Pics of Plaistow Festival week 2018

Have you got a great idea that would benefit Plaistow South at this challenging time during Covid-19? If so, Plaistow South Big Local is launching a small grants fund that could enable your idea to become reality! We encourage residents and groups to apply for a grant for between £100 to £2500. It’s a simple…

The spring is in full swing, and the Tree Pit Gardens on Tunmarsh Lane are in bloom…and looking glorious. Continuous hard work by our local volunteers-Tree Pit Gardeners, regular watering and weeding have resulted in an abundant display of lupins, lavender, anemones and dahlias…with the imminent arrival of poppies and gladiolas in the coming weeks!…

Enterprising MasterCard Corporate Volunteers planted 50 sunflowers on 1st May on two stretches of the Greenway between Barking Rd and Boundary Lane…and they are coming up! Young, strong seedlings are fighting their way up along the fence, against the odds.. Helped by the watering of passers by, and last Friday evening by the group of…

  On a cold and drizzly Saturday afternoon a good crowd came by to join an old English celebration in the Orchard.  Wassail means ‘good health’ and Wassailing is a way of wishing the fruit trees good health for an abundant harvest. Our ingredients for a family nature experience were a tour of the Orchard….. a…

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…

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…