Job advertisement: If you are friendly and well organised, with good written and verbal skills, we’d love to hear from you. St Luke’s and St Thomas’ Church of England churches are looking to recruit a part-time administrator (24 hours a week).
Come and help our churches run smoothly and communicate well. Most of this role will be carried out remotely.
SALARY: £16,224
CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS: Midnight, Friday 18th November INTERVIEW DATE: Saturday 3rd December
The damage left by Vladimir Putin in the village of Novoselivka, near Chernihiv. Photo: Oleksandr Ratushniak / UNDP Ukraine via Creative Commons
There’s a benefit concert for Ukraine at St Richard’s Hall in Swallowfield Road on Saturday 12th November. All are welcome to the event, which is being held by the Charlton Central Residents’ Association. SARAH HORNSEY explains more…
To show support and solidarity with Ukraine, Charlton Central Residents’ Association are pleased to be hosting an evening benefit concert for those whose lives are being disrupted by the war in Ukraine.
We have a great line-up of local talent which includes our very own CCRA Singers; our instrumental group SE7; Hope Augustus, a wonderful jazz singer who plays with SE7 at Cattaleya on Charlton Church Lane; and the Flaming Sambucas, a blues/rock band.
If that was not enough we also have local resident harpist Gabriella Dall’Olio who will be joined by Clare Hoffman, a violinist. We also have two Ukrainian sisters who play the harp, Catherine and Elizabeth Rahjans as well as Owen Morgan, a singer, and Claude Deppa, a trumpeter. There may be other special guests and readings on the night.
Space is limited so arrive early to avoid disappointment, doors will open at 7.00pm. The concert will start promptly at 7.30pm. Entry is free – but we hope everyone attending will contribute to a collection.
For more info contact Jacqui at membership[at]charltonresidents.net or alternatively call 07717 742 886.
The concert is at St Richard’s Hall, Swallowfield Road, SE7 7NR on Saturday 12 November. For more information visit the CCRA website.
St Luke’s new community choir meets each Wednesday
Ever wanted to join a choir, but couldn’t find one? REVD LIZ NEWMAN of St Luke’s Church in Charlton Village has an invite for you if you’re free on Wednesday evenings…
Come and sing in our new community choir at St Luke’s. No previous experience is needed and there are no auditions. Families and all ages are welcome from six to 100 years old!
We’ll be learning lots of different styles of song including gospel, spirituals, modern worship songs and traditional hymns. In each session we’ll start with an energised warm-up to prepare the body for singing, play fun singing games and rounds to build up confidence in singing, and learn new songs that will be used in the Sunday service.
We’d love you to come along to sing on Sundays as well, at least sometimes, but that’s up to you – if all you want to do is come along on a Wednesday, that’s fine too. In time, we’ll be preparing songs for concerts and community events as well.
Children are VERY welcome, but for safeguarding reasons you’ll need to book – email rector[at]charlton.church. Aged 18 and above? – Just turn up!
Noah Mosley, the new director of music at St Luke’s will be leading the sessions. Noah is an experienced choir leader, musician, conductor and composer and he loves to make music fun! Here’s his message:
The St Luke’s Community Choir meets on Wednesdays from 6-7pm at St Luke’s Church, The Village, SE7 8UG.
The concert will be raising money for Ukraine and the Charlton House roof
GWEN ZAMMIT, the chair of the Save Charlton Assembly Rooms Project, put on a successful concert last year to help raise funds to repair the damaged roof at Charlton House. This Sunday, she’s doing it again. She says…
I’ll be putting on a wonderful concert of all types of music both instrumental and vocal performed by professionals and good amateurs, including “St Luke’s Players”, to raise money for Ukraine as well as the roof at Charlton House, which needs replacing.
Music for an Autumnal Evening is at 7.30pm on Sunday October 2 in the Old Library, Charlton House. Tickets now available at £15 to include wine/beer or something softer.To book tickets in advance call David on 07738 561544.
We hope you can come because we know you will have a great time!
The 1971 film of the hit TV show is one of the festival’s highlights
The Charlton and Woolwich Free Film Festival is back again in September – but what’s in? PAUL CHAPMAN, one of the organisers, is here to put you in the picture.
Hard to believe that the Charlton and Woolwich Free Film Festival is already in its seventh year, but this September we are ready to once more go forth with our trusty (borrowed) projectors and screen free films to the citizens of SE7 and SE18.
