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Hackbridge Network Community News: Issue 24/ Spring 2012 for Hackbridge, Beddington Corner & Wandle Valley http//www.hackbridge.net; @Hackbridgenet; Hackbridge-Network LOCAL POLICE OFFICER HONOURED Sarah Lowe, the PCSO here in Hackbridge, is a well known and respected figure on the streets. She seems to know everyone and is unfailingly helpful when called upon. We are delighted that on 28th February she was awarded the title of "PCSO of the Year" for the whole of the Metropolitan Police. When asked about one of her highlights, she replied, "Definitely it was getting a Responsible Retailer Agreement covering all the local shops, including Middleton Circle, so that the high alcohol drinks are no longer sold here. It has meant that the street drinkers are not around as some of them did intimidate residents." Than you, Sarah, for all your work in helping Hackbridge & Beddington Corner a better place to live. TAKE A LOOK AT www.hackbridge.net for the latest news on Hackbridge Planning, events and activities in the area; JOIN UP to discuss Corbet Close redevelopment (left), Wandle Valley and much, much more! LOAD YOUR PICS onto our facebook page Hackbridge-Network; TWEET @Hackbridgenet
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Hackbridge Network
Community News: Issue 24/ Spring 2012 for Hackbridge, Beddington Corner & Wandle Valley
http//www.hackbridge.net; @Hackbridgenet; Hackbridge-Network
LOCAL POLICE OFFICER HONOURED Sarah Lowe, the PCSO here in Hackbridge, is a well known and respected figure on the streets. She seems to know everyone and is unfailingly helpful when called upon. We are delighted that on 28th February she was awarded the title of "PCSO of the Year" for the whole of the Metropolitan Police.
When asked about one of her highlights, she replied, "Definitely it was getting a Responsible Retailer Agreement covering all the local shops, including Middleton Circle, so that the high alcohol drinks are no longer sold here. It has meant that the street drinkers are not around as some of them did intimidate residents." Than you, Sarah, for all your work in helping Hackbridge & Beddington Corner a better place to live.
TAKE A LOOK AT www.hackbridge.net
for the latest news on Hackbridge Planning, events and
activities in the area; JOIN UP to discuss Corbet Close
redevelopment (left), Wandle Valley and much, much more!
LOAD YOUR PICS onto our facebook page Hackbridge-Network;
TWEET @Hackbridgenet
2SAVING THE LOCAL BRIDGES CAMPAIGN
Local resident Marianne Rasmussen reports:
Despite acknowledgement of the bridges' importance both to local people and as key to the Country Park, we have been warned that Network Rail still intend to demolish them.
My suggestion is that everyone interested in the bridges meets up every Saturday at 10am and walks up and over the bridge and back. Bring a thermos, bring your friends, bring your dogs…….
If we can, bit by bit, every Saturday, get together a volume of people, it will help ...
GET GROWING - SPRING IS ON ITS WAY Poppy Berelowitz, Community Allotment Worker says:
Now is a crucial time in the year to start planning what to grow, buying seeds, chitting potatoes and making sure your growing space is ready for planting.
Locals living in flats or people who have small gardens come down to weekly gardening and volunteer sessions at Carshalton Community Allotment every Friday and Sunday from 10.30am to 1pm. Last week at the allotment was spent adding manure to beds, sorting seeds, weeding the onions, covering beans to stop them frosting, fixing the shed and pruning the fruit bushes.
Also on offer are a fantastic range and EcoLocal are offering 50% discount to people living in the Hackbridge area for a limited time, first come, first served.
Food Growing Training coming up: • Kitchen Gardening: 1st April • Wildlife Friendly Vegetable Patch: 22nd April • Herb Gardening: 6th May • Keeping Bees: 12th May • Introduction to Food Growing: 26th May • 6 week Food Growing courses starting: 25th and 28th April
Please visit the website for more details: www.localfoodnetwork.org.uk or call 020 8770 6611
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MARVELLOUS Flowers for all occasions
Wedding and funeral flowers at affordable prices
Where? Hackbridge Corner, next to the
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When? 10am - 7 pm every day (Mon, Tues from 3.00)
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BedZED Pavilion Sandmartin Way, BedZED SM6 7DF (next to the field) |
Upcoming events at BedZED Pavilion ZEDBar – Fridays 23 March and 27 April 7:00 to 10pm
Selection of local real ales from a Dorking brewery plus Fair Trade wines and soft drinks. Open to all adults and no entrance fee. No under 18s will be admitted.
