Category: What we do

Do you like making and mending things? Would you welcome a community workshop space with serious wood and metal working equipment, tools, and skilled people who could make things with or for you? We have been looking for..

Thank you to all the lovely people who came along to the site visit for the proposed Buxton Community Workshop + Garden yesterday afternoon. We are really encouraged by the interest and enthusiasm expressed, some good practical suggestions and offers of help. If you gave us your contact info we will be in touch before long. If you couldn’t make it yesterday afternoon we will arrange further opportunities – watch this space!

On Wednesday 27 May 2026 the University of Derby Buxton in partnership with Transition Buxton CIC will host a screening of the 50 minute NEB film at the Devonshire Dome at 7pm followed by a discussion panel, finishing at 8:30pm.

Clothes and fashion are one of the areas of life where the switch to sustainable is also a switch to a more social, creative, fun way of looking your best.  Clothes Swaps are a great way to refresh..

Our first Stitch Don’t Ditch sewing workshop on 20 May 2025 went really well. Everyone learned something new and most went home with something they’d created using waste materials. The volunteers were really pleased to support several people..

The Buxton Library of Things, run by Transition Buxton volunteers within the book library on Kents Bank Road is two years old on 1st February 2026. Buxton Library of Things is one of several hundred community enterprises across..

Transition Buxton CIC is delighted to have recently donated monies earned from their recycling scheme to Connex Community Support. Transition Buxton maintains sets of ‘Hard to Recycle’ bins around the town (e.g. in Morrisons and Sainsburys) for items..