REconomy Roadtrip – a list of enterprisesSeptember 4th, 2012 0 Comments

There’s more detail on most of these in the individual blog posts for each place (click on the place name), but here’s a quick summary of the enterprises I came across on my travels, whether emerging from Transition, a connected enterprise* or nothing to do with Transition at all**, as far as we know:

 

Brixton

• Brixton Pound – notes and an electronic version too.
• Community Draught Busters – the original!
• Brixton Energy – solar projects, community share issue.
• ReMakery – fixing and selling 2^nd hand stuff and sharing facilities and equipment.
• London Creative Labs* – working with long term unemployed.
• Makerhood* – bringing local makers together, enables self-support and new markets.

 

Dunbar

• Dunbar Bakery – up and running.
• Car club – model can be replicated.
• Dunbar Community Energy Company.

 

Durham

• Abundant Earth – workers co-op food hub/CSA model.
• Fruitful Durham - use unwanted local fruit production, a new nursery, just getting going.

 

Incredible Edible**, Todmorden

• Incredible Edible Growing Ltd – growing and educating.
• Incredible Edible Food Hub – school-based state of the art fish farm, growing centre and educational facilities.

 

Lewes

• Weekly food market with entry criteria – a TTL partnership, run by Lewes Local Community Interest Company (CIC).
• OVESCO energy company – energy efficiency services and projects like solar PV on brewery, community owned.
• Decision Lab – offering support to Transition groups and enterprises.
• Lewes Pound.

 

Maidenhead

• Food Nation Maidenhead – a hub model, just getting started, could offer a ready-made back end system for people wanting to start their own, just being trialled in T-Maidenhead and T-Letchworth.
• MaidEnergy – a T-Maidenhead related cooperative that’s helping a group looking at covering a section of the M40’s sound barriers with solar PV.
• Solar Co-Op was one of the first enterprises to spin out of T-Maidenhead – now looking at solar PV options on community buildings, funded by community shares.
• Reading True Food Co-operative** – a shop and weekly pop-up shops in community centres – i.e. mobile markets.
• Cultivate Oxford** – a mobile greengrocery delivers local organic produce to neighbourhood drop-off points.

 

Norwich

• Farmshare – model of CSA and food hub up and running.
• Bicycle Links** – gives unemployed and disadvantaged people skills and work shop experience, refurbishes unwanted bikes, encourages cycling as a sustainable means of transport.

 

Slaithwaite

• Green Valley Grocer – community owned shop.
• The Handmade Bakery – community owned bakery.
• Edibles – growing local foods.
• Valley Wind Co-operative** in Kirklees.

 

This listing is part of the overall reflections on my roadtrip.

Fiona Ward, August 2012.

 

Main image: Russell at the Handmade Bakery.

 

 

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