Surrey County Cricket Club and Surrey Cricket Board will provide free cricket coaching for boys and girls aged 8-13 at Myatt's Fields Park every Tuesday from 24th July until 28th August. To book place and get more information please contactckclondon@gmail.com
Surrey County Cricket Club and Surrey Cricket Board will provide free cricket coaching for boys and girls aged 8-13 at Myatt's Fields Park every Tuesday from 24th July until 28th August. To book place and get more information please contactckclondon@gmail.com
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VOLUNTEER PARTY
Everyone is welcome to come along and talk to us about the Little Cat Café and our food programmes during a small party on the bandstand on Saturday 14th July from 3pm to 5pm. The gathering will be a small thank you to volunteers, but also is designed to give everyone the chance to talk to Monique, the café manager, and Rebecca, our food manager about the café, its menu and their role. The Little Cat Café is run by local people (Myatt’s Fields Park Project) with the aim that local people have a real say in what happens there so we look forward to hearing your views. There will be free cake and tea for everyone who takes part. SLEEPOVER AUGUST 2012 If you would like to apply for a place on our next sleepover (25/26th August), get in contact with us now. Despite of the rain, the first Myatt's Fields Park Sleepover in June was great fun and many people expressed interest in taking part again. We also felt there was space for more people (150) and therefore, we have decided to reopen the application process. If you would like your family to camp in the park on the weekend 25/26 August, then please fill in the application formbefore Friday, 27th July. If your application is successful, you should hear from us by Tuesday, 31st July. The sleepover will include a fire workshop, unamplified music in the early evening, story telling before bedtime and a free cooked breakfast in the morning. We'll have a few new activities this year with the chance to try some cooking or gardening as well as information about other training on offer in the park and around. Bedtime is 10pm and we will ask all participants to strictly respect the curfew. The sleepover is organised with the Territorial Army, who will provide stewards and overnight patrols. The park will be closed for the event from 4pm on Saturday 25th August and the only people allowed on site will be the campers. As this is a family event no singe adults (over 16 years) will be eligible, and all under 16s must be accompanied. Half the places have been reserved for people who are unwaged or on low incomes and they will be provided with camping equipment for this event. Lambeth and local Southwark residents welcome. To apply, either fill in a form on a newsletter printed and and available at The Green Man, the Minet Library and the job centre etc.or fill in the on-line form on the "Bandstand and Events" page of our website. The deadline for applying for a place on the sleepover is Friday, 27th July. We will allocate places for each sleepover on a first come, first served basis. The sleepover is funded by theLambeth Community Fund. WORK EXPERIENCE PLACEMENTS We offer catering experience (including cook and baking) plus accredited barista training (coffee making) and a food hygiene certificate in exchange for up to eight weeks voluntary work in our park café. Applicants must be Lambeth residents and living on a low income. How to apply: Please see job description attached. To apply, contact Victoria Sherwin onvsherwin@lambeth.gov.uk or telephone 0207 926 0394. MUSIC ON THE BANDSTAND AND BARBEQUE Siswa Sukra will provide a free performance of Javanese Gamelan music on our bandstand from 2pm to 4pm this Sunday (15th July). FOOD SESSIONS AT THE PARK FOOD HEROES Learn about wheat free baking during our Food Heroes session from 10.30am on Saturday 14thJuly. Everyone is welcome to come along and cook and then share the food with other people. We pay food heroes £40 to teach other people about the food they know and love. No experience needed and you will be supported by our food manager Rebecca Maddox during the session. If you are interested in becoming a food hero please contact Rebecca Maddox by email FAMILY COOK AND EAT BREAKFAST CLUB We will making Bircher muesli during our family cook and eat breakfast club this Friday 13th July, which takes place in the Mulberry Centre from 9am to 10.30am. Parents and children cook and eat together during these sessions, which are free. RETIRED PEOPLE'S LUNCH CLUB Retired people are welcome to come and eat lunch made with vegetables and fruit from the greenhouse at the depot from noon each Friday. The family cook and eat, food heroes and retired people’s lunch club are all funded by the Big Lottery Fund’s Local Food scheme and are free to all participants. This