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Peckham and Nunhead August 2018

IT'S SUMMERTIME IN SOUTHWARK   Have you had enough sun yet??? Make the most of it while you can.     Don't Forget the Sunscreen!!

Your community council Local history of Peckham and Nunhead Many thanks to all the contributors who made the June meeting a success....Starting with a local history walk led by Benny O'Looney then back to Harris Academy for the rest of the meeting.  Our Hut who showed us how to read architecture to determine the historical development of places; Joyce Fraser, grand-daughter of Sam King, the first Black Mayor of Southwark, Ben from South London Gallery, who is collecting people's individual stories, and Paul Crooks - an expert in tracing your family tree, especially if you are from BME background. PLUS all the usual business!! The next meeting is on 11 September and planning to look at Competing for Space – community focus Sports and Recreation; Creative Space; Start-up space; Entertainment space;  Social Space – how is usable community space “planned in” to regeneration? Digital space – social/community networks

Your Southwark Family History

Following the theme of our last community council meeting - if you are interested in your Southwark past.... we can help!

Southwark is one of the biggest inner London boroughs and has been home to many different families. If you'd like to learn more about the story of your family in Southwark, the Local History Library and Archive has a number of resources that can help you:

• local electoral registers and local rate books - may connect people to the places in which they lived
• New Poor Law and local workhouse records - can fill in gaps in an ancestor's story
• local directories - give details of businesses and some individuals
• deeds to local properties - may provide a glimpse into an ancestor's business, lifestyle, social circle, or other family members
• photograph and audiovisual collections - may help bring old family stories to life
• microfilmed local newspapers, files of press cuttings and pamphlets - can help to provide wider context for life in the past
• Ancestry Library Edition - can provide a range of records from across the UK, USA and Canada

If you're planning to visit the Local History Library and Archive to look at original records, including Poor Law or workhouse records and deeds, contact us in advance as many records are stored off-site

The search room is the only place you can consult our holdings, including original records, microfilm, press cuttings, audiovisual material and original photographs. However, some of our image collection is available online on our collections site.

If you're interested in copying or publishing material from the library and archive then please consult our fees and publications page.

The Association of Genealogists and Researchers in Archives directory is one way to find local researchers if you'd like to hire someone to carry out research on your behalf.

Open Garden event

Summer Reading Challenge

Are you aged between 14 and 17? Then we have a great volunteering opportunity for you. It's not too late, we have two recruitment sessions planned. So come along find out more and sign up to help us run the Summer Reading Challenge. The theme this year is Mischief Makers, celebrating the 80th Anniversary of the Beano.

Peckham Library, Peckham Hill Street, Southwark, London

7 and 21 August 2018  contact elaine.walters@southwark.gov.uk

Masterclasses for Charities

Our Legal Masterclasses for charity professionals are aimed at non lawyers who have responsibility for navigating common legal areas such as GDPR, contracts and IP.

These Legal Masterclasses are a way for us to bring to life our Legal Toolkit for Charities, which provides an introductory guide to legal issues. If you haven’t already downloaded your free copy, you can find it on our website.

All masterclasses are scheduled between 12pm and 2pm and will be held at Slaughter and May. Places are limited so each charity is restricted to two attendees per session and allocation will be made on a first come, first served basis.

•          Intellectual property (trademarks and copyright) - 25 July

•          Creating a culture of compliance - 2 October

Other topics to follow will include:

•          Competition law for charities and state aid

•          Data protection and privacy (GDPR)

•          Contracts and agreements

To sign up: Simply click on this RSVP link and enter the details of those who would like to attend. You can change the names at a later date if necessary. You will be sent an email confirming your place.

Address: Slaughter and May, One Bunhill Row, London EC1Y 8YY
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For further information or to be added to mailing list for future sessions: E CorporateResponsibility@SlaughterandMay.com; T +44 (0)20 7090 3433

Funding opportunity

The Evening Standard Dispossessed Fund was set up in 2010 to help grassroots charities tackling poverty, inequality and exclusion across the capital. Each year, the Evening Standard Dispossessed Fund focuses on a particular theme, which has previously included supporting young people out of gang activity, funding communities through the Estates programme and supporting organisations repurposing surplus food to provide for those facing food insecurity in London.

