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- Run your own local Olympic event. I'm suggesting Olympic Egg & Spoon. ^Pen http://www.london2012.com/join-in/local-leaders/?Ref=email&dm_i=402,SCGP,5M21JS,2AXVT,1
www.london2012.comExplore how you can be a part of our games, the greatest show on earth. Get involved with the hosting of London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. - TOMORROW: Sydenham Garden Spring Fair
Sat May 12, 11am to 3pm, Sydenham Garden, 28a Wynell Road SE23 (next door to Forest Hill Bowling Club). Entrance £1 or 50p concs
The sun looks set to shine on Sydenham Garden's Spring Fair, where you can buy plants, crafts, books and nearly new goods, enjoy a variety of refreshments and learn how to make sturdy paper pots for planting seeds. All this plus the Sydenham Garden Choir. For further details email info@sydenhamgarden.org.uk or phone Marion on 020 8693 7816. - TONIGHT: Bat walk in Sydenham Wells Park
Friday 11 May at 8.45pm - use the nearest entrance to the lake in Longton Avenue, opposite Ormanton Road
As the evening draws in the bats wake up and their swiftly moving forms can be picked out as they swoop over the lake in Wells Park feeding on insects. This year the Sydenham Wells Park Improvement Group have invested in a bat monitor which, through different frequencies, can identify each of the different types of bats flying at any one time. Join us this tonight for what should be a magical event. - TONIGHT: SE26 businesses, get to know your SE23 neighbours - a successful high street comes from collaboration and co-operation, not predation... Networking with Bake London, at Sylvan Post in Forest Hill.
I'll be there! ^Pen - Forest Floor community project - TONIGHT 7.30pm: Holy Trinity are running a community screening of 4 short videos by people who are talking about Forest Hill and its needs. It will be followed by a discussion where people can share thoughts and project ideas.
Edward Olsworth-Peter: "We’ll be showing the edited footage and discussing how we can develop this film project as well as initiating conversation about the kinds of community projects Holy Trinity can develop. "
Holy Trinity is at 4 Trinity Path, Sydenham Park, SE26 4EA - Sydenham Arts Festival Volunteers Meeting Saturday 19th May - all welcome:http://www.sydenhamtowncentre.com/se26_events/sydenham-arts-festival-volunteers-meeting-sat-19th-maywww.sydenhamtowncentre.com
- There's a meeting on the 21st May, too, for those who can't do the Saturday.Thursday at 15:59
- Do you have a job vacancy, internship or volunteering role in SE26? We'll advertise it free of charge on the website. Just send details to jobs@sydenhamtowncentre.com
- Is your child musical? Lewisham have just scored £800k funding for the Lewisham Music Hub. http://www.lewisham.gov.uk/news/Pages/Music-service-wins-funding-for-new-hub.aspx
www.lewisham.gov.ukLewisham Music Service learned on 4 May 2012 that it has been awarded almost £800,000 for the next three years to run the new Lewisham Music Hub. - Changes to your rubbish collection this coming week: http://www.lewisham.gov.uk/news/Pages/May-bank-holiday-refuse-collection-changes.aspxwww.lewisham.gov.ukPlease make sure that we can access your bin on your normal collection day and all of the days listed for your collection date.
- Doing any gardening this weekend? You can dispose of your green waste at Girton Road carpark on Saturdays and Sundays 9am-midday through the summer. More details on Chris Best's site:
http://www.chrisbest.labour.co.uk/?location_id=2&item_id0=178
www.chrisbest.labour.co.ukThere is so much going on in Sydenham that I produce regular Newsletters to keep everyone up to date - the links are to Lewisham's web site as part of the "In my area" section. - Good morning all, please come along to St Christopher's Hospice on Saturday for their Garden fair. Help support a great local charity. x
- Digital Journal interviews Jonathan Kaufman, Director of Sydenham Arts Festival 2012
www.digitaljournal.comThe man who invented television once lived there, and one of its car parks was the scene of a notorious unsolved murder, but what else is there to Sydenham - how about an arts festival? - Horley gets Portas Pilot award:
Rosie Jones, communications directorate at the Department for Communities and Local Government, said: “The authorities who received funding are those with the highest levels of vacant non-commercial properties, and those who suffered the highest number of riot-related crimes last August.”
http://www.crawleyobserver.co.uk/news/local/portas-cash-for-horley-but-crawley-has-to-wait-1-3778715
www.crawleyobserver.co.ukHORLEY is set to benefit from a windfall after Reigate and Banstead Borough Council was given a £100,000 government grant to help tackle the issue of empty shops in its high streets. - Membership of Sydenham Town Centre is essentially as follows:
BASIC = textual 1-line listing on the Alphabetic Shop/Business page.
