Information on amazing community resource within Leytonstone
Our Pastures is holding it’s AGM on Tuesday 23rd April from 19:00 to 21:00. The meeting will be held in the Community room at the Pastures Centre.
Come and see/hear all that is happening at Pastures Centre, Garden and Good Shepherd Studios and hear all about the plans for the future. Refreshments will be provided.
All are welcome !
Extra sessions are on for young people (11-25) at Pastures next week. Football, Table tennis, food and workshops will be available. Please see the Flyer below for more details
The Pastures Gardening Group is holding a Wassail in the Pastures Community Gardens on the 21st January.
For those that don’t know a Wassail is a traditonal event held to promote a good harvest of fruit trees. It involves singing and toasting of the trees to wake the trees and scare off any evil spirits.
The Gardening Group will be planting some new fruit trees as well as waking up the previously planted ones and need your help in order to get a good harvest. As tradition dicates there will also be some mulled cider served for those wishing to partake. More information is the flyer below
Waltham Forest is looking for young people who were born before 01/09/2007 to represent the borough in Basketball at the London Youth Games 2024. The event takes place in May but there are a number of trials and practice sessions that will be held throughout 2024. Session details and sign up forms are below.
For more info please contact Joshua Wehner – walthamforestflames@gmail.com or Charles Adeyemi – Charles.Adeyemi@walthamforest.gov.uk
Free digital drawing classes for adults are running at Pastures on the 8th and 15th Of January between 17:30 and 18:30. The classes will instruct attendees in the use of Procreate art application. A limited amount of iPads will be available for use if you can’t bring your own. See the flyer below for more details
A basketball session for children maybe coming to pastures. The council is asking for expressions of interest before setting it up. No more details at present but to register your interest please email the below
Bike maintenance sessions are back at Pastures during the summer and early autumn. The sessions, run on early tuesday evening, are an excellent way to get your bike ready for summer and learn how to keep it in excellemt condition. The sessions have proved to be very popular in the past so booking is essential. Please see link below to book available sessions
Please see link below for the minutes of the latest Community engagement meeting
The council has put together a package for childrens parties at Pastures – please go the following page for more details – http://ourpastureswebsi-n1mjbocqs.live-website.com/party/
This is your chance to find out what is happening at the Pastures site in Davies Lane and
have your say. All suggestions and ideas are welcome!
There will be a report on the changes and activities that have taken place since the last
public Zoom meeting in 2021 when Save Our Pastures was officially formed, plus some
proposals for changes to our name and how we are run.
The Good Shepherd Studios team will talk about their plans and progress so far to bring the
building into use as a co-working, cultural and community hub.
There will also be an update on the Pastures garden and plans for the future.
There will be elections for chair, deputy chair, secretary, treasurer, communications rep
and ordinary committee members. The more the merrier! You can nominate yourself or a
friend beforehand or on the day.
For more information and to request the a Zoom link please Email – info@saveourpastures.org