Dogs, drugs and alcohol – new restrictions for Lewisham’s parks and green spaces? Please complete the Council’s online consultation of current and proposed control of dogs, drugs and alcohol for Lewisham’s parks and green spaces https://lewisham-consult.objective.co.uk/portal/community_services/crsp/public_space_protection_order
@LewishamCouncil @GlendaleLew @GlendaleUK when will our dead and dying trees be replaced at Mountsfield Park? These photos show just some of the many trees at Mountsfield Park that are dead or dying mainly because of strimmer and mower damage? You recently replaced two strimmer damaged trees in the recently refurbished play area. We really need many more trees planted to replace those that have been lost during the 17 years of the 20 year Glendale parks contract. eg the avenue trees and other important trees in the park. These photos below show just 15 of the many dead or dying trees at Mountsfield Park that haven’t been replaced by tree planting at similar locations. The dead trees need to be replaced by larger sized staked trees rather than saplings or whips.
Recently planted tree at Mountsfield Park play area – dead because of strimmer damage causing ring-barking or girdling
Felled Indian bean tree at Mountsfield Park at the nature reserve
Thanks to the Lewisham @PeoplesDay 2017 event organisers and everyone who took part – it was was a wonderful day!
The Big Lunch at Mountsfield Park community garden 18th June 12 – 3 pm.
Breathe in some fresh air. Meet your neighbours . Take a relaxing walk . Eat some good food !
Farley Road residents, in partnership with Friends of Mountsfield Park, invite neighbours and friends to join them for a ‘big lunch?
Just turn up or bring a dish to share. £1 for adults (children free) with proceeds going to Friends of Mountsfield Park. Get tickets or
find out more @FarleyRoadSE6 Facebook page. Tickets can also
be purchased on the day.
Please support our Spacehive funding campaign for fox proof litter bins at Mountsfield Park. We want to make Mountsfield Park more welcoming and beautiful. Unfortunately foxes empty our old open style bins at night making Mountsfield Park untidy and unwelcoming. The Mountsfield Park urban foxes are naturally curious creatures, they investigate the bins looking for junk food and used nappies to use in their dens; unfortunately they don’t clear up after themselves. This means that in a public place, that only has the services of a park-keeper two days per week, litter, old food and bags of dog poo can be left strewn across the grass. This is not only unsightly but also a health hazard, especially to small children and also pet dogs.
A staff type dog (dark tan colour) was dangerously out of control at Mountsfield Park 2.30pm, Wednesday 26 April – another dog and victim were bitten. If you know anything about the incident please contact RusheyGreen.SNT@met.pnn.police.uk or Lewisham Police Tel: 0208 284 5128 / 0208 721 2479.
Friends of Mountsfield Park meeting (AGM) 2017 10am to 11.30am on Sunday 23 April 2017 at the Station pub on Staplehurst Road.
Please read the attached Annual Report which provides a summary of activity since the last AGM (and before). Please also find nomination forms for those seeking election to the Friends executive. Forms must be submitted no later than 5pm on Friday 21 April 2017 to mountsfieldpark@gmail.com
If you can’t make the AGM but want to be involved in FOMP, please do get in touch – there are lots of ways in which you can help out and we would be grateful for any support you can offer.
Please support the Friends of Mountsfield Park funding campaign for fox proof litter bins:
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Please support the Friends of Mountsfield Park funding campaign for fox proof litter bins:
Thanks to the Thomas Tallis School Duke of Edinburgh Award volunteers and FoMP for planting trees at Mountsfield Park this winter. The trees were generously donated by Woodland Trust, The Conservation Volunteers (TCV), #idigtrees and @OVOEnergy. We planted hundreds of oak, hawthorn, birch, alder, rowan, hornbeam, willow, poplar…
D of E Award volunteers from Thomas Tallis School at Mountsfield Park, Catford SE6
D of E Award volunteers from Thomas Tallis School planting trees at Mountsfield Park, Catford SE6
D of E Award volunteers from Thomas Tallis School planting trees at Mountsfield Park, near to Mountfield Close
D of E Award volunteers from Thomas Tallis School planting TCV/ @OVOEnergy fruit trees at Mountsfield Park community gardens
“The Communities and Local Government (CLG) Committee report on public parks warns that parks are at a tipping point and face a period of decline with potentially severe consequences unless their vital contribution to areas such as public health, community integration and climate change mitigation is recognised.
