A local initiative creating a thriving, sustainable community in the face of rising oil prices and climate change.

Transition initiatives seek practical local solutions to these unavoidable truths. And in the process of meeting these global challenges, we develop sustainable local communities.

Thousands of communities around the world have become or are becoming Transition initiatives. Communities work together to find local solutions. Join us to ensure that South Ribble becomes connected, resilient and thriving.

In South Ribble we want to embrace the Transition approach by becoming Connected:

• To each other; our communities, other Transition towns and our neighbours;
• To our land, local resources and skills and thus our future.

We want to become Resilient:

• To Climate Change, finding multiple ways to lower our personal and community carbon footprints;
• To Peak Oil, finding ways to maintain economic and social stability as the availability of fossil fuels begins to decline;
• To Economic Contraction, finding ways to live abundant lives whilst living within our means.

We want to make plans and take practical steps to see our communities Thriving:

• Local food production as well as local textile and clothing creation;
• Re-skilling our people;
• Low carbon and carbon-free transport networks;
• Local and low carbon energy solutions, sustainable housing and workplaces;
• Education that prepares our children positively for imminent changes;
• And so many more positive, enjoyable yet necessary activities to ensure that our local communities are prepared for a future in a changing world.

We are currently showing films, working on projects and developing ideas across the borough in Leyland, Penwortham, Bamber Bridge and the wider area.

This website has been made possible thanks to the funding received from South Ribble Partnership