Pics of Plaistow Festival week 2018

Gardening club turns to community cooking club! It is that time of the year when leaves fall off the branches, hot drinks are preferable to cold ones, and gardeners turn to cooking… On Wednesday,21st November from 10-11.30, we will gather in The Mix,1 Cumberland Rd,E13 8LH, and mix up a Community Xmas cake- first one ever made by…

PSBL has piloted a project that aims to work with young people on the streets, in schools, PRU’s, youth clubs etc to raise their awareness on how to keep safe on the streets and avoid, guns, gangs and knives. REIN youth workers have been working since November and have so far contacted 50 young people, with 20…

Do come and join this celebration of 2 years Green Gym work in the Greenway Orchard and the handing of the baton to PSBL! Our role will be to support the volunteer team in continuing and growing as a group and the Green Gym and Orchard itself to grow, develop and be self sustaining. 🙂…

We are delighted that residents are taking over an unloved street corner and turning it into something beautiful and special! Following some inspiration from local resident Ian Noon and what we’ve seen happening in Hammersmith and Fulham, we have identified 5 tree pits. Four of the five have now been adopted. Take a walk down…

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…

We’re having fun planning for the PSBL large, plane tree – the one just outside the office.  We want to make it bright and beautiful to launch tree dressing week in Plaistow. Got bright outworn clothes you could donate?  Got a charity shop that would give us some colourful cloth that can’t be sold? We’re…