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General contact for The Skills Exchange:- Nicky 07751156609, npa_butler@yahoo.com

There are programmes in the Treehouse for distribution.  Thankyou!

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CHUTNEY MAKING - SUNDAY 5th October
2-5pm, Quaker Hall, Penparcau
A guided group session of making apple chutney.  Learn one of the most foolproof ways to use surplus fruit and veg, and take some chutney home too! Contact: Chloe 07966 018 062 chloe.ena@hotmail.co.uk

MEDITATION - TUESDAY 7th October
7-9pm, Quaker Hall, Penparcau
An informal class.  Learn a technique that will slowly bring who you are, and the world, to light.  Meeting a fundamental need;  to know it’s OK to be here.

TOOL MENDING WORKSHOP - SUNDAY 12th October
7-9pm, Quaker Hall, Penparcau
An informal class.  Learn a technique that will slowly bring who you are, and the world, to light.  Meeting a fundamental need;  to know it’s OK to be here.

HAVE A HOMEBREW! - SATURDAY 18th October
5pm, 10 St James’ Mews (behind the Angel Inn)
An experience for absolute amateurs to ‘have a go’. Taste real homebrew and take part in brewing a new batch.  All participants get a free bottle of the new beer!

BICYCLE SERVICING - SUNDAY 19th October
2-5pm, CRAFT (on railway station)
Bring your bike for an evening with Brian and John.  Dealing with preventative maintenance; minor repairs; choosing the right bicycle; riding position, and choosing the right components to acheive this.

KNITTING - every Thursday (almost), 7pm, The Orangery.  Contact: Keren, 01970 625079

FORAGING GROUP - willing to go on foraging walks when weather permits!  Contact Cath on 07863123199.

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The Skills Exchange

A strange concept with simple aims:
* Re-discovering basic, everyday skills across the generations that have almost been lost
* ‘Re-skilling’ for self-reliance, self-esteem, and socialising
* The Skills Exchange avoids membership and obligation; come to as many or few sessions as you want, and suggest your own ideas and venues for the next programme.

Transition Town Aberystwyth is launching its Garden Exchange Scheme from 2 to 4 pm on Saturday 11th October in the Friends Meeting House, Maes Maelor, Penparcau. The idea of the Scheme is to bring together people who would like to grow vegetables but have no garden with those who have garden space but aren’t cultivating it for one reason or another.

Rob Newman’s History of Oil

Wednesday 1st October, 7 pm Morlan

1. Housing sub-group to meet as soon as practicable, and to re-visit original plans.

2. Active participation and support for the Aberystwyth Area Community Land Trust in developing affordable and sustainable housing for local people, to include provision of allotments and low carbon buildings. CAT have offered free places on training courses for this group. (Gill
Ogden)

3. A leaflet with a simple check-list of user friendly ways to make a home energy efficient to be published and distributed. (Sam Saville?)

4. A check-list for landlords on energy efficiency with a rating to be provided for tenants.

5. ‘Drop in’ energy use surgeries to be commissioned, possibly using the Penparcau Communities First office and other venues. (Dylan Lewis)

6. Participation in community events, to target ‘hard to reach’ individuals within the community.

7. An audit of households to be conducted by questionnaire (Sophie Wynne-Jones)

8. Eco-build help-out sessions, learn on the job, at sites in Pembrokeshire at the end of June. (Sophie Wynne-Jones)

Contacts: Gill Ogden: ggo@aber.ac.uk Dylan Lewis: Lewisdylan@yahoo.com

NATURE’S GARDEN PARTY - Saturday 14th June, 2pm At Tom’s house, 31 Maes Maelor, Penparcau (call Tom on 07968086371 to find it) Informal open garden, meet friendly chickens, collect cuttings and seeds from native medicinal and culinary plants. Bring food/drink to share.

BIKE WEEK PREPARATIONS! - Sunday 15th June, 1-4pm venue TBC. Bicycle repair and maintenance, with expert/goodwill assistance! Good time to prepare for the ride to Cardiff www.grwpbeic.org.uk

REMEDIAL HERBS - Tuesday 17th June, 7-9pm, Treehouse Discussion with Danielle Marsden about common and less familiar herbs, their classifications, culinary and medical properties, and how to go about doses and decotations. Bring your own knowledge and herbs, where applicable.

