Greenacre Film Club

The Greenacre Project and Greenacre Writers present:

Join us for an evening of film and fun.

Tuesday 29th November 7.30pm.

Shane Rimmer has featured in over 50 films and was the voice for Scott Tracy of Thunderbirds. This event combines film extracts and fascinating autobiographical insights. Shane will talk about the ideas behind his latest autobiography: 'From Thunderbirds to Pterodactyls', and about the writing process.

Trinity Church Hall

15 Nether Street, London N12 7NN

Suggested donation £3.00

Greenacre Film Club

Part 2 of The Greenways of Finchley

Complete the slide show journey of Finchley's green spaces and footways, taking in gardens, woods and meadows along the way.

Monday 12th September 2011

7.30-9.30pm

Trinity Church Hall, 15 Nether Street, N12 7NN

Admission #3.00

For further information e-mail: greenacreproject@gmail.com

The Greenacre Film Club

The Greenways of Finchley.

Wednesday 6th July 2011

7.30-9.30pm

Trinity Church,

15 Nether St,

London N12 7NN

Admission: £3.00

Refreshments available.

An evening exploring Finchley’s secret and forgotten footpaths and green spaces.

Come along for this wonderful, magical, mystery tour of Finchley’s green spaces and footways - a slide show presentation and talk with over 400 photos and embark on a 35 mile journey to discover the geographical centre of Finchley. On the way this voyage of discovery will take you to parks, gardens, green spaces, woods, meadows, nature reserves, allotments, sports fields, golf courses, swimming pools, brooks, ponds and waterways, disused railways, garden villages, town greens, and many miles of footpaths and tracks.

For more details email: greenacreproject@gmail.com

The Greenacre Bicycle Rally

The fourth Greenacre Bicycle Rally will be held on Sunday 12th June.

Starting at artsdepot, N12 0HU, where we will assemble from 10.00am for a 12.00 noon start, we follow a 3 mile route round the Friary Triangle, stopping for a lunch-break at Friary Park, then for the more energetic, follow a 5.5 mile Green Ride - mostly off-road - to Barnet Countryside Centre, where we will join their Environmental Fair.

Police Cylists and a St John Ambulance rider will be escorting the ride as well as trained stewards.

Families welcome, but under 12s must be accompanied by an adult.

Dr Bike will be available for free bike checks between 10.00am and 11.30am

All participants must be registered. You can pre-register by clicking on the link Greenacre Bicycle Rally 2011 Registration Form

For any other information, email: greenacrebicyclerally@gmail.com

Also please see our Greenacre Project Facebook page and 'like' us!

Earth Hour - on 26th March

Earth Hour, on Saturday 26th March at 8.30pm is a world event.

Lights will go off for for an hour. Private houses, business and public icons such as the Syndey Harbour Bridge and Toronto's CN Tower will become dark for just an hour. Switch on by switching off. Just so you know how to do it properly on the night, start practising at home right now. Find an empty room or hall that has a light on, and simply flick the switch off. It's that easy.

It's not a lot, but when millions of people join together, something changes.

http://www.earthhour.org/

Fight the rent increase on Barnet Allotments

The Greenacre Project supports the fight against the rent increase for Barnet Allotments.

The London Borough of Barnet is proposing to increase the rent for allotments in the borough from the present £6 per pole to £17 per pole for Barnet residents and £34 per pole for non-residents. We believe such an in increase is unreasonable and unjustified.

Allotments offer a huge range of economic, social, health and recreational benefits to many different people. They support healthy living by providing physical activity and social contact as well as fresh, low-cost produce, important in these hard economic times. Allotments provide vital green spaces for the natural world, including birds and insects as well as a source for sustainable food.

The rent increases proposed by Barnet Council are outrageous and unjustifiable, especially against this background. They are likely to cause most hardship to those people who most need allotments. Moreover, if allotment holders are priced off their plots, there is a risk that some allotment sites might run down to the point where they could be sold for development.

Support the campaign against the rent rises by signing their petition.

http://www.barnetallotments.org.uk/