Transition Town Rhayader & District

The Transition Town initiative helps bring local communities together to find ways of coping with the challenges and opportunities of climate
change and the inevitable decreasing
availability of cheap oil.

In Mid Wales, the small market town of Rhayader and its surrounding villages is part of this growing grass-roots movement where people like you get involved and make things happen.  There are Transition Towns throughout Wales, England and Ireland and now all over the world.

By bringing the community together we can gain experience, information and inspiration from all.
Joining us means you will be helping all of us find ways to produce, distribute and consume the basic essentials of daily life, so that national resources can be better directed towards producing what cannot be made
available locally.

Becoming a more sustainable community will be challenging but we aim to influence the direction of change so that our lives are enriched and a secure future is protected for the next generation.

What can you do?

Click on the options in the side bar for ideas to help you develop your own approach to dealing with both climate change and oil and gas decline in six areas of your life.

For more information on Transition Town Rhayader & District or the Transition movement in general or to find out how you can become part of this exciting movement click here.

Transition Town Rhayader & District

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Transition Town Rhayader & District sprang from a meeting of like minded souls in June 2007 and we are delighted to be the 36th town in the world to be officially in transition.

We have probably developed in much the same way as a lot of transitions towns, which is to have a huge initial meeting followed by a slow ‘drop off’ and refinement of input until we became a serious core of dedicated, talented and skilled members who are committed to taking the movement forward.

Transition Town Rhayader & District is one of three Low Carbon Communities in Powys who have funding for a Project Worker and a Community owned energy scheme.  We’re going with Hydro and have identified six possible sites which could supply a huge amount of energy to the grid and give the town and district a regular income to further low carbon work.  As well as developing one of these sites, we will be overseeing and funding the installation of solar thermal panels and several other sustainable improvements at the Old School Community Centre in Cwmdauddwr as part of it’s refurbishment.

To help individuals in their own homes, we have three trained home energy surveyors who can visit you, on invitation, to survey your energy use, give advice on how to be more efficient and calculate your household’s C02 emissions.

We are also working in partnership with Domestic and General Insulations to ensure that all communities in Rhayader and District have the opportunity to review their current insulation levels and improve them where appropriate with the help of grants.

Each year in early July at the beginning of carnival week we hold a Green Fair. The fair has been going from strength to strength each year and 2010 promises to be even more exciting. We are planning workshops and speakers well in advance of the day to ensure we attract a wide range of inputs and talents.

For more information on Transition Town Rhayader & District or the Transition movement in general or to find out how you can become part of this exciting movement click here.