TOOL MENDING - Sunday 29th June, 2.30pm, Eco-Art studios, 13A Portland Road.
Peter Drake will again demonstrate and assist with the sharpening and mending of common household gardening tools. Bring yours along that need shaping up, from scissors to secoteurs, shears, and loppers. it is likely there will be spare handles available for spades, sledgehammers etc.
Remember to wear hard shoes!

If you would be interested to help with dry stone walling as part of Estate Skills activities on CCW sites, call Peter for information on 01970 820441, as places are limited.

KNITTING CONTINUES - Orangery, every Thursday (as long as they are open) from 7pm.
Join us for a chat and knit over a coffee/beer/pizza.

We also have MAKE-N-MEND at the Eco-Art this Sunday, 2.30pm - it is on Portland Road, number 13A, and will be marked so you’ll spot it. Bring your clothing casualties.

Thankyou for all the help and positive feedback so far. If you can help out with the publicity, please pop into the Treehouse and pick up some flyers. Contact Nicky npa_butler@yahoo.com

PRESENTATION:
• Lotte WILL have English powerpoint presentation to presnt at next meeting on 7 July.
• Simon Rodway will help and translate into Welsh
• Simon to organise Welsh presentation with help from (hopefully) Mark Strong, Simon Thomas, Cynog Dafys plus UMCA (Welsh Students’ Union). Target date Sep/October when students are back.

TARGET GROUPS (If anybody has contacts within these groups, please contact Lotte)
• Young farmers, CFU, County Council, Town Council (Alec Dauncey will organise invitation), Planners (incl. Master Plan Steering group), Chamber of Commerce, Landlords & Tenants associations, Schools, Hospital, University

Additional education/awareness raising points:
• Sophie Wynne-Jones will organise TTAber info stall for Freshers’ Fayre in Sep/Oct
• Nicky Butler will work on getting an ‘action box’ ofready for quick assembly stalls. Away till July.
• Nicky will lead on the ‘Edible Schools garden Project’.
• Sophie will incorporate TTAber into Ceredigion schools groups outdoor activities.
• Peter Unger is in charge of the documentary film club (and a public talks series). This is due to start up again in September. Should be promoted through Freshers’ Fayre. Sophie and Simon to help.
• Simon Rodway & Nest Howells offered help with translation - please give then reasonable time!
• Bob Shaw will lead on big TTAber event at Plas Crug, similar to previous FoE events

IF YOU WANT TO GET INVOLVED WITH REALLY DOIING STUFF, PLEASE GET IN TOUCH WITH ACTIVITY LEADERS VIA LOTTE lotte.reimer@btinternet.com

Matchmaking gardens and gardeners: People who have more land than they need or can manage and people who want to gardens Contact chloe.ena@hotmail.co.uk . We will keep an up to date list and put put people in touch

1. Campaign for cycle lanes and bikes on public transport

 (a) Critical Mass bike ride on the last Friday of every month, meeting 6 p.m. outside the Glengower Hotel on the seafront, see http://www.grwpbeic.org.uk/ for dates and downloadable poster/flyer. The ride is a fun, not physically taxing, and a friendly invitation to everyone in Aberystwyth, particularly drivers, to support the campaign for cycle lanes. There is always the opportunity for a Transport Group meeting after the ride if anyone has something to discuss and wants to convene it.
(b) Bike Week Carbon Cycle: A ride from Machylleth to the Senedd in Cardiff to present a petition to the Welsh Assembly Government. The ride is organised by the Welsh Youth Forum on Sustainable Development, Scouts, Woodcraft Folk and Grwp Beic Aberystwyth. See http://www.bikeweek.org.uk/  Contact Kelvin kjm04@aber.ac.uk  or Sophie svw05@aber.ac.uk , Tel: 01970 622 610

2. Biodiesel (recycled)

 We have a bilingual technical brief on using recycled biodiesel and can arrange delivery from Sundance Renewables for anyone interested, Contact Sophie svw05@aber.ac.uk, Tel: 01970 622 610 or Kelvin kjm04@aber.ac.uk

Digwyddiad syn cael ei ymroi I hadau lleol, prin, ac etifeddol: Cyfnewid hadau, siaradwyr & stondinau, bwyd, cerddoriaeth, C & A, hwyl ir plant.

24 Chwefror 2008
10.30 – 16.00

Community Hall
Heol Maengwyn
Neuadd Gymunadd
Machynlleth