‘Water is Love’ film screening
‘Water is Love’ film screening In collaboration with Parade Cinema, we are delighted to be screening “Water is Love” on March 12th at 5pm with three short talks to follow. To welcome you, there will be a complimentary drink to enjoy thanks to Ramsbury brewery. ‘Resilience’ is an important word in so many ways in 2026. To put ‘Community’ in front of it takes on a vital meaning. Community Resilience has been at the heart of everything Transition Marlborough has done for the last 15 years, and continues to do. Flowing through the heart of our community is the precious chalk stream of the River Kennet, shaping and crafting our unique local landscape. The river’s health and wellbeing define the sustainability and resilience of our environs. As climate disruption increasingly affects our local patterns of rainfall, we must strengthen our local resilience to both flood and drought in the coming years. Transition Marlborough and ARK share a passion for exploring how, through protecting the health of the River Kennet, we can improve Community Resilience. We thought to look outward to promote discussion of this crucial topic by arranging a screening of this enchanting and thought-provoking film. It follows a group of young people in their quest to learn about regenerative responses to the climate crisis. The film invites us all to re-frame our own responses and to see through the lens of water, and the complex nature of the large and small water cycles that sustain all life on earth. Following the film you’ll hear three short presentations. First from Erika Peklanska, a UWE PhD student working with Marlborough community members to find creative ways to share both data and storytelling to improve community flood resilience. Then from Charlotte Hitchmough about ARK‘s work with the town council to install rain planters and rain gardens in the town to slow down surges of storm water that can overwhelm the river. Then you’ll hear from Rich Pitts and Milly Carmichael from Transition Marlborough about how the group have been involved with both projects and now aim to make the community garden at Marlborough’s community fridge into a showcase for water-wise gardening practices that people can replicate at home. Discussions will continue in the Parade Tent afterwards. Water Is Love at The Parade Cinema in Marlborough Tickets are £12.50 with concessions available. Back to Blog
A Community Fridge for Marlborough…coming soon
A Community Fridge is a large fridge that is open for the whole community to use – pretty much as simple as that.
Buzzing down the Bee Roadzz
Our four key project aims:
Raising awareness of bees and their predicament. Encouraging everyone to contribute, however they can, to join up the landscape by creating more pollinator-friendly forage and nesting habitat. Actively contributing to national insect monitoring schemes. Creating a replicable model of effective community-based response to the National Pollinator Strategy.
Permaculture – new heart of Transition Marlborough
New Permaculture Course Starting in March! It has taken the team a bit of time to get this new website started but its starting to take shape… The objective is to make the running of a website as easy as possible for the team and as connected as possible. The 12 principles of permaculture most commonly referred to are first described by David Holmgren in his book Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability (2002). They include: Observe and Interact, Catch and Store Energy, Obtain a Yield, Apply Self Regulation and Accept Feedback, Use and Value Renewable Resources and Services, Produce No Waste, Design From Patterns to Details, Integrate Rather Than Segregate, Use Small and Slow Solutions, Use and Value Diversity, Use Edges and Value the Marginal, and Creatively Use and Respond to Change. We are going to attempt to apply these principles to the project of our website. For example, ” Use and Value Renewable Resources and Services”, we create a post here that automatically gets posted to our facebook and twitter accounts. So, Rich Pitts is today setting this out as the Permaculture group begin their 2019 course. Back to Blog