Sydenham Library recorded over 700 visitors to the Read-in on the 5 February. Visit Sydenham Radio’s website for some fascinating interviews from the day:
http://sydenhamradio.co.uk/news/
and see Joyce Treasure’s photos on Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/joycetreasure/sets/72157625861857069/
CHILDREN’S PERMACULTURE CLUB
SUNDAY 27th February 11 -1pm
£3 p child/ £1 consessions
children ages 8 to 12
FOREST GARDENING COURSE
There has been a huge demand for this course. Unfortunately the course for the 20th March is now full.
Grow Mayow are now taking bookings for Forest Gardening course for Sunday 17th April 10am -3pm
Cost £25
This 1 day course will clearly explain the principles of managing a forest garden in an urban setting. Through a series of practical steps. Combining theory and practical exercises, there will be opportunities to practice perennial planting design, and learn about implementing and maintaining your own site. We’ll also cover the history of Forest Gardening and its connection with Permaculture.
The course will take place at Grow Mayow Community garden Course led by Claire White. http://www.clairewhitegardens.co.uk/
Booking essential email Growmayow@gmail.com
More information : http://growmayow.blogspot.com/
Grow Mayow, Mayow Park Community Garden, Mayow Park Mayow road, Sydeham, London SE26 4JA
Palace’s plans are for a 25,000-seat stadium, which could be expanded to a capacity of 40,000, and includes provision for an indoor aquatics and sports complex as well as a community sports facility on the present Crystal Palace National Sports Centre site. Palace boss steve Parish said “I don’t see how you could ever want a slightly revamped Crystal Palace [a reference to Tottenham FC’s plans for CP] over a new, purpose-built stadium,” said Parish, who would look to raise the money for the stadium by selling Selhurst Park, their current home. “We believe this is a plan that would suit everyone. I have never understood why Crystal Palace wasn’t based in Crystal Palace. There is a sense of logic to this scheme that would build a better future for our club and the local area.”
Local MP Jim Dowd gave a conditional thumbs-up for the plan and said: “Crystal Palace FC is a vital part of the community here in our corner of South East London just asprofessional football clubs are throughout the country. The possibility to return to their original “home” and thus achieve long term security together with providing a sustainable future for the Stadium site is an opportunity thatis unlikely ever to occur again and thus it must be given every chance to succeed. Although there are many legitimate questions to be raised and answered before any progress can be made I am grateful for the openness the Club have shown and for the opportunity I have had to meet with them to discuss the proposal. I hope very much that it is possible to achieve a solution which will benefit the whole area.”
Spurs are bidding against West Ham for the arena, and want to demolish the £500 million 85,000-seat stadium and rebuild a 60,000 football ground from scratch without a running track.
With West Ham promising to retain the athletics track in a mixed-use community based stadium, Tottenham’s plan falls well short of the athletics legacy promised by the 2012 Olympic bid.
But while West Ham remain the first choice of many stakeholders, doubts over the financial strength of their offer have increased in recent weeks, and senior figures in government and the Olympic project are now open to the athletics legacy lying outside the stadium.
Photo coutesy of diamond geezer http://www.flickr.com/photos/dgeezer/271726811
KIDS NATURE WATCH CLUB Theme: Make winter bird feedersEvery first Sunday of the month – Starts Sunday 6 February 2011
10am – 12pm
Sessions cost £1 per session.
Kids ages 3 to 12
Parents and grandparents join free
PROJECT GROW: CHILDREN’S PERMACULTURE CLUB
Every last Sunday of the month – Starts Sunday 27 February
Time 11 -1pm
£ 3 p child/ £2 consessions
children ages 8 to 12
GET YOUR HANDS DIRTY
Tuesdays & Thursdays – Volunteer workdays 9-3pm
Just turn up and we will show you around, take your details and get you gardening!
Please wear suitable clothing and sturdy footwear. Refreshments & protective gloves will be provided.
Don’t be put off if you find there are no other trees at the entrance to the park – it will be due to the fact that they have already been picked up by Glendale. Just place your tree to one side away from the entrance itself.
Real trees only are accepted!
The Mayor and Cabinet meeting on 17 November will hear that the borough’s environmental team paid a bill of £100,000 in 2009-10 to round up strays and pay for kennelling – £79,000 more than they had budgeted for.
In 2008-9 the number of abandoned dogs rounded up by the council was 223; in 2009-10 this had mushroomed to 532 – an increase of 142%.
Battersea Dogs’ Home is currently inundated with strays, so the council has had to pay high fees for the private kennelling of the borough’s abandoned dogs.
This year to date, the number of stray dogs has remained at 2009-10 levels.
In a statement, a DCMS spokesperson confirmed that the funding of all its sponsored museums was secure until the end of 2014-15. “We are now exploring whether the department’s non-national museums may be more effectively sponsored through other bodies or programmes in the longer term. As part of the transfer arrangements the department will seek to be satisfied that new sponsors can offer a sustainable future for these museums.”
One of the museums on the list, the People’s History Museum in Manchester, has said that it may have to abandon its policy of free entry from 2015 as a result of these cuts.
The eight museums on the list are: Horniman, the Geffrye Museum, Museum of Science and Industry Manchester, the National Football Museum, the Tyne and Wear Museums, the Design Museum, the People’s History Museum and the National Coal Mining Museum.
The first fireworks display at the park took place on July 12 1865 when two rival firework companies competed to show off their wares. One hundred and forty five years later why not join spectators at Crystal Palace for a traditional fireworks event on the evening of the 5th November?
Gates open 6pm
Children’s Display (aimed at children or those of a sensitive disposition!) 7pm
Main display 8pm
Adults (14 years plus) £5
Children (5 to 13 years £3
Children under 5 free
On Saturday 30 October, hundreds of carnival demonstrators marched from Crofton Park library to Lewisham town hall to protest against the closure of five Lewisham Libraries. The carnival was addressed by two local MPs – Lewisham East MP Heidi Alexander and Lewisham Deptford MP Joan Ruddock.
With a majority of local MPs supporting the Save Libraries campaign, a 20,000-strong petition against library cuts and a unanimous vote by Lewisham councillors to save the libraries, the ball is well and truly back in the mayor’s court.
see www.sydlib.com for further information