BedZED Pavilion Cafe Japanese Lunch – Thursday 29 March, 1:00 to 2:30pm Ikuko Kajiwara is hosting another of her mouth-watering Japanese lunches. Cost is £5 per head. Reservation is essential - phone 020 8544 5113 or email [email protected].
Sutton In Transition – 3rd Friday of every month 7:30 to 9:30pm Sutton in Transition (Transition Towns movement) is a network of local people working on local solutions in response to global challenges. Films, discussions, tea and cakes! Admission free. Contact George Dow on 077 3295 1205.
Get active at BedZED Pavilion Hip Hop and Street Dance with X-plosion dance company
Mondays 4:15-5:00pm Hip-Hop 7-11 years Mondays 5:00-5:35pm Hip-Hop 4-7 years Mondays 5:45-6.30pm Hip-Hop (intermediate) 12-15 years Mondays 6.30-8.00pm Hip-Hop (advanced) 14+ years Mondays 8:00-9:00pm Adult Street Dance/ Bashment Tuesdays 9:30-11:00am Zumba Tuesdays 4:30-6:00pm Performance Crew Training Tuesdays 6:00-7:00pm Closed session Thursdays 4:30-5.00pm Street dance 2-4 years Thursdays 5:00-5:30pm Hip Hop 4-6 years Thursdays 5:30-6:15pm Hip Hop 7-11 years Fridays 4:00-6:00pm Junior Crew Training Fridays 6:00-7:00pm Hip Hop (Intermediate)12+ years Contact Natalie Ward | Phone 077 2333 5163 | Email [email protected]
Zumba with Sarah D Mondays 9.30-10.30am Contact Sarah Daniels | Phone 079 3183 2148
Zumba - Get Fit DanceIT Tuesdays 7.00-9.00pm Contact Helen Patterson | Phone 079 5833 4257 | Email [email protected]
Karate for all levels and ages Thursdays 6.30-8.00pm Saturdays 9.30-11am Contact Carlos Joaquim | Phone 079 3201 2159 | Email [email protected]
Zumba - Go Zumba Jo Thursdays 8.15-9.15pm Contact Jodie Abrahams | Phone 077 5275 3793 | Email [email protected]
Jelly-Bellies – gentle activity for the lazy Saturdays 10.00-11.30am Contact Pauline Lewis | Phone 078 8060 1754 | Email [email protected]
Please visit www.bedzedpavilion.org.uk for updated information about all our events
BedZED Bookfest
Wednesday 18 April, 6 to 9pm
Come and share the pleasure of a real book! Browse and buy the books that
were once the treasures of others. Bring your well-loved books to sell.
Espresso bar will be open
Entry - suggested donation £1
Space will be limited so please contact us if you're selling your books;
phone 020 8544 5113 or [email protected]
First Hackbridge Summer
Beer Festival
Friday 11 May, 7 to 11pm Saturday 12 May, 5 to 11pm
This summer BedZED is 10 years old and what better way to celebrate than
hosting Hackbridge's first Beer Festival?
In addition to 20 real ales there will be locally brewed lager, FairTrade wines, softer drinks and a variety of snacks.
Entry is only £1.50, which includes a 50p charity donation. Don't miss it!!!!!!
Contact Nick Banks on 077 6247 7804
Espresso Bar
Organic coffee Speciality tea blends
Fruit smoothies Freshly baked cookies
Opening soon!
Hire the Pavilion
Various spaces and meeting rooms available for hire.
It's simple to book a space at BedZED Pavilion
1. Online www.bedzedpavilion.org.uk
2. Phone 020 8544 5113
3. Email [email protected]
BedZED Pavilion is managed by The New Possibility Committee, a Company Limited by Guarantee. Company number 5986323 Registered office: 24 Sandmartin Way, Hackbridge, Wallington SM6 7DF
Phone 020 8544 5113 Email [email protected] Online www.bedzedpavilion.org.uk
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HACKBRIDGE DOJO NEWS Sensei Carlos reports: Hackbridge Dojo SKC has completed another successful KEWAP- Knifes and Edged Weapons awareness course. This course is not a martial arts course, it involves a power point presentation with facts and aspects of the law, it makes use of images and props to illustrate the reality of knife crime in the UK, it is very informative and clears some of the myths about self defence.
