Street Trees for Living becomes an independent charity

This weekend Street Trees for Living is submitting its annual planting order to the council. Residents can expect nearly two hundred new street trees to appear on the streets this winter, the result of a fantastic amount of work over the last six months by our Committee members, Area Reps, Street Reps, Sponsors, Lewisham council and other ...

BrocSoc calls community meeting to discuss Ashby Mews developments

Brockley Society Public Meeting - Ashby Mews – Gates and ResurfacingThursday 19 July 7.30pmMyatt Garden School, Rokeby Road, SE4 1DFFeelings have been running high about developments in Ashby Mews. BrocSoc has called a public meeting to discuss the issue. They say:Locked gates recently installed at the Ashby Road end of Ashby Mews, SE4, followed byresurfacing ...

BrocSoc slams Ashby Mews changes

The tarmac-covered north endFollowing the installation of a gate across the north end of Ashby Mews, some residents have now decided to tarmac the surface, changing its historic character to something which more closely resembles a business park.The southern end of Ashby Mews is untouchedThe gates, which we were initially promised would be left open ...

The Brockley Festival of Ideas for Change 2017, November 19

10am-5.30pmLewisham Southwark College, Lewisham Way, SE4 1UT.  The festival is back for its second year, with speakers including nailed-on new Lewisham Mayor Damian Egan, Andrew Mitchell from outstanding local homeless charity 999 Club, Battle of Lewisham academic Dr John Price, food futurist Rosie Boycott, boxing coach Jon McKenna, agricultural economist James Skinner and reparations scholar ...

The BrocSoc BBQ, July 7

Tomorrow, from 7pm at the Stone Circle on Hilly Fields, BrocSoc will have be hosting a BBQ for Summer Fayre volunteers. Anyone interested in getting involved with the group is welcome. Bring your own food to cook on their legendarily massive grill.

The Hilly Fields Midsummer Fayre 2017

Innovation and Conservation, June 10

Keynote speakers are:Laura Sandys, daughter of Duncan Sandys MP, who instigated the 1967 Civic Amenities ActDuncan  McCallum of Historic EnglandNicholas Boys-Smith of Create Streets. Case studies of local schemes will include:Rhys Cannon of GruffJon Broome, a specialist in self-buildCharles Coull on a live-work studio featured on Channel 4Murray Groves on timber-framed Cedar MewsPaul Russell on the ...

Street Trees for Living

Street Trees for Living is the new name for Brockley Society's street tree campaign. We are delighted to report that the total raised since 2012 looks set to be enough to fund 250 street trees - with about half of these already labelled and planted. In the last year alone it raised £18,000. This was from ...

Green is green: The Brockley Tree Fundraiser

Work by Isobel Kimberley will be shown during the eventWe're organising a storytelling evening at Number 57 Loampit Hill to fundraise for the Brockley Society Tree Committee.The event will feature ordinary people telling true stories. No notes, 5 mins. Must be your own story. Not compulsory to tell a story but you may find you ...

The Brockley Festival of Ideas

A festival of radical ideas organised by two local conservation groups might sound like a contradiction in terms, but BrocSoc and St John's Society have worked together to organise The Brockley Festival of Ideas, a free day of talks, loosely based on the theme of 'challenging power.'The Momentum activist, Jackie Walker, recently suspended from the ...