Carol Concert: 16th December
The All Sing! Harrow Road Community Choir is returning to St John The Evangelist, Kensal Green with a concert in aid of the charity REAL ACTION ; supporting their work with the survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire. This promises to be a popular event, starting at 6.30pm. All welcome!
The church is on the corner of Harrow Road and Kilburn Lane. Directions are here.
To be truthful, it may be a couple of weeks old by now but we’ve been busy!
LOOK at all the wonderful things you can do just around the corner. More info at their website.
Café Assistant at New Avenues
Open Age are looking for a friendly and welcoming individual to assist them in their new Café at Open Age’s Queen’s Park and Harrow Road hub at New Avenues. .
The role: Mondays and Fridays 10am-3.30pm (Temporary @ £9.75 per hour)
Providing a warm and friendly welcome to users of the café as well as assisting members in any inquiries they may have about Open Age activities.
Daily set up/set down of the café including chairs, tables, coffee machines and any other equipment. Serving hot drinks and keeping the Café in a tidy and hygienic manner by adhering to food hygiene and safety regulations.Cash handling – Taking payment from members, counting the takings and ensuring the float is correct. Informing the Centre Manager or Facilitator when stock needs replenishing. Assisting the manager with any administrative adhoc tasks as required.
What are they looking for?
A friendly, enthusiastic and reliable person. Basic numeracy skills/Cash handling. Passion for working with the public, particularly the older generation. Good food hygiene skills, hard working and capable of using own initiative.
Please contact Claire Hoggan on 07713 567050 or choggan@nullopenage.org.uk for further details or an application form.
Back with a bang – Queen’s Park Fireworks Night 2017, kindly sponsored by Douglas and Gordon
Don’t miss the 11th annual fireworks, kindly sponsored by Douglas and Gordon and match-funded by your Westminster City Ward Councillors. A favourite every year!
Join the events working group (and help organise the winter festival!)
Queen’s Park Community Council events are organised by the events working group, made up of community councillors and residents, and the QPCC Community Development Officer (Lindsey). This working group helps plan, organise and run the events, which includes getting to decide what happens!
We are looking for residents who want to join the events working group. The next event to plan is the annual Winter Festival which is on Saturday 9th December 2017 (poster above). Last year there was wreath making and donkey rides amongst lots of other festive activities.
Are you good at planning events? Do you have good ideas about what we could do? Do you want to meet other people in the community? Then join us! You can offer as little or as much time as you like and we promise it will be fun!
Join the Beethoven Centre Curry Night on 26th October from 6pm to 8pm!
Air Pollution in Queen’s Park (article taken from the Queen’s Park Community Council Newsletter)
Report by founder friend and regular gardener, Ray Lancashire.
Queen’s Park Community Council’s first citizen science air pollution project was conducted in June 2017, funded by QPCC with support from community volunteers and in partnership with the London Sustainability Exchange.
Twenty diffusion tubes were mounted on street lamps, for one month, around the Queen’s Park ward, paying particular attention to stretches of Harrow Road and Kilburn Lane, outside Queen’s Park and Wilberforce Primary Schools, and Queen’s Park Library. These areas are used by adults and young children on a daily basis.
Low-tech acrylic diffusion tubes were used to collect ambient Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) from the air. The tube’s cap contains an absorbent which absorbs NO2 produced by motor vehicle exhaust gases expelled by cars, buses and lorries. After a one month period the tubes are taken down, the concentration of NO2 absorbed is analysed and a mean average total is arrived at. This figure is used to compare the levels of NO2 against annual limits laid down by the European Union.
The European Union’s annual legal limit for NO2 is 40 micrograms per cubic metre of air. The results show Harrow Road has higher NO2 levels than the EU legal limit (40 µg/m3) and in some cases double the legal limit. Research suggests that prolonged exposure to NO2 has an adverse effect on health and reducing life expectancy.
Although Kilburn Lane shows lower levels of NO2 it is still above the legal limit. It is worth noting that Queen’s Park and Wilberforce Primary Schools are both above the EU legal limit even though they are located away from main roads.
This report has been distributed to your Westminster City Ward Councillors. To view the map of the findings, please visit the QPCC website.
The Queen’s Park Community Hub launched last month and has got off to a great start. With sport activities in the park and learning events including language sessions at their new premises in Kilburn Lane, there is something for everyone and the list is growing all the time.
The sessions in blue text are run by QPG Community (hello@nullqpgcommunity.com). The sessions in green text are run by QPG Sports Hub( info@nullqpgsports.com).
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A reassuringly large area to the east of the Avenues and going into Maida Vale (from Bravington Road to Lanark Road) are included in Westminster’s 20mph trials over the next couple of years.
Also parts of Droop Street and Dart Street will be trialed. You may have already noticed the old 30mph signs have been covered over and some illuminated detector ‘slow down’ signs are already in place. The 20mph limits are being implemented in areas highlighted by a road safety review and as a result of residents’ requests for speed restrictions.
Local schools, businesses and residents views will also be sought before, during and after the 20mph trials. This will give better understanding of their impact and inform the next step.
You can read more about it here and download a map.
The Avenues Youth Project is in the running for a share of the £300,000 M&S Energy Community Energy Fund.
The Avenues has launched a campaign calling for the local community and friends of the Avenues to show its support after it was shortlisted for a national renewable community energy project competition.
The competition is now open to the public vote.
They are hoping to replace expensive lighting throughout the building with LED bulbs and motion sensors. This will enable them to attain 70% savings in bills and Co2!
All of the money that is saved will be put back into the work that they do with children and young people.
They’d be one step nearer to achieving their goal if they can get your support so we’d like to encourage you to get online and vote here.
A local parent who recognises the benefit of energy saving said:
“I’m really excited to support the Avenues and am looking forward to seeing the results if they are successful. It will be a massive benefit for the local community if they do receive the funding”
For more information on the project and to vote please visit
https://www.mandsenergyfund.com/projects/the-avenues-youth-project/vote
Carol Archibald | Programme Manager | 020 8969 9552
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