In order to deliver some of the objectives of a Transition Town, e.g. Develop visible practical manifestations and the Great Reskilling, Transition Chichester are facilitating some projects.
These projects will evolve from the collective genius of its participants and these pages will evolve with them in order to capture what has been found, learned and discovered.
If you are interested in any of them then please subscribe to our email list and indicate which projects you wish to get involved in. Alternatively, if you have already signed up then please update your profile by clicking the link at the bottom of a Transition Chichester email that you have received. If you have any problems then please contact us.

The active projects are already meeting regularly - see updates under Projects on the left menu.
There is also a regular meeting to help start new projects.

IAMJOY
they are a local collective of young artists and writers who run their own gallery, produce a magazine and even host a youth Festival every August.
This year Transition Chichester are invited to take part in the festival. The project will involve creative ideas and their elaboration for themes/activities/workshop or display with a particular focus on young people. We hope to set up a Transition Village area.

Contacting local leaders
the project is to prepare/train a few members to represent TC in conversations with local leaders. Each would seek to initiate some point of contact, where we might support them in their agenda, how we might interest them in ours and see where the two meet. We can be much more effective if leaders know who we are, recognise Transition and identify it with a worthwhile intiative to be respected and taken seriously.

Sheep orchard
Three acres of land held in Trust are available for Transition to use. Ideas so far are for fruit tree planting and having some sheep.

Breadmaking
Get together to learn how to make and bake different breads with varied flours. Julia will share her experience of bread making from Weald and Downland.

Lighting in Commercial Buildings
Checking out where all the lights keep ablaze unnecessarily late into the night. Making contact and discussing how this practice might be halted and why it is important. One aspect of Chichester's hefty carbon footprint to tackle.

Website Content
Coordinate and keep the website up to date with lively material. Creative ideas for new interesting content. Contacting Transition folk for the information and feedback needed. News about other Transition groups. Improving existing presentation and layout.

Planting Trees
Transition needs 'visible manifestation' and this is one way to do it! Let's see if we could get permission to plant nut trees on verges, fruit bushes on roundabouts?? Coordinate with Conservation groups, schools for tree planting events.

Swap shop
We all have too much and a good swap is not only fun but really helpful. Saves buying new and recycles and promotes community, coming together to offer and to take away.

Cycle Tracks
Where are your best cut-throughs? Which is your favourite route? Where do you have to be especially careful? Where and how could a route be improved?
This project has been adopted by ChiCycle.

Food mapping
This is about plotting what local foods are produced where, where they are available for sale and might include wild foods too. A useful add on is a gap analysis of what is not available and should be, like local poultry for table.

Car Free Day
The Germans can close 60 km of Motorway with 20,000 free tables to hold a party, see: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-10676728, and yet our WSCC will not let the '20s Plenty' group put up one table in the city centre to try and collect signatures.
The UK co-ordinator of the car-free movement said that it is up to groups like Transition to form and shape the future, as our councils are not giving direction. They are able to write urban plans, but do not seem to be able to work out how to get society to change to get these plans to become reality. A lot is happening in other countries, and in other towns in the UK, and it would be great if Transition could show that they are leading the way in this area. It means taking on the car-culture which is a huge and overwhelming task, but lots of other people are doing this and we need courage and determination to make a difference in our little corner of the world. "All you need is an idea and the will and you can do it" Car Free Vancouver, http://www.wecarfree.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Carfree-2010-flyerB.pdf
http://www.parkingday.org/
The car-free network is world-wide - Beijing, Jakarta, Ottowa, San Francisco etc but can we do something here? Do we have the will?