It's official...

The following communities have been officially designated Transition Towns (or cities, districts, villages and even a forest!)

To join them, you'll need to work on the checklist items in the list of criteria. These should tell you whether you're ready to embark on this journey, or whether there are a few initial things left to be done or considered.

We've introduced this slightly more formal approach to registering Transition Towns/villages for a couple of key reasons:

  • Our trustees and funders want to make sure that while we actively nurture embrionic projects, we only promote to "official" status those communities we feel are ready to move into the awareness raising stage. This status confers additional levels of support such as speakers, trainings, wiki and forums that we're currently rolling out
  • In order to establish coordinated programmes (such as combined funding bids to the National Lottery) we need a formally established category of Transition Initiatives that we're fully confident can support and deliver against such programmes.
  • We've seen at least one community stall because they didn't have the right mindset or a suitable group of people, and didn't really understand what they were letting themselves in for.

There are quite a lot more communities thinking hard about whether they're ready for this journey.

Who's next...?

In date order

  1. Totnes, England
  2. Penwith, England
  3. Kinsale, Ireland
  4. Ivybridge, England
  5. Falmouth, England
  6. Moretonhampstead, England
  7. Lewes, England
  8. Stroud, England
  9. Ashburton, England
  10. Ottery St. Mary, England
  11. Bristol, England
  12. Brixton, England
  13. Forest Row, England
  14. Mayfield, England
  15. Glastonbury, England
  16. Lostwithiel, England
  17. Forest of Dean, England
  18. Nottingham, England
  19. Wrington, England
  20. Brighton&Hove, England
  21. Portobello, Scotland
  22. Market Harborough, England
  23. Sunshine Coast, Australia
  24. West Kirby, England
  25. Llandeilo, Wales
  26. Bro Ddyfi, Wales
  27. Whitstable, England
  28. Marsden & Slaithwaite, England
  29. Frome, England
  30. Brampton, England
  31. Isle of Wight, England
  32. Waiheke Island, New Zealand
  33. Orewa, New Zealand
  34. Dunbar, Scotland
  35. Rhayader, Wales
  36. Seaton, England
  37. Bath, England
  38. Exeter, England
  39. Isle of Man
  40. Canterbury, England
  41. Kapiti District, New Zealand
  42. Carbon Neutral Biggar, a Transition Town
  43. Presteigne
  44. Wolverton
  45. Leicester
  46. Holywood
  47. Westcliff-on-Sea
  48. Isles of Scilly
  49. Liverpool South
  50. Norwich
  51. Tring
  52. Crediton
  53. Boulder, CO, USA
  54. Howe
  55. Lampeter
  56. South Petherton

By Country

  1. Tring