SUCCESS - we have secured Funding for our Churchward House Greening Project!!

Good news - the TRA have secured funding for a local planting project thanks to the combined grants from Capital Clean Up, North Southwark Environmental Trust and Transform Pocket Parks!  Thank you!  We will be discussing plans for the project at our next TRA in June and we will need help from local volunteers so please come along and find out how you can be involved!

WELCOME BACK TO SURREY GARDENS TRA 2014

Dear All

Thank you for visiting our Blog!

We have recently updated our TRA with a new Chair - Victoria, Vice-Chair - Oli and Secretary - Clare!

We have held three meetings, February, March and April and the minutes for what was discussed at those meetings will be posted in our minutes section on this blog (when I can figure out how to do that!).

A recent victory is that we have secured individual bike lockers for Forsythe Gardens thanks to the help of local residents - coming soon!

We have applied for funding for a local planting project and await confirmation - watch this space!

Current ongoing concerns raised and being followed up by the TRA are:-

1. Anti Social Behaviour around Lorrimore Square
2. Dog Fouling on the pavements
3. Aggressive dogs
4. Fly tipping
5. General area cleanliness

Our next meeting will be on Tuesday 6th May 2014 at 7:30pm in St Paul's Church, Lorrimore Square.

Please come along and support us - bring issues to our attention so we can help work together to improve our local area - together we are a stronger voice for positive action!

Lorrimore Square Community Park is at risk of development.

It needs your support!

Come along to meet your neighbours and hear from a
Southwark Council Green Spaces Rep on how to protect the park.

St Paul’s Church, Lorrimore Square,

7.30pm, 3rd April

Free Walworth Garden Farm Bee Keeping Courses

Details of day courses on bees and bee keeping at Walworth Garden Farm...

The role of bees in supporting wildlife and agricultural production and a taster of what it would be like to look after bees. Courses are held on most Sundays and some weekdays, from 10.30am until 4.30pm (with a break for lunch) and are open to anybody aged 19 years or over.

In one day we can only offer a range of topics for consideration, together with the chance to have a practical session working on the Garden’s hives with the Garden’s experienced beekeepers.

Some of the basic topics covered will include:

· the importance of beekeeping

· bees and honey-bees; the life cycle of queens, workers, drones, and their division of labour

· the life cycle of a hive: swarming and swarm control

· the products of the hive: honey, wax, propolis and royal jelly

Dates:

Wednesday 28^th March 10.30am - 4.30pm

Sunday 15^th April 10.30am – 4.30pm

Wednesday 18^th April 10.30am - 4.30pm

Sunday 22^nd April 10.30am - 4.30pm

Sunday 29^th April 10.30am - 4.30pm

Sunday 6^th May 10.30am – 4.30pm

Sunday 20^th May 10.30am – 4.30pm

Thursday 24^th May 10.30am – 4.30pm

Sunday 27^th May 10.30am – 4.30pm

Sunday 17^th June 10.30am – 4.30pm

Sunday 24^th June 10.30am – 4.30pm

Thursday 28^th June 10.30am – 4.30pm

Sunday 1^st July 10.30am – 4.30pm Special Skep making session

Sunday 15^th July 10.30am – 4.30pm

Friday 20th July 10.30am - 4.30pm

Sunday 22^nd July 10.30am – 4.30pm

Please note: The course is FREE but you may only attend once.

To book your place contact the Farm on 020 7582 2652 or email alessiabolis@walworthgardenfarm.org.uk. Please state the date you wish to attend, along with your full name, contact telephone number and postal address.

Please note that dates may be subject to change in exceptional circumstances.

Alessia Bolis

Beekeeper

Walworth Garden Farm

Manor Place, Braganza Street

London

SE17 3BN

Cleaner Greener Safer Bid Successful!

Our bid for CGS funding would be funded in full. So we have £13,000 to build a new garden and seating area in a fly tipping grot spot on Lorrimore Road. Opposite number 91 and between 78 and Churchward House.

A great start to the re-established TRA. I'm applying for funding for plants separately. So keep your fingers crossed and if anyone has other ideas where we might apply for funding then please let me know.

113a Lorrimore Road Trees Cut Down

The developers of the new homes on Lorrimore Road have cut down two trees on the left hand side of the plot.

One of these trees was deemed to be worthy of keeping during the planning process, although it wasn't a protected tree. The developer called Southwark Council to say that the tree roots had been damaged and that the tree was unsafe.

Unfortunately Southwark agreed and two trees have been cut down today. This is despite all of the TRA efforts to ensure the trees would remain after the development.

Southwark are insisting that a substantial tree is planted to replace the ones that have been cut down. We can have a say in what replacement tree is planted. But the deadline for the decision is 29th February.

What do you want to do? Would you like a meeting or an online discussion? If there is to be a meeting the most likely date would be a week from today - 21st February.

We need to act quickly and make our views felt, so please let me know via the website or reply to the email I'm sending to the mailing list.

Andrew
On behalf of Surrey Gardens TRA