This year, for the first time, Pippa is holding a Christmas Open House at 30 Kingsthorpe Road SE26 4PG.
Opening times are: Saturday 4 December, 6pm-8pm and Sunday 5 December, 11am-4pm
For more about Pippa and her work go to:
The following four projects will be bidding for a share of the £25,000 Mayor’s Fund:
Project 1 – Sydenham Arts Festival £10,000
This project addresses the assembly priorities of a vibrant high street and more activities for children and young people.
Description – The third annual Sydenham Arts Festival will run from 1 July to 17 July and is currently being planned. In 2011 we intend to provide live performances in the High Street including theatrical performances and exhibitions in “pop-up” shops, a Family Picnic in the (Home) Park with live entertainment and children’s activities working with Friends of Home Park, an open-air Free Film Show in Mayow Park, a Visual Arts Trail and performance workshops. We are currently in discussions with the Sydenham and Forest Hill Youth Forum, local musicians and performers and many other event organisers about approximately fifty other arts events taking place during the Festival.
The Sydenham Arts Festival is already established as a major community event and we want to build on this to improve community cohesion and a sense of place. This year we are planning to encourage young people to take part in activities and to put on performances organised by them during the Festival period. This will not only involve activities and performances during the Festival but will involve planning these events in the months leading up to the Festival.
Project 2 – Sydenham Community Radio £5,000
This project addresses the assembly priorities of a vibrant high street and more activities for children and young people.
Description – The intergenerational project involves teaching young people between the ages of 14 and 18 how to use recording equipment, as well as teaching interviewing skills. Young people will then be taught how to edit pre-recorded material and how to produce and present live programmes.
Older people will be interviewed on a number of subjects, with a emphasis on how different generations can learn from each other, and programmes will be developed for both online transmission and for on air broadcasts during the summer one month FM license period in 2011.
The project aims to promote social cohesion by enabling young and older people to talk and work with each other. Facilitating a community dialogue is central to this project in that both groups will be given a voice through access to a new platform.
Project 3 – Sydenham Film Club £4,500
This project addresses the assembly priorities of a vibrant high street and more activities for children and young people.
Description – This project will deliver on an active inclusive community which is part of the priority for a vibrant high street. It is hoped to work with young people through the Sydenham and Forest Hill Youth Forum.
The project will involve residents of the local community as films attract a diverse audience. It is hoped to build up numbers attending the film club by starting with a regular monthly film show. Existing networks will be used to promote the film club and attract more volunteers as well as researching what types of film residents would want to see screened eg promoting the film club through the Sydenham Society and Sydenham Arts Festival.
Project 4 – Switch It £4,000
This project addresses the assembly priorities of a tackling ant-social behaviour and more activities for children and young people.
Description – Run by FA trained coach, Jeremy Zulu, and supported by other volunteers in the community, the project delivers the positive activity of football, enhancing health and fitness. It also provides coaching to develop skills, and it provides the environment to discuss issues relevant to young people, encouraging them to receive mentoring, make positive life choices, to turn away from crime and anti-social behaviour and to stay in education and succeed in life.
Up to 50 young people a week will attend, engaging in healthy physical activities, enhancing skills, and discussing issues and learning skills for living well.
The coaches and mentors enable young people to discuss issues of concern to them, and where necessary receive help with anger management. They are encouraged to do well at sport, avoid exclusion from school, and to aspire to becoming coaches themselves in the future
For more information, go to: www.lewisham.gov.uk/localassemblies/sydenhamassembly
Panoramic photographer Jeffrey Martin took more than 10,000 photos from the top of Centre Point over three 3 days in Summer 2010 using a camera with a 400mm lens. Over the next six weeks he stitched 8000 of these photos together into the world’s largest seamless 360 degree spherical panoramic photo with a total resolution of 80 gigapixels, or 80 billion pixels.
See it here:
So how well-educated is Lewisham West compared with other areas of London? Very badly is the short answer!
