Charter
RingWood is formed and maintained as a not-for-profit partnership preserving and holding land in a perpetual, ecologically based Trust. This enables RingWood to realise these objectives:
1: To raise funds for land purchase.
2: To preserve and purchase further land suitable for the implementation of RingWood aims and agreements.
3: To make land available for organic Permaculture systems (see below) and provide residence to those willing and able to abide by RingWood ecological (and other) agreements.
4: To provide security of tenure to residents and to offer full membership in RingWood to those who want to live with the land.
5: To ensure RingWood lands are never sold nor otherwise disposed of, nor borrowed against
(to ensure article 4 above) and to preserve our heritage for the future. Lands are held in title
by RingWood, not by any member or members as individuals or another group.
We shall work to build and develop a community which is as self-sustaining as possible, working to achieve surpluses of materials and energy.
We will work to achieve prosperity and health of all beings living on RingWood lands.
We will work to make RingWood grow and communicate its principles.
We shall encourage all forms of creativity and discourage all forms of wanton or negligent destruction.
We will build an ongoing harmonious relationship with the land and universe through our lives and interactions with each other and the land, plants and animals.
We shall nurture and make room and time for children and elders in the community. A diversity of age range will be encouraged.
A relative balance of sexes must be maintained within RingWood (we shall endeavour to ensure that no more than two-thirds of either sex should predominate).
We shall encourage cooperation and mutual support in our lives, planning and structures.
We shall communicate with each other honestly and often.
We shall educate ourselves and our children, developing community library/education facilities.
We shall attend quarterly meetings, where we shall carefully consider our decisions and ensure our opinion is heard and our decision is noted.
We shall nourish, protect and regenerate ourselves, each other and the land, adhering to Permaculture principles (as outlined in Permaculture - A Designer's Manual by Bill Mollison, Tangara Press) and discovering, nurturing and rebuilding native ecosystems.
We the undersigned shall abide by these agreements.
- Tallowood -