What if Godalming had a bit more va va voom?
Times are changing. We can choose to hang on in there and keep talking about it. Or… move with it. Va va voom. Moving towards what is good, true and beautiful, and having fun doing it along the way.
See things a bit differently from everyone else?
Quietly the odd one out at the dinner party?
Maybe this is your place. Have a poke around ↓
A bunch of Godalming people getting stuck into projects that make our town more creative, more resilient and more ours.
Empty shop windows. Fields eyed up for houses. Bills that only go one way. Rivers full of cr@p.
We keep being told it's an emergency, and most days it doesn't feel like one.
So this is a quieter kind of change. We could moan about it, or we could get going. Doing it now costs less than doing it later.
And doing it together is a lot more fun.So what do we actually do? See the projects and who's leading them →
Six threads of what we get stuck into, with play at the heart, tech running through it all, and holding the lot.
Which one is speaking to you right now?Tap a thread. Its little bits will fold out.
We play with the highs. We sit with the lows.
This isn't about doing more and more. It's about knowing when to stop, breathe, regroup and come back down to earth.
We can only build far, and build well, from a good place. So we follow the seasons, the moon and our own energy. Some weeks we make things happen. Some weeks we rest and let things settle.
A hopeful way of picturing the future: clean tech, green streets and people who know their neighbours. Less doom, more 'what could we build?'
What would a solarpunk Godalming look like to you?
Our phrase for the sense that there's more going on than any one of us. Call it faith, nature, spirit, or just each other.
What's bigger than you, for you?
An old way of meeting. Everyone sits in a ring, one person speaks at a time, and everyone is heard. No top table.
When did you last feel properly heard?
A talk that sets out, in plain words, where the climate and nature crisis has got to, and what local people can do about it.
What do you wish someone would just explain plainly?
A movement that started in Totnes in 2006: towns doing the practical things themselves, like food, energy, repair and local money.
What should Godalming be doing for itself?
Our thread on money: making it, saving it, and spending it in ways that keep Godalming going.
What's one money move you'd like to make this year?
This isn't for you if…
Still reading? Good sign.
A few questions, one at a time. No right answers. Take your time, it helps you work out whether this is for you. After that, we may be in touch.
We read every one of these properly. If it feels alive, we may be in touch.
Until then, go do something just to see what happens.
Thanks for being honest. That's very much in the spirit of the thing. If it ever starts to feel alive for you, the door's still here.
We'll have a look, and if it's alive, it'll show up on the board. Fancy another?