Towards the end of this course basic self defence techniques are practiced in a friendly environment. We have received 100% positive feedback from the course we run so far. To book or to find out more go to our website www.hackbridgedojo.co.uk and click on the KEWAP sign.
Coming up soon: • 21st April Karate training with Sensei Edmundo Reis 5th Dan
• 12th May Self Defense workshop 1 (Book early) • 19th May Self Defense workshop 2 (Book early)
Also:
We are starting a kids only class from March 2012, on Thursday nights 6:15 to 7:15pm. This class is being prepared to be kids specific and include games and challenges that the kids will identify with. It will run for a 10 week trial at the price of £40.
If you would like to register your children 5 years plus please e-mail:
Sensei Carlos [email protected] We are open most of the year and any time
is a good time to start, come join us!
HACKBRIDGE PLANNING UPDATE From Steve Pearce, Hackbridge Programme Manager: . My aim is to try and co-ordinate all of the activities that the Council and its partners (including community groups, the Police, Health, schools, local businesses and developers) are undertaking to make Hackbridge a sustainable suburb (meaning balancing the social, economic and environmental needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs).
Kelvin House and Hackbridge Road will be completed later this year. Durand Close, a large project, will take longer. The Felnex Site, Corbet Close and Wandle Valley Trading Estate are expected to commence in 2013 and be completed within 5 years. Meanwhile: • a range of partners, including Council, residents, community groups and business are addressing energy efficiency and associated issues in existing properties (often referred to as Retrofit).
• we are exploring the possibility of establishing a Decentralised Energy Network that could harness the heat presently lost to the atmosphere from the Landfill Gas engines at Beddington and deliver “cheap heat” to new properties and possibly existing residential and commercial properties.
• aimed at improving sustainable transport and access in Hackbridge. The new London Road bridge is complete. Funds are in place to improve access at Hackbridge station. Outer London Fund resources from the Mayor will be used to improve bus, pedestrian and cycle access in and around the Hackbridge District Centre in the next two years.
• we are working to make the fantastic asset, the River Wandle, better. The Wandle Trust work with local schools and volunteers to clean the river up, re-introduce fish stocks and improve the footpaths along the edge.
The planning group meet at the All Saints Centre on the last Wednesday of every month (at 7.00pm). The next Hackbridge Community Forum is at the Hackbridge Primary School on 19th April (7.00pm). If you want more information about any specific aspects of the programme, please contact me directly on 07736 338 034 or [email protected] , or visit Hackbridge.net.
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ALL SAINTS CENTRE New Road, CR4 4JN.
Centre Office Tel: 020 8646 1937
Email: [email protected]
For parents, carers and young children: PARENT & TODDLERS Tuesday 9.30 – 11.30 am CHILDMINDERS Wednesday 9.30 – 11.30 am Phone Sherilee 07852 658 738
HUMPTY DUMPTY PLAYGROUP for children aged 2-5 (over 3s : 15 hrs free, supported by LBS) LUNCH CLUB AND AFTERNOONS AVAILABLE NOW!
Monday to Friday 9.30 – 3.30 pm Phone Jackie 07729 434 226 For young people: THEATRE BUGS DANCE Baby Ballet age 3-6 Tuesday 4.00 – 4.30 pm Ballet age 6+ Tuesday 4.30 – 5.00 pm Phone Zoë 07968 021 406
DANCE EXPRESS (age 8-adult) Monday 4.30 – 6.30 pm Phone Becky 07917 702 234
BLUE STARZ Cheerleading Squad Age 3-5 Friday 4.30 – 7.00 pm Phone Abigail 8647 4286 Open to everyone: BALLROOM DANCING LESSONS
Saturday 7.00 – 10.00 pm Phone Marion on 8648 7488
YOGA for the over-50s Monday 9.30 – 11.00 am Contact George Phillips 8641 5482
MITCHAM CAMERA CLUB Wednesday 8.00 – 10.00 pm
www.mitchamcameraclub.com
COMMUNITY GAMES NIGHT Thursday 7.30 – 9.30 pm Phone Jen 07946 373 804
MARTIAL ARTS Tai Chi Chuan Monday 8.00 – 9.00 pm Wednesday 6.30 – 7.30pm Karate Monday 8.00 – 10.00 pm Kung Fu Wednesday 7.30 – 9.00 pm Karate Friday 7.00 – 8.30 pm
COMMUNITY LUNCH CLUB Tuesday 1.00 – 2.00 pm
SENIOR CORNER CLUB Bingo, singing & chat Tuesday 2.00 – 3.30 pm
March 2012.
