Date: Saturday 19th May

Venue: Nunhead Cemetary, Linden Grove SE15 3LP

Time:  12.00 -  5pm

Hum along, tap your toes or just listen as you please to songs from Westside Story, Porgy and Bess, My Fair Lady, Madame Butterfly plus items written by Flanders and Swan and Gershwin and more besides.

All the performers are giving their time to raise funds to support the community outreach work of Ed-bus in Southwark and Lambeth and we are sure that you will thoroughly enjoy the evening and leave wanting more.

The performers are:

• Preshanthi Navaratnam a well known Sri Lankan singer with a wonderful soprano voice
• Ronald Samm a performer with a huge stage presence who was the first black tenor to take the role of Otello in the opera of the same name (televised around Christmas 2010)
• Haruko a talented Japanese pianist whose virtuoso performances both as support to the singers and as a soloist are a joy to listen to.

Venue: St George The Martyr, Borough High Street, SE1 1JA London

Date: Saturday, May 19, 2012 at 7:00 PM (PT)

Tickets: Tickets are very reasonably priced on the door at £10 for adults, £5 for children under 12 and £6 for students, senior citizens and concessions.  You can save money on the standard adult price by booking online at www.eventbrite.co.uk where you can buy your ticket for a bargain price of just £8.50

We hope to see you there.

Thank you

They will be kicking off Theatre Local 2012 with Belong a new play by Bola Agbaje followed by Vera Vera Vera by Hailey Squires, which had a sold-out run here at the Royal Court. We are again offering free production workshops for Schools, community groups and local youth groups around the two plays.

Belong by Bola Agbaje: 31 May- 23 June. Workshop dates for Belong are 6 – 23 June (Mon – Fri only).

“Supporters keh! Forget this country… Your hinglish is better than the Queen’s and they still call you…”

The award winning playwright, Bola Agbaje, returns to the stage with a satirical new play that questions our notion of home.

Cost: Free

Vera Vera Vera by Hayley Squires: 4-28 July. Workshop dates for Vera Vera Vera are 5 - 28 July.

The boy who comes back from war far away in a wooden box is glorified and called a hero. As the funeral plans are made, his siblings squabble over who he really was.

‘Real and fierce’ Observer              ……. ‘Crackling… a terrific debut’ Telegraph

If this is something you might be interested in then please do contact Diana Atuona on 020 7565 5157 or Ruth Hawkins on 020 7565 5013.

Welcome to  PVSF’s 

Wednesday E -Bulletin

2nd May 12

FUNDING

• The Deutsche Bank Small Grants programme is now open with the deadline for applications falling on Friday 1^st June 2012.  Apply if you are community group focusing on community development or education.
• Apply to Comic Relief for funding to: increase local services; build skills of  local people; increase community cohesion; respond to local economic needs; etc Deadline 9th June 2012
• Trust for London’s grants aims to enable and empower Londoners to tackle poverty and inequality, and their root causes, Deadline 3oth May.

TRAINING

• The London Community Foundation (LCF) is holding a training session on how to present a Localgiving page and benefit your fundraising stratergy.
• Southwark Council and NHS Southwark are offering a free 4-day course aimed at people who would like to help others in their community consider healthier lifestyle choices.

MEETINGS AND EVENTS

• An open meeting arranged by local Cllr Rowenna Davis is to take place to find out what action can be taken to oppose an application for a betting shop to be opened in Rye Lane, Peckham.
• Peckham Space presents Double Vision, an exhibition of a new work by artist Gayle Chong Kwan which explore the tastes, textures and smells of a  three-dimensional mythical landscape runs from 25 May – 29 July 2012.
• Nunhead Cemetery’s Open Day this year will take place on Saturday 19th May.
• Choumert Square  in Peckham has it’s Open Day on 17th June:

Community Council Meetings:

• Next Peckham, Nunhead and Peckham Rye Community Council meeting dates to be announced.

