We want to start a Transition Town initiative

There's no active TT group in New Plymouth at the moment, which I'm planning to revive, but we do have an email group. I think its important to have a New Plymouth contact on the map, and I'm happy to be listed.

Hi James,

We would like to add Ashhurst and the Pohangina Valley as a Transition Town group with web site http://recap.org.nz. Contact is info@recap.org.nz. I've asked before without response and just let it go, but just today I've had a round-about contact from someone trying to locate a group in the general area who I believe had looked here first so I thought I'd try again to list us.

By the way, we have already met most of the criteria for official status. The exception is #8. It may remain an exception for us unless someone happens along with that passion. #13 would always have to be on a case by case basis. Which adds up to saying that our first commitments are to our local community and while we have constitutional flexibility to cooperate broadly (and have traveled to other groups to do so), we don't have a constitutional mandate that takes us beyond our local area. Also, this isn't listed as a requirement in the criteria, but it's worth mentioning that we also don't have the words "Transition Town" in our constitution as the label isn't very important to anyone involved. Still, it's what we're doing, what we designed our constitution around, and we do use the term in some of our local publications.

It would be nice to meet you sometime if you are ever traveling southwards. I know Laurence Boomert is keen to have a meet-up at the Turangi permaculture thing in April, which RECAP will probably have a representative at. Will you be there? My husband enjoyed your conversation at the LE AGM a couple of years ago. We have not yet gotten our currency off the ground. My initial hopes have failed, or I have failed them, I'm ashamed to say. But we have a lot in place for the currency, a growing number of people with various forms of involvement and commitment, and we are watching and waiting for opportunities.

Cheers,

Sharon
RECAP Chair