COME DANCING with Ace Dance
Ballroom & Latin for everyone Saturdays - £6 for evening Beginners 7.00 – 8.00
General Dance 8.00 – 10.00 All Saints Centre, New Road
Contact Marion 020 8648 7488
COMMUNITY LUNCH CLUB Every Tuesday at 1 p.m. our
volunteers run a Community Lunch Club
for local people Only £5.00 for a healthy and freshly cooked 2 course meal
and fruit juice. Vegetarians & special diets catered for with advance
agreement.
To join us call 020 8646 1937
HALLS AVAILABLE for regular hire £11/hr and
children’s parties most afternoons at £30/hr
Contact June Mountsteven, Centre Manager, 020 8646 1937 [email protected]
GAMES NIGHT
Thursdays 7.30-9.30pm
Teens to adults £2 Badminton & Wii, etc; internet, board games, cooking….. lots of fun
BINGO NIGHT first of the month
Call 07946 373 804 for info
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ALL SAINTS BIBLE CHALLENGE Virtually the whole congregation of All Saints is taking part in a big challenge - to read the whole of the New Testament in 8 weeks.
They are using a completely new edition of the New Testament. It is in modern English - no thees and thous. It does away with all the additions that have crept in over the centuries, so there are no chapters, no verse numbers, no headings, no red print, no columns.
It reads like a normal book, and they are reading it like a normal book, ten pages a day. Every week they meet over a soup, bread and cheese lunch or supper to discuss it just like a book club. It is having a real impact on people. "The discipline of reading it all through, reading it in total, we pick up wisdom on the way." "It brings it to life, it reads like a novel. It really touched me about the power of Jesus and about the Holy Spirit. It's like we had read it in black and white before and now we're reading it in colour."
SOLAR PANELS FOR THE ALL SAINTS CENTRE From June Mountsteven, All Saints Centre Manager: In 2009 the area surrounding the All Saints Church, the Low Carbon Zone benefited from some money from the Greater London Authority for Energy Conservation. The money was to retrofit the older homes and buildings. The community centre used by lots of people in the locality benefited in several ways, the most obvious being 16 photo voltaic solar panels.
So far over 1000kWh of electricity have been produced in the 6 months since they were installed. There is a also a graph by the office showing how much energy is produced (in blue) and used (in red). In December £100 pay-back was received but I'm expecting it will be more as the sun shines longer and stronger each day. I have read that the Feed-in-tariff can pay out over £1000 a year, which might even pay the whole electricity bill. Perhaps the digits on the display will whizz up to over 3000 W and the blue line on the graph cross over and be higher than the red one!
OBITUARY Two friends of All Saints and the wider community who will be much missed.
Burt Harris, 96 when he died, having lived & raised his family here for many years. Burt was a practical chap who gave many voluntary hours to rebuilding the Centre with Rev Esdaile in the 60s, and came for lunch on a Tuesday for the five years since the Community Lunch Club started.
Jim Lockless, who recently had his 50th birthday, was Karate teacher to many across Sutton but specifically to a small group here at All Saints on a Monday evening – and played a good game of badminton on a Thursday night at the Community Games Night.
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VICAR'S CORNER
In January Linda and I went on an extraordinary two weeks' pilgrimage to Jerusalem and Galilee. Our group consisted of 21 people , some with many years of working with Palestinians in helping to improve their lives, including the editor of this paper, Jo Simister, who worked for 12 years in Jerusalem helping Palestinian children with disabilities. For some, like Linda, it was their first visit.
