UPDATE: We hope to resume public meetings, and with an improved structure and schedule shortly. At the moment, core team members are liaising with Stefan Cadek at Enfield Youth Services, with a view to visiting local schools to introduce ourselves and the Anchor project. Also, today I had an encouraging and pleasurable meeting with David Byrne, Principal of Southgate College. David's keen to develop ties between college and local community, and among other things we discussed ways the Southgate Community Anchor and College might work together in the future. Later on I spoke with Palmer's Green resident Francis Sealey of the 21st Century Network (or '21CN') about how to move forward with the Local Sovereignty social action work we've been developing together, ideally in the context of Southgate. More on this later, with relevant announcements and/or discussion on the email list.
Thursday, 30 April 2009
pause for thought
UPDATE: We hope to resume public meetings, and with an improved structure and schedule shortly. At the moment, core team members are liaising with Stefan Cadek at Enfield Youth Services, with a view to visiting local schools to introduce ourselves and the Anchor project. Also, today I had an encouraging and pleasurable meeting with David Byrne, Principal of Southgate College. David's keen to develop ties between college and local community, and among other things we discussed ways the Southgate Community Anchor and College might work together in the future. Later on I spoke with Palmer's Green resident Francis Sealey of the 21st Century Network (or '21CN') about how to move forward with the Local Sovereignty social action work we've been developing together, ideally in the context of Southgate. More on this later, with relevant announcements and/or discussion on the email list.
Sunday, 11 January 2009
gardeners are go
Just to let you know today's Gardening Club was a success, and everyone had a good time. We did a bit of tidying up of the spot in front of the Alan Pullinger centre, aswell as the TfL green space (where we held the Christmas market) litter picking, raking and so forth. I took a beautiful sunrise trip to Columbia flower market in the morning, so we had some bedding plants and tulip bulbs to plant. We're unclear about how to proceed with the path (to block or not to block, that is the question) but nevertheless after some discussion about how to go about planning the garden (we are thinking to go for a picnic table centrepiece with a mix of flowers, medicinal herbs, other sensory stuff and veggies, possibly with a wee labyrinth of some kind) we got right stuck in with some digging. In the end we planted a 21st century fairy ring (of primroses) around one of the larger trees in the space.
Joe turns out to be a champion digger, as does his son, Archie! Great contributions also in the realm of planting aswell as hole digging, treasure hunting, leave moving and football kicking also by the other Southgate Bash Street kids, Jordan, Zainab, Amina, Michael, Anthony and Leo. Big ups to Sinead for sorting the all important water out, and to Sarah J for coming in all the way from Tottenham. And to everyone who helped to make it a lovely day: cheers!
Looking forward to the next one, let's hope the weather is as good as today.
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