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Playclub Fundraiser

Amos — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 10:13:30 +0000

There will be a fundraiser for the Telegraph Hill Playclub

(Sat 9th November, 1-3.30pm)

TheTelegraph Hill
Centre, Kitto Rd,
SE14 5TY

Buy from the Playclub table selling children’s toys, books and clothes, or have your own table!
Raising funds for the Telegraph Hill Playclub
Tables are £10 in
advance or £15 on
the day. Arrive to
set up from12pm
on the day

If you would like to donate items for sale at the table top sale, please can you bring them to the Telegraph Hill Centre on Saturday at 12.

If you can’t make it at 12 on Sat, you bring items to the centre on Wednesday morning. There will be a table in the narthex for drop offs.

There are still a few tables available to book to sell your own stuff – please do email!

Many thanks for all your help,

Katy Robb

07771527769

Table top sale poster 1.4

This week + WEEKEND / DEPTFORD X

Amos — Thu, 03 Oct 2013 16:34:44 +0000

just a little newsletter to let you know of our many activities over the coming 5 days.

Thursday 2^nd October 11 – 4pm
Nature Gym volunteering session at Tidemill Wildlife Garden.
Lewisham Nature Gym volunteers are coming to do some gardening and sprucing up if anyone would like to lend an extra pair of hands please come to the back entrance on Regional Road as the gates on Frankham Street will be shut. Drinks provided but bring lunch if you want to stay for the day.

Friday 4th 10am – 6PM
Just dis trees continue making more community connections and sharing positive stories and idea’s between the school and the surrounding area.

Sunday 6^th 10am – 12pm.
Walking Tour of Deptford’s Green Spaces.
Owen Hodgkinson from Assembly will be instigating a walk and a discussion about Deptford’s green spaces. The walk is an investigation to map Deptfords green Spaces – discussing what part they play in Deptfords urban environment, what unseen politics is fought on them, how they change, how there lost and how they are found. Most importantly how they could be connected. From 2pm to 4pm, a workshop hosted by Bridget Mckenzie of Beuysterous will aim to tease out these connections and links. (See details below.)
The tour will start at 10am at the entrance of Old Tidemill School on Frankham Street and will first visit the Wonky Prong community garden in Crossfields Estate.
The tour will then move onto the Deptford Creekside Centre and then to Sue Godfrey Nature Park. After which, the ‘Don’t Dump on Deptford’ campaign will be discussed on the land next to St Paul’s Church, followed by visiting another campaign at Sayes Court Garden, a campaign to reinstate John Evelyn’s 17^th Century garden.
Next on the list is a community garden taking the name of this renowned horticulturist, the John Evelyn community garden on the Pepys Estate founded by local residents in 2005.
Heading back towards Deptford the tour will drop by The Albany garden and café, to see some new feathered arrivals with the added opportunity of some delicious food at the launch of the Yam Yam festival. The tour will end back at Old Tidemill School to find out what has been going on in the Wildlife garden since the school closed down.
If anyone knows any of the organisers from theses sites or information about them – please get in touch with owen@assemblyse8.org

Saturday 5th Oct
Jus Dis trees 10am – 6PM
Disco For One 1-6PM – email Jackdanielbrown@msn.com to book a place.
playground power poetry. 1-3PM
Come and perform your protest prose, straight to the floor of the playground. Stand up and speak up, or just enjoy the words building together.
Stuff School
Join the extra bones gang for continued material experiments as they take you back to school like you’ve never been before.
Gig night 8PM onwards.
donations on the door to see Dog Chocolate and Beta blocker and the body clock.
Sunday 26^th 2pm – 4pm.
Beuysterous Workshop.

Human wellbeing depends on tree health, and for this, trees depend on the integrity of their communities. Trees need each other partly because they are helpfully connected beneath the soil by fungus. This workshops explores the the rooty, rhizomatic kinds of fungus called Mychorrizae that help trees thrive. What can we learn from Mychorrizae to design healthier communities of people? Responding to the Just Dis Trees in the square, which are all about trees and community, come to create an installation of nodes and threads amongst trees in the garden of the Old Tidemill School.
Facilitated by Bridget McKenzie, founder of Beuysterous, a campaign of creative actions for trees.
Jus Dis Trees 10am – 6PM
Stuff School 12-230PM – 3.30 – 6PM

Grow Wild are recruiting!

