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PAST EVENTS IN 2002

December 2002

Thursday 4

Environmental Question Time on waste
7.15-9pm, ecoACTIVE Education, All Saints Centre, Haggerston Road, London E8 4HT

Come along to help shape new borough-wide plans for the future of Hackney's waste management and minimisation.

The panel will include:

  • Neil Davies - LBH Recycling Officer
  • Vincent Stops, Hackney Council cabinet member with responsibility for transport, planning and environment
Chaired by Bernie Rees (East London Community Recycling Partnership). Please prepare your questions in advance to submit to the panel on arrival. RSVP to ecoACTIVE 020 7923 7899 / hcr-ecoactive@lineone.net

(NB Clashes with Hackney LCC monthly < a href="meetings.htm">meeting).

This is the third in a series of question times on environmental issues in the borough, the first of which was on transport and accessibility.

Flyer for this event in PDF format - print out and put on a noticeboard near you!

Tuesday 10

Meeting about Cazenove Road
7pm, Jubilee Primary School, main entrance Filey Ave

Busy Cazenove Road has 10 schools, but no crossings. Locals are concerned about the hazards of motor vehicles, especially for children, and have organised a meeting to discuss it. Council officers and councillors will be there.

Saturday 14

Greenwich cyclists' ceilidh
Inspired by Hackney LCC's annual Burns Night fundraiser dance event, Greenwich Cyclists are putting on a similarly fab do featuring the Muckers (fast, traditional, Celtic, seven-piece fiddle band). Pay bar, internal bike-park. 8pm until midnight at the West Greenwich Arts Centre. More info. Unmissable!

Saturday 9

Bicycle Maintenance for Beginners
10am-1pm, at Bethnal Green Centre, 229 Bethnal Green Road E2 6AB

Bring any maintenance tools/handbook etc. that came with the bike if it is new. If you have an old bike you should bring a simple tool kit if you have one. If you wish to fit new equipment to your bike, i.e. panniers, rack,lights, tyres, brake-blocks etc. then bring them along as it might be possible for you to fit them during the class. And take a notebook and pen!

The cost of each session is £2.55 per adult, or free if you can show proof of benefit (unemployment, etc.).
Contact Tower Hamlets Adult Education, 020 7613 1135 quoting: TCA1010

November 2002

Thursday 13

Environmental Question Time on greening public spaces
7.15-9pm, ecoACTIVE Education, All Saints Centre, Haggerston Road, London E8 4HT

Come along to suggest ways of greening Hackney's large and small open spaces - school grounds, parks, green areas on housing estates, gardens, pocket parks etc.

The panel will include:

  • Fried van Doorslaer - LBH Officer
  • Karen Byers - Local Strategic Partnership Biodiversity Rep.
  • Vincent Stops, Hackney Council cabinet member with responsibility for transport, planning and environment
Chaired by Bernie Rees (East London Community Recycling Partnership). Please prepare your questions in advance to submit to the panel on arrival. RSVP to ecoACTIVE 020 7923 7899 / hcr-ecoactive@lineone.net

This is the second in a series of question times on environmental issues in the borough. Next event:

Dec 4 - Waste

Flyer for this event in PDF format - print out and put on a noticeboard near you!

October 2002

Saturday 5

Bicycle Maintenance for Beginners
10am-1pm, at Bethnal Green Centre, 229 Bethnal Green Road E2 6AB

Bring any maintenance tools/handbook etc. that came with the bike if it is new. If you have an old bike you should bring a simple tool kit if you have one. If you wish to fit new equipment to your bike, i.e. panniers, rack,lights, tyres, brake-blocks etc. then bring them along as it might be possible for you to fit them during the class. And take a notebook and pen!

The cost of each session is £2.55 per adult, or free if you can show proof of benefit (unemployment, etc.).
Contact Tower Hamlets Adult Education, 020 7613 1135 quoting: TCA1010

Thursday 24

Environmental Question Time on transport and mobility
7.15-9pm, ecoACTIVE Education, All Saints Centre, Haggerston Road, London E8 4HT

Pedestrians, cyclists, motorists and public transport users are invited to come and help shape new borough-wide plans for the future of Hackney's transport for businesses, residents and visitors.

The panel will include:

  • Roger Blake, Hackney's senior transport planner
  • Vincent Stops, Hackney Council cabinet member with responsibility for transport, planning and environment
Chaired by Bernie Rees (East London Community Recycling Partnership). Please prepare your questions in advance to submit to the panel on arrival. RSVP to ecoACTIVE 020 7923 7899 / hcr-ecoactive@lineone.net

This is the first of a series of question times on environmental issues in the borough. Future events:

Nov 13 - Greening Open Space
Dec 4 - Waste

Flyer for this event in PDF format - print out and put on a noticeboard near you!

