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This is great news, hopefully we can just crack on now.

Happy days.

The Albrighton Community fridge provides food and other essentials to an average of 350 households per per week — that’s a total of over 900 adults and more than 450 children. The fridge offers fresh fruit and vegetables, hot meals, frozen meat, bread, tinned goods and a limited selection of toiletries and sanitary products. As winter comes along with the cost of living and energy cost crisis these numbers are expected to grow significantly.

The fridge is open from 1pm to 4pm on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. It is staffed by volunteers and relies on donations of food and money from individuals, local groups and businesses. While demand is increasing week on week, donations are dwindling as businesses and local residents hit hard times themselves. In addition we are losing volunteers as people's circumstances change.

How can you help?

1.Donate food

You can drop off items at

Albrighton Community Fridge

37 Albrighton Road, London SE22 8AH

any weekday from 10am-4pm.

At the moment though we need volunteers to help sort the donations and serve them to our customers. If you can spare anything from a couple of hours a week upward you could make a real difference, If you can help in any way please email [email protected]

Thanks in advance

Albrighton Community Fridge

37 Albrighton Road,

London

SE22 8AH

020 7737 6186

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©Albrighton Community Fridge 2021

For anyone interested in the background to the Grove and would like to find out more they are holding an evening event over the road at the cricket club with speakers and a panel - all welcome, skaters or not or even just curious, synopsis at ticket link below -

Thu 17th November 2022 (door 6pm, event 7pm~)

Venue: Pavilion - Streatham & Marlborough Cricket Club (SE21 7EX)

=== Synopsis =========

The evening is a show-and-tell opportunity by the Grove community for the rest of Dulwich residents and beyond. The short documentary will guide the audience through the birth and growth of The Grove DIY skatepark. The camera captures an intimate portrait of The Grove community from its tentative early days to which grew organically in and around the site. "Have fun" is the heart of skater culture and there's nothing else to gain from it, and a DIY skatepark is the epitome of such skater ethos - be it in a slightly extreme form. Skaters know too well that a physical skateboard is just a toy, nevertheless they skate like their lives depend on it. It's a way of life, self-expression, obsession, escape and personal quest which are punctuated by landing that trick they have been doggedly trying to a point of exhaustion, and the sheer joy and triumph over their own limit. The evening will give you a glimpse of what skater culture is and what a DIY skate spot can positively impact the community, regardless of whether they are skaters inside or onlookers outside the skatepark - everyone can feel the inexplicably uplifting energy skaters emit when they skate. Such untamed energy has ignited a few spin-off projects along the way, and now these are well-established projects in their own right.

There will be a panel discussion at the end to talk about DIY skate spot in a context of skater culture and its evolution with the Grove as the primary example, expanding to skatability in urban environment and benefit of skater's presence in otherwise uninviting and intimidating environment.

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Ticket (free but, please book):

https://forms.gle/4Xxe2n1dyv7P8qex7

Ridiculous suggestion that somehow skatepark prevents crime

What a strange thing to say.

As a very long term supporter can I just gently point out that one of the ways the Grove DIY has been able to engage positively wth their neighbours is by engaging, reaching out and looking to listen. Not everyone may be aware of how they leafletted all the neighbours before the recent Jam (which was undeniably noisy) and invited anyone effected to say hello. It might be that some people didn't see that, or have only recently discovered this forum. For me their ie the new forum members views are just as valid, and should be listened to in order to find the best way forward.

Just my bit, thanks

For those interested the Midsummer Night's Skate performance over the weekend was brilliant. I don't want to come over all over emotional but as someone else said these guys deserve a medal for making something so positive out of such an eyesore.

Hopefully, speaking for myself anyway, we can continue to support them.

Well there's quite a lot going on there tomorrow...

https://www.instagram.com/p/ChDCP0aM0jL/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

As the title says South Circular closed for I believe two or three days according to hi vis fellah just after the Grove near the stables.

No idea where they're going to divert traffic and not many options thanks to LTN I suppose.

Good luck everyone.

Sounds like a dental flosser.

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Hi all,this isn't the cockapoo in the other post.

There's what almost looks like an over sized and slightly scruffy fox running round along the pavement and chasing people on scooters near the Grove and on the South circular. I couldn't get near it and it headed off west.

Hello everyone, it's been a while but we're back needing volunteers. As the pandemic has evolved our volunteer base has too, and we now have a number of key volunteers going back to work or other changes of circumstance so this is why I'm asking for your help.

As said in the previous post it doesn't have to be loads of hours, but what we really need now is people who can commit to doing a shift or two on the same days for a few weeks so we can plan ahead. If that's you and you'd like to help do let us know. Even if you can't commit to that but woudl be able to help out at shortish notice then please get in touch anyway..

It's generally quite good fun, the team is nice people, and let's be honest it doesn't do your CV any harm..

Contact details as above in post 1, please do get in touch.

I have an Orbea Gain electrically assisted. It's at the other end of the assistance scale, more a gentle help, you still get exercise but it makes all the difference. Would recommend to anyone giving a bike a try, theyr'e great. Not cheap but getting cheaper.

Pure, the scooter people, have just launched a new one which I reckon they'll sell loads of - https://www.pureelectric.com/products/pure-flux-one-electric-hybrid-bike