The dates of this year’s festival are Friday September 9th to 17th, and we’ll be showing our customary mix of films and documentaries – some old, some new – in our customary mix of venues – some old, some new.
On the 11th, we’re showing the Billy Wilder directed classic THE APARTMENT, which reunited Wilder and Lemmon after the success of Some Like It Hot. The Apartment will be screened at the Assembly Rooms in Charlton Village. Two days later on the 13th we’re back in SE7 at the Old Library in Charlton House, where we’ve got the 1971 war comedy DAD’S ARMY, a film adapted from the classic TV series. The event will feature popular Festival recurring character historian Clive Harris, who will give an informal talk beforehand.
The powerful drama Timbuktu will be shown at St Luke’s Church
And on Friday 16th we’ve got a Bond classic at an SE18 classic, Shrewsbury House. THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN sees Roger Moore accompanied, as you’d expect, by a fully licensed bar.
That’s three films we’ve already announced, but we can also reveal, exclusive in The Charlton Champion, three more films! On Monday 12th, we are back – after a long interval – at The Star pub in Plumstead. We’ll be screening 2014 comedy-drama PRIDE; the “you’ll laugh, you’ll cry” true story of LGBT activists and their efforts to raise money to support the 1984 miners strike.
A lesser-known 2014 offering comes to St Luke’s Church on Wednesday 14th, with TIMBUKTU, a powerful drama about a family and a city grappling with fundamentalism in Mali. In 2017, The New York Times ranked it the twelfth best film of the 21st century so far!
And for our third Champion exclusive, I can reveal that our Festival closer this year is the epic space opera, DUNE, at Garrison Church on Saturday 17th. Not the 1980s version where Sting dances around in his pants, but the 2021 version starring – like all new films in the last 18 months – Timothee Chalamet. Dune will also feature our old friends from the Flamsteed Astronomy Society, weather permitting, showing us the wonders of the night sky via their mighty telescopes.
There are more films to be announced, once we’ve dotted i’s, crossed the t’s and secured the licenses.
A lot of organisation goes into putting on the festival each year, and we can only show the free films thanks to the generosity of our venues and the generosity of our visitors, who add to our collection buckets at the end of the evenings. In previous years we’ve also been helped through sponsorship, most recently by Greenwich Council.
Sadly this year we’ve been unable to secure council backing (the fund had already closed when we came a-knocking). This will make this years festival more of a challenge, and if there are any potential sponsors out there who are interested in supporting the festival, with all the accompanying promotion and warmth-in-the-tummy-feeling that entails, then feel free to contact our chair for a no-strings chat via gavin[at]freefilmfestivals.org.
And so, all’s that is left is to say we really hope to see lots of you at a film or three this year. Please tell your friends about us, and point them towards our various accounts underneath this article. And keep an eye out for the final published events, we’ve got some real surprises lined up.
Got green finders? Charlton Community Gardens would like you to join them for their gardening party this Sunday morning.
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This coming Sunday, July 3rd, we have our Gardening Party from 10 am until 12 noon at Charlton Station. Gardening experience isn’t necessary, but please bring some gloves, if you have them. We have tools for you to use.
Please join us as close to 10 am as you can because if the weather changes, or the tasks listed below are completed, we go home.
The tasks for Sunday: – general weed and litter pick – water – tie up any climbers – remove acanthus from the pollinator-friendly area – continue the audit of flowering plants in the pollinator-friendly area – prune the Cornus in the station bed – tie in/cut back climbers on the back wall, including the vine – move bark chippings away from base of raised beds – other tasks as identified on the day
The Royal Oak on Charlton Lane is staging another charity pub quiz this Tuesday, to raise money for the Maryon Park Community Garden. Quizmaster PAUL BREEN – who is also vice-chair of the garden – would like to invite you along…
The garden relies entirely on donations and volunteers. To help with fundraising Charlton Athletic have donated a signed first-team shirt from the 2021/2022 season which will be raffled on the night.
Maryon Park Community Garden has been in existence since 2012 when locals took advantage of a Capital Growth grant to rejuvenate an overgrown area of the park. As a taster, here’s a question: Which infamous politician was instrumental in giving out these grants? (Clue: many people might now like said politician to go on gardening leave.)
Unfortunately the answers to this question are only available to those who turn up on the quiz night. Hopefully then the community garden will get the benefit of a decent crowd on the night and be able to continue their good work in the local area.
The quiz starts at 7.30pm and should last about two hours. Food is also available in The Royal Oak beforehand.
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