Just a quick post to publicise Falmouth & Penryn Resilience Web and revitalised Community Alive Falmouth projects.

Transition Falmouth has always looked to work with other local community groups and share information and resources.

You may have noticed that, as a relatively recent member, we link to the Resilience Web project under “Affiliations” on our sidebar along with Transition Network.

Resilience Web

This excellent web directory project was initiated by several groups in Cambridge (including their Transition group) and it launched 3 years ago with the remit of:

Empowering place-based community action. A Resilience Web is a holistic visualisation of environmental and social justice groups in a place, curated by people who live there. These webs help foster discovery, collaboration and networking between activists and groups.

Some of the TF team attended one of the Resilience Web project‘s introductory zooms early last year, and subsequently, with other local groups and activists, decided to collaborate in setting up the Falmouth & Penryn Resilience Web on their platform last year.

The F&P RW team currently have 21 local groups listed (all added by groups themselves or with active consent and confirmed content) and we would very much encourage other local groups and projects to sign up and add themselves to this free resource! See https://falmouth-and-penryn.resilienceweb.org.uk – this has advantages for visibility being part of a growing national platform.

Community Alive Falmouth

We also offer access to the Community Alive Falmouth (CAF) mailing list and revitalised website at https://falmouthalive.org.uk for networking, collaboration, and sharing resources locally, where groups on the F&P RW can also have a free presence.

CAF dates back to 2010 when several of us were actively involved in creating an all day local event celebrating local community activity – see report (PDF), more than 180 people contributed to the teamwork in making it happen, and we set up the Community Alive Falmouth website then to cover community collaboration in the broader sense (i.e. not just “green” groups) going forward.

See here on CAF website for the full list of current and past groups on CAF, and also Alana’s article there.