Wednesday, 18th April Gloriously sunny and warm this morning, hardly anyone passing the Orchard on the Greenway. I sit on the bench, preparing today’s session and sipping a cup of tea from the flask I brought. The birds are singing on the nearby apple tree, just showing its first tender blossom. Am I still in…
Wouldn’t sunflowers on the Greenway look lovely! We are glad to announce that on the day of the first Plaistow Youth Market in 2018, you are welcome to join our Green Spaces community workers in a community planting activity. We’ll have some happy sunflower seedlings ready to set their roots into their new home on the…
Be part of the week-long festival in Plaistow Got an idea for an event or activity or street party during the week of the Plaistow Festival, 16th-23rd June 2018? Great! You will need to send in the form and return to PSBL by 5pm on Monday 23rd April. You will see that up to £250 may…
From small acorns, mighty oaks do grow – Report from the Barbers Alley community meeting 22nd March With six local people, we came up with some AMAZING IDEAS FOR BARBERS ALLEY. 🙂 To get things rolling, it was agreed thebest step would be to establish a ‘Friends of Barbers Alley’ group. This is under way, it’s…
We’ve discovered a secret garden! A beautiful space for gardening and growing at the front of NewVic College. Over the past few months, we’ve been meeting with NewVic students on the ‘My World My Home’ course run by Friends of the Earth. The students have been working on a project to create greener spaces in…
Community meeting – giving Barbers Alley a new look Thursday 22 March 6.15-7.45 in Plaistow library Barbers Alley hosted it’s first community event and market during the Newham Alleyways Festival last year. See the pics! Since then, there’s been a second mural as part of Newham Word Festival. We’ve had some conversations with residents…
We were so pleased with our Wassailing event in the Greenway Orchard on a drizzly, cold Saturday in February (click here to see) that we want to find more ways for the children of Plaistow South to play outdoors, experience nature, and to be on the wild side! Coffee, Thinking and Playing morning Thursday 12 April 10.30…
In just a couple of hours, Egham Road residents transformed their planter from overgrown and a bit scruffy to tidy, beautiful, healthy and ready for more plants. Six families helped out including the children of course. “I was involved when the planter was put in. I really wanted to get some of the scruffy and overgrown…
Take a look below to see what it took to build a beautiful 28 meter wooden planter in Egham Road in August 2016. 🙂 We hope that many more will follow. With this in mind we have recruited 2 Green Spaces community workers to work with residents in Plaistow South to support all sorts of…
We are hoping to get lots of neighbours and children out on the Egham Road green space on Thursday. It’s half term week, so let’s get the children out to play on the green and all hands on deck to prune and weed and put in some new plants. 🙂 Thursday 15 February 2-4pm Tips on…