“I thought I’d find it really boring, but it’s been totally the opposite!  It’s been brilliant.  We’ve all started to get to know each other, we’ve all started doing different things with each other, for each other, which I think has been fantastic.  It has just become much more than talking about energy... it’s not at all dull, it’s great... I really look forward to coming....”

Laurel Ellis, member of the ‘Walk the Talk’ Transition Streets group, Follaton, Totnes

Transition Town Totnes has been made and shaped by the input of every person who has become involved.  With many projects now underway and delivering real savings and other benefits, there is a growing a range of ways individual members of the community can get involved and benefit. 

The Transition Together programme, for example, is helping people come together around their street or neighbourhood area and has brought average financial savings of £601 per household.  

“You can go for years without knowing your neighbours, now we go to the pub together. I feel I can go round and knock on a neighbours’ door to borrow tools, while our kitchen scraps are eaten by one neighbours’ chickens and our slugs by another’s ducks.”

 Jenny Gellatly, Broomborough Drive Transition Streets group

Local people?

We define our local area fairly loosely.  We see it much as it would have been when Totnes was a thriving market town, the social and infrastructural hub at the heart of a rural network and local economy.  So if you consider yourself as having a stake in that catchment / economy / community, you have a stake in TTT.  

We refer to our geographical remit as Totnes and District, being Totnes and 17 neighbouring parishes, but we are not restricted to that.  Some projects, such as Transition Streets and TRESOC, have clearly defined restricted geographical limits.  Others are able to reach a lot further and often need to do so.  While the thrust of our work is for the people and communities of Totnes and District, we encourage crossover activity with neighbouring Transition Towns and welcome participation by people from beyond Totnes and District when appropriate.