Transition Town Totnes is a community-led charity that exists to strengthen the local economy, reduce our environmental impact, and build our resilience as we adapt to a changing climate.
We are a grass roots organisation run by a collection of local volunteers with a small staff team, who come together to work on projects. Anyone can get involved.
Our team is self-organising, mainly volunteer operated, and community-led. Projects are developed by interested members of the community who come together to make it happen. We can support with communications, strategy and fundraising.
Guy is a born and bred Totnesian who left to study but the magnetic pull of his home town brought him back again. He lives at local land cooperative ‘Landmatters’ with his young family where they work off-grid and practice permaculture principles.
Transition Town Totnes Coordinator
Transition Town Totnes Coordinator
Guy is a born and bred Totnesian who left to study but the magnetic pull of his home town brought him back again. He lives at local land cooperative ‘Landmatters’ with his young family where they work off-grid and practice permaculture principles.
Johara is co-founder of the Mother Roots project. She arrived in Totnes in 2020 after 18 years working in climate change and disaster response across the world. She is a doula, a researcher and a mother of two daughters.
Mother Roots co-founder
Mother Roots co-founder
Johara is co-founder of the Mother Roots project. She arrived in Totnes in 2020 after 18 years working in climate change and disaster response across the world. She is a doula, a researcher and a mother of two daughters.
Barry retired from healthcare regulation in 2018 and, until the first lockdown, tutored maths to small groups of KEVICC students who needed extra support. He has also been actively involved with Extinction Rebellion locally and nationally.
Office Manager
Office Manager
Barry retired from healthcare regulation in 2018 and, until the first lockdown, tutored maths to small groups of KEVICC students who needed extra support. He has also been actively involved with Extinction Rebellion locally and nationally.
Helen's devoted much of her adult life to the voluntary sector & fundraising before becoming an academic 20 years ago. She has taught Sustainability to MBA students and has worked with local politicians and officers on tackling the climate emergency.
Trustee
Trustee
Helen's devoted much of her adult life to the voluntary sector & fundraising before becoming an academic 20 years ago. She has taught Sustainability to MBA students and has worked with local politicians and officers on tackling the climate emergency.
Jem’s background is in the health and wellness industry as a therapist and coach. Since 2019 he's worked on various projects to help our local communities consciously respond to the challenges of climate and ecological breakdown.
Energy Local Advisor
Energy Local Advisor
Jem’s background is in the health and wellness industry as a therapist and coach. Since 2019 he's worked on various projects to help our local communities consciously respond to the challenges of climate and ecological breakdown.
Pete brings extensive small charity financial experience, at operational and strategic levels. He spent several years as an activist on national and international campaigns, before raising a family in south Devon and supporting community activism.
Finance
Finance
Pete brings extensive small charity financial experience, at operational and strategic levels. He spent several years as an activist on national and international campaigns, before raising a family in south Devon and supporting community activism.
Helen grew up with strong family ties to Devon and moved here over thirty years ago. She is mother to two sons, trained in Mindfulness and various therapies, and a keen community builder with a great love of the wild edges!
Mother Roots co-founder
Mother Roots co-founder
Helen grew up with strong family ties to Devon and moved here over thirty years ago. She is mother to two sons, trained in Mindfulness and various therapies, and a keen community builder with a great love of the wild edges!
Paul became a keen gardener whilst living in London as part of a growing community, producing food for market gardens and a box scheme. He moved to Devon with his partner and two boys a to live at Landmatters in Allaleigh, where they live off grid.
Incredible Edible Coordinator
Incredible Edible Coordinator
Paul became a keen gardener whilst living in London as part of a growing community, producing food for market gardens and a box scheme. He moved to Devon with his partner and two boys a to live at Landmatters in Allaleigh, where they live off grid.
Hilary has been a volunteer since 2011 and runs the weekly Time to Breathe session for Inner Transition. She has been involved in healthcare and alternative medicine since her 20s.
