Our new map of the lucky PSBL area!

It’s exactly one year since PSBL started to support the Greenway Orchard Green Gym. It’s been a great year! Sadly we said goodbye to Amanda who has been the lead volunteer – she is emigrating to Portugal. We now leave the Green Gym in the capable hands of Eleanor and Clive and other locals, and…

  Nearly 3500 people enjoyed our week-long Plaistow Festival last month, run by PSBL in partnership with Newham Council!  This was the first ever Plaistow Festival week. Over 700 attended weekday events ranging from a local heritage walk to NewVIc’s Arts and Media Showcase, with more than 2600 joining in the final event with stalls,…

Join us for yet another plant–based craft activity planned for our next Gardening Club, taking place on Wednesday 10th January 11-12.30, sure to get the creative gardening juices going! We will be doing ‘Flower & Leaf Hammering’, which is a technique that leaves a natural print on a piece of paper or fabric, using flower and…

Local residents want a greener South Plaistow and for the green spaces to be used and enjoyed, beautiful and well maintained.  We found this out in our listening events in 2015.  We recruited our green spaces community workers Milena and Ros in August 2017. These are the highlights of what our green spaces workers have…

We had 34 nominations for 2017’s “Bloomin’ Plaistow” awards. With such an amazing collection of nominees the judging was a lively and challenging session for our Steering Group The award winners were announced at the Plaistow Summer Market Place Festival in July 2017 in Plaistow Park. Congratulations to Mechelle Duffy of Palmer Road (Gold), Saher Arzoo of…

Following a great Success of Lemon Curd making workshop last week, we have organised another foodie workshop for all condiments enthusiasts (and lovers of all things green).If I could just describe the aroma of lemon and sugar wafting in The Mix for hours afterwards- we were all getting high on lemon scent, and left the…