Our Wildly Fun Summer Skills School is now open for booking. This runs from 13-24th August, 10.30am-4.30pm each day, Monday to Friday. There will be all sorts of exciting activities and skills workshops including science, circus skills, singing, ukulele, art, gardening and much more. Activities are suitable for 7-13 year olds.
Click here to book.
We are currently recruiting for a new stay and play worker. The post is for 9 hours a week (term time), at £11.70 per hour.
Working hours are:
Monday 9.00am-12.00pm
Tuesday 9.00am-12.00pm
Wednesday 12.30pm-3.30pm
(Term time only)
Full job description:
stay and play job description
Application form:
01 NXG Trust Application Form.
If you have any difficulty accessing the Job description or application form, or for any further questions about the role, please ring 0207 639 7605, email Jill.mountford@nxgtrust.org.uk or pop in to Besson Street Community Gardens and ask for Jill Mountford.
A big thank you to all those who supported my Edinburgh Marathon effort. On Sunday 27th May I managed to run the 26.2 miles in 3 hours 47 minutes, and thanks to some very generous donations I have managed to raise just over £400 towards the cost of running activities in Besson Street Community Garden.
Fundraising efforts are vital to keeping all of our activities running, therefore if you would be interested in undertaking some sort of sponsored challenge to support the Trust, then please get in touch.
Jenny Couper, Strategy and Partnerships Manager, NXG Trust.
This summer, the New Cross Gate Trust will be funding a wide range of free youth activities through local partner organisations.
These include:
– Seaside trips for families joining up to the summer reading challenge at New Cross Learning
– Trips to the Shadwell Basin Outdoor Activity Centre, through REMEC youth Club
– Trips to Chislehurst Caves, fruit picking, Druisilla Zoo, Bewl Water Reservoir, Brighton Beach, and the London dungeons, through Somerville Youth and Play Provision.
Please contact these youth providers directly if your children are interested in getting involved in these clubs and participating in the funded activities over the summer period. Contact details are provided below:
New Cross Learning
Somerville Youth and Play Provision
REMEC youth club
Our community walks are running every Thursday, so please come along. We now have an evening walk starting from New Cross Learning at 6.30pm, so please come along and enjoy the long evenings. Phone Alicia for further details and to let her know you are coming: 07990 444905.
Thursday walk timetable:
10.30am – Starting from Besson Street Community Garden
12.15pm – Starting from the Waldron Health Centre
6.30pm – Starting from New Cross Learning
A two week participatory exhibition and event series called ‘House of Covvens – South East London’ is running at hARTslane in New Cross from the 15th to the 29th May.
The project questions the meaning of engagement with politics through the imaginative possibilities of an alternative system based on empathy, cooperation and community via influences of the Wiccan tradition, shamanism and the DIY ethos of Riot Grrrl feminism. It aims to create a welcoming, non hierarchical space for local people to come together, reflect, tell stories and share ideas against the backdrop of the current social climate. It will be centred around a series of ten group discussions which aim to create a non-hierarchical, communal exploration of ideas and social issues using both conversation and creativity. There will also be foraging walks and moon sound performances to connect the space with the local and wider environment. More info:
–www.houseofcovvens.com
-Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/993109354179377/
-Eventbrite project page for booking tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/house-of-covvens-17209257410
