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Soundart Radio – Every Child Has A Voice
REEL have teamed up with Soundart Radio to create a series of programmes about renewable energy, made by children and for children. Soundart have launched a new children's programme/workshop called 'Every Child has a Voice'. It is a kids club for 6-12 year olds...
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Totnes Community Development Society
Find out more about the TCDS's new membership opportunity at Tresoc's AGM. Also giving a short presentation on the night, Mark Burton from the Totnes Community Development Society [TCDS] will talk about the exciting new developments that, as a local...
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AGM 2018
AGM 14TH November 2018, 7-9pm Royal Seven Stars, Totnes Guest Speaker – Guy Watson Riverford Organics’ Founder and Farmer At this year’s AGM we’re celebrating our 11th year with guest speaker Guy Watson who’ll be talking about Ownership – is it time...
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Staverton Hydro
Planning Submitted to Restore Hydro Power to Town Mills, Staverton Leat On the 10th October Staverton Hydro Community Benefit Society [SHCBS] submitted a planning application to South Hams District Council to install a 100 kW Hydro Turbine on the Leat at Staverton....
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#FollowtheMoney
Through 10th September to the 5th October, The Charity Bank is running a Follow The Money campaign [#FollowTheMoney]. Tresoc were delighted to be invited to be a part of this, meeting up with the Charity Bank on the first day of their campaign on a visit to Totnes. As...
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The 3rd Annual Archimedes Screw Fest
The 3rd Annual Archimedes Screw Fest Totnes Weir Event date: 6th October 2018 Time: 10am-4pm Admission: Free Join us to celebrate the River Dart and its most spectacular new landmark – the twin turbines of the Totnes Weir hydropower scheme. We’ll be celebrating the...
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A Vote for Innovation
We were overwhelmed by the support for the transition to a permanently open share-offer. We received 120 ‘yes’ votes and no ‘no’ votes. Voting closed on Saturday 1st September. A move to a permanently open share-offer would give our members quicker access to their...
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Learn how to Generate Renewable Energy from Goats Poop!
‘Walk & Talks’ Old Parsonage Farm, Dartington 19th September – 1pm / 3.30pm / 5.30pm ….. Join tenant farmer Jon Perkin and the Tresoc team down on the farm to discover how a 100kW anaerobic digester on the Dartington estate could process farm yard manures...
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Community Energy Fortnight 2018
Community Energy Fortnight 2018 will be celebrating the energised communities who are tenaciously generating and saving energy, fighting fuel poverty, improving their local environment, reducing carbon emissions and innovating the energy system. The fight against climate change is people powered!
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Goats’ dung could give farm renewable power
A green project to power Dartington with dung has been give a £18,000 grant to fund a feasibility study. The study will look at how to set up a 100kW anaerobic digester producing energy from farmyard manure at Old Parsonage Farm on the...
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Staverton Hydro Public Meeting
Oral Histories of Staverton Leat
A collection of oral histories was gathered over the summer of 2017 by Tresoc intern, Lawrie Swinnen-Styles. Here are two personal accounts from two local families: the Amhersts who currently live in the old mill house and where the proposed new archimedes turbines...
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