February 3rd '09 Public Meeting – At this meeting the name ‘Transition Athelney’ was adopted for the group, now covering North Curry, Stoke St Gregory, Lyng and Burrowbridge.
The film ‘The Story of Stuff’ was shown.

November 10th '08
First of the monthly informal pub drop-in meetings, held in the Bird in Hand, North Curry. Subsequent meetings to alternate with the Royal Oak in Stoke St Gregory

November 1st '08
Photocall for Gazette article

October 10th '08
Meeting with members of Transition Taunton to plan an article for the Somerset County Gazette, highlighting transition initiatives in the Taunton Deane area.

September 18th '08
Public Meeting - launching of Transition initiative
Action groups under the following headings were convened:-

• Education (e.g. further awareness-raising, school activities permaculture courses)
• Food & Agriculture (local food, community garden/orchard)
• Housing (energy-saving, grant information, micro-generation)
• Woodland (tree planting, fuel, food) - Stoke tree planting project and White Street woodland in North Curry planned

July 23rd '08
Somerset County Council meeting. Cllr Paul Buchanan proposed a motion that SCC support the Transition Movement in Somerset. The motion was passed unanimously and history was made.

July 15th '08
Public Meeting, “Transition” in North Curry
Guest speaker: Ben Brangwyn from the Transition Network spoke about the Transition movement. North Curry and Stoke St Gregory decided to work together towards transition

May 17th '08
May Fair where we had fun and games provided for us by Mendip District Council as well as selling our low energy light bulbs and bright new re-cycled cloth bags made for us by the North Curry Group of the West Country Embroiderers

April 6th '08
Public meeting, showing of the film ‘The End of Suburbia.’  This looked at the inevitable depletion of oil in the near future, the effects it will have on ‘the American Dream’ and how they will cope by changing life styles and introducing alternative energy sources. A lively discussion followed.

February 13th '08
Public meeting, ‘The Nuclear Debate’, with guest speakers Peter Higginson, safety and technical manager from Hinkley Point power station and Jim Duffy representing ’Stop Hinkley’ and followed by a lively debate.

Dec 1st '07
We held our first Save-It! stall at the monthly Village Produce Market, where we sold 24 low energy light bulbs and collected many batteries, ink cartridges and spectacles for recycling.

November 7th '07
Public meeting on ‘what are we going to do’.  Nikki Lewis from Richard Huish College spoke about the carbon audit she produced for Milverton, and gave us a sample of what we might like to do.

September 29th '07
Village Eco-hunt.  This was aimed mainly at children, with accompanying adults.  Prizes were given to under 7’s and over 7’s. Places visited were:

De Wintons	bees and mulberry trees
Applegates	timber framed house with wooden shingles
Taits	water butts and composting
Allotments	Vegetable growing
Village Hall car park	recycling
Hickmans	swimming pool with solar panels
Pophams	PV cells
Post Office	local produce
Pikes	beer and chickens

September 5th '07
Ruth Baker, Climate Change Campaign Officer from Somerset County Council, spoke about what we can do about climate change.  The meeting was well attended and we broke into groups for discussion. Ideas produced:

Reducing:

• Community car
• Car sharing
• Reduce ironing
• Bulk buy light bulbs for produce market
• Carbon reduction audit
• Village wind turbine

Recycling:

• Junk swaps
• Specialist recycling e.g. computers
• Rainwater collection

Sharing information:

• Village web site
• Raise awareness amongst young
• Get into schools
• Expand Save It! group
• Instruction on vegetable growing

Lobbying:

• Better building standards
• Local produce in shop

September '07
A fact sheet was delivered to every house in the parish. This included information about recycling, gained from the meeting, and about low energy light bulbs.

July 4th '07
The next public meeting was held and Hilary Wright from the Somerset Waste Action Programme spoke about recycling.

June 7th '07
The film was shown and Alex Morrice, from Stoke St Gregory fielded the question and answer session afterwards. It was well attended.

May 26th '07
We held a stall at the May Fair.  We now had our logo as well.

April 17th '07
We first went public with a display at the Parish Annual Meeting.  Our name had now been chosen and we had a display of our ten top tips:

• Change your light bulbs
• Turn your heating down by 1ºC
• Pull out the plugs; no standby
• Shop locally
• Insulate your house
• Wash laundry at 30ºC
• Boil only what you need to in the kettle
• Install a water meter
• Leave your car at home
• Recycle

We also had power monitors for hire.

April 12th '07
Our next meeting where our aim was clarified as:
Help to save the world for the next generation
Climate change in our community – act local: think global

April 9th '07
Ten people met together and discussed what were our aims.  We were taking our inspiration for the group from the Milverton Climate Challenge Group and we looked at what they were doing.  They had taken ‘Reduce, Reuse, Recycle’ as their mantra and we thought this was a good place to begin.  It was decided that we needed to focus on local elements and not to spread to world politics; a pledge to reduce consumption was a good start.  Milverton had shown the Al Gore film, ‘An inconvenient truth’, and it was decided that that would be a good way to get people interested.  We needed to get people involved and raise awareness of the need of individual action.

April '07
Save It! was started by Brian Jeanes with his wife Kathryn.  Following his unsuccessful bid for a small wind turbine on their farm they set out to see how else they could reduce their carbon footprints.