Saturday 26

Bicycle maintenance for beginners

A training session on bike maintenance primarily aimed at adults receiving Waltham Forest Council's cycle training, but all are invited. The session will aim to cover the general regular maintenance tasks such as adjusting brakes and gears, cleaning transmission plus regreasing hubs, but most things requested can be dealt with.

Walthamstow Friends Meeting House, 1a Jewel Rd, Walthamstow (just off north end of Hoe Street).

Time: 2pm to 5pm. Charge: £2. Tea/ Coffee provided. All tools provided but bring your own also if you can. Just turn up with your bike

September 2002

Wednesday 18

Homerton Hospital BUG breakfast

The new BUG (bicycle user group) at Homerton Hospital is going to give itself - and cycling in the health service - a bit of profile by running a cyclists' breakfast on this day, which happens to be European Day of Cycling, part of European Mobility Week. It also, happily, coincides with a London-wide joint LCC/TfL promotion of cycling to users and providers of health services, led with an event in Newham. For more information contact Brian Leveson.
7.30-9.30am, in the grounds of Homerton Hospital. See the location pinpointed on Streetmap.

Sunday 22

Car Free Day (AKA In Town Without My Car)

Car Free Day will take place on Mare Street this year, strongly supported by the Council. To show the commitment to sustainable mobility as a whole, buses will be allowed to carry on through as usual, and one of them will be driven by none other than former bus driver and current vice-chair of Transport for London Dave Wetzel. There will also be cycle training and Dr Bike on offer, plus various entertainments to be confirmed. Let's hope the weather is as good as it was on 22 September 2001 in Curtain Road.

If you'd like to help with Car Free Day, either preparing for the event or on the day, please email us.

(In case anyone is worried that such frivolous activity as the promotion of sustainable transport will detract from Hackney's hard-pressed general coffers, you can reassure yourself that the event will be paid for using funds made available to all London boroughs by Transport for London for this purpose and this purpose only).

August 2002

Wednesday 21

Homerton Hospital BUG breakfast - POSTPONED UNTIL 18TH SEPTEMBER

June 2002

Bike Week events

Tuesday 18

Clissold Park breakfast

If you commute via Clissold Park, Green Lanes or Stokie why not visit Hackney's Petit Dejeuner au Velo sur l'Herbe on the Hackney/Islington frontier: corner Stoke Newington Church St / Green Lanes. Time: from when we get up till the food runs out.
Organiser: Marian 020 8806 9122 tantimar@hotmail.com

Wednesday 19

London Fields breakfast

If you commute via London Fields, south Hackney or the Regent's Canal, leave a little earlier to have a coffee and a bun with us at our Feast in the Fields breakfast. Venue: on the Market Porters' route at the south end of London Fields, near the crossing into Broadway Market. Time: as Petit Dejeuner sur L'Herbe.
Organiser: Brenda 020 7249 2590 bpuech@hotmail.com

Friday 21

STAbikes breakfast

Kids'n'grownups breakfast by STABikes, Hackney's Community Cycling Fund project for bikes in schools, with obstacle course, quiz, Dr Bike & maybe an Irish fiddler, and learn about what's going on for children on bikes in N16. Sir Thomas Abney School, Fairholt Road, N16. 8-9.30am. Organiser: Sally 8802 4604, shaywill@tower.ac.uk

Saturday 22

Car-Free Ceilidh at the Round Chapel

So many people enjoyed Hackney Burns Night that we're holding a Hackney Car-Free Ceilidh summer dance, with music and dance-calling for all levels by Hackney's celebrated Muckers (formerly of Geordie's Byre and always of Burns Night). Recover from your Midsummer Daybreak Ride and round off Bike Week at The Round Chapel, Lower Clapton Road 7.00-11.00.
More details.
Organisers: Brenda 7249 2590 bpuech@hotmail.com, Christine 8986 3456

April-May 2002

Bike fixing course

Cycle Training is running a bike fixing course where you can learn to mend punctures, adjust your brakes & gears, fit new cables - everything that you need to know to get your bike running well and smoothly.

Venue: The Round Chapel, Powerscroft Road, E5 just off Lower Clapton Road.
When: Monday 22nd April 19.00 - 21.00 and at the same times on Monday 29th April, 13th and 20th of May
Cost: £55 for the complete course and a 10% discount (£49.50) if you pay before April 15th Booking: call Cycle Training Ltd on 7564 5990 or email info@cycletraining.co.uk

January 2002

Saturday 26

Burns Night

To drive away the gloom of winter, it's our annual Burns Night fundraising supper and dance on Saturday 26 January. Why not round up your friends and make a night of it? Read all about it here.


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