Our pilgrimage had three parts. We went during the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, and went to a service each day in different churches, including some quite exotic worship events such as that of the Armenian and Ethiopian Orthodox churches. The whole flavour was of worship as something mysterious yet objective which we enter in with principally with our bodies and our feelings.
We visited the main holy sites – a highlight was visiting the site of Jesus' baptism in the River Jordan. It was a beautiful spot, with the Jordan quite a substantial river thanks to the recent heavy rain, fringed on both sides by tall reed beds. We were lucky to get there because it is often closed for security reasons – the country of Jordan is only 25 yards away.
And we saw many projects which try to make life better for Palestinians – four hospitals/care centres which cared for children or adults with disabilities, a Quaker school in Ramallah and a Palestinian brewery – Taybeh beer is brewed to the same standard as German lager and is excellent!
The hardest part was the unremitting sense of pressure on the part of Israel to squeeze Palestinians – the separation wall and checkpoints which can take up to three hours to negotiate each way in order to go to work, school or hospital - the constant creep of Jewish settlements being built on Palestinian land such as Maale Adumim, or taking over Palestinian houses in East Jerusalem – other unfairnesses such as the people of Bethlehem having to pay four times as much for their water than the neighbouring Jewish settlements and having their water cut off for up to 28 days at a time.
The most encouraging part was meeting so many people who had the courage and heart to continue working for a just and humane way of living despite the obstacles put in place by the Israeli authorities. When I was first ordained by the Bishop of Southwark in 1984, he spoke to us of the need to cultivate “patient endurance”. It was a renewed inspiration for me to see the patient endurance of people like Abdullah, Fr Raed, Sam and Jean Zara, who said,
Churches in Hackbridge
ALL SAINTS CHURCH (CofE) New Road CR4 4JL
Sunday 10.00 Parish Communion & Young Church
7.00 Evening Prayer Tel. Rev Andrew Roland 020 8648 3650
APOSTOLIC CHURCH All Saints Centre, New Road Sunday 10.45 – 1.00 Worship
Tel. John Quarcoopome 020 8395 5794
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH
All Saints Centre, New Road Saturday 10.00 Sabbath worship Tel. Dusan Uzelac 07909 834 636
OLIVE TREE MINISTRIES a Pentecostal church meeting
in All Saints Church Sunday 2.00pm
Tel. Olive Barnor 020 8652 5722
KINGDOM LOVE CHURCH at Wandle Valley Community Centre
Sundays 10.00 Bible Study 10.45 Main Service
Tel. Dishon Mwanzi 020 8640 1312
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CELEBRATE HOLY WEEK + EASTER
Sunday 1st April PALM SUNDAY
10.00 Family Service with informal drama
7.00 Taize Prayer – meditative singing and home-made cakes
Friday 6th April GOOD FRIDAY
2.00 Hour by the Cross Interchurch meditations on the death of Jesus, followed by tea & hot cross buns
Sunday 8th April EASTER DAY
10.00 Festival Communion
“Once you realise he indwelling Spirit in yourself, you have to recognise it in all your brothers and sisters everywhere. We are not against people, we are against structures of domination and violence.”
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THE HACKBRIDGE FESTIVAL IS COMING!!
Saturday 7th July 2.00 at All Saints Church and Centre
with a Carnival Procession from Hackbridge School leaving at 1.00
There will be Messy Play, Bouncy Castle, Skateboarding, Health Workshops, Live Music, Dance Displays, Story Telling, Ecological Gadgets
and All Saints Summer Fete!
Can YOU provide something to celebrate Creative Hackbridge? Drama? Dance? Martial Arts? Live bands?
Contact Andrew Roland on 0208 648 3650 [email protected]
NEW NHS DENTAL
PRACTICE NEXT TO HACKBRIDGE STATION
accepting NHS patients
Call for Details and Registration
0208 669 0033
SUTTON DENTAL CARE, SM6 7BJ
www.sutton-dentist.co.uk Hackbridge Network Community News is provided by All Saints Church for the people of Hackbridge, Beddington
Corner & Wandle Valley. Deadline for contributions to the next issue: May 20th 2012. The editorial team, led by Andrew Roland and Jo Simister, can be contacted via All Saints Centre, New Road,
Hackbridge, CR4 4JN, or at [email protected]