Inner Transition
Inner Transition
Hilary has been a volunteer since 2011 and runs the weekly Time to Breathe session for Inner Transition. She has been involved in healthcare and alternative medicine since her 20s.
Transition Tours
Transition Tours
Jay is co-founder of the Totnes REconomy Project and the Local Economic Forum. He coordinates the running of the REconomy Centre alongside his role as lecturer for Regenerative Economics at Schumacher College, Dartington.
REconomy Project Coordinator
REconomy Project Coordinator
Jay is co-founder of the Totnes REconomy Project and the Local Economic Forum. He coordinates the running of the REconomy Centre alongside his role as lecturer for Regenerative Economics at Schumacher College, Dartington.
Local activist Viktoria is currently completing a PhD in social justice, mental health and climate change. She worked on our local food map and organised the Community Resilience Forum this Spring/ Summer.
Project coordinator
Project coordinator
Local activist Viktoria is currently completing a PhD in social justice, mental health and climate change. She worked on our local food map and organised the Community Resilience Forum this Spring/ Summer.
Nick previously worked as a local GP and delivered training for new doctors, as well as the development of NHS services. Nick has extensive experience in charitable ventures, both in the UK and Africa. He joined as a Trustee in 2018.
Transition Trustee
Transition Trustee
Nick previously worked as a local GP and delivered training for new doctors, as well as the development of NHS services. Nick has extensive experience in charitable ventures, both in the UK and Africa. He joined as a Trustee in 2018.
Ruth has spent 20 years working with communities using practical and creative ways to engage with the issues of climate change. She has a degree in Psychology and an MSc in Environmental Science and is interested in the place where the two meet.
Transition Streets Project Manager
Transition Streets Project Manager
Ruth has spent 20 years working with communities using practical and creative ways to engage with the issues of climate change. She has a degree in Psychology and an MSc in Environmental Science and is interested in the place where the two meet.
Mary was born in Torbay and moved to London in the 70s to pursue a career with the NHS. She moved back to Devon to bring up her three children. Mary became a Trustee in 2018 and brings her wealth of expertise in leading change.
Trustee
Trustee
Mary was born in Torbay and moved to London in the 70s to pursue a career with the NHS. She moved back to Devon to bring up her three children. Mary became a Trustee in 2018 and brings her wealth of expertise in leading change.
Charles is a former solicitor who ran his own firm in Nottingham for nine years. He spent three years at a local firm in Devon before retirement. Charles provides legal and management input to the board of trustees and any projects that require it.
Trustee
Trustee
Charles is a former solicitor who ran his own firm in Nottingham for nine years. He spent three years at a local firm in Devon before retirement. Charles provides legal and management input to the board of trustees and any projects that require it.
Sienna is passionate about empowering people to engage in decision-making in community development. A degree in Zoology and MSc in Conservation and Policy led her to work in campaigning, policy and research roles in the charity sector.
Trustee
Trustee
Sienna is passionate about empowering people to engage in decision-making in community development. A degree in Zoology and MSc in Conservation and Policy led her to work in campaigning, policy and research roles in the charity sector.
Transition Streets
Transition Streets
Transition Homes
Transition Homes
Grown in Totnes
Grown in Totnes
Film Festival
Film Festival
Film Club
Film Club
David provides Communications support for Transition Town Totnes projects. He has more than thirty years' marketing communications experience across a wide range of industries, and public and not-for-profit organisations.
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Communications Officer
Communications Officer
David provides Communications support for Transition Town Totnes projects. He has more than thirty years' marketing communications experience across a wide range of industries, and public and not-for-profit organisations.
Reputedly a Collie/Kelpie cross, Stargaze is a rescue dog from Australia. He came to the UK when his humans moved here in 2019. It was then that he discovered that he had, serendipitously, a "very Totnes" name.
Office dog and mascot
Office dog and mascot
Reputedly a Collie/Kelpie cross, Stargaze is a rescue dog from Australia. He came to the UK when his humans moved here in 2019. It was then that he discovered that he had, serendipitously, a "very Totnes" name.
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