For further information please contact: Nadine James on 020 7525 5503 or email: Nadine.James@southwark.gov.uk.  For a complete list of the Council’s meetings and activities visit: www.southwark.gov.uk/YourCouncil/CouncilDiary

GENERAL INFORMATION

• Low cost office and desk space available at 48 Willowbrook Rd, SE15. Offices start from £3012 a year, desk space with wireless connection £2200 a year.
• Volunteers are needed from all communities in PECKHAM, to engage their friends, family and community in sharing their story about why or why not they consider Peckham their home.
• ADCRIS is offering community organiastions free decorating and refurbishment,
• The BBC is offering a great work experience programmme for 2012 and the deadline to apply is 11^th May. Apply if you are a Southwark Resident 18 years old and over.
• Nominate your volunteer: ‘Southwark Stars’ is Volunteer Centre Southwark’s big annual volunteer awards event held to celebrate the contributions people make to their community in Southwark.

PVSF services is funded by Southwark Council, Big Lottery, Wates Foundation & City Bridge Trust.

PVSF has taken all reasonable measures to ensure the accuracy of the information included in this bulletin.  Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed, does not necessarily reflect our views.

Date: Sunday 17th June

Venue: Choumert Square, Peckham, SE15 4RE

Time:  1pm – 5pm

You will help to enagae your family and freinds to take part in audio recordings of their stories. Recordings will be between  30seconds- 3 minutes in length and will become woven into a public art living room installation in Peckam Square this summer, throughout the Olympics. 

Volunteers must be available in June and July 2012,  for a couple a hours- every week for 6 weeks.

If interested please send an e-mail to homeproject.12@gmail.com,  by 1st June – with subject line Volunteer.

Please specify times you are available, contact information, and any suggestions of Peckham locations you would be interested in interviewing at. Also a line about yourself and why you are interested.

For more information on go to:http://www.juliavogl.com/news/home-project/

The Adcris project carried out a variety of works which included;

• decorate the entire inside of building
• decorate the external of building 
• tiling
• plastering
• sanding down of wooden flooring and revarnishing
• paint floors with specialised paint
• removing old pelmet fittings
• wallpapering of ceiling
• filling and making good
• rebuilding of window ledges
• carpentry
• plumbing works
• ripped out the old bar area
• fitted out an IT suite / office
• fit a new kitchen,

ADCRIS do not charge labour costs as they receive funding from a government initiative which gives young people the opportunity to train and gain work experience. This gives community groups the opportunity of having works done that costs the price of materials plus a management charge.

If you are interested in speaking to ADCRIS please contact;
Lynne Ottaway-Reid on 0207 525 5206 or 07958 539688
or by email to;  lynne.ottaway-reid@southwark.gov.uk “

An open meeting arranged by Cllr Rowenna Davis is about the action that can be taken to oppose the application. Meeting details as follows:

Date: Tuesday 8th May

Time: 7.30pm

Venue:  at All Saints Church, Blenheim Grove. SE15 4QS

This meeting is especially important for anyone who:

•   Lives sufficiently close to the premises to be affected by the  betting shop.    
•   Has business interests that might be affected by the betting shop.

Southwark Council and NHS Southwark are offering a free 4-day course aimed at people who would like to help others in their community consider healthier lifestyle choices.

• Are you  unemployed, aged 18 or over, lives in Southwark and would like to develop their health promotion/public health skills.

Venue: Southwark Council, Learning & Business Centre, Cator Street,Londo,  SE15 6AA

Dates: 22^nd, 23^rd, 24^th and 28^th May 2012

Time: 9,30am – 4.30pm

Venue: Learning & Business Centre, Cator Street,Londo,  SE15 6AA

To apply please go to the following link and complete application form

Local voluntary or community groups who need funding for a project focusing on Education or Community Development in London this grant fund may be able to help. Groups can apply for up to £2500 to support their project. 

Grant: Up to £2500

Deadline: Friday 1st June 2012

Contact: 0207 582 5117

Interested groups should go to this link and request an application form.