This year, the aim of this fund is to build a better and more robust community response to youth violence in London by increasing the impact and resilience of organisations working to reduce violence among young people across London.

The fund will encourage and support locally based solutions that are developed and delivered by a range of organisations, working together in areas across London. 

Themes

Through this fund we will provide grant funding, capacity support and networking opportunities to organisations in London who are responding to youth violence under at least one of the following themes:

• Trauma
• School
• Family

Organisations will need to demonstrate how their proposal addresses one or more of the themes.

Eligibility

Organisations operating in any London borough with an income of under £500,000 are eligible to apply

Grant size

Grants of up to £20,000 are available over two years.

Funding can contribute towards core costs as well as project specific funding and a level of capital funding (capped at 50% of grant)

How to apply

To apply to this fund, please take a look at the fund guidelines and application form guidance by clicking on the buttons below or at the top right hand side of the screen and then clicking on the relevant 'Apply now' button.

Deadline

The closing date for applications is midday on Monday 10th September 2018

Decisions are due to be made by 7th November 2018

Contact

Please contact The Programmes Team at The London Community Foundation if you need help with your application or have any queries about the Fund at applications@londoncf.org.uk or 020 7582 5117.

Carer's Network Day

Carers Network Day - Are you an unpaid carer?

Date: 02 Aug 2018 - 09:30 to 15:30
Location: Sherman Education Centre, 4th Floor Southwark Wing, Guy’s Hospital, Great Maze Pond, London, SE1 9RT

Guys and St Thomas's Foundation Trust are offering a free one day course, for anyone who cares, unpaid, for a friend or family member who cannot cope without your support.

This is your opportunity to further develop the knowledge, skills and confidence that help to make a positive difference to your life and that of the family member or friend that you care for, whilst at the same time having the opportunity to network with other carers.

You will be learning more about:

• Safe Moving and Handling
• Mouth Care
• Personal Hygiene
• Skin Care
• Managing Medications
• Nutrition
• Dementia & Delirium

The day:

You will attend all sessions available throughout the day which will commence at 9.30am and end at 3.30pm with lunch and refreshments provided.

See full information  or contact simulation@gstt.nhs.uk if you have any questions

Take part in this survey

Join Healthwatch Southwark & Southwark LGBT Network borough consultation 2018

Healthwatch Southwark is partnering with the Southwark LGBT Network to deliver a borough wide survey on The needs of the LGBTQ+ community in Southwark, and hope to share the findings with you in January 2019.

https://healthwatchsouthwark.co.uk/news/join-healthwatch-southwark-and-southwark-lgbt-network-borough-consultation-2018

This is the first major LGBTQ+ survey of its kind in Southwark.

As a very important and populous group in the borough, we want to ensure that the needs of seldom heard communities in the borough are fully realised. The results will be used to hold services to account concerning local needs, and help us create priority areas of work. We want to ensure that your voices are heard by local services to create a better Southwark for you to live in. We want to know what life is like for LGBTQ+ people living in Southwark especially around health. That's why we've organised this survey. It includes questions that we think are relevant to LGBTQ+ people and that will help us better understand local needs. To answer this survey, you must be: Aged 16 or over; and Live in Southwark. This survey asked questions about: Your personal experiences in the borough; Where you socialise; Health and social care needs; and Whether other protected characteristic affected your experience as an LGBTQ+ individual. E.g. ethnicity or disability Your thought and opinions are very important to us; without them, we will be unable to create true change in the borough. The consultation period is from beginning of July 2018 till the end of September 2018 For more information, click here

Train like a Jedi

A fun, innovative way to kickstart children into exercise and healthy lifestyles with Change4Life!

https://tinyurl.com/y7odfzzk

Taking inspiration from everyone's favourite Star WarsTM characters, Rey and Luke, it's time to get your kids moving as they learn to master the ways of the Jedi with our fun, play along video. Check back for new games every week throughout the summer – play now!

Quest for Success

Vision Boards are a fun way to create the life you want for yourself. Some people find it hard to write down goals, long term or short term. Creating a visual board is an alternative version to writing a list of goals.   A vision board is any sort of board on which you display images that represent whatever you want to be, do or have in your life. Vision boards create remarkable synergy & alignment around what you want. They are fantastic tools to assist you with creating and manifesting your heart’s desire

Book here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/vision-board-workshops-at-the-shard-tickets-47168794133

or go to www.quest4success.co.uk/manifest for more info.  

