Redbricks Community Fun Day – your help needed

Posted on 10 May, 2012 by Greening The Redbricks

When: Sunday 3rd June (afternoon-evening, exact time to be confirmed)

What: Food, Entertainment, Friendship, Fun

Where: Letsbe Avenue (between Humberstone and Hunmanby)

How to help: email taffboy72 AT gmail.com if you can:

  • make food (vegetarian/vegan) – expenses available
  • perform music, poetry, etc
  • organise a display eg about a community project here or nearby.

 

We would like this event to

  • be inclusive as can be – diverse as the range of people living here
  • build relations and friendships in times that are hard for some.
(organised by Bentley House Tenants & Residents Association)
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Bentley Exchange clothes mending special – this weekend

Posted on 5 May, 2012 by Greening The Redbricks

Bentley Exchange tables are out. Leave stuff you don’t want, take stuff you do.

Please keep things tidy as the weekend progresses.

NB: This weekend we also have clothes swap and bring & mend or upcycle clothes or household textiles from 2-6pm on both Saturday & Sunday in the tenants’ office at 26a Humberstone, brought to you by the lovely Stitched Up collective.

They’re bringing one or two sewing machines, so now’s your chance to repair or upcycle and sort out all those clothes you’ve been meaning to sort out for ages. Bring old clothes, buttons etc.

http://stitchedupuk.blogspot.co.uk/

Please spread the word to anyone you know who may be interested as someone seems to have removed the Stitched Up flyers from bin sheds.

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People’s Kitchen 23rd May – celebrate Hulme Street phase 1, football and work tenders welcomed

Posted on 4 May, 2012 by Greening The Redbricks

We have secured £43,000 from the GroundWork Community Spaces fund to work with our landlord City South Manchester in developing Hulme St. To celebrate this fact and better inform ourselves about the planned works and our role in them we will be holding a People’s Kitchen at Proctor’s on Wednesday 23rd at 6.30PM. Football court open from 5PM.

Anyone knowing anyone wishing to tender for work, please pop along to the event and tell Chloe, so that Jenny Sweet (our project manager at BCA) can be in touch.

Hope to see you all there!

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Bentley Bike Club!!

Posted on 4 May, 2012 by Bentley Bike Club

The Bentley Bike Club is up and cycling! We have all the tools for repairing your bicycle and a little bit of knowhow if you need a helping hand! The BBC runs the first weekend of every month in the afternoons, from 1-4pm, alongside the Bentley Exchange on Humberstone Avenue.

The Bike Club aims to refurbish and roll out previously unloved bikes for the benefit of people on the estate and in the local community. If you have any unwanted bikes or bits of bikes then we will gladly take them off your hands and put them to good use!

The BBC has the assistance of a professional bike mechanic and several knowledgeable volunteers, so if you want to learn how to fix your bike then please stop by.

If you would like access to the tools at any other time, or would like to donate a bike, please call Aidan on 0757 6688393.

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Hulme Street Public Art

Posted on 3 May, 2012 by Greening The Redbricks

BCA Landscape ran a public art course with the Workers Education Association earlier in 2012. This was inspiring for Hulme Street and what we might like to see there or not. Have a look at examples of BCA’s previous work and others (Katja’s favourite are the high-rise bird boxes!). No decision has been made at this point (May 2012) what the art work is going to look like and who is going to do it. This is simply to get us thinking.

BCA-Artwork-precedents-Mar_2012-1

BCA-Artwork-precedents-Mar_2012-2

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Bike Storage Updates

Posted on 26 April, 2012 by Bike Storage sub-group

Hi all!

After many months of general too & fro’ing the bike storage issue for the whole of the Bentley estate is now properly underway. My name is Matthew Hague and I live on Hunmanby. Myself and Adam are trying our best to keep this issue on the agenda with City South and we have now secured regular official meeting time with them and we are now being listened to regarding view points, practicalities and all other points in-between.

The last meeting took place on Thursday 15th March. Present were Chris Parkinson, Alan Leicester, Samantha Lennard & Sue France. Many points were discussed and many solutions mooted. Basically it boils down to the fact that the bikes have to come off the landing railings. After that its a matter of finding the best (& obviously most cost effective!) solution to each block on the estate. We have discussed the use of the storage rooms, placing Sheffield stands in the hallways which have the room and converting certain bin sheds to “securely’ & “safely” house bikes.

So, so, so………….. the next meeting is scheduled for 10th May & I would like to take some estate wide feedback with me. Please add any thoughts, feelings, insights etc to this post and i’ll bring it all together and put it forward. The more the merrier please.

Some of the blocks on Rockdove trialled the wall mounted systems that City South installed. I have tested these and found them wanting in a few areas. But feedback on these and the ‘shed’ on Humberstone would also be very welcome. We really need & want to find the best solution for each block.