The table below shows education qualifications in Lewisham West followed by a comparison with some other London constituencies – and we’re at the bottom of the graduates league!
But don’t despair. Lots of degrees don’t necessarily mean a more prosperous or more agreeable neighbourhood. For example, all of Devon, Cornwall and Somerset as well as Chichester and Eastbourne score lower on graduate qualifications than Lewisham West.
| Constituency | % with no qualifications | % with at least degree/ NVQ4 |
| Lewisham West | 9.68 | 28.86 |
| Lewisham East | 11.87 | 39.02 |
| Dulwich & W Norwood | 7.17 | 56.40 |
| Greenwich & Woolwich | 11.23 | 46.84 |
| Richmond Park | 4.45 | 63.61 |
| Kensington and Chelsea | 5.3 | 62.25 |
| Battersea | 8.01 | 58.61 |
| Tooting | 4.87 | 58.3 |
| Lewisham Deptford | 6.97 | 49.43 |
| Croydon North | 12.27 | 34.7 |
| Croydon South | 12.52 | 30.41 |
| Streatham | 12.55 | 42.27 |
| Camberwell & Peckham | 13.86 | 39.47 |
| Vauxhall | 17.08 | 42.27 |
| Southwark | 16.34 | 39.87 |
| Poplar & Canning Town | 25.03 | 29.45 |
| Hackney S & Shoreditch | 16.17 | 41.98 |
For the full data visit
www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2009/oct/19/educated-degree-qualification-constituency-data
In the next few months, planning will start on a £1m scheme to improve the Bell Green Gyratory system with improvements for pedestrians, cyclists and traffic. The five sets of traffic lights around the gyratory will be improved and linked through SCOOT (Split Cycle Offset Optimisation Technique) – a system that responds automatically to fluctuations in traffic flow through the use of on-street detectors embedded in the road. It is expected that work on the new road scheme will be carried out in the financial year 2012-13.
1. The Picture Palace Campaign wants to turn the former bingo hall at 25 Church Road, SE19 into an independent cinema. Plans to turn the building into an evangelical church were rejected by Bromley council.
http://www.campaign.picture-palace.org/
2. Future Projections has applied for planning permission to Bromley Council to turn the Grape and Grain pub, 2 Anerley Hill SE19 and the Bigger Picture Gallery (formerly a car showroom) into a two screen cinema. The main cinema would seat 203 people; the smaller cinema would have 51 seats.
3. Crystal Palace’s Transmitter magazine in its new winter edition has revealed plans for a third cinema, this time located in Victory Square – a new market-square development just off Westow Street opposite the supermarket. Plans include a 4-screen cinema, a glass-covered market, apartments, artists’ studios and a hotel. The scheme by development company the St Aidan’s Group has been at the drawing stage for two years but has yet to be advanced to a full planning proposal.
http://www.thetransmitter.co.uk/
Happy viewing!
“Overall, it is important to keep in mind the positives, and the confirmation that Thameslink will go ahead is most definitely a huge one. In addition, Hammond also confirmed a number of electrification schemes that will be of benefit to London and its surrounds – notably between London and Reading, Didcot, Newbury and Oxford all of which should be completed by 2016.
Given the potential for wholesale cuts, therefore, which had left many commentators (this author included) fearing the worst, today has represented another good day for London’s transport infrastructure. It is easy to pick at the details, but there are few who, pre-CSR, would have thought it likely that London would emerge with its Underground upgrades, Crossrail and the Thameslink project intact. Common sense, of course, indicated that they should all proceed, but it would not have been the first time that common sense had fallen victim to financial or political necessity.
So whilst it is easy to look upon today’s announcement as a re-announcement rather than an announcement – an exercise in confirming that which was already taking place – it is worth bearing in mind that this is ultimately very much a positive thing for the capital.”
http://londonreconnections.blogspot.com/2010/11/thameslink-confirmed-to-continue-as.html
This Friday Club 26 takes a trip to the museum to visit the exhibition “400 years of seasonal Christmas traditions in English homes” and to have lunch in the recently refurbished cafe. For more information about the Geffrye Museum go to: www.geffrye-museum.org.uk
Meet at Sydenham station at 11am on Friday.
