Ping Pong table ARRIVING THIS WEEK!

The Crossfields Outdoor Ping Pong table is being delivered this week, and will hopefully fit into the space marked out for it here, near the ballcourt. Get yourself some bats and balls and be ready for some fun on Sunday (if not before) when there'll be some gardening activities going on in and around the Sue Godfrey Community Garden next to the Farrer House bikesheds.

By then, a new tap for the Wonky Prong Food Growing Project should have been connected (no thanks to Thames Water who charged a fortune and took an age to install the pipework!). Plants are arriving at the end of the week, ready to be planted on Sunday. If you want to join in the gardening, come along on Sunday 23rd at midday from 2pm. Afterwards there'll be a BBQ...

Whoops, earlier we posted that there would be graffiti workshops and a bug safari for kids, but unfortunately they're cancelled due to illness...sorry!

Update 20th June 2013: The table has arrived!!! Thanks to Tim for organising.

 

Assembly Vote at Deptford Lounge TODAY!

Tuesday 13 November 

6.45-9pm Deptford Lounge

ARRIVE BY 7.45pm TO VOTE!

Update 10pm: 19 great projects were in the mix, and 180 people came to vote – by awarding each project a score on a scale of 0-5. Voting closed at 8pm, votes were counted and the results were announced just before 9pm. Nine projects were awarded funding. Unfortunately Crossfields was unsuccessful this time, although TRA Chair Tim had brought along a table-top ping pong table which kept some of the children at the assembly happily occupied for the last hour of the meeting whilst the votes were added up.

The top scorers were Deptford & New Cross Free Film Festival. They hope to stage their next festival in April 2013 and would like to stage an outdoor screening on Crossfields. We'd have to organise it but they would help with equipment and film licensing...So ideas for your favourite film, please!

Anyone for Table Tennis?

You'll have received a leaflet (we got two) about the New Cross Local Assembly Fund. Local projects and organisations can apply for funding. The funding applications are then voted on at an Assembly meeting.

Crossfields TRA has put in a bid to buy an outdoor Table Tennis table and needs your support. To be successful in getting the cash, they need the Local Assembly to vote in favour of the project – that means you! The more people who go along to vote, the more likely Crossfields can get its own outdoor table.

Please come along on:
Tuesday 13 November, 6.45-9pm at Deptford Lounge
Refreshments provided. Arrive by 7.45pm to vote (voters must be over 14).

If successful, the table would be situated between the ballcourt and the railway arches. The idea grew out of this year's Crossfields Festival where an indoor table was wheeled out to the Farrer lawn, and proved to be a huge success.

The outdoor table Crossfields is bidding for is made of reinforced concrete, built to withstand extreme weather conditions, constant use – and vandalism. Therefore it's a pricey £2,200!

Here's a mock-up of the table in the place it would be by the ballcourt...



There's more information about the New Cross Assembly here and you can see what projects have been previously funded here.

Win £100 worth of high street vouchers
There's also the opportunity to win £100 worth of high street vouchers by filling in the online questionnaire about local assemblies (you don't have to have attended previously but you'll have to give your name and address).