Events

Trees in the City – a spring conference

Trees in the City – a Spring conference to be hosted by the Brockley Society Date:  Saturday 26th April 2014, 10am-3pm Venue:  LeSoCo (formerly Lewisham College), Lewisham Way, SE4 1UT   This FREE conference aims to promote awareness of the many threats to urban trees, and to encourage the maintenance of old ones and the planting of appropriate new ones, whether in streets, parks or gardens. We are lining up exciting speakers to inspire and inform! More details here.                                                                       Photo: Johnathan Hall     Brockley Society’s tree wardens ran a Christmas Hamper Prize Draw at Brockley Market on Lewisham Way to raise funds for Brockley street trees and to talk to people about the importance of trees. A splendid 205.07 was raised and Ian, with pink ticket No.51, walked away with the magnificent hamper. Our street trees are an incredibly valuable feature of our local environment. Brockley would not be […]

BMCG leeks ready to be planted

Breakspears Mews Community Garden

Breakspears Mews Community Garden   Annual General Meeting Saturday 10 May 2014, 2-2.30pm at Breakspears Mews Community Garden Access: Ashby Road, SE4 1PY or r/o St Peter’s Court, 29-31 Wickham Rd, SE4 1NE ALL WELCOME! Come and enjoy the garden and find out how to become involved. Open from 1pm and after the AGM.  More information:    

Midwinter Warmer for Brockley’s seniors, Saturday 8 February 2014

Every year we organise a free event at Brockley Social Club, 240 Brockley Road, SE4 1QB. All Brockley’s seniors are welcome! Come and help on the day or bring cake and raffle prize donations.   At the 2013 event: Juliet and little dog Pippa from Pets as Therapy warmed many hearts. Everyone went home with a free raffle prize. Christina from Balloon Blossoms decorated the room. Thanks also to: Brockley Social Club, Brockley Luncheon Club, Almancil Rotary Club, Taylor’s Food Wine and Lottery, Lewisham Pensioners Forum, thelpers on the day and those who donated cakes and raffle prizes.                                  

Hilly Fields Midsummer Fayre, Saturday 21 June 2014, 12 noon-5pm

This is the largest community event in Brockley, which has run every year since Brockley Society started in 1974. It is enjoyed by thousands, of all ages, from far and wide.   Stall information sheet available here Stall application form in Word here or as a pdf here Promote your business in the Fayre programme here   We will have over 150 stalls at the fayre selling a wide variety of goods including art, plants, clothes, bric-a-brac, crafts, vegetables, sweets.   We hope you will help us run the Fayre! It will be organised by Teams for specific aspects, each with a Team Captain, so you can volunteer for what you can manage. Some teams operate beforehand, others only on the day. The teams are listed here, with dates and numbers required: captain + team. Tell us if you want to be a captain or a team member: email   Fayre […]

Sybil Phoenix Honoured at Brockley Max

The Brockley Society contribution to the Brockley Max arts Festival this year was a screening of Loving Hands, a film about the life and times of local community leader Sybil Phoenix made by Brockley film makers Lucia Tambini and Kate Iles.   The film charts Sybil’s role as a pioneering member of the black community from her arrival in Brockley in the 1960s; setting up the Moonshot Youth Centre in New Cross, dealing with the violence of the National Front, acting as a conduit between the community and Lewisham Council and the police, and coping with the aftermath of the New Cross Fire in 1981. In parallel, the film explores Sybil’s extraordinary work as a foster mother to hundreds of Lewisham children throughout the 1960s and 70s. This culminated in the establishment of Marsha Phoenix House (in Tressillian Road), which continues to offer housing and educational support to young homeless […]