The Public parks report highlights considerable challenges for the sector including reduced council spending, with parks management budgets cut by up to 97 per cent, the need for parks to compete with other services for funding, and planning policy not giving them enough weight, particularly as a result of pressures to increase housing supply.
The Committee call on councils to publish strategic plans, which recognise the value of parks beyond leisure and recreation and set out how they will be managed to maximise their contribution to wider…
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Thanks to @GlendaleLew, the London Marathon Charitable Trust, Lewisham Rushey Green Assembly and @FenlandLeisureP for our new trim trail at Mountsfield Park, Catford.
Steve Langley from Glendale recycling Christmas trees at Mountsfield Park. The recycled Christmas trees will be used as mulch on the flower beds and at the base of each fruit tree at Mountsfield Park community garden.
@FenlandLeisureP installing the new timber trim trail equipment at Mountsfield Park. Thanks to Lewisham Rushey Green Assembly for part funding the equipment and Judith from Glendale for fundraising £15,000 from the London Marathon Trust!
The cafe! The trim trail! Christmas! Volunteering opportunities! Fox-proof bins! Accessible picnic benches!
It’s all go at Mountsfield Park. Read all about it here…
So lets be honest, 2016 has been a strange old year…
But it’s Christmas! And never ones to waste an opportunity to eat, drink, and be merry, we at FOMP will be throwing our annual Carols in the Park event at 2pm on Saturday December 17th 2016.
There will be music, mince pies, and mulled wine, and the chance to spend a magical afternoon with friends and neighbours.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Rory, Maria, Carrie, Ros, Rivke, Max, and Gareth
FOMP Executive
Cllr James Walsh – Rushey Green Ward “Let’s work together, be ambitious and get some new pitches in Lewisham…”
Next Friends of Mountsfield Park Meeting Monday 24 October 2016, Hither Green Baptist Church, 7-8pm Theodore Rd, London SE13 6HT.
All welcome!
Please Download the FixMyStreet mobile phone app and report litter, fly-tipping, dog litter etc. that you see in the park that you want removed ( Android / Apple)
If you see any problems at Mountsfield Park contact Glendale 0208 318 3986 or speak to the park keeper on Mondays and Saturdays
If you see any problems at Mountsfield Park contact Glendale 0208 318 3986
Just a quick note to let you know we will be starting the footpath works this week in Mountsfield Park.
We will be starting around the back of the community garden by the Lodge gate and go from there.
I will put some notices up on the gates today advising of works and the need to shut either gate along Stainton Road at some point during the works.
We want a cafe in Mountsfield Park. We have been campaigning for a cafe for years, and have been promised one by Lewisham Council – including as part of the Council redevelopment of the park that created the Community Garden and revamped the play area. But the Council were unable to follow through on their plan to build a cafe at that time. Since then, we have worked with them to identify some funding – £50k – to launch a tender process to encourage an outside investor to build a cafe in the park.
A viable and attractive cafe plan is in front of Lewisham Council for approval right now – made by a local businessman who has worked closely with the Friends of Mountsfield Park. You can see the plans and some pictures of the new cafe here.
But the planning department at the Council is making unreasonable demands:
If Lewisham Council turns down the current proposal – for what we think are spurious reasons – it could be years before another option is available and the money we fought to get the Council to commit to support the project – £50k – will be at risk.
We want the Council to take an intelligent approach, to look at the benefits a cafe would bring to Mountsfield Park: it will bring in revenue, encourage people to stay in the park longer and enjoy the Community Garden and play area, improve security by making the park more attractive to families, provide a place for dog walkers to get a cup of coffee, and it will mean that maintained toilet facilities are available in the park. These are far more important that a handful of planters!
We have written to the Planning Department to outline our concerns, but here’s what you can do to help:
We want a cafe. The park deserves a cafe. It needs functioning toilet facilities. A local businessman is willing to invest to create an amazing cafe. Short-sighted planning decisions shouldn’t stop it happening.