Amos — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 21:33:54 +0000

We’re pleased to announce that we are currently recruiting for a ‘Pick and Preserve’ short term contractor to join the Grow Wild team for the summer months!

As the Grow Wild project has developed we have recognised an opportunity to harness, harvest and enjoy the boun

ty of food growing in the local area.

The main purpose of the ‘Pick and Preserve’ harvester role is to lead food harvesting, foraging and preserving activities with community groups.

If you have experience of working with community groups as well as familiarity of foraging, harvesting, cooking/preserving techniques then please apply to growwildlondon@gmail.com. Please send your CV along with 2 paragraphs covering why you think you would be a good fit for the role and your reasons for applying.

The deadline for applications is Monday the 8th of July, 5pm.

Interviews will be held on Monday the 15th of July, with the aim of the successful candidate starting the week of Monday 22nd July.

Full job description is on our website here.
Many ThanksWe’d also really appreciate if you could share this advertisement far and wide, or at least with anyone you know who might be interested!

Grow Wild Team

growwild.org.uk

Grow Wild is a community food growing, cooking and sharing project in New Cross and the surrounding areas. Grow Wild is out to make a difference by working in partnerships to initiate and run community food growing and cooking spaces.

Next NX Community Survey this saturday morning. PLUS Inquiry into Local Activism & Dissent & Party in the Park, Fordham Park 14 sept

Amos — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 21:21:31 +0000

Reminder for the next Community Survey session this Saturday 29th June 11am at the main entrance to the big New Cross Gate Sainsbury’s (meet near the cashpoints). Even if you haven’t come to a previous training or session, you can still come along and we’ll train you, and / or you can just observe until you are comfortable doing interviews yourself – but it’s surprisingly easy!

Also coming soon in New Cross:

Here We Stand: Inquiry into Local Activism & Dissent
What does this mean for you?
Venue: 170 Community Project, 170 New Cross Road, SE14
Date & Timing: 22 July 2013 7-9 pm (networking and refreshments from 6.30 pm)

Agenda: • Presentation of report findings
• Critical response to report from local practitioners
• Open debate and discussion – ways forward

To access the report on which this event is based: http://www.independentaction.net/2013/03/12/resistence-is-fertile-but-where-are-thevoluntary-groups/
To book a place for the event (free of charge) http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/event/7151876455

And

Party in the Park 2013 Fordham Park 14 Sept 2013 – more exciting details to come – watch this space

https://www.facebook.com/events/537516406305092

Invitation to free Talk For Health course taster session

Amos — Sat, 22 Jun 2013 19:41:54 +0000

Dear friends and partners,

As people who are active in the New Cross community, you are invited to take part in an innovative training course called Talk For Health, which enables people both to get and to give the benefits of therapeutic talk as an ongoing practice in their lives.

The RSA is fully funding the programme, which will take place over four weeks (one day a week – either a Saturday or a Thursday), as part of our Connected Communities scheme. It will be run by Nicky Forsythe, a trained psychotherapist, whose evidence-based approach is based on the idea that 1. Having the skills to share feelings with supportive peers is good for your own mental health, and 2. That therapeutic talk does not necessarily have to be carried out by professionals – instead, anybody in society should have access to the skills to support people’s mental health, just as many of us have skills in first aid to help people’s physical health.

The course will run either on each Saturday in August this year, or on Thursdays or Saturdays this September, depending on which option is most popular with people who are interested in taking the course.

Nicky will be spending some time in New Cross between 24th-27th June and hopes to meet as many of you as possible in order to answer questions and give you more information about the course. I shall be calling you over the phone in the next few days to see if you would be interested in meeting Nicky, either at your place of work or at a mutually convenient location.

In the meantime, please feel free to read Nicky’s website for more information – http://www.positive-therapy.co.uk/the-talk-for-health-programme-nicky-forsythe/ – or contact me by email or phone with any queries.

I hope that many of you will choose to take part. If you have colleagues or service-users who may be interested in joining the course then please let me know as we can fund up to 30 people to take the course.

With thanks and kind regards,

_________________________________________________________________________
Matthew Parsfield
Connected Communities Project Developer