In January, single tube and bus fares are set to rise sharply — by 5.5% and 8% respectively:
Cost of a single central London tube journey Cost of a single central London bus journey
2010 2011 2010 2011
Oyster £1.80 £1.90 Oyster £1.20 £1.30
Cash £4.00 £4.00 A rise of 5.5% Cash £2.00 £2.20 A rise of 8 %
Now comes the really bad news for our area.
Currently there are six different one-day travelcards — in January there will be just three. The only one day cards available, peak or off-peak, will be for zones 1-2, zones 1-4, and zones 1-6. This is bad news if you currently use the Zone 2-6 travelcard, which enables you, for example, to travel from Sydenham to Canary Wharf via Canada Water without going into zone 1. This card is being scrapped forcing you to buy a travel card which includes zone 1 even if you never travel into zone one. When the Zone 2-6 One Day Travelcard is withdrawn you’ll be forced to buy a 1-4 zone card instead. That’s a massive 57% fare increase off-peak, and an astonishing 67% increase for the all-day user.
If you are thinking – so what, I never buy a One Day Travelcard anyway, think again. You’ll be paying a great deal extra, indirectly at least, through daily price-capping. Pay-as-you-go price caps are always set to match the relevant Travelcard, so if a paper Travelcard disappears then so will the matching electronic price cap.
For example, if you use your Oyster to swan around in Zones 1-5 all day, you currently never pay more than £12.60. Once the Z1-5 Travelcard vanishes you’ll have to pay up to £15.00 instead, which is the Z1-6 cap. Over a week, a month, a year, that’ll really add up. Or consider an Oyster user who makes four off-peak Zone 2-3 tube journeys in a day, each costing £1.80. At the moment the price cap kicks in at £5.10, which means the fourth journey is free. Once the Z2-6 Travelcard vanishes the price cap leaps to £8.00, which means the fourth journey costs full price.
Hardly a fair deal for local travellers!
A competition to design the public artwork is being organised by the Sydenham Arts Festival (Visual Arts Team) in association with the Sydenham Society.
“Registrations to enter the competition continue to flow in but there are still two weeks left before the registration closing date if it has slipped your mind. Just email your details by 22 December to receive your competition brief to greyhoundpubwalldesign@hotmail.co.uk
You don’t need to be an artist to enter. The winning design might be completely “off the wall” (sorry couldn’t resist that). With this year’s Turner Prize being awarded to a “sound installation” by artist Susan Philipsz http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/dec/06/turner-prize-winner-susan-philipsz?intcmp=239 the Greyhound competition judging panel will have to keep their eyes and ears open.
The final date for competition entries is 9 January. So you will have nearly three weeks during the Christmas and New Year’s break to get those creative juices flowing. The sound of art – a “Great Escape” from “The Sound of Music”! Any other puns welcome…….”
The design competition is open to anyone who lives or works or studies within 2km of the pub, in other words, local people, artists, designers, family and friends. This area includes all of Sydenham and most of Forest Hill, Penge & Crystal Palace.
Each entrant may submit up to three entries.
The final date for registration to enter the competition is 22nd December 2010. The final date for entries to the competition is 9th January 2011. The winning design will be chosen by a judging panel by January 31 2011.
Individuals wishing to participate in the competition should register with the organising team either via email to greyhoundpubwalldesign@hotmail.co.uk or in writing to The Greyhound Pub Wall Design Competition, c/o The Kirkdale Bookshop, 272 Kirkdale, Sydenham SE26 4RS before 22nd December 2010, by giving the following information:
Entrants will be provided with a numbered entry pack and detailed instructions. A maximum of three entries will be permitted per entrant or group. Schools may submit up to 10 entries. Participation as an individual does not disqualify you from also entering as part of a team or school entry.
There is no prize but the winner will have the honour of their design being enjoyed by the public for many years to come.