People’s Day at Mountsfield Park 9 July 2016
We now have a proposed design for the new Mountsfield Park trim trail – click on the ‘zeemaps.com‘ link below to see preferred locations for the new trim trail equipment and then click on each location on the map to see an image of what is proposed (satellite/aerial view works best).
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Thanks to London Marathon Charitable Trust and Rushey Green Assembly for funding the new trim trail equipment at Mountsfield Park which will be available for adults and young people. We’re really pleased that both funds have chosen to invest in our park, and also grateful to Glendale for their funding bid to London Marathon Charitable Trust and supporting these applications. Your views and ideas are essential and will help us to make sure the trail is popular and well used! Please email us at mountsfieldpark@gmail.com
We have been campaigning for a new cafe in the park for years, and we are delighted that the clear wishes of so many in the local community are that much closer to being realised. The journey to this point has been lengthy and sometimes frustrating, with disappointments along the way. But it now feels like we are in touching distance of getting a cafe that will serve the needs of all park users – families using the redeveloped playground, weekend gardeners in the community garden, daily dog walkers, picnic goers, joggers, and many more.
Your Executive has written to the Council to put on record our firm support for this proposal – you can view our letter here: Mountsfield cafe reference DC-16-095961
We encourage you to write to the Council to express your support as well.
You can view the planning documents here:
http://planning.lewisham.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=documents&keyVal=_LEWIS_DCAPR_83187
We’ll keep you posted as the proposal progresses.
Rory, Maria, Carrie, Ros, Rivke, Max, and Gareth
FOMP Executive
Mountsfield Park community gardening event Sunday 5 June 10.30 am – 1.30 pm:
All welcome!
Thanks to Roger and Alice for the fabulous up-cycled mud kitchen installed at the community garden 15th May 2016!
The mud kitchen was installed on the same day as Teddy Bears’ Picnic 2016 at Mountsfield Park.
You know how much we in the Friends of Mountsfield Park love a community party?! And our friends, neighbours, and park users love them too!
So please do join us at the Teddy Bear’s Picnic on Sunday 15 May 2016 from 1pm. There’ll be children’s crafts and faceprinting, music from the Macaroon Mamas and Sing Along Sally, Forest School fun, and amazing food and drink from the Truly Splendid Pop Up Vintage Tea Room, Greekelicious by Julia,and FOMP’s licensed bar.
Don’t forget your Teddy Bear!*
We had fantastic news yesterday from our friends at Glendale who have secured a £15,000 grant from the London Marathon Charitable Trust. Combined with the £2,000 awarded to FOMP by Rushey Green Assembly, we now have £17,000 to pay for new trim trail equipment at Mountsfield Park which will be available for adult and young adult park users. We’re really pleased that both funds have chosen to invest in our park, and also grateful to Glendale for supporting these applications.
The next step is to consult with park users about the sort of equipment they would like to see in the park, so we’ll be circulating a survey really soon. Your views and ideas are essential and will help us to make sure the the trail is popular and well used.
Watch this space!
…. or rather Mountsfield Park’s Community Garden on Sunday 15 May 2016 from 1pm, you and your teddy bear will find lots of treats!
Friends of Mountsfield Park are once again hosting a Teddy Bear’s Picnic as part of the Hither Green Festival – check out the festival brochure for other fantastic events. Join us for:
And to sustain parents, friends, children, and teddy bears alike, refreshments will be provided by Greekelicious by Julia, the Truly Splendid Pop Up Vintage Tea Room, and FOMP’s licensed bar.
We’re looking forward to meeting you and your furry friend!
Thanks to GoodGym.org and FoMP volunteers for our new pumpkin bed at Mountsfield Park community garden SE6.
@GoodGym and Friends of Mountsfield Park community garden volunteers shoveled and barrowed a huge pile of compost to make our new pumpkin patch next to the poly tunnel. And many thanks to the Metropolitan Public Gardens Association for the funds to buy the 20 cu/m of of PAS 100 recycled green waste compost from Glendale Lewisham
Winning Mountsfield Park cafe design, appearance and size of the cafe building may change during the planning application process. Due to be open for business spring 2017
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Great news! Forries Education will be running Forest School sessions in Mountsfield Park on Tuesdays starting in the summer term.