Invitation to BBQ

Joe Richards House, Look Ahead | 100 Queens Road, London SE15 2QT

Urgent fundraiser

Dear all,

Earlier this month, Southwark's 'Pecan' Foodbank put out an urgent call for help, explaining that they'd seen their client numbers double in recent weeks. The school holidays are a time when food bank usage increases dramatically. A recent study by food poverty charity Trussell Trust shows that almost half of children helped by foodbanks over the summer holidays are primary school age. 

With this in mind, Ledbury Action Group have set up a fundraiser to support Pecan. We know many people would like to donate, but may not be able to get to the food bank itself for one reason or another. This method of fundraising also enables Pecan to have a reserve fund, to enable the continual running of the essential service to the community that this charity provides.

Please do consider donating here, all the funds raised go directly to Pecan.

For those who wish to make a donation of non-perishable food, please drop it off at: Pecan, 121A Peckham High Street, SE15 5SE, Monday-Friday 9.30am-5pm. Please visit the Pecan food bank website here.

Many thanks,

Danielle Gregory

Ledbury Action Group

Look what CGS fund can do

I’m writing to thank you and your staff for all your efforts in making this garden come about. You and your team have gone over and above, and it’s been an absolute pleasure working with you on such a lovely project. Heartfelt thanks - not just from me but from the countless people who have stopped as they’ve seen me watering the garden, or who have helped to water and care for it was planted a few weeks ago. I moved into my flat at 78 Scylla Road in December 2013. At that point the patch of land that is now a lovely community garden was nothing but weeds, rubbish and the remnants of the old tree that had been cordoned off. Because it didn’t form part of the land that was managed by Southwark council, it was a trial even to get the staff who keep other communal green areas clean and tidy to so much as cut back the very long grass. It was untidy and an eye sore. I wrote several times to the council asking for permission to clear it and make into a garden, but had no response.

 It was by complete chance that Nick Dolezal happened to knock on my door before some local elections. It was he who recommended that I apply for the council’s Cleaner, Greener, Safer initiative (thank you!). And so I did. It has taken many months, but the result is wonderful. The garden has transformed the place. It is bright. It brings joy to the residents of the borough. From the elderly residents of the Beeston’s Gift Almshouses on Consort Road who tell me that the flowers, bees and butterflies are brightening their days, to the little girls who bring small watering cans and measure the sunflowers, to my disabled neighbour who wheels watering cans of water in this heat from her flat to the garden to care for it, and who says it is giving her much-needed exercise: a huge thank you to you and your team. We could not be happier with our little garden, though we will continue to search for water sources beyond the lovely recycled water, which you arranged, Nils. I attach some before and after photos to show you how far we’ve come. Already people are talking about tidying and planting other unused spaces - so who knows where this will end. Certainly, I have spoken to more of my neighbours and had more lovely interactions with the community since the garden was planted a couple of weeks ago than in the 5 years before. We hope to have a little party to celebrate once the garden is a little more established, and we hope you’ll join us. In the meantime, thank you so much for everything you’ve done. 

Vacancies in Hospitality

from Peabody...

I met with a fantastic employer last week who has over 200 live vacancies in Hospitality, they recruit for hotels such as Hilton, Doubletree Hilton, Crowne Plaza and The Marriott just to name a few. They have vacancies all around London and the employer will aim to place employees in Hotels near where they live or request, successful applicants are NOT expected to travel to different hotels and will be based at one.

Previous experience preferred and they are willing to take people with cleaning backgrounds interested in Housekeeping roles.

Employee benefits include 28 days holiday

Company pension

Option for career development after probation period

Free ESOL Support available

Uniform provided after probation by Hotel and a free meal when on duty.

I have attached Job Descriptions for all the jobs that I am recruiting for, pay starts at £7.83 p/hr depending on the hotel.  This an ongoing vacancy

Please send name, contact details and CVs, by email. Please ensure applicants have rights to work in the UK

Very happy to answer any question/queries regarding these vacancies.

