner West Commons Co-op Visioning - May cake and chat - Aug Newport Community Initiated Garden - first met on site - Mar Celebrated International Permaculture Day with site analysis - May Chat to plan pop-up garden - Mar & May working bee to shift mulch pile - Jun Chat on site - Aug THB stall at LET Your Garden Grow OCTOBER at Altona Library with Millie Ross Meeting with HCCC’s Sustainability Team Newport Lucerne bulk buy THB attendance at the People’s Climate March Lisa’s article on Kate published in The Westsider, November 2015 Farewell to THB founder Kate Leslie at THB’s Initiating Group gathering |