Tree planting at Mountsfield Park
Tree planting at Mountsfield Park Sunday 13th March 9.30 – 11.00am. Meet at Mountsfield Park community garden SE6 1AN at 9.30am. All welcome!
For more information contact mountsfieldpark@gmail.com
Sunday morning litter picking events at Mountsfield Park 28th Feb, 6th March and 13th of March, 11am – 12pm. Meet at Mountsfield Park community garden 11am . We will supply litter picking tools and large bags.
Contact mountsfieldpark@gmail.com for more information
All welcome!
Report any fly-tipping, litter, dog litter in Lewisham (including Mountsfield Park) using the FixMyStreet app
FixMyStreet mobile phone app Apple download
FixMyStreet Android mobile phone app download
Friends of Mountsfield Park will be planting roses at Stainton’s rose garden, Mountsfield Park, next to the community garden 9.30 – 11.30am Sunday 7th February 2016 . Thanks to Glendale for supplying the roses. All welcome to come help us dig the planting holes and plant the roses!
We need your help moving a large pile of compost into the raised vegetable beds at Mountsfield Park community garden. We will make a start Sunday 31 January 9.30am until midday at the community garden SE6 1AN. We will have shovels and wheelbarrows on the day.
During February and March we will also need help planting 600 (approx) Woodland Trust trees in the park. Please let us know if you can help during one of our community planting days.
Many thanks for you support!
Contact mountsfieldpark@gmail.com for more information.
The raised vegetable beds at the back in this photo need filling with compost – we need your help!
The compost for the community garden raised vegetable beds has been bought with the kind support of Metropolitan Pubic Gardens Association
If you see any problems at Mountsfield Park contact Glendale 0208 318 39866 (24hr phone number).
The next Friends of Mountsfield Park AGM will take place from 10am to 12pm on Saturday 16 January 2016 at the Station Pub on Staplehurst Road.
Please read the attached Annual Report which provides a summary of activity since the last AGM. Please also find here an agenda for the AGM and nomination forms for those seeking election to the Friends executive. Forms must be submitted no later than 5pm on Thursday 14 January 2016 to mountsfieldpark@gmail.com
If you can’t make the AGM but want to be involved in FOMP, please do get in touch – there are lots of ways in which you can help out and we would be grateful for any support you can offer.
NOMINATION FORM FOR ELECTION TO EXECUTIVE GROUP 2016
The pile of Christmas trees at the George Lane entrance to Mountsfield Park is growing. The trees will be chipped by Glendale Services and recycled as mulch. Last year Glendale Services delivered a huge pile of Christmas tree mulch to the community garden, which we shifted by the barrow load to cover the flower beds.
Christmas trees for recycling at Mountsfield Park 2016
2015 has been another busy year in Mountsfield Park. From the volunteers braving the new year cold in January to tend the burgeoning community garden, to the massive turn out at the Teddy Bears’ Picnic during Hither Green Festival Week in May, and through to the summer BBQ fun (who can forget the sight of the Bald Eagle soaring over the trees?), this year has been one to remember.
But it wouldn’t be complete without one final hurrah in 2015! So come along to Carols in Mountsfield Park, Saturday 19 December, from 14:00.
There will be music, mince pies, beer, mulled wine, cider, and the chance to spend a magical afternoon with your community.
We look forward to seeing as many of you wonderful people there as possible!
Rory, Maria, Carrie, Ros, Rivke, Max, and Gareth
FOMP Executive
Friends of Mountsfield Park Open Meeting with Glendale 7-8pm Wednesday 2nd December 2015 – All Welcome!
Venue: Hither Green Baptist Church, Theodore Rd, London SE13 6HT.
Please come to the meeting and let us know about improvements that you would like for Mountsfield Park and let Glendale know any concerns about the way that the park is maintained. If you are unable to attend the meeting and would like issues raised – email us at mountsfieldpark@gmail.com. Meeting minutes will be forwarded to Lewisham Council and the Rushey Green Councillors. Continue reading
Sign up at www.demelza.org.uk for a festive obstacle course at Mountsfield Park SE6 1AN 29 November 2015:
Adults (16+) £22, children (15 and under) £7.50
A festive charity event for Demelza hospice care for children
We don’t think there is any single way to create a wonderful cafe in Mountsfield Park, and are keen that this process encourages creative and innovative approaches, bringing in private investment to supplement money from the Council.
