Girls, Ladies and Women-only event – for all ages – and its totally free!

This Saturday 16th January
Broadwater Farm Community Centre
Adams Road, N17
12noon – 5pm

This is the inaugural Open Day for a calendar of activities, sports and free skills training, just for women.  This Saturday, FOR FREE, try out a whole range of different sports:

• Rollerskating
• Football
• Badminton
• Netball
• Basketball
• Brazilian Dance
• Turkish Dance

Also, relax and chill out with therapeutic activities like Yoga and Tai Chi, Sewing and IT, Health and Beauty (Nails etc)   

You can watch demonstrations and then join in afterwards!

Free food will be provided by Back 2 Earth whose team of volunteers will be catering for many different tastes with a menu of global cuisine and deliciously healthy cooking. 

On top of all of this, there will be many information stalls and demonstrations telling you about services and activities to access in the area.  Health, employment, support for young mothers etc.                         

Come along and find out what you could be doing during this year!!

For more information, contact Judy Wills at the Community Centre, on 020 8801 4115  or Judy.Wills@haringey.gov.uk

Entrance by ticket. Must book in advance. Limited places.

Tickets from the Community Centre, the Church on the Farm, or from the Broadwater Farm Resident s Association

It’s that time of year again.  Santa is polishing his sleigh, the elves are running around madly sorting and wrapping Xmas Presents and putting up decorations, Mince pies are baking, and the Broadwater Farm Community Centre is hosting the annual Midwinter party for the children of the people who have worked with us and our partners all year.

This is a popular event, admission is by (free) ticket only and tickets are strictly limited to 70 children accompanied by a parent or responsible adult, for health and safety reasons.

Tickets are available from the Community Centre, and the Church on the Farm, so please display or circulate this poster as soon as possible, as they are usually snapped up quickly!

There are also a some tickets available from the Broadwater Farm Resident s Association.

This year we are working in Partnership with the Church on the Farm, Back 2 Earth, and the Broadwater Farm Ecumenical Group, and it looks like being a cracker!

Su Jolly
Broadwater Farm Community Centre Manager
1 Adams Road
London N17 6HE
Tel: 020 8885 7773
Mob: 07870 157804

So there you are – something for everyone: creative photography, cutting and slashing, or just come along for moral support (and see you in the hut afterwards for a cup of tea!).

Sunday 19th July, 1-3pm, Broadwater Farm Community Centre

On Sunday 19th July 2009, The Big Lunch (an Eden Project initiative) is inviting 61 million people across the UK to simultaneously sit down to eat lunch with their neighbours, as a simple act of community.

The aim is to give people the tools to strengthen their communities through activities such as neighbourhood-watch; improving local amenities, taking care of the elderly or disabled; making imaginative improvements to the local environment and sharing resources. 

Haringey Council (Neighbourhood Management) is facilitating a Big Lunch on the green space of the Broadwater Farm Community Centre.  You, and members of your group, are warmly invited.

SUNDAY 3rd MAY

2pm in the hut in the children’s playground.

Refreshments available. All park users and local residents welcome!

Catch up on all the news (and there’s lots of it!)

eg. Bike track, City Farm, wildlife areas, lake, flower beds, the woodland, fundraising, BWF community centre, new playground, staffing, our Community Festival (Sept 12th)….

Food Co-op market day and lunch at the BWF Centre cafe
1pm – 3pm @ the BWF Centre cafe
Organic and local supplies, plus delicious and cheap lunches home-cooked by local residents. All welcome!

Lordship Woodland Work-In
2pm – 4pm @ the Woodland by Downhills Park Rd
The Friends are holding another work-in to add more woodchip to the path through the woods. We’re hoping that many members and others will come along and help. Please, if you can, bring spades/wheelbarrows/buckets/gloves etc. Refreshments provided in the hut. All welcome!

Friday 27th March   5pm-8pm
[After the Tottenham food coop & community kitchen/cafe  12-4pm]
Broadwater Farm Community Centre
1 Adams Rd, Tottenham, N17 6HE [by Lordship Recreation Ground].

All welcome!
How to get there: Bus W4 to stop in Broadwater Farm estate – walk diagonally to Community Centre. Bus 123 or 243 to Lordship Rec gate – walk into park, then to left

‘It is very exciting bringing together all those involved in growing food throughout Haringey, whether on allotments, in back gardens, indoors, on green spaces or in schools. Its fun, good for the environment, and we’re determined to encourage many more to get their fingers dirty! This is all part of a world-wide shift to local sustainability and long term self-sufficiency.’ - Jo Foster, Sustainable Haringey network.

• Find out who’s growing what in your neighbourhood.
• Meet other growers, discover new projects, learn how to acquire new skills.
• Share ideas for new food-growing sites.
• Tell others what resources you can offer, and what you need.
• Watch presentations about existing projects, and photos and videos.
• Enjoy music and food with old and new friends.
• Bring and take gardening and cookery books.

Growing in Haringey is a new network of local individuals and groups promoting food growing across Haringey. Supporters include: Sustainable Haringey network; Haringey Allotments Forum; Haringey Federation of Residents Associations; Haringey Friends of Parks Forum; Back To Earth Projects; Tottenham Food Co-operative; Groundwork; Naturwise; Tree Trust for Haringey…. and many other local and borough-wide organisations! We will share information and link people’s needs and desires with existing and new projects and schemes.

What can you offer?  What do you need or desire?

• people to join new/existing project?
• plot of land for food-growing?
• skills, experience, learning, advice?
• physical help with private garden?
• opportunities while waiting for an allotment?
• what’s happening in your local neighbourhood?

Why not get involved?  Everyone can!

Growing In Haringey – Aims and objectives

• To increase the production of sustainable and healthy food in Haringey, by providing opportunities for people to grow their own and by promoting small-scale local producers
• To improve access to affordable food by removing barriers that may prevent people having access to good quality food
• To promote awareness of the health, community, social and environmental benefits of local food growing and production.
• To engage with the diversity of the food and food growing cultures of Haringey’s diverse population, reaching out to and engaging people of different cultures, languages, ethnicities, age groups and abilities
• To support the development of food growing and production skills and local enterprise and employment opportunities

The initiative arose out of the Sustainable Haringey Food Group, which is a working party dedicated to promoting and campaigning for local sustainable food, including policy, production, supply, distribution and retail. We are working alongside national and London schemes like Landshare and Capital Growth, and collaborating with similar initiatives in neighbouring boroughs.

More Info: www.sustainableharingey.org.uk – please publicise the website widely!
Contact: growinginharingey@blueyonder.co.uk