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Updated: 14 July, 2010
Events
2010
Friday 26 November
Ceilidh with the Little Fox Celtic Band
Clarence House 7.30pm - 11.00pm
After all that hard work during the year reducing your home energy use, using your car less, and growing all those vegetables have a bit of fun and recharge your batteries at our end of season ceilidh. Put the date in your diaries. It will be £6 for adults and £3 for children.
If you want tickets send us an email or phone Kathleen on 01275 399942
Sunday 17 October
Community apple harvest
Weston Moor Nature Reserve Weston-in-Gordano
11.00 - 3.00
Come and pick the apple harvest and make it into apple juice. Apple presses will be on hand to convert the crop into delicious juice for drinking or cider. Free to any who help with the harvest.
Sunday 26 September
Vegetable gardening workshop
63 West Hill 11.00am to 1.00pm
Come and find out out about a variety of end of season gardening tasks including autumn and winter planting, using compost to enrich the soil, weed control, water harvesting, home made liquid feed from comfrey, and raised bed gardening. Tel: 848025 for how to find us.
Saturday 25 September
Share the harvest - community food swap
Folk Hall 12.00 - 1.00
Bring along any of your surplus garden produce, chutneys, jams, cakes, and swap for food you haven't grown. Share any unwanted garden pots and other gardening equipment. Cafe, childrens's activities. Free entry.
Saturday 11 September
Home Energy Day
Somerset Hall 10.30 - 4.30
Exhibitions of renewable energy companies, home insulation, grants, new feed-in tariff etc etc. Case studiesshowing how to reduce energy use and reduce carbon by 80% in a variety of homes. Cafe, energy activities for young and old, displays, presentations. Free entry.
Sunday 15 August
Vegetable gardening workshop
89 Burlington Road. 11.00am to 1.00pm.
Vegetables in an urban setting with Ann Orchard.
Saturday 14 August
Farmers Market
Waitrose piazza 9.00am - 12.00 noon
Come and see us at the Farmers Market every second Saturday. Compost bins, garden bags, energy surveys, food and garden swaps.
Friday/Saturday 30/31 July
Portishead Flower Show
Come and see us at the show and talk about how to make Portishead a low carbon town. All the usual activities including food swaps, compost bins, garden bags, and energy surveys.
Saturday 17 July
Vegetable gardening workshop
North Weston Allotments 11.00 - 1.00.
Managing a small allotment with Jane Markx. . Jane will meet you at the gate at 11.00am.
Saturday 10 July
Farmers Market
Waitrose piazza 9.00am - 12.00 noon
Come and see us at the Farmers Market every second Saturday. Compost bins, garden bags, energy surveys, food and garden swaps.
Sunday 27 June
Vegetable gardening workshop
11 Glenwood Rise 11.00 - 1.00.
Daisy Bickley: "I would say that my garden demonstrates collection of rain water (we have 7 barrels) and partial use of seep hose. End of June should be good for on-going veg - results of autumn and spring sowing, moving into summer sown crops. May have some soft fruit to pick. Tomatoes in greenhouse etc etc"
Saturday 12 June
Farmers Market
Waitrose piazza 9.00am - 12.00 noon
Come and see us at the Farmers Market every second Saturday. Compost bins, garden bags, energy surveys, food and garden swaps.
Monday 7 June
Steering Group
16 May
Vegetable gardening workshop
7 Victoria Square 11.00am - 1.00pm
Vegetable gardening with a Victorian theme with Valerie Hampshire. Park in the Coop Carpark and approach from the pharmacy opposite the health centre.
8 May
Vegetable gardening workshop
6 Wetlands Lane 11.00am - 1.00pm
Container vegetables and heritage seeds at 6, Wetlands Lane with Carol and Denise Preston.
4 May
Steering Group meeting
24 April
Seed/seedling/plant swap
Folk Hall 12.00pm-1.00pm
Another succesful community sharing event with around 60 people attending.
