Update: Sophia Hub Seven Kings

Ros Southern writes:

'Very pleased to announce that there will be a Saturday Pop-up outside Seven Kings station in June. Looking for stalls and more. Info here.

Thanks to Barkingside 21 for blogging about local business week and mentioning Sophia Hubs! Read blog here.

Looking forward to Tuesday's enterprise club with experienced business advisor Liam Hickey on loans, premises and much more. Info here

We are taking bookings for the next exciting Timebank skills swap on Saturday 6 June. Info here

Thanks to Mark Braniff for being speaker this week and leading an arty, deep and really helpful session. Click here for info and pics.

Please do check out green business directory and see who's missing.

Looking forward to our appearance at the Redbridge Council Fairness Commission on Tuesday.

And finally - we have a Redbridge staycation health farm day on Wednesday 17th June. Info to follow.'

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Buddy Miller - Water, When The Well Is Dry.

Sophia Hub update

Ros Southern writes:

'A great speaker lined up for Tuesday lunch time enterprise club on 2nd December- Rishi of Kukus Nest restaurant/venue in Goodmayes. And we are hoping to find interesting ways to use his space when it is empty. More info here

It was a lively enterprise club last week with 9 start-ups and Linda Pearson of Massage Gurus. Find out what happened here.

Markets, the more the better! Read about more opportunities here.

Guest blog by Stephanie Mugo on our Timebank visit to Barkingside 21 coffee morning. Click here.

And not forgetting the Great Community Skills Swap on Friday 5th December in the Flirt cafe in Ley Street, Ilford. In addition to the activities on this flyer, we have recruited Yvonne Tomlinson to run a craft session to make a Christmas wreath from pom poms. Please just come for cup of tea and see whats happening but even better book in for one of the offers, or think of something you can do and let us know. Let's get the Timebank working and have fun!

We are recruiting for more volunteers - if you are interested in what we do and have spare time, please do get in touch.'

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Ed Sheeran - I See Fire.

How Cuba survived peak oil

Exciting developments tonight in our local discussions of peak oil because a showing of the film How Cuba Survived Peak Oil by Redbridge Green Fair has brought together a significant number of local people and organisations interested in the issue, including the Redbridge Faith Forum, Barkingside Agenda 21, other churches and community groups. This opens up the possibility of working together with others locally on the issue and, most importantly, getting experience, advice and ideas from those such as the Forest Farm Peace Garden who have been working on responses locally for several years.

How Cuba Survived Peak Oil is an interesting short film produced by Community Solutions which is all about how Cuba coped when its oil supply ran out and all the benefits this brought on a community level. Following the film there was a short facilitated conversation afterwards looking at any lessons we can learn for Redbridge, how we can become less oil dependent and bring the power of communities working together in the face of climate change.

One of the areas about which there was common agreement was that the issue has considerable implications for urban planning and reveals the folly of proposals made by Redbridge Council to build on allotments. One of the urgent implications is to get peak oil issues onto the agenda of urban planners and this is something that I will seek to do locally by raising the issue initially with TASK and hopefully through them with the Planning & Regeneration Department in the borough. Interestingly and importantly, Sam Norton spoke on the issue of peak oil at the recent SRNet Conference held in the Diocese meaning that the issue was raised with Regeneration Advisers for Dioceses across the UK.

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John Coltrane - My Favorite Things.