We are proposing to enrol The North Howe Transition Toun as an Environmental Body with Entrust. This would allow us to access funds from The Fife Environment Trust who are the body in Fife which manage the distribution of the landfill tax fund. Locally there has already been great benefit to the community using this fund with a contribution of £30,000 awarded to the Secret Garden Outdoor Nursery for the Letham Park Project.

To enrol with Entrust we have to make a minor change to the objects of our Articles of Association. It is proposed to insert an additional Object of the Company:  ‘The provision, maintenance or improvement of a public park or other public amenity in the vicinity of a landfill site, where it is for the protection of the environment.’

This will allow us to register specific projects with Entrust and then in turn apply for funding. continue reading…

The next energy group meeting will be on Monday 6 September at 7.30pm in Collessie. Please come along and find out more about our projects.

The Transport Meeting scheduled for Monday 30 August in Giffordtown Hall has been cancelled. News of when our next meeting will be will follow soon.

The Transport Group have been busy laying the foundations for getting our projects up and running. Using the survey results we have been carrying out feasibility work for the improvement of key paths and cycleways in the area. We have made some real progress with permission from landowners for several key sections. More information of how we will be taking this forward will be in our next newsletter. If you can’t wait until then keep an eye on our website for details of this and our other projects.

We are always on the look out for innovative ways to change to way we travel and use cars. One site we thought we would like to share with you is www.whipcar.com . This offers an interesting option for sharing cars within the community by allowing to you hire cars from people within the community, maybe even your neighbour. Take a look and the website and see if it might suit you.

The next Transport meeting will be on Monday 30 August at 7.30pm in Giffordtown Hall.

The coordinating group will be meeting on Monday 16 August at 7.45pm at the Blue Room at Monimail Tower. Click here for draft agenda. If you would like anything added for discussion then please let Louise know.

The Energy Group will be meeting on Monday 2 August in Giffordtown Hall at 7.30pm. All welcome.

The Transport Group will be meeting on Monday 26 July at 7.30pm in Letham Village Hall. We are now ready to move into the funding stage for some of the proposed path development and will be discussing this at the meeting. Also on the Agenda will be our proposals around Bike Parking, and Tripstop.

On Wednesday 21st July 2010, Stewart Stevenson the Scottish MSP for Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change will visit the NHTT area in relation to the receipt of our Climate Challenge Fund awards. If any NHTT members would like to meet the minister please contact Hamid van Koten as soon as possible on: h.h.vankoten@dundee.ac.uk

The coordinating Group will be meeting on Monday 19 July. To take advantage of the light summer nights the group will be meeting on Monimail Green at 7.45pm.

Some may have missed the new Forum on the site.

NHTT e-Xchange

Its a place where users can exchange ideas, thoughts and perhaps most importantly food, goods and even manure.

To support this we’ve decided to have a daily email which will send subscribers a list of any new posts. No new posts- no new email.

We’ve had to find a balance between informing subscribers as soon as a fresh produce is available for sale/barter and inundating people with emails. Its a difficult call and if you think we’ve got it wrong (ie too m

any emails, please let us know through the forum’s Help and Support Section).

This is a separate mailing list to the NHTT Bulletin so if you’d like to subscribe to it please follow this link www.nhtt.org.uk/-xc

All the posts are displayed on the front page (in the sidebar) of the website and if you are familiar with the concept of RSS feeds you can subscribe to the feed url: “http://nhtt.org.uk/foodforum/feed.php”
Any questions or problems drop me an email to admin@nhtt.org.uk