Transition Buxton CIC

Hub England & Wales

Number of people in group:

40

Active participants in last year:

650

In 2024 we held an Energy Day event that attracted over 300 people, a film night with an audience of 90, an alternative catwalk show with a full house in a venue with 60 capacity, a number if stalls and informal creative events, as well as meetings, monthly Repair Cafes and the Library of Things now has 150 registered borrowers. Buxton is a small town of 24,000 people and we work with others including helping to organise election hustings (150 people turned up), and a photo opportunity with over 200 people outside our recently closed museum & art gallery to show the community's passion for its return.

Group started:

2008

Paid roles?

No

Legal Structure:

CIC (community interest company)

How active is your group?

Very Active

Live Projects:

• Community Growing
• Nature
• Festivals, fairs or events
• Art / creativity
• Community visioning / imagination work
• Building local networks
• Local economy or new economy projects
• Youth or education projects
• Share, Repair or reuse
• Energy

We work closely with colleagues in the Sustainable Transport Group, Buxton Civic Assn, and Serpentine Community Garden as well as others in our community.

Transition Buxton is a local group working together to improve our community resilience, particularly in the transition to less fossil fuel dependence.

We have been going since 2008, have approx 150 Members, + 450 on our supporters email list.

We have a dispersed community orchard of over 120 trees.

We run a monthly Repair Café and a Library of Things.

We do free home energy surveys.

We are proud to have achieved Plastic Free Community status through the City to Sea scheme.

We established Serpentine Community Garden which is now a standalone charity.

We do education outreach work in schools including Youth COP conferences in November each year since 2021.

We run clothes swaps and Stitch Don’t Ditch sewing workshops.

We work with other groups in our town, Borough and County to to bring forward local policies and schemes following declaration of a Climate Emergency.

And much more