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Passionate about plants?
Over spring and summer 2013 Manor House PACT is offering the following training courses to help you learn about plants, develop your horticultural skills and improve your knowledge of gardening.
Introduction to Permaculture
This course is perfect if you are looking for ways to live more sustainably but are unsure of where to start. Permaculture is a way of designing our lives around a set of ethical principles using natural systems as inspiration to tread lightly on the earth. This course will give you a good understanding of Permaculture and help you formulate practical solutions which can be incorporated into your everyday life. The Introduction to Permaculture course is being run over a 2 day weekend, with the first course this weekend on Sat 18 / Sun 19 May 2013. Further courses will be run in June and July.
Creating a Forest Garden (Level 1 or 2 Award in Horticulture)
This is an exciting opportunity to learn about developing your own forest garden. This structured course is taught over twenty weeks and will take you through growing low-maintenance plants and using space and natural processes efficiently. We’ll teach you everything you need to know about designing and maintaining your own forest garden including soil fertility and identifying,propagating and eating plants. The first course gets underway on Tuesday 4 or Saturday 8 June.
We are committed to getting local people involved so priority bookings will be given for Manor House residents until two weeks before the course starts. There is a cost for the courses and there are concessionary rates available. For more information and for details on how to make a booking please visit the PACT website: www.manorhousepact.org.uk/forum/topics/manor-house-pact-open-spaces-training
PACT Champion Customer Service Training
The first group of PACT Champions had their Customer Service Training session at the Redmond Community Centre in April. The session introduced the four volunteers to their new role.
We’re looking for more people to become PACT Champions: for more information contact us using the details below. To get involved contact us via our website www.manorhousepact.org.uk, via Twitter: @manorhousepact, by phone: 020 8356 7589 or by email: marc.mckenna@mhdt.org.uk
Or visit us at the Redmond Community Centre, Kayani Avenue, London, N4 2HF.
Well London at Woodberry Down - You Decide!
Residents and local organisations are applying for Well London funding to run summer time activities that benefit people who live in the Woodberry Down area. Small grants of up to £500 for small or one-off type activities or larger grants up to £3000 are available for activities that contribute to the five priorities identified by residents:
· Encouraging healthy eating
· Promote mental health and wellbeing
· Encourage the take up of physical activity
· Promote the use of open spaces
· Use of arts and cultural activities to bring the community together
Short-listed projects will be invited to present their ideas to residents who will vote on which ideas they like best. The projects that get the most votes win the money - on Sunday 19 May, 14.00 - 18.00 at the Redmond Community Centre.
Successful projects must run activities between the beginning of June and the end of September and must agree to promote the other Well London activities.
Read more about Participatory Budgeting (PB) here.
The Redmond Community Centre weekly activities
We have a whole range of activities at The Redmond Community Centre, some established for a number of years, others more recent. To find out what you could do on any given day of the week click on the links below:
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Sunday
Celebrating 400 Hundred Years of the New River
Share your New River stories…
Do you live, or have you ever lived, near the New River? Do you have memories and stories of the river, whether past or present? Did you play by the river as a child? What’s your relationship with the river now? We’d love to hear from you.
We are local audio journalist Sarah Peters and painter Henny Beaumont. We’re collaborating on an exciting audio-visual documentary to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the New River. Manor House Development Trust is supporting the project, and we’re aiming to create an interactive app for mobile phones.
We are very keen to interview and photograph local residents across the generations, so please get in touch with us at: eyesandearsn16@gmail.com
We look forward to hearing from you.
Hire The Redmond Community Centre for your meetings and events
Make regular or one-off bookings, hire the whole centre or individual spaces. The centre is in a beautiful location overlooking the West Reservoir, five minutes from Manor House tube station in Zone 2. What's more, by making a booking you're directly supporting the work of the Trust!
Click here for more information, click here to download a brochure and contact Patsy Butcher or Kamalji Nijjar to make a booking: 020 8802 7580 / patsy.butcher@mhdt.org.uk / kamaljit.nijjar@mhdt.org.uk
