Orchard volunteering session in Ladywell Fields - Sunday 31 January, 11am-1.00pm

The community orchard planted in Ladywell Fields in 2011 is thriving but, like any orchard, it needs constant care and attention if the trees are to grow strongly and avoid disease.  This is one of our twice-yearly volunteer sessions at which you can learn and help prune the trees, inspect and repair the guards and mulch the trees with woodchip to keep weeds down.

At this session you'll also be able to take a look inside the Iona Orchard nature reserve, a lovely quiet wilderness behind a locked gate at the southern end of Ladywell Fields.

To register your interest in participating please email ladywellfields@yahoo.co.uk  If you do come and you have any of the following please bring them - thick gloves, secateurs and garden buckets.  Also, at the risk of stating the obvious, come in work clothes with robust shoes!

If the weather is seriously bad on Sunday 31 January, we have a fallback date which is Sat 27 February.  

Next Ladywell Fields User Group Meeting on 23rd March

Our next meeting will be held on Wednesday 23rd March, as usual at 7.30 pm in the gallery at the back of Ladywell Tavern.
Everyone welcome--if you would like to be more involved in the Ladywell Fields User Group, this is the perfect opportunity.
The following meeting will be on Wednesday 22nd June.

Please help save Victorian Ladywell Baths (a.k.a.'The Playtower')

Some 600 signatories have put their name to the petition to save Ladywell Baths.  The target is in the thousands,

Please add your signature and spread the word if you have not yet done so.

https://lewisham-consult.objective.co.uk/portal/petitions/ladywell_residents_and_businesses

Volunteer River Clean Up on Sunday 13th December

Clean up successful. Thanks to everyone who helped on the day.

Please help save Victorian Ladywell Baths (a.k.a.'The Playtower')

Frustration has been building in Ladywell for years over Lewisham Council's shoddy custodianship of the Ladywell Baths (a.k.a.'The Playtower'), a fine Victorian building much valued and appreciated in Ladywell and far beyond (not least by the Victorian Society) but, sadly, in sorry decline over the last few decades. Though the Council spent money a few years ago to weatherproof the building there is no real evidence that it is taking the urgent and concerted action required to safeguard the building in the long term.

The Ladywell Village Improvement Group has this week launched a petition in an attempt to demonstrate the level of public interest in this matter and to press the Council into more demonstrable and meaningful action - 

https://lewisham-consult.objective.co.uk/portal/petitions/ladywell_residents_and_businesses

Please sign this petition and give it maximum publicity by circulating this message/weblink to your friends (whether in Lewisham or beyond), posting it on Facebook, tweeting etc.

If we get 8,000 'signatures' by the time the petition closes in February we will be able to secure a debate in full Council.

See also 

http://www.victoriansociety.org.uk/news/griff-rhys-jones-launches-victorian-societys-top-ten-most-endangered-buildi/