Cathryn Pang | Employment Broker, East Region | Community Investment| Peabody

Tel: 0203 828 3586 |Mob: 07884 438530 |Email: cathryn.pang@peabody.org.uk

Writing Competition

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Activities with AAINA

Summer Fun Activites

Parent Skills - diary of activities

24th July   Tuesday 10am-1.00pm  

Rye Oak Children's Centre Whorlton rd. SE15 3PD

Arts and crafts, music, Nutrition, healthy cooking  story telling, etc.

25th -27th July  Wednesday -  Friday, 1:00pm - 3.00pm

The Green Nunhead Community Centre 5 Nunhead Green London  SE15 3QQ

Arts & Crafts, story telling, Music, singing, games, healthy eating, etc.

25th-27th July Wednesday - Friday, 10.30am - 12:30 pm

Lewington Centre Rotherhithe 9 Eugenia road SE16 2RU

Arts & Crafts, story telling healthy eating, Playing the guitar, etc.

30th July  Monday 10.30am -12.30 pm

All hubs  

Mini Trip to Houses of Parliament

(Families attending venue sessions will be prioritised) .

31st July Tuesday 10.00am -1.00pm

Rye Oak Children's Centre Whorlton rd. SE15 3PD

Arts and crafts, music, Nutrition, healthy cooking  story telling, etc.

31st July  -3rd August Tuesday - Friday 1.00am -3.00pm

The Green Nunhead Community Centre 5 Nunhead Green London  SE15 3QQ

Arts &Crafts, story telling healthy eating, etc.

1st -3rd August Wednesday- Friday 10.30- 12.30pm

Lewington Centre Rotherhithe 9 Eugenia road SE16 2RU   

Arts &Crafts, story telling healthy eating, Potato printing clay modelling, Family walk,  Trip to Brunel Museum etc.

6th August Monday 10.00 -12.00

All Hubs

Mini Trip to Tower of London

(families attending  venue sessions  will be prioritised)

7th  August  Tuesday 10.00am-1.00pm

Rye Oak Children's Centre Whorlton rd. SE15 3PD

Arts and crafts, music, Nutrition, healthy cooking  story telling, etc.

7th -10th August Wednesday - Friday 1.00-3pm

The Green Nunhead Community Centre 5 Nunhead Green London  SE15 3QQ

Arts &Crafts, story telling healthy eating, etc.

8th -10th August Wednesday - Friday 10:30am -12:30pm

Lewington Centre Rotherhithe 9 Eugenia road SE16 2RU

Arts &Crafts, story telling healthy eating, etc .

13th August Monday 10.00-1.00pm

All Hubs

Mini Trip to House of Parliament

(families attending  venue sessions will be prioritised )

For more information and to book a place please email   parentskillstogo@gmail.com Or phone 079855973660/07592575675 Activities Arts & Crafts, games, creative writing, face painting,  singing, music, healthy cooking, mini trips, and more! Monday 23rd July -Friday 10th August 2018 For families with young children (0-10 years)                     (Lunch will be provided so booking is essential)

Telling the story of Sam King - Black Heroes Foundation

This month The Black Heroes Foundation has been working together with Road Works Media and Southwark Youth Services to offer an opportunity for young people in the  London Borough of Southwark to engage in making a film about  Samuel King MBE. Born in Jamaica, 1926 he had every intention of taking over the family business until news of the war broke out.  It was in 1944, when he responded to a Royal Air Force advertisement in the Daily Gleamer, looking for volunteers to fight against Nazi Germany. Shortly afterwards he passed the tests he needed to and was posted to a fighter station to serve as an engineer.

The war ended and king went back to Jamaica until, in 1948 he returned back to England on board the Empire Windrush after seeing an advert for people to help in assisting with the reconstruction of the country, after the devastation left behind by WW2. Settling in Camberwell, South London he started working with the Royal Mail service, and also joined the post workers’ union. During this period King surpassed himself and went on to prove that your background doesn’t have to be a barrier against achieving what you want. He worked alongside his colleagues, which lead to the creation of The West Indian Gazette and Afro-Asian Caribbean News, the first published newspapers to be produced by black journalists based in Brixton.  By 1984 he was nominated to be labour member of Southwark council for Bellenden Ward, Peckham, and then a year later he became the first black mayor for the borough of Southwark.

