Southend-on-Sea in Transition

See here for the full programme of events.

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From: Leonie Ramondt

Hi folks,

As people who are variously passionate about Chelmsford’s; creativity, community, social change, culture, sustainability and heritage, I’d like to invite you to two events that can help grow our local economy significantly.

The first is the ebarts social currency event. Imagine if we could mobilise even a fraction of the skills lost to us due to a depressed economy let alone enable unemployed people, pensioners, carers and students to supplement their income and /or start up their own enterprises.

the ebarts event at lunchtime on thurs the 23rd of October will give us the opportunity to explore whether this is possible. If this is of interest, please register via this link and/or please circulate the information to people who might be interested.
http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ebarts-the-social-currency-tickets-12458203823

For those of us interested in community enterprise, the Community Land Trust event at the Ideas Hub is an opportunity to hear about an initiative that points towards how we might work together to make a real difference.

I was aware when the Marconi railway site was sold in 2012, that it was an amazing opportunity lost to community, because we didn’t have the active network to take advantage of it. Clearly the time wasn’t right. However, the linked 3 minute video shows an initiative in Totness that shows how people are working together to enhance their local economy http://atmostotnes.org/the-project/

Again, if you would like to attend, it would help our planning if you could register please and also please invite anyone who you think might be interested..
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/community-land-trusts-getting-the-right-kind-of-development-tickets-12318136879

Many thanks,

Leonie

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The Ideas Festival 2014 Theme is Create!

Date: 20th October to the 2nd of November

The Festival is a Changing Chelmsford Initiative

creativity | collaboration | community

View and download the programme from

www.changingchelmsford.org/if2014

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You can see some of the highlights from last year’s festival:

http://www.changingchelmsford.org/preparing-2014-ideas-festival/

The Ideas Hub

http://www.ideashubchelmsford.org/

Twitter: @IdeasHubChelms

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