Pics of Plaistow Festival week 2018

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…

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…

The 2018 Awards Ceremony took place in the lovely NewVIc cafe on 12 July and was a gathering of gardeners and a celebration of beautiful front gardens.  It was followed by the launch of The Nurses Story booklet. We had food, conversation, ideas for more front garden growing, photos of all the entries and the…

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…

We are delighted that The Mix youth club (1A Cumberland Road, Plaistow) are working with famed street artist Pyklops street artist this weekend as a collaboration for the second mural in Barbers Alley.  It’s a piece of work for the Newham Word Festival and Pyklops and the youth group have been working with wordsmith Charlie Dark. …

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