Clapton Pond Neighbourhood Action Group (CPNAG) 13th Annual General Meeting All welcome, familiar faces and new! When: Monday, 2nd March, 2015 7.30 – 9.00pm Where: Salvation Army Centre, 122 Lower Clapton Road, E5 History (For those who don’t know, this is the great stuff we’ve done!) We have been working together for the last decade and more, to improve the Clapton...
Daresaydays is a new local theatre company based in Lower Clapton/Homerton, and who are creating a piece in partnership with Sutton House, Hackney’s oldest residential building, the National Trust building in Homerton High Street. They make work inspired by communities, and collaborate with the artists living within them. They strive to make engaging, dynamic work that asks us to look at ourselves and our world...
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CPNAG has objected to an application by The Hackney Arts Club 243 Lower Clapton Road London E5 8EG for a premises licence for plays, films, live music, recorded music, performance of dance, anything of similar description and supply of alcohol from 10:00 to 01:00am Sun to Wed and from 10:00 to 04:00am Thurs to Sat, and late night refreshment from...
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St James’ Church in partnership with Clapton Pond Neighbourhood Action Group Presents Traditional Christmas Carols By Candlelight Led by Reverend Rosemia Brown at Clapton Pond Saturday, December 13 at 4.00pm (By the play area) This will be followed by mulled wine, mince pies and tea/coffee; to be served after the singing in St James’ Church, by the bus stop...
After a gap of 6 years, Clapton Pond Neighbourhood Action Group’s newsletter, Pondlife, is now published. All of you living in a fairly wide catchment area around Clapton Pond should have received a copy through your door last week. Further copies will be available to pick up in local shops this week and, especially for those of you living further afield, we attach a...
Lea Bridge ward Police have been cracking down on burglary in the ward. As well as stepping up patrols in some areas and working plain clothes surveillance, they have organised a Community Day for Crime Prevention (Burglary Initiative). They will be distributing Crime Prevention awareness leaflets in the area of Clapton Pond between 4pm and 6pm this Friday October 3,...
After many years of planning, negotiating, campaigning and building, Pond House is coming back into use. On May 1st this year, One Housing Group (OHG) invited several local heritage groups including CPNAG, the Hackney Society and the local Conservation Advisory Committee to send reps to a viewing of the work that has been carried out by OHG at the Grade...
Further to our local Heron’s interference in the earlier broods this season, nature is back at work again. Welcome mother duck and family!
As many of you will know, the Tram Depot, just north of the Leabridge Roundabout, in Upper Clapton Road, has been the subject of controversy as it got taken over by developers who sought to demolish most of it, evict the artistic community based there and build some very small flats. CPNAG supported the community fight to keep the depot...
The following announcement is from the Leabridge Community First Panel. Please contact them – details below – with any questions or for further information. Applications for funding from the Community First Programme are now open. The Closing Date for bids is July 28, 2014. Bids can be made up to around £2,500. The final decision on awarding the grant...
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