Help! Thistles! Horticultural Taster Days, Cafe and Fair

11/05/2012

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THISTLES!

 

Thistles are getting a grip on the wildlife area and urgently need to be removed so we’d really appreciate any help from park users.

 

If you would like to help getting rid of them, please come along from 11am on Tuesday Wednesday or Thursday any week and see Kasia who will provide you with gloves and some basic instructions.

 

She can be contacted on 07894 304520 or at kolszewska@lambeth.gov.uk.

 

HORTICULTURAL TASTER DAYS

 

If you are young and unemployed, Streetscape may be just the chance you are looking for.

 

They are a landscape gardening company that specialises in providing apprenticeships for 18-25 year olds who are long-term unemployed.

 

They invite everyone to come along to a taster day on 17th May 2012 at Myatt’s Fields Park to get a feel of what landscaping is all about and put themselves forward as a candidate for an apprenticeship starting in June 2012. See the leaflet. 

 

To book a place, contact James Gubb, info@streetscape.org.uk 07930 243570 with your name.

Lunch and reasonable travel expenses will be covered. You must be available also for interview on 22nd May, if successful at taster day.

 

CAFÉ OPENING TIMES

 

The café will be open from 10.30am to 5.30pm on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday throughout the summer.

 

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 from 1pm to 5pm 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.

  
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TREASURER FOR MYATT’S FIELDS PARK PROJECT

02/12/2011

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Are you a retired accountant who has time on your hands and want to help your local community? Or a trainee or student who wants to get experience of running the finances of a growing community organisation?

Myatt’s Fields Park Project, which runs the food, greenhouse and events programme in the park, wants to make sure its financial systems are as efficient and robust as possible, and so is looking for someone who can bring expertise and experience to the role of treasurer.

Please see attached for a job description (this is a voluntary post) and person specification. If you are interested, contact me at this address.
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Programme for wildlife area workshops

28/07/2011

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 We will be planting the nature conservation area in the autumn thanks to a grant from the Western Riverside Environmental Fund.

If you would like to help, look in September on the park noticeboards or the website for details of our full programme.

 

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OUR FOOD PROGRAMME

28/07/2011

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The next two years will see a multitude of opportunities to eat fresh, locally grown food in Myatt’s Fields Park with other people, where possible using food we’ve grown in the greenhouse.

 

This will include:

 

Local Food Heroes

 

We’re looking for local people who can teach other local people how to cook.

 

If you know a great home cook, please do encourage them to become one of our Food Heroes. If you love cooking and feel you have something to share, please do come forward and find out more.

 

Food Heroes will be paid and trained to teach other people about their food. They will lead a series of four cook and eat sessions, coming up with a recipe or two each week, and teaching it to other people by working together to produce a meal.

 

We will pay people according to their experience. The first session will be on 24th September at 10.30am and everyone is welcome to come along, learn about cooking and share a lovely meal.

 

We are also looking for Food Heroes to cook vegetable dishes for our Harvest Festival feast on 18th September. Please do contact Rebecca Maddox on rebeccamaddox@myattsfieldspark.info if you are interested.

 

Family cook and eat breakfast club

 

Parents and under-fives children will be offered the chance to make and eat breakfast together at the Mulberry Centre from 9am on Friday mornings.

 

The club will give local people the chance to share recipes for children and families, and to try new ideas for breakfasts.

 

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Harvest wild fruit

28/07/2011

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Everyone is invited to help us harvest fruit growing around the park during two sessions coming up soon.

 

We’ll be scouting for fruit trees and harvesting (and eating) figs from 10.30am – 2.30pm on Saturday 30th July, then harvesting plums from 10.30am to 2.30pm on Saturday 13th August.

 

There will be a final fruit tree harvest from 10.30am on 18th September for the Harvest Festival which will be held in the park from 10.30am. The fruit collected will be used to make chutney or jam in the afternoon, or juiced by the London Orchard Project.

 

If you know a tree, or have one in your garden, that isn’t usually collected, please tell us by emailing David Blair ondavid@thelondonorchardproject.org.

 

We will meet at the park depot for each session. All ages and everyone very welcome.

 

The bid to harvest Lambeth's wild fruit is carried out by Myatt's Fields Park Project in partnership with the London Orchard Project.

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PLUM HARVESTING

19/07/2011

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Everyone is invited to help us harvest plums from a tree in Calais Street from 2pm on Thursday 21st July.

 

London Orchard Project will bring along picking equipment for the session which will start at the park depot at 2pm.

 

We’ll pick the plums (eat a few) and then take them back to the park to freeze for our Harvest Festival on 18th September, when we’ll be making jam during the afternoon as well as enjoying a vegetarian feast and music on the bandstand.

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PARK WATCH

30/06/2011

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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.
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HEAD START IN CATERING OR GARDENING

13/05/2011

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We are offering eight week work experience placements at the park café, as well as five one-year gardening placements at the park.

The café placement will include training in coffee making (barista skills) on a one day course as well as food hygiene training. 

The gardening placements will include horticultural training at the park, as well sponsorship to take a horticultural course at Capel Manor (in Crystal Palace). Several courses are on offer, depending on previous experience and knowledge.

The gardening training is offered to five people, who will be asked to work five hours a week at Myatt’s, working either in the greenhouse or the wildlife area. 

The café work experience people will be taken on one at a time, and will be required to work 25 hours a week for eight weeks.

These are volunteer posts and therefore no pay is available. We will pay registration and travel costs for people attending Capel Manor.

Candidates for both must be Lambeth residents, on low incomes and living in low income households. The scheme is funded by the Walcot Foundation.

Please contact Kasia Olszewska (kolszewska@lambeth.gov.uk), Myatt’s park manager about the gardening placements, and Victoria Sherwin (Vsherwin@lambeth.gov.uk) about the café work experience.

Poster attached, please do pass on to anyone you think will be interested.
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