Events
TTW Repair Café - Sat 25th Oct 2025- 10am-4pm - Friends/Quaker Meeting House, 34 Mill Rd, Worthing, BN11 5DR
TTW Repair Café - Sat 29th Nov 2025- 10am-4pm - Friends/Quaker Meeting House, 34 Mill Rd, Worthing, BN11 5DR (this will be our last Repair Café session of the year!)
Please see below for details of each event and keep an eye on this page for updates or subscribe to our monthly newsletter for up-to-date information.
We are gradually trying to get our greenspaces groups back to some semblance of normality and these are running regularly now - please email us for session days/times (which will also be in our monthly newsletter). We always welcome new volunteers. Please contact us to find out how to get involved.
Greenspaces Groups:
The Transport Group are meeting online at present.
See the Transport Group's Facebook page for up-to-date information:
Usually runs on the last Saturday of each month (apart from Dec), from 10am to 4pm, at the Friends/Quaker Meeting House, 34 Mill Rd, Worthing, BN11 5DR
For more info and to book a repair slot see our Repair Café pages
Breathing Spaces are at Dankton Barnyard, Dankton Lane, Sompting on the first Sunday of every month, 11am-1pm
Get involved and help to ensure that biodiversity remains high in this beautiful wildflower site. For more information and to volunteer email [email protected] or see the Facebook page:
For our next Eco Open Houses event we will be joined by Transition Shoreham and Greening Steyning over the weekends of 11/12 & 18/19 April 2026.
More details to come!
Held annually, usually in February or March.
Our next Seed Swap Sow and Grow event will be held on Saturday 14th March 2026, at Maybridge Keystone Centre, Raleigh Way, Goring-by-Sea, Worthing, BN12 6JD
More details to come but please save the date!
This is on the 3rd Saturday of September to tie in with the Marine Conservation Society's annual survey.
The event is usually based on Beach House Green, Worthing, working on the section of the beach east of the Pier.
This event is on hold for now. We will post updates as and when we have them.
Held annually in September at Field Place Manor House and Barns, Worthing.
Join us for this delightful, fun filled family event – showcasing local green groups, performers, artists, makers and producers.
We hope to see you there on Sunday 28th September 2025.
Eco Open Houses provides inspiration and practical advice on how to create healthier, warmer, more eco-friendly homes and workplaces. This local trail showcases inspirational ideas, best practice and ways for homeowners, tenants and businesses to save money whilst helping the environment. It’s a great resource for anyone in the building industry, especially anyone retrofitting property.
The branding Eco Open Houses belongs to Low Carbon Trust, a Brighton based company, who have very kindly allowed us to use it for all our events in Worthing from 2014 - 2020.
Previous Eco Open Houses Events
If you go to "Documents/Eco Open Houses" section on our Resources page you will find case studies, brochures and info sheets from previous events. You might also like to check out our YouTube channel for videos of properties and talks. They are all great examples of what can be done, whatever your budget, to save on water and energy bills, contribute to CO2 reduction, support local eco systems and help mitigate surface water flooding.
Together we can make a big difference.
The annual Seed Swap, Sow and Grow event grew out of the Transition Town Worthing Food Group and has been run since 2010.
Dr Barbara Pilley Shaw, one of the founder members of Transition Town Worthing, worked tirelessly to create a meticulous Seed Swap model for us to work from.
Claire Hunt and Lisa Leach from Breathing Spaces have organised the seed saving side of things for this event, ever since it began in 2010, as well as supporting the event organisation.
Each year, since it started out at Bishop’s Palace in Tarring, it grew in size and popularity to become a key event in the calendar for many local gardeners.
Like all things, over the years, things change. Recent Seed Swap events have been held as part of the Worthing Sustainable Market and in 2024 we held the event at the Climate Resilience Centre Worthing (CREW). This year we held the Seed Swap at the Maybridge Keystone Centre.
For future years, check out our website or Facebook page to see where it's going to be held, or sign up for our newsletter.
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Ana Bohane Photography
Ana Bohane Photography
Ana Bohane Photography
Ana Bohane Photography
The conservation of the marine environment, with the ecosystem services it provides, is essential for climate regulation and food supply.
Reducing carbon emissions from fossil fuels, and pollution-busting the mountains of plastic waste from their derivatives, is ever more pressing.
As well as the monthly beach cleans run by Plastic Free Worthing, Transition Town Worthing also works alongside other groups such as Surfers against Sewage, Worthing Climate Action Network, Worthing Borough Council, Worthing Heritage Alliance and Sussex Wildlife Trust as part of The Annual UK Beach Litter Survey organised by the Marine Conservation Society (MCS).
The MCS is hugely proactive in protecting our seas and for over 25 years they have run the UK’s biggest beach clean-up around the autumn equinox every September, providing invaluable data to inform government and the public on the state of our polluted beaches, helping to drive productive conservation projects.
In Worthing the survey has become part of a Coastal Fair with natural history, geology, built and cultural heritage guided walks, stands promoting climate friendly eco-homes, Morris dancing, maritime drama or songs of the shores! TTW has supported Dr Barbara Pilley Shaw in organising the Coastal Fair and Beach Clean since 2010, collecting and preventing a great wealth and variety of litter from entering our precious seas and damaging the biodiversity of our coastlines. It’s been great fun creating art from the litter collected, led by local community artists such as Creative Waves.
Once the Beach Clean has been completed, the MCS litter survey findings are summarised in a display at the Worthing Library, featuring issues such as broken glass bottles, dog poo, cigarette stubs and smoking litter, or dangerous fishing tackle.
Transition Town Worthing has been part of the organising team of this very popular local community festival, held at Field Place, Worthing, from when it began in 2016 until the Sept 2024 event.
Like Seed Swap, it provides an opportunity for many local community groups to showcase what they do – growing and producing food, crafts, entertainment – anything that supports local sustainability and community resilience.
The past couple of years has seen over 2,000 people coming along, whatever the weather! It’s a wonderful family event so please do come along and join us!
