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It started on Saturday 5^th and will last until Sunday 20^th May, when the festival will end with a barista competition in the Civic Square.

The participating cafes and restaurants are running exciting coffee-related promotions throughout the two weeks of the festival. Customers get to enter a prize draw by rating their coffee experience at each venue. The cafe voted by the public as being the best will be announced at the festival finale.

The Coffee Festival will culminate in a barista-style competition on Sunday 20^th May, during the Good Food Market, staff from participating establishments in and around Totnes will compete to be named the best barista in town. There will be entertainment laid on and demonstrations to the public in the skilled art of coffee making.

The fortnight co-insides with World Fairtrade Day on the 12th May, The festival is working with the Totnes Fairtrade group to raise the profile of quality fairtrade coffee. Totnes has one of the highest number of cafes, restaurants and shops, using or selling Fairtrade products, in proportion to the size of population, in the country.

The festival has been initiated by Transition Town Totnes. One of the organisers Holly Tiffen, says:

“Totnes has a really special and unique High Street, home to a wealth of independent cafes and shops. Unlike so many other British towns Totnes has avoided the generic cloning of it's town centre, as a result it is a creative, vibrant and attractive place to live and visit. Read More →

Thursday the 26th April saw the 3rd annual AGM for TTT after becoming constituted as a charity in 2009. It was agreed last year that just reporting back on the years activities and electing trustees, whilst a legal obligation, was a bit dry and so this year we agreed to make it more meaningful, more transition. We also decided that, rather than just making the report verbally available we would put a lovely visual representations of our accounts, thanks to Emma Capper http://www.emmacapper.co.uk/ and the key highlights of our year on the wall which included:

-        Winning an Ashden Award for our Transition Streets Programme

-        The EDAP being a West Action for Market Towns Awards 2011 commended project

-        Gaining funding for, and appointing, the Food Linking Project Manager

-        Gaining funding for, and appointing, the Transition in Action Manager post

-        Naomi Klein and Richard Heinberg asking to speak here

-        Substantial involvement in the BBC2 Town programme about Totnes

-        Co-housing being accepted into Phase 1 of the Baltic Wharf development

-        Talk by Paul Clarke inspiring Incredible Edible group to start up in Totnes

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Date for your diary - Sunday 17th June 2012.

Last year’s Dragon Boat racing on Longmarsh was a great event with hundreds of people lining the river and many community groups and businesses taking part. But TTT was sadly absent. Well, its happening all over again this year so now’s our chance. We have been invited and would really like to take part.

The Dragon Boats have been replaced by the locally famous Longboats, so this is a great opportunity to get aboard the big canoes that ply the waters of the Dart Estuary. We need to get a crew together ASAP.

We need a crew of 10 and up to five reserves, and as much help fundraising as possible. Most of all we need someone to coordinate. We have a number of people who are up for being in the crew but we need someone to coordinate it all. This willnot be a lot of work – just to handle the emails, liaise with the Rotary Club organisers and collect the sponsorship money. If you are interested please contact the TTToffice or hal.hola (at) gmail.com.
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