year we are holding two sleepovers in the park. If you missed the event in June, you can still apply for 25/26th August, see here. These events are organised in partnership with the London Regiment, London Irish Cadets and various local community groups. We want to give people the opportunity to experience camping in the great outdoors (particularly people who haven't camped before), to gain some new skills and to enjoy some outdoor entertainment. It is funded by Lambeth Community Fund. The first sleepover this year took place on the weekend 23/24 June. After setting up the camp which was done largely with the help of young cadets, everyone enjoyed the evening programme of workshops, African drumming and story telling. The night was peaceful accompanied by the rhytmic sound of rain falling on our tents. A consolation for everyone was cooked breakfast provided for free to everyone in the camp field. Our own Food Heroes Programme sponsored by Big Lottery's Local Food scheme was promoted by an experienced Food Hero, Anzela who made salads and strawberry juice with children. Participants picked fresh produce from the greenhouse behind the depot. We heard Anzela's recipes made some children like fruit and vegetables they wouldn't have otherwise touched, so well done! James from Streetscape, a social enterprise based in the park, who provide apprenticeships in landscape gardening, prepared raised beds with some cadets. We hope next year the salad ingredients will come from those beds! Father Nature who runs another gardening project in our neighbourhood ferried children around in his converted milk float. Finally, some serious community action was steered by Cynthia from Building Communities in Coldharbour, who explained to those, who have ideas how to address local issues, where to start and how to access pots of money. Thank you to all who delivered workshops, the wonderful cadets who made everyone's lives easy by putting up tents, sergeants who patrolled the park the whole rainy night and all those who participated in the event in spite of bad weather. A big thank you also to Camping Gear Hire , a family-run company from which we hire our equipment. They are lovely and caring people! Pictures from the earlier sleepover are shown below....
Despite of the rain, the first Myatt's Fields Park Sleepover in June was great fun and many people expressed interest in participating again. We also felt there was space for more people (150) and therefore, we have decided to reopen the application process. If you would like your family to camp in the park on the weekend 25/26 August, then please fill in the application form before Monday, 30th July (am). If your application is successful, you should hear from us by Tuesday, 31st July. The sleepover will include a fire workshop, unamplified music in the early evening, story telling before bedtime and a free cooked breakfast in the morning. We'll have a few new activities this year with the chance to try some cooking or gardening as well as information about other training on offer in the park and around. Bedtime is 10pm and we will ask all participants to strictly respect the curfew. The sleepover is organised with the Territorial Army, who will provide stewards and overnight patrols. The park will be closed for the events from 4pm on Saturday 25th August and the only people allowed on site will be the campers. As this is a family event no singe adults (over 16 years) will be eligible, and all under 16s must be accompanied. Half the places have been reserved for people who are unwaged or on low incomes and they will be provided with camping equipment for this event. Lambeth and local Southwark residents welcome. To apply, either fill in a form on a newsletter printed and and available at The Green Man, the Minet Library and the job centre. etc. or fill in this on-line form on the "Bandstand and Events" page of our website. The deadline for applying for a place on both sleepovers is Monday, 30th July(am). We will allocate places for each sleepover on a first come, first served basis. If you are successful in securing a place, you will receive a confirmation letter with information about the event by Tuesday, 31st July. The sleepover is funded by the Lambeth Community Fund.
Myatt's Fields Park starred in a film made by the Heritage Lottery Fund and shown at the British Museum on Thursday (5th July 2012). The Heritage Lottery Fund chose the park project for the film because `it demonstrates what a difference its grants can make to a community. The film was screened to an all party group of MPs as well as at the launch on Thursday of its strategy for the next five years. HLF made two films - one where the park was one of eight projects and one simply about the park. See below for the five minute film about the park.
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