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ABOUT US
Building a Greener Future Together
Transition Buxton is a group of local people concerned about the environment working to improve our community’s resilience through practical actions and projects.
Community Resilience
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WHAT WE DO
Some of our Key Projects
An important part of managing our collective resources responsibly is the adage: Reduce, Reuse, Refill, Repair & Repurpose, Recycle.
The Buxton Library of Things provides affordable access to over 100 useful resources and things that you don’t need to own.
Plastic pollution is evident all around us, blighting our lanes, paths and hedgerows, ending up in waterways and contributing to climate change.
Energy is fundamental to our modern way of life. But energy – specifically fossil fuels – is the main driver of climate change.
News
Latest Newsletter & Articles
Welcome to the January & February 2026 issue of our E-Newsletter full of news, views and information.
The Buxton Library of Things, run by Transition Buxton volunteers within the book library on Kents Bank Road is two years old on 1st February 2026. Buxton Library of Things..
We are delighted that High Peak Baby Bank and the Solitary Bee Nursery have decided to reduce their use of “single use plastic” and to tell their users of this..
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Our textiles team are looking forward to sharing stitching skills at our next Stitch Don't Ditch sewing workshop on Thursday 12 Feb at Harpur Hill Village Hall, 7-9pm, no pre-registration required, no fee, just donations.![]()
We are also delighted to have been invited back to Buxton Community School for a lunchtime Clothes Swap and after school sewing workhop on 12 March. This will be our 3rd event at the school. On our last visit over 150 garments (no money) changed hands over the dinner hour, and some young people caught the stitching bug and want to learn more. The school events are not open to the public for safeguarding reasons but with nearly 1200 students plus staff these are busy events.![]()
Transition Buxton will continue to offer skills sharing and clothes swap opportunities throughout the year - watch this space for further announcements.
Fancy a day out? We're going for a tour of the impressive Renew Manchester facility on Wednesday 18 March. Depart Buxton by train 9:43am, return by 3pm-ish or stay in the city for lunch after the tour and return on a later train - we will all travel up together but can return to Buxton at different times if some folks want to stay in town and others want to get back straight away. ![]()
Check out the video at this link for an idea of what your getting youtself in for.![]()
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If you want to come simply email inspire@transitionbuxton.co.uk and we wil be in touch with you indivudually.
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On Thursday evening this week (12 Feb) we have two different activities for you to choose from.![]()
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7-9pm Stitch Don't Ditch Sewing workshop at Harpur Hill Village Hall, no fees, just donation, creative fun and skill sharing.![]()
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7:30-9pm Members meeting in the lower hall of Buxton Methodist Church on the Market Place with guest Gemma Wall, the Waste Reduction Officer at Staffordshire County Council. If you are not a TB Member you are welcome to attend a meeting to help decide if you'd like to join Transition Buxton CIC.
Similarly Buxton Repair Cafe has been invited to join our colleagues in Westminster, and one of our volunteers who will be in London on business that day may manage to visit. More importantly we have invited Jon Pearce MP for High Peak to attend and he has said he will if his schedule allows. We await his response to the request to sign the Reuse & Repair Declaration.
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Wake up call! This report is seriously scary! ![]()
Want to do more locally? Transition Buxton CIC is committed to doing everything we can to support resilience and one another. As well as providing services like the Library of Things and Repair Cafe we have the Plastic Free project, ambitions for a solar farm, and have over 120 fruit trees in our dispersed community orchard. Always open to new ideas and volunteers. Why not come along to the next meeting on 12 February 7:30-9pm in the lower hall of the Methodist church on the Market Place and find out more. Doing what we can together is the only way to bring about change and it sure feels better than worrying on your own.Global Biodiversity Loss, Ecosystem Collapse and National Security![]()
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Not one to use as a bedtime story for the kids, but possibly the most important government report that has had the least publicity.![]()
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www.gov.uk/government/publications/nature-security-assessment-on-global-biodiversity-loss-ecosyst...![]()
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“So the Government tried to suppress this report, as reported by the Times last October. Now they have been forced to release it; they’ve tried to hide its release in the middle of Greenland. But now we learn from the Times that they still haven’t released an unredacted version of it. What a scandal. But the real scandal is that citizens have been left not knowing exactly what horrors we are likely to have to endure in the coming years. Everyone needs to know the full, uncensored, version of what is in this report: because otherwise we aren’t informed enough to be able to start to try to adapt to the national-security and local-living implications of these forecasted ecosystem collapses. Let the cover-up stop here: let us all see the detail of what we are really up against.![]()
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A strategy of very-well-resourced, nature-based based climate adaptation is the most crucial single thing we need to do, once we have taken on board the awful forecasts contained in the full uncensored version of this report. The Government will be risking the lives of many British citizens — and irrevocably so — if it does not put together a very-well-funded plan of preparedness to enable us all to cope with what is going to be coming at us over the next decade. This is now definitively a national security threat: let’s treat it like one.”![]()
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Prof Emeritus Rupert Read. Director of the Climate Majority Project. ![]()
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www.thetimes.com/uk/environment/article/suppressed-climate-report-warned-of-mass-migration-and-nu...![]()
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Without paywall: archive.ph/2026.01.23-080532/https://www.thetimes.com/uk/environment/article/suppressed-climate-r...![]()
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climatemajorityproject.com/
Next Buxton Repair Cafe is Sat 28 Feb (4th Saturday of the month) 9:30am - 1pm (last item in 12:30) in the halls of Buxton Methodist Church on the Market Place, no fees, just donate what you can afford and feel is fair. ![]()
Bring your item along, register at the front desk, and then you will be allocated to the approriate volunteer Repairer for; ceramics, textiles, electricals, blade sharpenning, and so on. You need to stay with your item, and when its busy you may need to drink tea and wait for a slot.Do you need help repairing your CD player? Then come to a Repair Café in your area. Want to do the repair yourself? Then find a repair guide at iFixit! bit.ly/3WGEIdP