Kings Cliffe Transition

Hub Angleterre et Pays de Galles

Nombre de personnes dans le groupe :

15

Participants actifs l'année dernière :

100

Le groupe a démarré :

2010

Rôles rémunérés ?

Non

Structure juridique :

CIC (société d'intérêt communautaire)

Quel est le degré d'activité de votre groupe ?

Très actif

Projets en direct :

• La culture communautaire
• Autres projets alimentaires
• Nature
• Centre ou activités communautaires
• Festivals, foires ou événements
• Construire des réseaux locaux
• Bien-être ou transition intérieure
• Projets pour la jeunesse ou l'éducation
• Partager, réparer ou réutiliser
• L'énergie
• Transport

We are an enthusiastic active group of volunteers based in the fabulous village of Kings Cliffe, Northants. We’re passionate about protecting our planet, here’s a bit more information about what we’re up to.

• Transport Group: Monthly Bikefix workshops; Local bike ride leaflets; Generally encouraging our community to walk or use their bikes rather than jump into the car for short journeys.
• Food Group: Community orchard in The Pytchell; Allotment project creating mini-allotments for people who can’t or don’t want to manage a full or half-size allotment. A group of us have set up an ethical food buying cooperative. We encourage people to minimise packaging and refill containers wherever possible.
• Wildplaces Group: Kings Cliffe is very lucky to be set in a large area of wonderful countryside. We have many sites recognised for their high value for nature and biodiversity and our Wildplaces Group was set up not only to manage these areas for the wildlife, but also to encourage villagers to get out and enjoy them. We run regular volunteer work parties to manage these areas and keep them open to visitors, and always welcome new volunteers. We also organise guided walks where we explore our wild places, and discover interesting plants, animals, birds and insects. We campaign ardently to protect biodiverse land within our village boundary and beyond, which can be a real battle sometimes. We have a fair bit of experience doing that now.  We also work hard to encourage and promote biodiversity wherever we can.
• Home Energy Group: A group formed in 2023 to look at ways in which we can help people to use green energy, become more energy efficient, and save money. No major progress thus far due to time and resource constraints, will probably be more about education at the moment. We have a thermal imaging camera that people can borrow to measure heat loss in their home.
• Events: Thus far we have run two series of talks (July 2023 and June 2025), both encouraging people to garden in a more environmentally friendly way. The talks were very well received so we plan to run further events covering different topics. The 2025 talks were so interesting, with lots of ideas about how we can all make our gardens kinder to the planet. The materials we use, the plants we grow, the way we use and conserve water, the health of our soil. We also run climate cafes periodically, usually by turning up at existing cafes in the village to provide information and conversation. Plus in 2022 we ran a Carbon Literacy workshop hosted by Jen Gale, very useful and informative and now some of us are qualified carbon literate! We plan on running another series of talks in 2026.
• Communication & Awareness Raising: We write an article about our Transition activities every month in the village gazette. We have designed and printed an information brochure that has been posted through people’s doors and is made available at any events we run. We have a website, which is updated quarterly, and a very active Facebook page.

• If we have the resource we would like to expand the Home Energy Group activity to look at local energy schemes, for example.
• Further events and talks.
• It is possible that The Pytchell, an area of community-owned land where we already manage a community orchard, will become available in it’s entirety. If so, we will propose that we manage the whole space as a community garden and quiet space. Focus will be community growing and biodiversity.