Please consider coming to this one day gathering.
Please register here for catering purposes Transition Gathering 5th October. or use the QR code above.
If you are bringing children, please email transitionliverpool@gmail.com with the number and age of your child/children. NB. We are buying kits for each child to use on the day and we need to order them in advance.
Transition Liverpool Gathering, Saturday 5th October 2024
Retrofitting Liverpool: warm homes for all
Programme for the day:
10.00am Welcome and introductions – Anna Aiston on behalf of Liverpool Quaker Meeting.
The morning sessions will be co-ordinated by Tilly Postlethwaite, Transition Liverpool Lead.
10.15am Retrofitting your Liverpool home – Margaret Smith will give an illustrated talk about some of the things we can do to keep our homes warm this winter. This talk focuses at the level of the individual.
This will be in three sections:
- Easy steps we can all take to keep warm
- Intermediate steps we can take to reduce heat loss
- A few things we can all aspire to if we get the chance.
The talk will finish with information about a house in Liverpool that has been extensively retrofitted.
10.40am Granby Streets ground source heat pump – Ed Gommon of Zero Carbon Liverpool City Region Ltd., who will share his successful experience in securing funding for a feasibility study. This study aims to install a ground source heat pump for part of a local community – two streets in Liverpool’s Granby area. This innovative project could serve as a blueprint for other communities seeking to provide carbon-neutral, cost-effective energy to their neighbourhoods. Ed, a founding member of the Granby Four Streets Community Land Trust, also established Liverpool Community Renewables (LCR) in 2014. LCR is a community-benefit society, and Ed assembled a robust board comprising local experts in the field.
11.00am Three Horizons framework part 1 – Creating our vision for a Sustainable, Inclusive, Just and Equitable Future for Liverpool City Region.
The three horizons process provides a structure for us as a group to think about how to move from the confines of how things are now to collaborate with others to create a picture of the system you want to build in order to create a better world. The task then is to focus on what may be needed to bring about that new system.
In part one of this process, we will explain the process and begin this journey together.
Coffee tea and biscuits will be served at tables at around 11.00am.
12.00pm Growing Sudley CIC: Using sustainable materials – Su Stringfellow, an architect from Stringfellow Associates will talk about the work she has done to retrofit the former changing facilities at Growing Sudley. This was a project where a team of people were trained in the skills of using hempcrete, a carbon neutral rendering material to reduce the loss of heat from the building. She will touch on the benefits of using a group of local people and giving them new skills for the future.
This presentation will be particularly valuable for those dealing with older poorly insulated structures that consider external insulation.
12.25pm Homebaked Community Land Trust – This is a growing group of local residents who have been working together since 2012 to shape their place of residence and work upon community ownership. The short video gives a glimpse of the way they have involved the whole community in reimagining their area and what it would need to be a happier, healthier and warmer community. Their approach is based on the principle that “…we all deserve to live well; for us that means making sure that the homes and spaces we create together are high quality and kept affordable to the people who live and work here – not just now, but also for future generations”. They also believe that living well includes access to an environment that provides good jobs, great food, and welcoming spaces to meet, share stories, learn, and celebrate.
They believe that “By regenerating our high street ‘brick by brick and loaf by loaf,’ they will be using money spent in the neighbourhood to benefit their community.
12.50pm The children’s group will bring their sustainable architecture and let us know what they have learned.
1.00pm The lunch will be a choice of vegan stews with rice and roast potatoes followed by fruit crumbles and custard.
1.30pm Stalls with information about retrofitting,
These will include information about:
- Available grants
- Samples of internal and external cladding Carl Hammond, from Hempcrete Homes will also bring a sample of the materials used to make Hempcrete.
- A chance to find out about grant funding and talk with Sam East, one of our local Councillors
2.15pm Three Horizons framework part 2 – Glimpses of the future in the present.
Continuing our journey: creating a realistic vision for a Sustainable, Inclusive, Just and Equitable Future for our region.
3.30pm Plenary – At 3.45 we will be joined by the children’s group who will talk about the things they have made during the afternoon.
4.00pm Close.
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