A big thank you to everyone who participated in the local Greenredeem scheme and donated points to Ealing Transition to buy more trees and bushes for its community orchard at Lammas Park Enclosure. We are delighted to announce that we have now reached our target of £1000 and are excited about using this money to expand the orchard.

Ealing’s locally sourced ethical veg box scheme, Edible Ealing, has been operated by the same group of volunteers for the past four years. Despite gaining a huge amount from the experience the volunteers feel it is time to hand over the reins to a new group or individual who can move the scheme on to its next incarnation.

The work involves sourcing, growing, selecting, ordering and marketing a profitable sustainable organic whole food business. You are also helping the community to look at food in a new and exciting way, and enabling a move away from processed supermarket produce towards locally sourced foodstuffs and vegetables.

 We currently operate fortnightly so the time commitment is approx. 3/4 days over a 14 day period. If you feel you can commit to ordering, packing, accounting and marketing this exciting project please contact us by email or visit Edible Ealing Box Scheme for more information.

Despite wet weather in London on November 29th, there was a buoyant atmosphere in the run-up to the Paris climate talks as 40,000 people marched through the streets against climate change. Sarah McAdam, Transition Network’s delivery director, describes the march as a highlight of the COP21 fortnight, in which representatives from nearly 200 countries worked together to establish a global target.

‘We’ve never had a universal statement like this before – one in which almost all the governments of the world acknowledge the urgency and seriousness of the challenge we face and the impact already being felt by many of the poorest communities around the world. It feels like a huge shift in the way climate change is discussed and one which gives us a platform on which we can continue to build.’