Transport for London have just issued a bulletin to let service users know that members of the RMT and TSSA will be taking industrial action from the evening of Monday 6th September 2010.
It is not expected that normal service will be resumed until Wednesday evening.
You can always find the latest travel information of the TfL website here.
You can view or download the Headstart for Parents and Prospective Parents publication from the Waltham Forest Family Information Service pages here.
This is a great booklet (in pdf format) that gives parents and those about to become parents comprehensive information about the services available in the Borough.
Getting ready for autumn, then give your children a head start with the Family Information Service?
You can read more about the Headstart booklet here.
Free software to read Adobe pdf files is always available here.
Summer tree news – Waltham Forest is carrying out a consultation on the development of it’s current Tree Strategy.
You can fill in an on-line survey (it only takes a couple of minutes) and you will get your chance to comment on the landscape in our Borough.
You can visit the Waltham Forest Tree Strategy 2010-20 web page here. On this page you view and download the documents about the strategy, before expressing a view.
The on-line survey is available here.
Keeping the Borough green in Waltham Forest.
There will be a free Jazz Picnic at Lloyd Park on Saturday 8th August.
You can enjoy the music and the sunshine with your family on the field, while listening to music. A great outdoor event.
Lloyd and Aveling Park has a page on Flickr, where you can see how young and old family members use the spaces in the park.
Lloyd and Aveling Park is getting a massive £3.5million from the Heritage and BIG Lottery funds and an additional £1million from the Council will be spent on restoring the park, with new facilities and more staff.
See you there? For more information call 020 8496 3000.
The Vestry House Museum in Waltham Forest have a Shades of Green exhibition – running from the 7th to the 29th August.
This display is going to be a ‘…feast of forests, with a great display of the idyllic gardens and summer in Waltham Forest’.
From the 3rd to the 12th September the museum has the return of the ever popular E17 Art Trail. The theme for the displays and activities this year is ‘Welcome to Walthamstow’.
The E17 Art Trail have a great web site where you can see images from last years events and venues, as well as details of how the displays and participants are organised.
Get ‘arty’ this summer with all the family and the Vestry House Museum.
We have just posted our new activity planner on our Children Centre page.
You can view and download our plans until April 2011. The pages include maps of our locations, sessions and contact details for our services. We have also updated our Centre sessions timetable on the page too. Read more…
Our Summer Newsletter for 2010 is now online, where you can read about what we’ve been doing and news about the Friends of Church Hill and a variety of other information. All illustrated by some of our young resident artists. Read more…
We have put a link to a ‘key dates’ download on our front page. Have a look if you need dates for your diary, helping you to plan for the coming term.
Keeping you informed – The Church Hill Team
This summer many families and children may be traveling abroad to visit family and friends.
The NHS have produced a new website packed with information about traveling healthily, telephone advice lines and up to date health information on destination countries.
NaTHNaC is the National travel Health Network and Centre, its pages designed to keep parents, carers and children informed on travel health issues.
Planning a trip with the children? Bookmark the NaTHNaC pages, or follow their health bulletins on Twitter.
Children’s Art Day events for 2010 run across the week 12th to 18th July 2010.
On the engage in the visual arts web pages you can find out what is going in in your favourite part of the city.
From a family day on Saturday at the Whitechapel Gallery from 12 – 4pm, to a taster session in Chinese art at the Chinese Comunity Centre in Gerrard Street – there is a range of free activities available.
Children’s Art Day is the UK-wide programme encouraging children, young people, families and teachers to engage with the visual arts. Events will take place across the UK between 12-18 July 2010.
Read more about the arts activities this week here.
It is estimated that some 70,000 volunteers will be needed to help get the 2012 events under way.
Volunteering England have just set up some new web pages to help you find out about volunteering as part of the 2012 Olympic events.
Whether you can spare some time to volunteer at a Children Centre, school or even as part of the international team at the 2012 Games – the Volunteering England I Want to Volunteer pages are a great place to start.
The Wadham Players are staging a performance of The Story of Cinderella on Saturday 10th July 2010.
An adaption of the classic fairytale by Charles Way – the event takes place for family members of all ages, starting at 3.00pm.
The event will be staged at the Waterworks Nature Reserve and Golf Centre in Lammas Road, off the Lea Bridge Road.
For ticket prices and more information visit the event pages of the Lea Valley Park website here.
You can read about the origins of Cinderella on these Wikipedia pages.
There is more event and activity information always on the Waltham Forest Council web site – see more here.
