Month: October 2016

Shop at Tesco? Here’s how to help the Maryon Park Community Garden

Darryl Chamberlain
Maryon Park Community Garden
What you’ll find inside Maryon Park’s community garden…

The team behind Maryon Park Community Garden have been in touch….

The Maryon Park Community Garden has been nominated for a Tesco Bags of Help grant to upgrade the garden fencing and gates.

We may receive £8K, £10K or £12K depending upon a vote in local Tesco stores.

Voting starts on Monday 31st October and lasts until Sunday 13th November.

If you would like to support the work of the Community Garden, please vote for us at one of these participating stores.

Woolwich Extra; Peninsula Square, Greenwich; Trafalgar Road, Greenwich; Blackheath Road, Greenwich; Creek Road, Deptford; Eltham High Street; Well Hall Road, Eltham; Clifton’s Roundabout, Lee; Lakedale Road, Plumstead; Major Draper Square, Woolwich; The Reach, Thamesmead.

You will receive a voting token with every Tesco transaction. Please drop your token into the Maryon Park Community Garden in-store voting box.

Many Thanks – Tim and Edna

Chair and Secretary MPCG

In pictures: Charlton and Coventry fans march together and launch pig protest

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Fans United Protest - The Valley - October 2016

Saturday saw fans of Charlton Athletic and Coventry City march together to protest about the running of their clubs.

Charlton fans are angry at the stewardship of Roland Duchâtelet, who has not attended a match at The Valley in two years, and his chief executive Katrien Meire, which has seen the club go through seven managers, an exodus of experienced backroom staff and the team relegated to League One. Coventry fans face losing their ground for a second time under the ownership of a mysterious hedge fund, Sisu.

These fans were packing a surprise – thousands of plastic pigs rained upon the pitch at kick-off, delaying the match by seven minutes and getting worldwide media attention.

Plastic Pig Protest at the Valley October 2016

Greenwich & Woolwich MP Matt Pennycook is writing to the Football League following a post-match incident where a fan was grabbed by the throat by a plain-clothes security guard after having protested with a North Korean flag during the match – a reference to Meire’s comments about not caring about the club’s history.

“Antagonism between supporters and club owners is [is] at worrying levels,” he tweeted.

The Charlton Champion‘s own Neil Clasper took these photos of the march. You can see more here.

Fans United Protest - The Valley - October 2016
Fans United Protest - The Valley - October 2016
Fans United Protest - The Valley - October 2016
Fans United Protest - The Valley - October 2016
Fans United Protest - The Valley - October 2016
Fans United Protest - The Valley - October 2016
Fans United Protest - The Valley - October 2016
Fans United Protest - The Valley - October 2016
Fans United Protest - The Valley - October 2016
Fans United Protest - The Valley - October 2016
Fans United Protest - The Valley - October 2016
Fans United Protest - The Valley - October 2016
Fans United Protest - The Valley - October 2016

You can find out more about the protests at the Coalition Against Roland Duchâtelet.

Charlton’s Horn Fair returns this Sunday 

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Charlton’s Horn Fair – banned for an excess of drunken behaviour in 1874 – is back for a second year in its new guise as a family-friendly, heritage-themed event run by Royal Greenwich Heritage Trust.

Taking place at Charlton House on Sunday October 16th from 10am-4pm, the event promises: “…a day for all ages. With activities from Stone Masonry by the Building Crafts College, plaster workshops from Philip Gaches, and our very own WWI Nurse Ivy and Devoted Frank. Amongst all the music and revelry of the day come along and enjoy our range of short talks, food and drink treats, and lots of children’s activities that are on offer”.

Catch the train? Take the bus? Come to Transport for Charlton’s first meeting

Darryl Chamberlain

A weekend train at Charlton: There'll be fewer of these over the next few months
The Charlton Rail Users Group, which has been dormant for a few years, has come alive again under a new name – Transport for Charlton.

It’s holding its first public meeting on Wednesday 12 October, at 6.30pm at Charlton Liberal Club. Representatives from Southeastern, Transport for London and other local campaign groups will be there.

The new group will be encompassing all forms of transport around the area – one of the things the group is likely to be campaigning for will be a better link to North Greenwich, by diverting the 472 so it serves the stop outside Charlton station.

The ongoing engineering works at London Bridge and Abbey Wood – and the lack of information about weekend closures – is also sure to be on the agenda. (Because Southastern can’t be botherd to announce this stuff, we keep a full diary here, currently up to Christmas.)

One piece of good transport news to note – the Night Tube will come to the Jubilee Line at North Greenwich from Friday night/Saturday morning. Trains will run all night at weekends, every 10 minutes, feeding into half-hourly all-night buses on the 108, 132, 188, 472 and 486.