Events, activities and opportunities Summer 2014 - updated 8 July

Updates to this blog post

I will be updating this blog post to reflect new events in Whitefoot, Downham and the neighbourhood over the summer as I am notified of them. Please keep checking back! For general information on local groups and information, check out the Downham and Whitefoot Interagency website which hosts web pages on Whitefoot and Downham Community Food Plus Project, Downham Celebrates, local assemblies and the Prefab Museum as well as information about local facilities, events, services and news.

If you want to get the word out about your events and activities let me know - I update this blog on Friday mornings!
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Prefab Museum - opening hours to end September 2014

This unique and popular local museum, located in a prefab at 17 Meliot Road, SE6 1RY and celebrating prefab life has been granted a further extension until the end of summer 2014. From 7 June the museum will be open on Saturdays only from 11am - 5pm, at other times by appointment, and for London Open House on the weekend of 20-21 September.  We look forward to welcoming groups of local primary school children this summer. If you would like to book a group visit or a place on the next estate tour on 21 June, please email Elisabeth Blanchet. For up to date information on events throughout the summer, please visit Prefabs - Palaces for the People on Facebook or follow Prefab Photo Project on Twitter 

Update 7 July 2014 - demolition begins

Free workshops

Lewisham Training Kitchen is now open!

at The Green Man, 355 Bromley Road SE6 2RP

Come and cook nutritious and tasty new recipes  in this well-equipped new Lewisham Training kitchen. Join one of the free Taster cook and eat sessions at Lewisham Training Kitchen

14th July- Cooking with Brentknoll Primary School

15th July- Cooking with Watergate Primary School

17th July- Cooking for over 50 +

18th July- Food Bank Community Cooking

24th July- Disability group

To book  contact Cecilia

Email : cecilia.belier@compass-group.co.uk

Or call on  0791 7651 585
follow on Twitter @LTKlovesfood

Whitefoot and Downham Community Food+ Project

Whitefoot and Downham Community Food + Project is a voluntary community based project to support people or families who are experiencing hardship and issues relating to poverty. There is a growing need for the provision due to the welfare reform act, increase in food and fuel prices. The project is available to local residents and can provide a level of food provision, housing support, health advice, employment advice, debt advice, family support, early years support and access to a Local Councillor.


Donate or volunteer! More information on the Downham and Whitefoot Interagency web page.

  Volunteering

Advice and information

Wonderland cafe at Goldsmiths Community Centre

will you, won't you?

In true Alice in Wonderland style this blog post is topsy turvy.
As part of our ongoing involvement with the Creative Citizens project, Community led design strand, we opened up the time bank as a Wonderland Cafe on Monday 3 March. 

The project began in earnest in March 2013 with an asset mapping workshop at the centre, followed by a co-creation event, a community walk from Grove Park to Downham, and a short trip to the other side of the world (meridian zero, which passes through Boundfield Road near the junction of Scarlet Road).

Using an iPad equipped with a microscope lens, Abigail examines the area at the grass roots level

Some clues

Some characters

Some amazing food

 

And drinks

View the time lapse video here

With grateful thanks to Dr Alan Outten, Helen Hamlyn Centre, Royal College of Art, for the photos and time lapse video. To Delphine and Indianna from Delicious most Nutritious for their inspired creations. To Liz, Chloe and Tracey for playing their parts so well, and to all who came along and made this event so unique and special.

Whatever next? 

Would you like to join us on our next adventure?

We will be creating a banner at Downham Celebrates, on Saturday 14 June at Downham Health and Leisure Centre, Moorside Road BR1. Please join us to celebrate Creative Citizens in Downham!

Goldsmiths Summer Festival update - more photos!

Thanks very much to Donald Daby for these great photos from 2o July. Please come along to the Goldsmiths Community Association Annual General Meeting on 21 September from 3-6pm where more local talent awaits to entertain you. Will it be a BBQ, or pizzas from the Earth Oven? Watch this space...

MC Janet Daby

Manuela sings Suzie Quattro, with Goldsmiths Dance Academy

Queue for the face painting

Gospel Choir

Gospel Choir

Heidi Alexander MP announces the raffle prizes

Tim busy at the bbq with Chris taking the orders - and the money!

BB Queue - they were very good

Brunel Bannister on guitar

Chris plays rock guitar

Cllr Mark Ingleby plays jazz piano

Joshua and friend (and another little friend)

Last but not least DJ Granty G, the rapping plasterer, with DJ Cobra and Stevie G

Goldsmiths Summer Festival 20 July 2013

From dancing and singing to live musical performance, smoothies to home made cakes to allotment produce to BBQ, the Goldsmiths Summer Festival on 20 July at Goldsmiths Community Centre was a great success. Funded by the Whitefoot Assembly and supported by Phoenix Community Housing and the Pre-School Learning Alliance Lewisham, the event was well attended and enjoyed by the local community, and the weather couldn't have been better. A stage was built in the George Green Hall garden for live performances by local people, to complement the stage in the hall.

With many thanks to the organising committee, the sponsors, the performers, all the people who volunteered their time on the day and to Donald Daby for the photos of this memorable event. Most of all, to the local people who came along!

Janette and Smita greet the guests, and sell some raffle tickets at the same time

Brunel Bannister on guitar and Councillor Mark Ingleby on keyboard

The fabulous Police Cadets, endlessly helpful, endlessly cheerful!

Chris and Brian the dynamic caretaker duo

Stave - remember you saw them here first!

Performances on the George Green Hall stage by Tamil Dancers

Councillor Janet Daby with the Tamil Dancers

Mr WillHe WontHe entertaining the children

Stevie G, DJ Cobra and friend

Face Painting - you can't see the huge queue

George from the Community Safety Team with Elwood, acting Chair of Goldsmiths Community Association

Hard selling to potential members of the Goldsmiths Community Association 
- would you like to join?

Janet on the sharing table (including raspberries, redcurrants and gooseberries picked that very morning from Kendale Allotments)

Sue, Treasurer of the Goldsmiths Community Association, wearing 'two hats'

Representatives from L and Q and Denne explain the imminent regeneration of the nearby Excalibur prefab Estate

Angela, health trainer on the NHS stall

Some frantic pedalling produced these lovely drinks from the ever popular Smoothie Bike

Fruit chopping for the Smoothie Bike!

Steve Hurren and colleague on the Phoenix Community Housing stall

Heidi Alexander MP, Sally Cross, Goldsmiths Centre Manager, and Councillor Janet Daby

Jonathan Slater, Heid Alexander, Sally Cross, and Janet Daby. Sally has been centre manager at Goldsmiths Community Centre for 22 years, and retired on Friday 26 July.We hope she takes with her many happy memories of the centre and wish her well for the future, in her retirement!