Lea Bridge and The Mill

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Introducing The Bridge - your new community project The Bridge is your new community project, making things happen in the spacious community room at Lea Bridge Library.  We hope you will come along, help out and support this project to make lots happen in your community. The Bridge project grew out of the work at The Mill, a hugely successful grassroots community project in Walthamstow.  People in Lea Bridge felt we needed something in our area.  We knew we had the local skills and enthusiasm to make it work, we just needed a local space.  Thanks to a partnership with Waltham Forest Council, we now have our very own space! At The Bridge, our vision is to provide a welcoming space where local people are encouraged to share their talents and develop their skills by proposing activities for which they believe there is local demand and running the activity groups.  We are keen for people to feel empowered to embrace new initiatives.  So far, residents have used the room for a range of activities ranging from home schooling, arts and crafts, keep fit and healthy living advice to languages and music.  It is a space for everyone, but we are particularly keen for the more marginalised sections of the community to become involved.   Launch event this Saturday This Saturday, 22nd March, we will be celebrating the community project and telling the community more about it, at an official launch event.  We will be at Lea Bridge Library from 1pm to 3pm.  Everyone is very welcome to join us.  We hope you can come along to help us celebrate and find out more about what the project has to offer and how you can become involved. It will be an opportunity for groups already using the library community room to showcase their activities, with demonstrations and talks for the community.  There will be light refreshments and we hope to have local musicians to play to help us celebrate.  A timetable of events will be available nearer the time.    Weekly activities The Lea Bridge & The Mill project, which has now developed into The Bridge, has started a programme of activities run by people like you from the community, each week.  We will be using this email list to tell you more.  We also hope to run new competitions very soon to get some more great activities running in the community room.  The room rent is all free of charge for the best ideas - thanks to the council.   Growing our community networks Everyone needs to know about this project so that it can be successful and make a difference to the community.  Please forward this email - others can send an email to join this mailing list.  We are also writing a newsletter that will be available next Saturday and will be emailed to you - please share it.   Goodbye from The Mill The Mill is a neighbourhood hub in Walthamstow that was created by the community; people from The Mill have been helping the council and The Bridge volunteers to get this project up and running.  If you would like to sign up to The Mill's email list, please click here.  You can also visit their website.

Please forward to a friend if you think they would be interested. Copyright © 2014 The Mill at Lea Bridge, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you have registered your interest in the Lea Bridge Community Project - thank you! Our mailing address is: The Mill at Lea Bridge c/o 7-11 Coppermill Lane Walthamstow London, London E17 7HA United Kingdom Add us to your address book