The generation of Windrush have not been forgotten and his legacy continues on within the borough. Highlighted by this series of ongoing workshops in partnership with Road Works Media, The Black Heroes Foundation aims at educating peers and others on the legacy of Sam King. The purpose of the workshops is to provide young people with an opportunity to develop key skills relevant to the industry of filmmaking. Tutorials will be focused on the processes involved in recording visual and audio elements, directing, interviewing techniques and editing footage. This is a unique opportunity to celebrate the legacy and achievements of Black Heroes from Southwark. Together young people from all backgrounds are creating a film for any age which educates others on the aspirational figure of Sam King's work within the black community. Sam Beaver King passed away 17th June 2016.

By Karla Hunter

Handyperson scheme

National Theatre opportunity

Hope for Life campaign

This is continuation of the pilot project funded by the Big Lottery, where we were able to reach out and support 150 communities of interest (People living with HIV) (Black Africa 143, White British 2, Other White 3, Asian 2). The Ernest Foundation (TEF) runs an intervention programme for people, particularly from the African Community in Greater London, who are living with HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases to help them rebuild their lives, raise self-esteem and overcome social stigma. We also provide HIV educational programmes for the general public and for young people in schools on attitudes and perceptions about the illness. Our services are offered to all ethnic groups, genders, sexual preferences, and to people of all religions or none. The project initiatives are usually carried out at Bells Gardens Community Centre, Peckham.

The framework for our work is embedded with three main activity areas namelypeer support, skills development, and public education The peer support involves a networking forum, medication, counselling, healthy eating, personal management, coping with the illness and confidence in community living. The skills development focuses on training of HIV positive individuals to become outreach workers, plus creative design and writing skills that can inform the publication of a newsletter. The public education campaign involves the creating, writing and distribution of a quarterly newsletter. If you want to know more go to http://www.theernestfoundation.org/website/

Job vacancy

Manager

35 Hours per week

Salary: PO1 (£33,452 - £35,776 pa) plus 5% pension contribution.

Southwark Travellers Action Group (STAG) is seeking to recruit an experienced manager to support the Gypsy Roma Traveller Community mainly living in Southwark.

Southwark has a fairly stable local Gypsy and Traveller population, mainly Irish Travellers, living on four local authority sites and across the borough in bricks and mortar accommodation. 

STAG aims to be a hub for the community, to provide tailored and trusted support, and to work to improve people’s life experiences by supporting improvements in health, in obtaining and sustaining appropriate accommodation, maximising educational opportunities, and helping to find meaningful and rewarding employment as well as celebrating culture.  We want to support the local Gypsy and Traveller communities to influence decision making in order to achieve greater equality.

You will need to demonstrate the following key skills and abilities

• Proven skills and abilities in project management, staff supervision, facilitation, evaluation and report writing.
• A strong understanding of Gypsy and Traveller communities and social inclusion issues.
• Excellent inter-personal and community communication skills.

• Ability to commit to and work within the aims, principles and policies of STAG 
• Terms and conditions include: Flexible working policy

• 30 days’ holiday  
• Opportunities to learn new skills

For an application pack please contact marie@staglondon.org

For an informal discussion about the role please contact sally.causer@southwarklawcentre.org.uk

Closing date for applications: Monday 17 August at 12 Noon

Fundraising Met Police Choir

Lets get Moving!!!

Lets Get Moving – Free Play scheme this summer.

A brand new scheme is being piloted by Southwark Council called  Free Play - which enables families and residents to have access and use for free a range of sports and play equipment (donated by Decathlon)  in their local parks.

The scheme will run in August in collaboration with Millwall Community Trust and Creation Trust and be based in Burgess Park and Southwark Park, these will be a mix of assisted free play sessions and the opportunity for residents to  borrow and use the equipment unsupervised for a specified time in the park.              

In addition, free equipment will be available to borrow for use in Burgess Park every day in August at Giraffe House from 10am to 4pm

Launch Event Thursday 9th August  - Burgess Park (Behind Giraffe House -285 Albany Road, SE5 0AH ) 3:00pm-5:00pm

Please do circulate to any local groups, youth clubs and  families that may  be interested in using the scheme.