If you know somebody who might be interested – perhaps an existing local business – please encourage them to contact the Corporate Asset Team at Lewisham Council on 0208 314 6865 or email Jennifer.Rivers@lewisham.gov.uk . The Team will also be hosting an open afternoon on Wednesday 28 October from 14:00-16:00 – why not come along and share your views?
The Friends of Mountsfield Park have produced a short information pack to help this process – MP_Brief_FINAL_July_2015.pdf
We hope that this can be the start of the next phase of improvement at our wonderful park. With your help, continued engagement, and enthusiasm, the cafe we all dream of can become a reality.
The deadline for cafe operators to submit their expressions of interest to the Council’s Corporate Asset Team is 28 October 2015. The Council will then will then formally invite bids giving 6 weeks to return.
Thanks.
Rory, Maria, Carrie, Ros, Rivke, Max, and Gareth
FOMP Executive
Please support our Rushey Green Assembly bid for a fitness/ trail trim trail funding for Mountsfield Park, Catford at Rushey Green Assembly 6th Oct 2015 7pm Civic Suite SE6 4RU. Mountsfield Park is very popular with people who want gentle exercise and those who want to keep fit. An attractive 1.5km trim trail route around the perimeter of the park would improve the facilities for runners and other fitness enthusiasts who use the park. Teenagers and children also enjoy using trim trail equipment. Glendale have agreed to bid for the bulk of the funding. They will install and maintain the trim trim trail equipment.
More information about venue:
https://mountsfieldpark.wordpress.com/…/mountsfield-park-t…/
More information about venue:
http://councilmeetings.lewisham.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CommitteeId=303&CF=&MeetingId=4046&Ver=4
5th and 19th November 2015
11am-2pm Nature’s Gym
Mountsfield Park
Contact: judith.simmons@glendale-services.co.uk
Nature’s Gym programme:
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Major community engagement with Catford residents launched. With the town centre on the brink of big and exciting change, Team Catford, a small group of passionate Catford residents, is about to launch a major community engagement on behalf of Lewisham Council. Continue reading
In the first post on Catford Southend they were left at the outbreak of World War 1 as ‘a solid non-League team with a relatively new ground in early 20th century suburbia, in a similar position to many non-League teams that are still around almost 100 years later.’
Their story is picked up after hostilities ceased and football resumed in 1919, like a lot of sport, the Athenian League that The Kittens had played in before the war had been mothballed during the bloodshed of World War 1. By the time the Athenian League was reformed for the 1919/20 season, Catford Southend had moved on – newcomers to the league that season were to include local non league stalwarts Kingstonian, Bromley and Wimbledon.
Catford returned to the London League after the War, it had been their ‘home’ for much of their existence. On the field, the 1919/20 season was a struggle…
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Catford Southend have been mentioned once or twice in passing in Running Past, notably in relation to their almost takeover of Charlton Athletic and the latter’s brief stay at Southend’s then ground in Mountsfield Park, The Mount. Their story is worth telling in its own right as it became a salutary lesson of what happens when there is over-ambition within football clubs.
The club seems to have had its roots in a forerunner club, Catford Rovers, which played from around the 1898/99 season against teams from around Deptford, Lewisham and Greenwich, including Greenwich Pupil Teachers (1). The first reference to Catford Southend was at the beginning of the 1900/01 season with a newspaper report (2) inviting friendly opponents and a trial on playing fields on what is now Canadian Avenue – possibly a rear entrance to what are now St Dunstan’s School playing fields . The secretary lived in a…
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@EnviroLewisham @LewishamCouncil @GlendaleUK please provide fox proof bins at Mountsfield Park to reduce litter in the park every morning
Meeting at Mountsfield Park community garden to discuss problems with antisocial behaviour, crime and dog nuisance in the park – Sunday 27 August, 11.45am. All welcome!
