Lib Dem campaigner Tom Simon has been giving local residents a hand to grow food. The Hancock Nunn Gardening Club on the Fellows Road Estate, which was founded with help from Belsize Lib Dem Councillor Alexis Rowell, received a shipment of compost recently. They needed some help to put it on their new community garden so Tom pitched in.

The Hancock Nunn Gardening Club is one of a number of Transition Belsize initiatives. Tom is a member of Transition Belsize. On joining he said: “I am concerned about the future of this planet – Transition Towns is something well worth exploring.”

Transition Belsize is a community attempt to address climate change and the end of cheap oil. Climate change will dramatically alter life as we know it. Global oil production is about to peak forcing the price up and provoking social and economic dislocation.

Cllr Rowell said: “We need to start preparing for life after cheap oil. That sounds cataclysmic but the news isn’t all bad – the residents involved in Transition Belsize believe that, if we make the necessary changes now, life after oil will be more local, less stressed, more friendly, more in touch with nature, less chemical and much more fun.”

Transition Belsize is loosely based on NW3 in North London. For more about this grassroots initiative read here: www.transitionbelsize.org.uk . For more about the Transition Town movement read here: www.transitiontowns.org

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