14 April
Nuttery Group meeting
Welly Bottom (off Avon Way) 10.00am
Permission has now been given by North Somerset Council to establish the nuttery at Welly Bottom. Plans are now being made to remove invasive knotweed and tree saplings and to source the nut trees.
12 April
Steering Group meeting
Minutes
29 March
Energy Group meeting
63 West Hill 7.00pm
Further planning for Energy Day in September and discussion on Community Energy Schemes. Tel: 848025 for directions.
28 March
Gardening workshop
63 West Hill 11.00am to 1.00pm
Come and find out out about a variety of gardening tasks including planting potatoes, creating a seedbed, making and using compost, water harvesting, home made liquid feed from comfrey, and raised bed gardening. Tel: 848025 for how to find us.
23 March
Open meeting - Energy
63 West Hill 7.30pm
15 people attended this meeting. A good discussion was had around the new feed-in-tariff (FIT), upgrading insulation of existing housing stock, examples of two solar pv systems installed, and the merits of heat pumps. A 2.5kWp solar pv system recently installed cost £13,000 and should return around £1000 a year through the FIT. Notes of meeting.
10/12 March
Transition workshops at High Down School
Five workshops were delivered to years 3 and 4 at Highdown Juniors on two days during the school's recent science week.The message was the need to reduce, reuse, and recycle, and to reduce the carbon footprint especially of food. One workshop focussed on CO2, and the delicate balance between plants and animals. Another tracked the journey of a kinder egg which travels over 30,000 miles to get to the supermarket.
8 March
Steering group meeting
10.00am
22 February
Energy group meeting
10.00am
We are planning an energy event at the Somerset Hall later in the year where we hope to have sessions on energy efficiency, renewables in the home, and new energy policy together with stands from energy suppliers, renewable energy companies, and advice services. Come along and help plan the event. Contact us for details of venue
8 February
Steering group meeting
1.00pm
3 February
Schools group meeting
1.00pm
We are organising workshops for local schools where the concepts behind reducing carbon will be introduced in hands on sessions. If you'd like to help come along to the next meeting of the group. Contact us for details of venue.
22 January
Energy Group meeting
21 January
Open meeting
St Joseph's Church Hall, West Hill, 7.30pm
Around 25 people attended the meeting. After the film a lively discussion ensued focussing on local food, a move away from eating meat, and the need for education and reskilling.
11 January 7.30pm
Steering group meeting
2009
11 December
Christmas swap at the Victorian evening
Not many people brought things to swap though we did swap a very nice christmas pudding for some home grown leeks. Everything else was "swapped" for donations and a lot of people took home some new christmas decorations. New contacts were made, we raised some funds, and we all enjoyed the community spirit of the event.
30 November 1.00pm
Steering group meeting
Minutes
12 November 11.30am
Steering group meeting
Minutes
10 November 8.00pm
Open meeting
Come along for a drink and nibbles and share your ideas for a more sustainable Portishead. We are focussing on food and energy this month. How do we set up a Community Garden? How do we develop more renewable energy in the town?
2 November
Towards a low-carbon Portishead
The Ship, Down Road, Portishead 7.30pm
Illustrated talk by Jon Gething to monthly LibDem meeting.
22 October 10.00am
Steering group meeting
3 October
Share the Harvest - community food swap
Folk Hall 12 - 2pm
About 50 people came and there were plenty of items including leeks, parsnips, potatoes, beetroots, tomatoes, onions, courgettes, peppers, lettuce, radish, apples, pears parsley, lavender, chutney, cakes, jams, and even some fish!
Everyone who came said how much they enjoyed the event and hoped we would be running another one soon
18 September
Discussion evening on food and farming
An evening devoted to the issue of food and the impact of oil depletion on our future food supply. using the BBC film "A farm for the future". An interesting evening was enjoyed by a small audience at St Joseph's church hall. Mike Amos a local organic farmer who helps organise the monthly farmers market gave a valuable insight into many of the issues raised.
25 July
Portishead Flower Show 
Transition Portishead had a stall at the Flower Show. Many people stopped to discuss the issues of Climate Change and Peak Oil with us.