For more information contact sports@southwark.gov.uk

Southwark BMX

The BMX Track London offers a varied programme to suit riders of all abilities including: child balance bikes & Junior riders coaching for beginner/novice & intermediate school holiday clubs women only birthday parties & full range of events gates practice A highly experienced team coach all sessions, and equipment hire is included (when needed). Enquire by email thebmxtrack.london@southwark.gov.uk or call 07976 340 111. The Track is the proud home of Peckham BMX Club who run an enormously successful weekly programme. It offers the perfect stepping stone for riders who have attended learner classes and wish to further develop their riding experience.  For further information regarding Peckham BMX please email pkhambmx@ymail.com. Rock up and Ride sessions Free Rock up and Ride sessions for accredited riders take place throughout the week, these sessions are free of charge and spaces do not need to be booked. Call to find out how to accredit or for more details of Rock Up And Ride sessions 07976 340 111.

One second...

Anna Waldauer is a young photographer form Graz, Austria, who is known by her alias Anatevka Photography. She grew up in a fairly small village in the green, rural heart of Austria which she had to leave behind to pursue a university education. Though, having lived on a farm with her two siblings, her parents and her grandparents, Anna came to realize the importance of helping each other and the beauty of sharing a close bond with her family. Despite the geographical distance, she visits them as often as possible and enjoys every minute of it.

Art has always been an important factor in Anna’s life. At the age of eight she started to paint, learning different methods and styles form a close friend of the family, who is an Austrian painter. When Anna was given a camera for her fourteenth birthday, everything changed. Up until this point painting used to be her prime passion, yet Anna quickly become fascinated by the raw beauty of photography. Since then, Anna spends every free minute trying to improve her work and to learn new aspects of her newfound passion. Anna studies German at the University of Graz, however, working as an artist and a photographer is her top priority. Thus, after having moved to Graz, she attended the Academy of applied Photography Graz, where she learned how to express her emotions through her art and how to find her own style. To deepen her knowledge, improve her skills and gather even more new information; Anna attended the add-on course Masterclassat the Academy of applied Photography Graz.  

Anna is a kind and curious young woman who will gladly carry all of her equipment to the top of a mountain just to get that one perfect shot.

Caribbean Football Club

Fancy a bit of Peckham Permaculture???

Glengall Wharf Garden 64 Glengall Road Peckham SE15 5NH To join the mailing list contact us at burgessfoodproject@gmail.com. Alternate Tuesdays 6-8pm Starting July 31st An informal, fortnightly session that focuses on the development and maintenance of the forest garden and hugel mounds using permaculture principles and techniques. These will be relaxed evening sessions where you can learn how we can mimic natural systems and connections found in nature to create abundant, beautiful and ecologically beneficial spaces. Each week will begin with a short theory talk and then move on to a practical task. Activities will be seasonal, to include harvesting, watering, seed saving, repair and maintenance, pruning and much more. Come and join us if you're curious about permaculture, want to gain experience of using permaculture in a practical setting. We aim to establish a permaculture guild of like minded people at the garden who can help us promote and develop permaculture on site. Further dates for your diary: 14th / 28th August, 11th / 25th September

Community TV Trust - making a documentary

Peckham Settlement has funded a series of discussion events and the making of a documentary to go into schools to encourage debate and reflection on the troublesome issue of Knife Crime.

Would anyone wishing to take part in the discussion events please contact Chris Haydon by email:

chris@communitytvtrust.org

Football Challenge Cup

Time Out backs Peckham Festival

Since 2016, Peckham Festival has been championing artists, makers, creators and community groups in the SE15 area, endeavouring to broaden the public’s awareness of them and access the work they’re creating. 

A whopping 15,000 people attended events at last year’s feelgood festival, which included performances, workshops and exhibitions taking place in underused public and privates spaces. Off the back of that success, the organisers are now looking to raise funds to make 2018’s festival even more lively and exciting, while continuing to keep it free and open to all. 

They’ve set an initial goal of £20,000, which would mean the team could hire both a production manager and volunteer manager, pay for brochure printing, insurance, security and have the St John’s Ambulance on site throughout. They’re not afraid to go big, however, and hitting a bigger target would mean they could add a programme of free workshops and activities, a music stage, public carnival and more.

If that sounds like your jam, you can throw some dosh in Peckham Festival’s direction via its crowdfunding page which is open for the next month. Perks for pledges include super-cute babygrows for junior supporters. We’ll see you and your brood there!

