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Jumble Trail 12-4pm 12 May 2024
Take part in a wonderful way to sell or buy items, craft-work, homemade food etc from outside our homes. People also meet their neighbours and build a stronger community. Put it in your diary now.
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£100 reward for joining Octopus Energy
For everyone who switches to Octopus for gas/electricity through this special link, Octopus will donate £50 to Queens Boundary Community gardeners! qbcg.octopus.energy Not only that, the person switching will also get £50 credit! Please share with your neighbours to help raise money to keep our streets, park and cemetery green, healthy, flood and heat resilient…
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Books for Barclay School
A pile of reading material was given as Christmas present from the E17 Story Windows project, based in QBC, to Barclay primary school on Hoe Street. “I hope that the students enjoy their books! Please ensure they are given to children to take home as a gift, not tied to attainment or behaviour just for…
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Pantry and warm space in action
The food pantry and warm space in Stafford Hall continue to be badly needed by many in the community. BBC News filmed a report on the operation.
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Over 20,000 bulbs planted
Local volunteers have sown more than double their target number of bulbs in recent months. They got many free from the council and more from shop sales. Well done and a big thank you to all of he wonderful gardeners who did all this. As well as thousands in Queens Road Cemetery the list includes…
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Aggressive hawker sanctioned
A Community Protection Warning has been served against a man targeting people in our and other parts of Walthamstow, thanks to numerous reports from local residents. The man had been knocking people’s doors aggressively to ask for money claiming to work for an ex-offenders charity and offering painting and decorating services or selling items. When…
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Work on Rutland Road flower beds underway
Contractors have demolished the raised planters and are building rain gardens to help reduce flood risks. Waltham Forest Council was successful in securing funding from Transport for London’s (TfL) Green and Healthy Streets Fund to redesign streets to integrate green infrastructure and climate resilience measures (such as trees, pocket parks and sustainable drainage), alongside interventions…
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St Barnabas Christmas Fayre 3 December 2023
Festivities are coming to St Barnabas at the annual Christmas Fayre. in Foster Hall, on Sunday December 4th from 12-4:30pm. Free entry . Come for mulled wine and mince pies, raffle, tombola, music, crafts and much much more. Visit Santa’s grotto! As aways they are collecting for the food bank Eat or Heat at the…
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Bulb planting in cemetery
Help us reach 10,000 bulbs planted in 2023. Join in on Sunday 3 December 11am-1pm at Queens Road Cemetery We have allium and crocus bulbs to add to section C of the cemetery to the north-east of the chapel. We will also be seed sowing. All help is much appreciated. The tool of choice is…
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Remembrance Sunday at the cemetery
Thank you to everyone who braved the drizzle to pay their respects at the Cross of Remembrance today. After a short, informal ceremony and laying of wreaths we planted 4000 bulbs to help keep the cemetery a beautiful place to mourn and remember. Look out for them in the sections nearest the entrance in the…
Queens Boundary Community
An an area with wonderful people and activities between Markhouse Road, Lea Bridge Road and Hoe Street, in Walthamstow, London E17
Queens Boundary Community 