Minstead Study Centre community courses
total project costs £8,220
SDF Grant £6,165 (75% of total)
Work between MInstead Study Centre and New Forest Transition has identified a number of areas where local people require new skills training to live a low carbon lifestyle. The Transition Towns movement is a powerful social movement that recognises the need for a move to a sustainable way of living. One of the side effects of recent decades is that many people no longer have the skills that older generations learned from their parents, skills such as how to grow and cook your own food have not been passed on because mass commercial provision has simply taken its place. The Transition Towns thinking is that when energy prices increase substantially, such commercial provision may well be threatened and people need to prepare themselves for moving towards a more self-sufficient lifestyle. This is termed ‘re-skilling’ – to build resilience in people and communities to better cope with a need for living with less fossil fuel energy. The SDF has provided some ‘springboard’ funding to enable Minstead Study Centre to launch a programme of community re-skilling courses.
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