Teign Estuary Transition

I’m disappointed to say that I heard on Friday that we didn’t get through the second round of bidding for Energyshare funds to upgrade lighting for Alice Cross, Meadow Centre and TAAG.

If you feel that you can help to seek funds elsewhere for this project, please let me know. David Onslow has very kindly offered to hold his quotes for a year.

Meanwhile thank you to everyone who supported this bidding process,
Helen

The full application to Energyshare for funding was submitted before the deadline of 5pm Friday 30th September.

Thanks to:
• David Onslow for all the time he gave freely for visiting sites, assessing requirements, and getting details back to me so promptly
• Staff from Alice Cross, Meadow Centre and TAAG for providing supporting information about their users and visitors, to create rich details for the bid
• Phil for his IT input with the Energyshare website, successfully resulting in us becoming their “featured group” on the actual closing date.

It was a lot of work which will hopefully benefit a lot of people right across our community. The outcomes of this round of bidding will be announced before the end of December.

Thank you to everyone who has supported us so far,
Helen

A chance to visit 19 homes in Totnes, Dartington and nearby at different stages on the journey to reducing their environmental impact and household bills.

Friday 9th, Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th September.

See the Transition Town Totnes web site for more details, with PDFs of their leaflet listing the homes involved and times when they are open.

Energyshare will announce the next stage of the bid-process on 29th July. This will include a link to the full, online,  application form.

Thank you very much for supporting Teign Estuary Transition’s bid for funding. I’m delighted to say that this week I heard we’ve got through the first round. We came 45th out of 936 groups nationally.  This success is due entirely to the support our project has received from you.

We’re now waiting for Energyshare to request a detailed application for our plans to make lighting-efficiencies in selected local community centres.

Helen

By midnight on 30^th June our bid had 167 supporters, ranking us 45^th in 936 groups. Energyshare will announce in mid-July which groups they are selecting to go forward into the next round and I’ll post an update here. Thank you for everyone’s support of this bid for funds to make energy efficiencies in public sites across our area.

Our funding bid to upgrade lighting in public buildings across Teignmouth and Shaldon is currently ranked 37th out of 893 groups. It’s exciting to be doing so well, but only bids with the most supporters on 30^th June will go through to the next round so we urgently need more supporters before Thursday.

While there’s still time, please support our bid with your online vote if you haven’t yet done so, and please invite at least one other person to vote for us.  

Details of how to vote are here:  http://teigntransition.org.uk/energy/energyshare/

Voting is a quick two-stage process – you register your name (or nickname), email address and postcode, then you’ll get an email from Energyshare with a link that you need to click to complete the process. Energyshare won’t accept any other statement of support – it has to be via their online voting system. If you get stuck, please let us know so we can help.

The final extended deadline for getting support for our Energyshare bid is 30^th June. Energyshare will select groups to go forward from those with the most supporters.

If we’re successful our bid will benefit Alice Cross Centre, Meadow Centre, TAAG Centre, Victoria Hall and Shaldon Methodist Church. Electrician David Onslow, of Shaldon, has assessed these and other sites for us: these five sites offer the potential to make up to 40% savings in electricity-use is some areas.

We now have nearly 50 supporters. There are over 30 groups with more bids than us, so we still have a lot of work to do in the next few days. Please do everything you can to enlist supporters – these could include your friends, relatives and colleagues. If you know people who use Facebook or Twitter, please ask them to help.

Details of how to vote are here:  http://teigntransition.org.uk/energy/energyshare/

You can also download and display our poster:

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Members and friends of Teign Estuary Transition Group gathered on Saturday 26^th March to celebrate Earth Hour 2011. This is an annual global event when people across the world turn off lights for one hour between 8.30 – 9.30 pm to celebrate the planet together and raise awareness of climate change. Our thanks to Neil Johns who supported the event by opening the Oystercatcher’s Cafe in Teignmouth, where members’ food was shared and eaten by candle-light.

Energy-use is one area that the Transition Group focuses on – the challenge after Earth Hour is to continue seeking ways of making a difference. The Group’s next energy-meeting is at 7.30 pm on Wednesday 13^th April in the King’s Arms, Teignmouth: all welcome.

Photos show Neil Johns, owner of the Oystercatcher, along with some members and friends of the Teign Estuary Transition Group.