We are very excited to announce that the Lewisham Story Festival will be presenting authors and workshops at Torridon Library on Saturday 19th September. It would be great if you could circulate this information and ask people to visit their website: www.storyfestival.co.uk for a full programme list. They are also short of volunteers to help out on…
We have been working hard behind the scenes on our campaign to inject new life into Corbett shopping parades. We are beginning to see some results, but we have some significant challenges. Shopping survey gets great response Thanks again to everyone who took part in our Shop Local, Shop Corbett survey in April and May. We received…
Thanks to everyone who filled out our Shop Local, Shop Corbett survey. We have received nearly 250 surveys, full of great ideas for injecting new life into our shopping parades. The surveys give a clear message that respondents would use new shops and services if they were available. Here are a few headlines: 98% of…
Explore your area, meet locals and use Twitter to connect the dots and have your say The Corbett Estate Neighbourhood Forum is all about preserving the old and embracing (the best of) the new. So we’re pretty excited about our next event, dreamed up for us by local digital innovators Stickyworld. A Twitter Walkabout is a brilliant way to…
If you reckon you’ve got green fingers (and even if you haven’t), do come down to the community Garden at Abbottshall Road Playing Fields this coming Saturday 2nd May, between 10.30am and 2pm. To encourage those vital bees none of us can do without, we’ll be weeding, sowing a wild flower garden and making bee houses. That’s…
Want to know more about goings on at the Corbett Society? You can read the minutes of our last board meeting, here
A big thank you to Telegraph columnist and local resident Jeff Howell, who has signed up to write for the CS website. He’ll be posting updates on the restoration of his Corbett Estate house.
Support the Shop Local, Shop Corbett campaign and fill out our survey for a chance to win a £25 shopping voucher at one of our favourite local butchers. More info here
t was back 2011 that Lewisham Council agreed to transfer the Abbotshall Road Playing Field, part of the the Corbett estate, to Community Teachsport at a peppercorn rent on a 25-year lease. (Teachsport is a body of professionally qualified sports instructors used by educational establishments all over London when they want to bring more and better sporting…
It’s been a long, hard haul, but the former playing fields at Abbotshall Road on the Corbett Estate are soon to be reborn as a healthy lifestyle centre including sporting facilities, a community café, a community garden, and drop-in clinics to help residents improve their health and wellbeing. We wanted to capture some very neglected buildings…