About us

Transition Town Totnes is a grassroots community-led organisation working for over 20 years creating and empowering projects to strengthen our local economy, improve community wellbeing and inspire positive change towards a thriving future for Totnes and the surrounding area. Our projects focus on bringing people together with practical, local, community action.

Some projects are longstanding and play a key role in the town, such as Incredible Edible which enables local food growing in community spaces for all to share, and the Totnes Climate Hub which provides a space for people to connect, share knowledge and discover practical ways to take climate action. We also manage the Reconomy Centre, a coworking space for local enterprises and acts as an incubator and catalyst for local entrepreneurs.

Some of our work are periodic projects that focus on key opportunities in the town, such as 30×30 which supports efforts to protect and restore nature, helping to create space for biodiversity to flourish. Recently we have worked with Liflad CIC on Devon Grows Flax, a project reconnecting and embedding flax growing and processing in Devon.

Doing Transition successfully is about finding a balance between these: The Head: we act on the basis of the best information and evidence available and apply our collective intelligence to find better ways of living. The Heart: we work with compassion, valuing and paying attention to the emotional, psychological, relational and social aspects of the work we do. The Hands: we turn our vision and ideas into a tangible reality, initiating practical projects and starting to build a new, healthy economy in the place we live.

As a grassroots organisation our work is always growing and adapting, and there are often new events, workshops and community activities on our website. We welcome everyone to get involved, whether by joining a project, attending an event, sharing skills or ideas, or simply finding out more about what is happening locally.