LIBRARY CONSULTATION
Lambeth Council is consulting local people about the future of the Minet Library today (Friday 22nd March) from 10am to noon, and also on Monday 26th March, from 7pm to 9pm.  There are consultation documents available in the Library to complete.
The council has to make cuts to library services, and is consulting people about how these cuts should be divided between the different libraries.  The closing date for the Libraries Consultation is the 20th April.
 Full detail can be seen on the website:
http://www.lambeth.gov.uk/Services/CouncilDemocracy/Consultations/ACSConsultations/LibrariesConsultation.htm 
Myatt’s Fields Park Project is in the process of forming a new Minet Hub including the park, Minet Library, Longfield Hall and the new Remakery (re-use centre).
This has the aim of saving the library, supporting the enhancement of Longfield Hall, sustaining the regeneration of Myatt’s Fields Park, and supporting the development of the new Remakery.
We’ve put our initial thoughts down in a one-page document attached here. We have also drawn up a two page proposal for developing the Minet Library which is also attached. We will be jointly making a response to the consultation in the next week so please do feedback any comments on either of these proposals. 

MINET CONSERVATION MEETING
 
The Minet Conservation Association is holding an Extraordinary General Meeting from 7pm on Tuesday 27th March in Longfield Hall.
Since 1979 the Minet Conservation Association has focussed on planning developments, local traffic planning, the future of the library, tackling crime, organising events and the local fair.
They are now consulting people about what their role should be in the future and everyone is welcome to attend their meeting  

FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT
We will hold a football tournament and barbeque to celebrate the new football pitch at Myatt’s from 10am on Sunday 22nd April 2012.
 
The day will include competitions for under 9s, under 12s, under 16s, and adults. Play will be 15 minutes each way, all teams to be seven aside.
 
Anyone who can put a seven aside team together is welcome especially school teams, youth clubs and groups (you must have 10 players registered for subs etc).
 
Please register teams with Myatt’s park manager, Kasia Olszewska (kolszewska@lambeth.gov.uk). Poster attached. 

MYATT’S FIELDS PARK FAIR 2ND JUNE
 
Local people and organisations are invited to book their stalls for Myatt’s Fields Park fair, which will be held on June 2nd 2012.
 
The fair will celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee with a Big Lunch and performance by a big band on the bandstand from 1pm to 3pm. There will then be dancing with a jazz band from 3pm to 5pm.
 
There will also be a small fairground and children’s entertainment, as well as a range of community stalls.
 
If you would like to book a stall, please stand by! The form will follow.
 
NaturActive Under 5s
 
Children will have the opportunity to experience, enjoy and learn about nature during sessions at the Mulberry Centre and in the park on Mondays from 10.30am to noon.   

Local people are welcome to join our new Park Watch, which will aims to help reduce anti-social behaviour and misuse of Myatt’s Fields Park (leaflet attached giving details).

If you are interested, please contact our park manager Kasia +447940547056 or email her.

  
Myatt’s Fields Park midsummer fair will take place on 18th June from 1pm to 5pm and include free music, fairground, stalls, bee keeping demonstrations, flower and vegetable sales as well as our annual baking competition.



The fair will include two free music performances (leaflet attached) of Caribbean and North African music from 1pm to 5pm. Audiences will be led in dance by a Caribbean dancer between 1pm and 2.30pm and a belly dancer between 3.15pm and 4.45pm. Children from McAlpine Dance studio will perform between 2.45pm and 3pm.



A marquee next to the café will hold our cooking competition (poster attached) with cookery writers Rose Prince and Lucas Hollweg judging (for more information see www.roseprince.co.uk  & http://www.amazon.co.uk/Good-Things-Eat-Lucas-Hollweg/dp/0007364075). Local cooks are encouraged to enter home made cakes and pickles and compete for first prize in a variety of categories, with cookery books as first prizes for adults and children’s prizes too. 



We will also have a cake stall as well as a stand selling vegetables and fruits grown in the greenhouse. Our volunteer gardeners will be giving away a seed in a pot for people to grow their own at home.



The fair will include community and commercial stalls, as well as a small fairground. Barnaby Shaw, who keeps bees in Myatt’s, will bring along a demonstration hive so people can learn more about bees.



The Little Cat Café will be open, selling ice cream and cakes as well as a new range of iced drinks and smoothies.



We would very much appreciate volunteers to help on the day as well as cake donations. Please contact me if you can help.

We are delighted to welcome Rebecca Maddox, Myatt's Fields Park's new food manager, who started work on 26th May 2011. She will help us develop the cafe as well as running a range of food based community projects including a Food Heroes programme and a lunch club

Our first event of the summer will be the Big Lunch on Sunday 5th June, when we’ll provide a free performance of Latin American music on the bandstand, tables, cutlery and plates – and invite local people to bring along food for yourselves and others to share. 

The performance by Ensemble Criollo features rhythms from Venezula, Columbia and Cuba on harp, guitar and percussion, and is funded by Awards for All.

The day will also include children’s entertainment – we are being joined by students from Camberwell Art College who will sell jigsaw cookie monsters which can be reassembled and decorated with icing (all profits to Myatt’s Fields Park Project). Children will also be able to make animal shapes from vegetables.

Appeal for help – we would appreciate any donations of home made cakes to sell at the café during the lunch. Please contact me if you can help (Vsherwin@lambeth.gov.uk or 0207 926 0394)

Myatt’s Fields Park Project has put in an application to London Borough of Lambeth to change the official use of the Little Cat Café. 

The building is still registered as a community building (as it was a One O’Clock Club before being converted into a cafe) and we therefore need to change its official use to a café.

Lambeth is currently consulting local people to gain their views about whether this building should be used as a café. The Little Cat Café and Myatt’s Fields Park Project would obviously appreciate any letters or emails of support (details on planning notices around the park). 

Please do contact me (Victoria Sherwin) if you have any queries about this on 0207 926 0394.

We have a full programme of music, food, fun and (hopefully) sun in Myatt’s Fields Park this summer.
June will be busy in Myatt’s Fields Park with:

Big Lunch Sunday 5th June 1pm to 3pm: we’ll provide a free performance of Latin American music on the bandstand, tables, cutlery and plates – and invite people to please bring along food for yourselves and others to share. Music is funded by Awards for All.

Summer Fair Saturday 18th June 1pm to 5pm: will include music on the bandstand all afternoon, community and craft stalls, a small fairground, Punch and Judy. Music is funded by Awards for All
  

Music on the bandstand: There will be music on the bandstand on Sundays from 12th June to 25th September. (The full program  is detailed on the Events page.) 

We will be getting together on Wednesday 18th May at 6.30pm in the depot meeting room to talk about plans for the Big Lunch and the fair. If you’d like to help or have any ideas for these, please do come along. Everyone welcome.

Brixton Reuse Centre – Have Your Say
7-9pm, Tues 8 February AND Weds 9 March
Longfield Hall, 50 Knatchbull Road London SE5 9QY

Two public meetings (this coming Tuesday, and Weds 9 March) inviting local residents to have input to the BRC project:

• Learn about the plans for the Paulet Road garages site, the timeline for development of the site, and the services and products BRC will offer. 
• Discuss your questions, ideas and concerns, and find out about opportunities to get involved.

The evening will begin with a presentation about BRC and short talks from some of the reuse enterprises who are partners in the project. There will then be opportunities for questions, followed by smaller group discussions focusing on the issues and ideas that interest you most, before a closing feedback session. A tea break is included so there will also be time to mingle and meet others.

To stay in touch with the BRC project please join the new Brixton Reuse Centre facebook page. Upcoming events will also be added to the new Events page on the Remade in Brixton website.