Our next meeting to discuss the upcoming ReFuse! Skill Share is this
Thursday, 28th October 7pm at Tottenham Chances, 399 High Road, N17 6QN
All welcome!
Please get in touch if you can contribute time to help make this a
wonderful event: Wendy 07908 705 377 or email Joyce Rosser:
jrosser@lineone.net
Please see minutes of the last meeting and our latest Flyer here:
http://haringeyskillshare.wikispaces.com/Re-UseCyclePair
Neighbourhood's officer Leyla Laksari is one of four Londoners shortlisted for this year's Pride of Britain awards.
She will be featured in ITV's London Tonight on Monday 25 October, 6pm, where a short film will showcase her achievements in developing the Living Under One Sun (LUOS) healthy living project in Haringey.
Leyla works within the Northumberland Park and White Hart Lane Neighbourhood Management Service and has 28 years as a parent, school governor, teacher, community activist and project officer behind her.
Northumberland Park is one of the most deprived areas in the country with Neighbourhood teams tasked with helping often disaffected groups access services and engage with community activities.
Leyla describes her work as "actionism" and revels in the challenge her job brings.
The Living under One Sun (LUOS) healthy living project is one of Leyla's most impressive achievements.
It was set up to help reduce crime and vandalism at the local adventure playground, bringing mothers and local women of different ethnicities to meet, cook and share stories of their lives.
Soon this developed into a platform for accessing services, training community leaders and founding more community projects.
LUOS embraces the core values of Haringey's Sustainable Community Strategy which puts communities right at the heart of change, shaping and driving developments.
With the release of the Government’s Comprehensive Spending Review the media is full of talks of cuts and speculation on how different social groups or individuals will be affected. Appropriately there is concern expressed across the media on how the poorer sections of society and particularly those on welfare benefits will fare as a result of these public spending reductions. However what I want to consider is not what these cuts will mean to your economic circumstances but how they will affect your wellbeing.
Crouch End's second annual Apple Day on 16 October 2010 attracted over 400Source Transition Crouch End Apple Day 2010
people. They came to drink apple juice, fresh from the press, and to
taste over a dozen different varieties of English apples and
pears. Children were encouraged to press their own juice, take part
in the Longest Peel Competition and make vegetable monsters, which could later
be turned into nutritious soup.
Our take up of food, land, natural minerals and animals has doubled in under 50 years, says new research.
Britain came 31st in a list of countries based on their ‘ecological footprint’ – the amount of land and sea each person needs to provide the food, clothes and other products they consume.
The country has ‘improved’ from having the 15th biggest footprint two years ago – but this is down to an increase in other countries’ impact rather than a reduction in Britain.
Wildlife in tropical countries is also under huge pressure, with populations of species falling by 60 per cent in three decades, the report by WWF, the Zoological Society of London and the Global Footprint Network said.
SusTottenham and Sustainable Haringey present
Sunday 7th November
At Tottenham Chances, 399 Tottenham High Road, N17
Entry free – why not drop into the morning or afternoon sessions, or both!
11am – 1pm Autumn Gathering
Meeting of the Sustainable Haringey network – the next steps…
1pm – 2pm Lunch - sharing food together
2pm – 4.30pm Down With Waste!
Skill Sharing and discussions…
Refuse * Reduce * Re-use Repair * Recycle
Presentations, workshops to join in, and displays to take in and enjoy including:
* Fashion show of second hand clothes
* Children’s workshop on recycled art + children’s clothes swap shop
* Wood works wonders – using recycled wood
* What does and doesn’t go into the green box?
* “How to build a pirate ship from plastic milk bottle” workshop
* Interactive skill share wall
* Council recycling information
* Food waste and home composting
* What is a Material Resource Facility?
* “Cut waste, cut carbon and create jobs” – Friends of the Earth
* Children’s workshop on making drums
* Knitting with “pharn” (yarn made from plastic bags) – demonstration
* And much more!!!!!
All welcome – why not come and share your skills and learn new ones!
www. sustainableharingey.org.uk - http://haringeyskillshare.wikispaces.com - sustottenham.wikispaces.com
Organised by and for local residents, based on freely-given time and effort. Financial support from Haringey Council