I await your responses, experiences as a bike user on the estate and thoughts for the future of using said bikes easily and effectively within the Bentley House area. Also feel free to ask any questions that you need. Email :

bike-storage AT redbricks.org

We also need a few more volunteers to get involved with this project too. Give me a shout if you are interested.

Cheers, Matthew

 

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People’s Kitchen this Tuesday 24th April and football kick-about

Posted on 22 April, 2012 by Greening The Redbricks

It’s in Procter’s, where there will also be a footie session in the indoor gym from 4.30pm – all ages, all welcome – so even if it’s raining you can come along and join in the fun and work up an appetite for a lovely, home cooked curry, from 6.30pm, suggested donation £2.

People’s Kitchen courtesy of Chloe, Steve and Dave this coming Tuesday.

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Redbricks.org seeks new keeper

Posted on 21 April, 2012 by admin

Please email domain @ redbricks.org if interested.

The domain will expire in July if a new keeper is not found.

 

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Leaf Street sessions – spring is coming

Posted on 22 March, 2012 by Greening The Redbricks

Sundays April 1st, and 22nd 12 to 4ish

and also Thursdays generally – though dont let that stop us on other
days!
and in particular thurs 19th april when Katherine from Garden centre
will be along to help with any questions and queries and advice …

see yous all soon,

the blossoms coming

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Gardening workshops

Posted on 19 March, 2012 by Greening The Redbricks

Get ready for spring – spruce up your balconies, windows and spaces around the estate.

There’s two gardening workshops coming up that are free for CSM residents:

sowing and planting for beginners on 3rd April, and container growing on 5th April. See the attached flier for details of how to book via City South.

There’s also more of interest at Hulme Community Garden Centre:

an ‘Edible Windowsill’ workshop on 15th April – for a fiver, you get to take home a container with salads, mini-veg and herbs; and starting on 4th April for 5 weeks is a free introductory organic gardening course. See their website at http://www.hulmegardencentre.org.uk/ for details of how to book.

If you’re interested in gardening on Leaf Street, get in touch with the Leaf Street gardeners; and if you’re interested in using other spaces and containers around the estate, get in touch with the relevant people via Greening the Redbricks. Leaf Street workdays get advertised as and when they get organised, meetings are listed in the notice-board by the residents’ office on Humberstone; contact details for all groups are at the redbricks.org projects page

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Leaf St Gardening session

Posted on 7 March, 2012 by Greening The Redbricks

Hi Everyone,

Thanks to those of you who made it down to Leaf st for the big work day in Feb. And especially big thanks to Cath for wheelbarrowing in some v tasty soup! The garden’s looking lovely, and the trees all well pruned.

We’re having another session this coming weekend for anyone who wants to join in – general clearing up , and getting things ready for spring. SUNDAY 11th March 12 till 4

Spread the word, Spread the Muck

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Indian cookery class + ‘Thanks Cath’ People’s Kitchen Special

Posted on 7 March, 2012 by Greening The Redbricks

There is to be another Indian Cookery Class from 3pm til 6pm Saturday 10th March – this time at OK Cafe (Gamecock, Boundary Lane) as we couldn’t get Proctor’s. You need to book a place if you wish to attend so please call me if you want a place.

The training will be followed by a ‘THANKS CATH’ PEOPLE’S KITCHEN SPECIAL from 6.30pm til 8.30pm, again at the OK Cafe. The OK is then hosting a Social Centre Benefit from 8.30pm onwards.

Feel free to contact me for more info or to book a training place; 07957-716653.

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Bring Out Your Dead…bicycles

Posted on 27 February, 2012 by Greening The Redbricks

Redbricks TAT table bicycle special – bring yer old bikes and bits of bikes, get ‘em fixed or donate ‘em to a worthy cause – please!!

3/4th March 2012 1-5pm

The Bentley Exchange takes place in the (nearer to Clarendon end) walk-through between Humberstone Avenue and Letsby Avenue (the wooded area)

BOYD_Bicycles_Flyer

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Leaf Street workday this Sunday – come along and pitch in (forks provided)

Posted on 17 February, 2012 by Greening The Redbricks

There’ll be a Leaf Street workday this Sunday 19th
February from noon till 4ish, with hot soup in the middle. We need lots of help to get us ready for Spring. No experience necessary. Please come along, hope to see you there.

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Public Art Course WEA

Posted on 9 February, 2012 by Greening The Redbricks

Free 20-hour course about outdoor sculpture and art by the Workers Education Association in collaboration with City South and BCA Landscape. Includes a visit to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Further details on the flyer.

Contact Elaine Hutchings at WEA to book your place on 0161 2775409 or ehutchings@wea.org.uk

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