Peckham Festival will take place on Fri Sept 14-Sun Sept 16 2018. Support its crowdfunding campaign here.

Can’t wait until September? See what London’s artists are up to at these open-studio weekenders or check out more unmissable summer events in London.

By Stephanie Hartman

Steph is a freelance writer at Time Out London and pineapple enthusiast. Follow her on Twitter @S_J_Hartman.

Photo © Tristan Bejawn

Peckhamplex

Dear Friends of Peckhamplex, What a week! Two major blockbusters, the joyous twists and turns, sequins and spandex in the sunny sequel to Mamma Mia!, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again and Mr Amazing, Tom Cruise, soaring back to stratospheric heights on his best Mission yet. This film definitely hits spy movie high ground. Hanging from a helicopter over Kashmir or jumping 25,000 foot from a plane, it’s a dream come true for action junkies.

ELVIS: ’68 Comeback special 50th Anniversary (tbc) Thursday 16th August at 20:30 It’s been 50 years since Elvis Presley, the undisputed king of rock, performed in his legendary '68 Comeback concert recorded on December 3, 1968. Originally airing as a TV special, having not appeared on stage in front of a live audience for more than seven years, this spectacular performance is seen by many as the Memphis icon's most substantial achievement as a stage performer. The Special sees him performing alone as well as in jam sessions, Elvis playing his greatest role - simply being his magnificent self. 120 mins. .

Peckham Rye Fete

Volunteer Drivers

Vounteer at Peckham festival

Peckham Festival is made possible each year with the help of over eighty outstanding volunteers. The volunteers are the glue that keeps the festival together. Volunteer roles cover a number of tasks from artist liaison to photography, PR to stewarding and so much more. We welcome volunteers to come and join the Peckham Festival Team, be part of an amazing event, meet new people, gain new skills – or improve old skills – and just have a great time. Peckham Festival are looking for volunteers from now until the end of the festival! 

Musical Training for Young People

HourBank

Come and join us at our All Saints Café. Find out how HourBank works and enjoy a relaxing cup of coffee. 9.30 -11am every Tuesday from September.

Free Coffee, Cake and Chat. All Saints Church, Blenheim Grove.

Peckham HOurBank - Pecan
121a Peckham High Street, London, SE15 5SE | T: 020 7732 0007 | www.pecan.org.uk 

Borough HOurBank - St Georges

Borough High Street, London, SE1 1JA | T: 020 7357 7331 | www.stgeorge-themartyr.co.uk

How does timebanking work? | Watch our short film | Join us on facebook

"Spend a little time with us, and make a big difference."

The Tales of Beatrix Potter

The Tales of Beatrix Potter’ is a fantastic interactive theatre production for all ages. With a national reputation for creating imaginative twists on classic family stories, Gobbledigook Theatre bring a show inspired by three of Potters favourite tales –as well as details of her life and what she achieved. Join Beatrix Potter and her characters on an adventure, which York Press called ‘An Utter Delight’.

The Big List - loads of Summer activities for young people

The summer holidays are here at last, and for young people in Southwark, it’s promising to be a jam-packed summer of fun.

From BMXing to arts projects, crafts to cookery, music workshops to youth clubs there’s something for everyone right on your doorstep. 

The council has launched a new resource, where young people, parents and carers can find out about everything that is available over the summer holidays in just a few clicks. As well as council funded activities, the website also captures activities run by local voluntary groups and theatres.

There are activities for all age groups as well as events focussed on children and young people with special education needs.

Cllr Evelyn Akoto, Cabinet Member for Communities and Public Health, said: 

“The summer holidays are a time for young people to recharge their batteries after the long school year, but no-one wants to spend six weeks sitting around with nothing to do. In Southwark there are plenty of reasons to get out of bed in the morning, to meet up with friends and have a great time.

“I’m really proud that we are able to offer such a mix of activities for young people in our borough. As wells as sports and creative activities, there are also sessions that focus on healthy lifestyles and career skills. The majority of the activities available are free or low cost so this gives everyone the opportunity to try something new, gain new skills, make friends and of course, have fun.”

To see what’s available near you visit www.southwark.gov.uk/summer for more information.

Please see link below re: activities for children and young people to do over the summer. 

www.southwark.gov.uk/summer

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