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On Sunday 6 July we had our first meeting of the Temporary Initiating Hub at Kerry St Community School garden. Allen, Alix, Ryan, Joelle and me showed up, and we welcomed 2 new members - Damien and Maria.

In the photo, taken in the community garden area, are from L to R: Allen Caetano, Damien Gerard, Joelle Gerard, Alix Frew, Ryan Hedley and Maria Nazar-Daza.

It was great to get to know each other better over some delicious soup that Allen cooked. Allen showed us over the school's community garden area which is being developed under a "Community Kitchen Grant". The school has already had a rainwater tank fitted thanks to a grant from the Water Corporation.

We discussed ideas and strategies for our first task as a Hub which is to help each other with "Awareness Raising" (download the Transition Initiatives Primer and then look from page 40 on) in each of our local communities (following the Transition Towns model). Basically this involves newspaper editorials and articles, film nites with community discussion time built in, radio interviews, presentations at community meetings and such.

We are currently organizing the setting up of a "library" of films that can be used to raise awareness about transition issues. We have also been in contact with the Transition Towns network in the hope of further inspiration and support.