It was a Fun Day at...

                             Last Thursday the 12th of August
   
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Thanks go to Maureen for organizing the day again this year and to Coralie from Hackney Homes (Resident Participation Officer) for helping.

Face painting by the artists from Vulpes Vulpes.

                                                         PHOTOGRAPHS by David White

Larger versions of all these photos & more are available to download on Flickr

Last year:

Beecholme allotment wins prize

We are very pleased to announce

that Christine Williamson's (B&C TRA Vice-chair) hard work
in the allotment

and with the growing club
has been recognized
with

second prize

in the

"Food growing" category

of

Hackney in Bloom 2010

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These shots were taken in May this year

                       Well done Christine...  

                                     ..and everyone involved

Hackney Citizen Tram Depot article August 2010

click on the article below to bring it up full size

once open in a new window you may have to click it again to enlarge it to true full size

Just a fraction of what will be lost at the Tram Depot

These shots were taken recently

by Chris Mills

chrismills.turnpiece.net

 (I've cropped & enhanced Chris's originals a bit and optimized them for web)

 

They show only a fraction of what's it's like inside

the Old Tram Depot.

There are two more Art galleries open to the public for example.

There's couple of working sculptors, the metalworking forge, a recording studio, a graphic artist, a printers & signmaker, the furniture makers, the foam factory, the fabric merchant, two auto repair companies as well as Jaguar showroom and more!

By the way, this is what the planners & developer are saying is
"at the end of it's natural life"
and "poor quality, of bad design and dilapidated"


What do you think?
 

 These shots and more by Chris Mills
chrismills.turnpiece.net

are on my Flickr stream at

http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidandseb/sets/72157623124247194/

 

Millfields Park meeting and Fun Day - this week

Millfields Users’ Group General Meeting

(Millfields Park, Clapton E5)
-
 Thursday 29 July 2010 at 7.00pm
in Nye Bevan Community Hall, Overbury Street E5 0AH
 

Google map link

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• Last word on Fun Day organised for 1st August

• Discussion of National Grid Alternative Access Route

• Update on Millfields Master Plan

• Critique of park management

• Latest news on proposals for Essex Wharf…..

and

why do we have an eight foot fence hiding the River Lea from North Millfields?

ALL WELCOME - COME AND GIVE YOUR VIEWS

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Millfields User Group Fun Day
 
The event run by the park user group

will be held on

Sunday 1st August

from 11-5pm

North Millfields Park
  

Fun and activities for the whole family

 

Attractions on the day will include:
The Hackney Play Bus - providing fun activities for children
Cycling Club Hackney - Famous grass track racing event
It's a Knockout Family Sports Event
Dog Fun Corner
The Community Police
A Fire Engine
All Day Barbecue
Face Painting
Glitter Art tattoos and nails 

And many other things to see and do

so come along and join in!
 

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Lots more about the Park, the Users Group

plus

the Millfields Master Plan at:

http://www.hackney.gov.uk/cp-millfields-park.htm


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NEW Beecholme blog stats 

Scroll down to the very bottom of the page to see who else is checking the site

You might be surprised - I was

Blogger stats started a monthe ago, hence the figures are for this first month

for "Beecholme et al" page only

Total views for the posting page "Beecholme et al"

since I started it are (as you can see on the left)

16,087

New "Leabridge Youth Project"

We (the B&C TRA) have just received confirmation that our

application to the "Team Hackney Community Grants Program"
for a £15,000 grant

for two part-time youth workers
was successful

WWW.HCVS.ORG.UK


The two youth workers will cover four local estates:
Beecholme, Jack Watts, The Mount and Radley Square.
(Two estates this year and two next year).

These two qualified workers will come from "Skyway"

http://www.skyway.uk.com/

They have lots of experience with local young people and already do

a lot of good work in Hackney.

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Phase 1 - work on the first two estates will start in September and run to December 2010 One evening a week the youth workers will be on each of the two different estates both out on the streets and in the tenants halls.

Activities will include things like discussions about postcode conflict, a visit from community police, one to one youth work sessions and workers spending some weeks speaking to young people on the streets and around the estates rather than just within the tenants hall.

The young people on each estate will be able to come up with an idea for a community activity/event that they themselves will lead on - anything from a childrens Christmas party to pretty much any activity they want.

With SkyWay’s support we plan to have secured sufficient funding from other sources to continue delivering these services to young people without Team Hackney money from January 2011.

Phase 2 - from Jan to April 2011 - work on second two estates As with the previous 2 estates, starting with one evening per week on two different estates, sessions and sessions both out on the estates and in the tenants halls. This time the activity/event that the young people on each estate will come up with and lead on could be an Easter community barbecue or sports day - for the Easter school holiday period in late April 2011.

With SkyWay’s support we plan to have secured sufficient funding from other sources to continue delivering these services when the Team Hackney funding for the youth workers ends on the 2nd May 2011.

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Our sincere thanks go to

councillors Linda Kelly, Ian Rathbone and Deniz Oguzkanli for coming up with the idea (and others) to provide support/activities for some of our more disaffected youth out on the streets and for co-ordinating everything.

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Donation for the first sculpted bench with landscaped back for the square given by Mr Gordon Bell, Freeman of the Borough and chair of Hackney Parochial Charities - see the "sculpture" page for history & more details