SILVER = your own business page which remains largely unchanged for the year [£50 pa]
GOLD = your own business page with a login so that you can change it regularly [£100 pa]
More information at http://www.sydenhamtowncentre.com/membership/
www.sydenhamtowncentre.comRetail and non-retail businesses based in SE26 can now reach their local customers and attract those from further afield through this Sydenham Town Centre website – a initiative actively supported by Sydenham Traders Association and Lewisham Council. We will be - Looking for a shop in Sydenham? We have some lovely ones!
http://www.sydenhamtowncentre.com/vacant_units/
www.sydenhamtowncentre.comFormer Function Room Snooker Hall and bar to let /D2 Ground Floor 1440 ft²) (133.77m²)) First Floor 1835 ft²) (170.47m²)) Second Floor 2030 ft²) (188.58m²)) Plus hallways, stairwells, EC’s at lower ground and top floor New lease NEG Rent: £35,000 pax - Fancy your playwriting chances? Enter the Battle of the Bards! http://www.sydenhamartsfestival.co.uk/2012/04/battle-of-the-bards-thursday-12th-july/
www.sydenhamartsfestival.co.ukSee your play performed by professional actors! BATTLE OF THE BARDS is an exciting new venture by Sydenham Arts Festival. On Thurs 12th July, 8 writers will go head to head in a playwriting competition, judged by industry experts, and - Whoops, when will I learn? Don't make code changes late at night... Apologies! All back to normal now. ^Pen
- Hi! I'm a local business on Kirkdale and I'm looking to get involved in the community and get more local support for my business as most of my clients come from Dulwich and beyond! Please let me know how I can get involved! www.bespokecakeslondon.com
- Hi there - you can find membership information for sydenhamtowncentre.com under Town Centre Links (http://www.sydenhamtowncentre.com/membership/). Essentially if you are based in SE26 you have 3 options: Basic (free - single text line on an alpha list), Silver (£50 per year, page on the site which doesn't change for the year) or Gold (£100 per year, with your own login and a bit of Wordpress training as required). You can also buy advertising. Do contact me at membership@sydenhamtowncentre.com for specific info. ^Pen30 April at 08:32
- Mary Portas? We didn’t need her cash to revive our Crouch End high street:
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/london/mary-portas-we-didnt-need-her-cash-to-revive-our-crouch-end-high-street-7684170.html
www.thisislondon.co.ukA community scheme that has helped revitalise Crouch End should be used as a blueprint to regenerate high streets across London without “Mary Portas money”, it was claimed today. - Portas Pilots: further announcements:
- - A £1million Future High Street X-Fund, which will be awarded to areas with the most creative and effective schemes to rejuvenate their town centres;
- - A National Markets Day, launching a National Markets Fortnight, to celebrate the role markets can play and offer budding entrepreneurs the chance to test their business ideas; and
- - A £500,000 fund for Business Improvement Districts, to help town centres access loans for their set-up costs
http://www.communities.gov.uk/news/regeneration/2136602
Grant Shapps: 'Fantastic' response to Portas Pilots offer - Regeneration and economic growth - Deparwww.communities.gov.ukHundreds of towns across the country have applied in their droves to become one of the first Portas Pilots to breathe new life into their high streets, Local Government Minister Grant Shapps said today. - Innovations for Sydenham's £3.4m youth centre: http://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/news/view/innovations-for-sydenhams-34m-youth-centre
www.theconstructionindex.co.ukConstruction Companies - The Construction Index is a building industry and construction company directory - List of all UK construction Companies - Impressive display from Sydenham athlete
http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/sport/9673738.Impressive_display_from_Sydenham_athlete/www.newsshopper.co.ukSYDENHAM’S Michella Obijiaku played a starring role last weekend after emulating the likes of Olympic medallists Kelly Sotherton and Mark Lewis-Francis by finishing second in the all-rounder rankings at the Aviva Athletics academy sportshall finals. - Today at Kirkdale Bookshop, 3.30pm: http://www.sydenhamtowncentre.com/se26_events/simone-lia-dear-god-find-me-a-husband-sat-28th-april/
www.sydenhamtowncentre.comWe are delighted to welcome Simone Lia, author of Dear God, Find Me A Husband (The Guardian’s Graphic Novel of the Month) to the shop on Saturday 28th of April. She will be signing copies of her hilarious new book. - Piece in the East London Lines
www.eastlondonlines.co.ukSydenham’s Kirkdale Bookshop was among thousands of organisations and people around the world taking part in World Book night. (23 April) Kirkdale is one of the oldest bookshops in south east London, opening its doors in 1966. It is a focal point for the many events that this small town provides, Th... - Sign up to hear more about Sydenham's Big Jubilee Lunch http://www.sydenhamtowncentre.com/2012/04/sydenhams-big-lunch/
www.sydenhamtowncentre.comTo celebrate Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee – that’s 60 years on the throne – many towns around the UK are putting on a Big Jubilee Lunch on Sunday June 3rd. Sydenham is no exception, and several are in planning right
