A Busy Year for ADAPT

Audlem and District Acting Positively for Transition (ADAPT) Group has now started its 7th year. It began with a group of folk concerned about the global and local way that we human beings were affecting our planet by our life style. The feeling was that this was just not sustainable for the future and our children and children's children will suffer the effects. The dependency on fossil fuels and the adverse effects on our global climate as well as the desire to see more control over the food we eat and the desire to see a more sustainable (in the non-political sense of the word) community were some of the issues which drew the group together.

The Paris Climate Change Meeting will be dominating our headlines shortly but sometimes these global discussions may seem to be beyond us. Our aim all along has been to seek ways in which, albeit in small ways, we locally can make a difference. This we seek to do through our action groups who report each month to our main meeting. This meeting is also an opportunity to keep informed of the latest developments and to decide on new initiatives. Here is a review of the last year.

Membership

At the end of October 2015 there were 23 people on the mailing list and 20 had completed a Membership Application form for insurance purposes.
The group were much saddened by the death of Susan James, one of the original members of the group.

Monthly Meetings

The monthly meeting continued to be held in the Baptist Chapel Hall Room. As well as receiving reports from the action groups , the monthly meeting has also included a series of presentations on Food related subjects: "Incredible Edibles" project of Market Drayton, "Bees" and "Pollination" and Energy subjects: "Heat Pumps" and "LED Lighting". These were all interesting and well presented evenings.
Other subjected and issues discussed at monthly meetings included: ADAPT Membership and Core Values; online ADAPT library; TTIP's; Government Green Agenda; Fracking; Climate Change Meeting.
ADAPT was registered with Cheshire East as a Food Business.

Energy Group

Subjects and issues covered involved: energy efficient at Public Hall annex; solar park at Hatherton; domestic solar energy and efficiency; Fracking; Changing Government energy policy; LED Lighting.
The Energy pages on the Online cloud have been updated with details of Solar Energy.

Transport Group

The principles projects of the group have been: installing of cycle racks in the village; preparing of a cycle route map for the area;
It has also discussed and acted upon: cycles on trains; cycle racks at Public Hall; bus stop information; Bridgemere Lane planning; a transport vision statement for Audlem.

Food Group

The Group was active in and discussed: Saturday Stall during the summer at the Lord Combemere car park; monthly recipes for Audlem Online; stall at Audlem carnival, Hankelow Fete and RNLI Marina Festival ; Garden visits; Apple Pressing event; Homemade Christmas event; Food Business registration and labelling; participation in the Woore horticultural show; the purchase of apple press and crusher and a gazebo.

Lock 15 Gardeners

This group was established during the year as an ADAPT group. The group has officially "Adopted" the land adjacent to Lock15 with Canal & River Trust. The aim is to provide plots for the growing of vegetables, fruit and companion flowers; enhance the area environmentally and provide a welcome to the village for visitors especially boaters.

Annual General Meeting

On Wednesday 2nd December at 7.30p.m. at the Baptist Chapel Hall Room we will be holding our AGM when we will review our year and activities and set out some markers for next year. If you are interested you are welcome to join us to see whether you might wish to share in our activities.

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