Transition Edinburgh South

Hub Transition Scotland Hub hosted by SCCAN

Number of people in group:

73

Active participants in last year:

4000

We have 9 trustees, 5 part time staff, 66 registered volunteers and approximately 4000 attendances at our events each year.

Group started:

2010

Paid roles?

Yes

Legal Structure:

Charity

How active is your group?

Very Active

Live Projects:

• Community Growing
• Other food projects
• Nature
• Community hub or activities
• Festivals, fairs or events
• Art / creativity
• Community visioning / imagination work
• Building local networks
• Local economy or new economy projects
• Wellbeing or Inner Transition
• Social Justice / Just Transition activities
• Youth or education projects
• Share, Repair or reuse
• Communications and dissemination

We are based at the Gracemount Community Garden where, since 2013, we use organic and ecological techniques that regenerate the soil while growing fruit and veg for the community.

We work with the Friends of the Mansion to set up a Gracemount Development Trust to develop the buildings and greenspaces surrounding the garden.

We work with a range of statutory and voluntary agencies to support local community greenspace projects across South Edinburgh.

We have built up strong connections with local schools, community organisations and health and social care services.

We are part of the Transition Movement which “is a movement of communities coming together to reimagine and rebuild our world”.