PSBL August Newsletter

Plaistow South Big Local Community E–News

With summer holidays and beautiful weather it’s been a wonderful month.
We at PSBL have been busy with lots happening this month.

Last weekend our away day at the fire station on prince regent lane where staff and members came together to review our current plan and reflect on work delivered thus far.
We are excited to be serving our community and continuing to work in collaboration with local organisations and residents to deepen our practice and strengthen community cohesion.

We would love to hear from you!

If you have any ideas or projects and want to get involved with PSBL please get in touch.

I would like to welcome Emma Triggs who joined the PSBL team on 1st Aug as a Community Development Officer.

Welcome to the PSBL family Emma, we look forward to working with you!

We are excited that Malaka Sultana who was initially our volunteer turned apprentice has also now joined the team as a Community Development Officer.

We look forward to continuing to work with you as we shape the PSBL work together!

Our digital work is transforming as we continue to work with skills enterprise and Memorial Community Church on our Digital Champions project. If you or anyone you know wants to learn digital skills then this is just for you.

Our next session will be held on Thursday 11th August 2022, 11-12:30pm in the Plus Centre at Memorial Community Church. For more info on digital champions sessions visit www.psbl.org.uk/digital-champions

Wishing you all a lovely summer with love and sunshine!

Hoping to keep in touch with you on our Social Media: LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter

Sheba Choudhury, PSBL Director

Welcome Emma!

My name is Emma Triggs, joined the team at PSBL beginning of August as the new Community Development Officer.
I bring wide ranging experience of working in the voluntary sector across London in areas that include health awareness, communications, social media, project and programme management and most importantly community development.

I look forward to working together to make positive changes.

Supporting a local resident…

I am extremely grateful for the opportunity to progress from volunteering to becoming an apprentice and now a Community Development Worker.
I’ve grown tremendously along the way, and with each step I’ve taken toward becoming confident in community development work.
I’ve learned new skills and gained valuable knowledge. Whilst being in post I’ve been planning services, building community networks, and engaged in multiple outreach work to learn what local residents need.
I’m really looking forward to connecting further with residents and local organisations in working together to forge a stronger community.

New City School 125 Year Anniversary

It was a wonderful event where residents joined the celebration of New City’s 125th anniversary, as did the mayor of Newham, Rokshana Fiaz.
Stalls with delicious food, games to play and prizes to win,
something for all!
Everyone had a terrific time talking to each other and having amazing conversations.
PSBL were delighted to support a local school in our area by part funding this wonderful event.

Summer Camp!

Dance your way to this amazing opportunity this summer holidays.
PSBL are exited to be supporting Creative Minds Performace Academy by part funding this project in collaboration with Memorial Community Church to bring Encanto to life!
with dance, performance and theatre sessions for young children aged 4 and above.

To register your interest call 020 80504023 or alternatively send an email to info@cmpacademy.co.uk

Drop in sessions

Our July’s digital session held at the Plus Centre in Memorial Community Church where local residents attended the digital champion’s training session for basic digital help and learn new skills on how to start up; we were thrilled with the turn out and to have received so many positive feedback.

Desmond was impressed with the accessibility,and by the time he left he felt super confident
“I feel confident enough to attend future sessions and looking forward to it.”.
Cliff was able to create his own log in account and said
“I feel like I can make this work for me, this is going to be helpful.”

What a success these digital sessions have turned out to be!

We want to keep the momentum going and help more residents to also benefit from this exciting and wonderful opportunity so we’re holding another session on
Thursday 11^th July at 11-12.30pm at
Plus Centre – Memorial Community Church
395 Barking Road. E13 8AL.
If you want to get involved or would like any further information please contact malaka xxxx , email malaka@psbl.org.uk or just turn up.

A wonderful farewell party for Ros!

With the sun shinning, with sweet treats and tea as we bid farewell to Ros at the Greenway Orchard joined by many including Green gym Volunteers, staff, steering group members and local residents who joined in.

A Lasting Legacy of Newham’s story

The present mural needs to be removed because it is in a bad state of repair, unable to be re-varnished and upkept during Covid.
If not replaced the community will loose such a wonderful art space.
We were excited to be given the opportunity to present our project to Community Assembly recently.

Hopeful that this project will be a lasting legacy for
Newham where we capture the story of the
pandemic as a historical community memoir of this moment in time.

We will use the experience and stories captured from community groups to create a replacement large public community artwork that is by local people,
for them and about them.

Best wishes to all those who also applied as every single project is an amazing one!

Summer Celebration – Celebrating 10 years of Olympics!

It’s been 10 years since the Olympics were held in Newham!
Due to this, Newham Unlocked will travel the borough on five Saturdays starting their journey on August 20th, visits will include a special lineup of live acts, DJs, cabaret, and food for locals, residents and potential tourists.
Further information can be found here.
With over 25 various sport activities which will be available for kids and teenagers to participate in honour of the 10 year anniversary of the London 2012 Olympics.

Cycle to work – 5th August

Get ready to take part in one of the largest commuting event of the year.
5th August marks Cycling to Work day, its absolutely free and for everyone!
It doesn’t matter if you haven’t cycled for years or you’re a new starter
just give it go and join in with the fun.
If you need extra motivation you can contact Bike Works who can help you with cycle control and confidence.

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