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Sustainable Merton

Sustainable Merton is a community led initiative which gives local residents, organisations and businesses the chance to stimulate practical action. The aim is to make our area a sustainable community at a time of peak oil and climate change.

Some of our activities are:

• Giving talks and screening films on sustainability, peak oil and climate change ; and running stalls at local events and fairs to publicise our aims.
• Working with local organisations, for example our joint partnership with the LB Merton and Groundwork London in the Low Carbon Zone project in Mitcham, funded by the Mayor of London.
• Promoting local food production with a community garden allotment at Phipps Bridge. We use this to take gardening lessons into schools and help them and local people to develop their own allotments.
• Supporting Transition Town Wimbledon, the Merton Schools Eco Forum and the National Trust with their forthcoming ‘Living Green Centre’.

We produce a quarterly newsletter for supporters.

Transition Town Wimbledon

Transition Town Wimbledon aims to prepare the town for the twin challenges, and opportunities, of peak oil and climate change.

TTW is an autonomous arm of Sustainable Merton that is rapidly expanding its portfolio of activities and projects. Part of the international Transition Towns movement, it was formed after Wimbledon's Odeon cinema hosted the UK's best-attended showing of the film The Age of Stupid in 2009.

Highlights so far include:

• Hosting the first London showing of 'In Transition 1.0: The Transition Towns Film' at Bishop Gilpin School.
• 'Rethinking Wimbledon' in March 2010, TTW's first major public engagement event.
• Forming the Wimbledon Food Group, to bring more local land into food production.
• Forming the Wimbledon Energy Group, to raise awareness on peak oil and take practical action on energy consumption.

Get in touch with TTW at ttwimbledon@yahoo.co.uk. TTW also maintains a page on Project Dirt, south London's green networking and events website.

Office

Sustainable Merton opened an office in August 2010, in the Old Boiler House at Morden Hall Park. We thank the National Trust for their kind co-operation in this venture.

It is in front of the Trust's forthcoming 'Living Green Centre' in the old Stables, which is being built with money from the European Commission.

Contact Sustainable Merton

If you have any questions, suggestions or ideas you want help with, or to take them forward, or if you would like to get involved in projects as they develop, call 020 3417 0476 (office) or 07779 879091 (mobile)

SM Office, The Old Boiler House, Morden Hall Park, Morden Hall Rd, SM4 5JD

E-mail: sustainablemerton@googlemail.com

Comments on the website should go to garethsimkins@yahoo.co.uk.

Sustainable Merton is a registered charity, No.1123041.