Local Resident and Community Group Links

These are just some of the local community and public service websites that may be of interest to local residents showcasing the wide range of activities taking place in Walthamstow. If you would like me to include your group please get in touch*

Creative Arts and Culture Groups

Photos by Hal Satterthwaite- photographer of the 1000 faces of Walthamstow project and responsible for all the pictures on this site http://www.1000faces.co.uk/index.htm

E17 Jazz - a local jazz troupehttp://www.myspace.com/e17jazz

The Rose and Crown Theatre Pub on Hoe Street which hosts live music, theatre performances and artistic events http://www.yeolderoseandcrowntheatrepub.co.uk/

The E17 Art Trail http://www.e17arttrail.co.uk/

Local Artist Alke Schmidt whose work focuses on the impact of climate change 

The Changing Rooms Studios Association - artists based at the Barbican Art Group Trust workshops at Blackhorse Lane http://www.crsa.co.uk

The McGuffins and the campaign to save Walthamstow's EMD Cinema http://www.stalinism.co.uk/

Chapel End Savoy Players - a local group performing Savoy Operas  http://www.cesp.org.uk/about.html

The Foster Hall at St Barnabas Church in Markhouse Ward is home to "Starlighters" and the Lynda Carter Christy School of Dance. The Stafford Hall (next door) is home to the Walthamstow Amateur Cine-Video Club

Music in Walthamstow Village at St Mary's Church http://VillageMusic.walthamsoft.com/ 

Local arts group working with families www.scribbleandsmudge.com

Sport Clubs and Groups

Friends of Waltham Forest College Pool http://collegepoolfriends.co.uk/

Walthamstow Badminton club http://Badminton.walthamsoft.com/ 

Waltham Forest Scuba Diving Club http://www.wfsac.info/ 

Food and Drink

The Farmers Market has now come to Walthamstow. It's on every Sunday in the Town Square. You can find out more about it here www.lfm.org.uk

 

Residents Associations and Neighbourhood Groups

The St James Street Open Air Library (1st Saturday of every month in Coppermill Lane)
http://stjamesstlibrary.wordpress.com

Walthamstow Village Residents Association  http://www.walthamstowvillage.net/ 

The Blackhorse Lane Residents Association - http://www.blackhorseactiongroup.org.uk

The Cleveland Park Residents Association - http://www.clevelandpark.co.uk/

The Local Civic Society http://www.wfcs.org.uk/

Walthamstow Community Times Magazine and website www.ctwalthamstow.co.uk

Fight the Height  A local residents Campaign Group mainly concerned with the proposals for Walthamstow's town centre arcade http://fighttheheight.blogspot.com/2008/05/about-us.html

Save our Stow- the campaign to Save Walthamstow's Dog Track http://saveourstow.wordpress.com/

 

Local Faith Community Groups

Local Church St Luke's in the High Street http://stlukeshighst.wordpress.com/

St Barnabas Church in Markhouse http://www.saintbarnabaswalthamstow.co.uk

The Deanery of Waltham Forest http://www.walthamforestdeanery.org.uk/)

Environmental and Greenspace organisations

Organic Lea - local project working with allotment holders promoting organic and sustainable gardening in Waltham Forest http://www.organiclea.org.uk/

The Hornbeam Centre on Hoe Street is a community resource and cafe which promotes sustainable development and runs local projects to enable residents to get involved in environmental education projects http://www.hornbeam.org.uk/

The Lea Bridge Conservation Volunteers- they meet on the first Sunday of every month to do practical hands-on conservation tasks around Lea Bridge and Walthamstow     http://www.lbcv.co.uk

The Friends of Stoneydown Park http://www.geocities.com/the_fosp and the Stoneydown Park Primary School Parent Teachers Association website  

The Friends of Lloyd Park www.friendsoflloydpark.org.uk

Local area 21 group - http://www.london21.org/

 

Links for the Under 13s

Walthamstow Toy Library http://www.walthamstowtoylibrary.org/index.htm 

Walthamstow Village Pre-School - http://www.thevillageplaygroup.org/

The Limes Childrens' and Community Centre in the High Street http://www.thelimes.org.uk/

Tumble in the Jungle Play Centre in Wood Street http://www.tumbleinthejungle.co.uk/

The Lloyd Park Children's Centre in Lloyd Park

Carefree Kids- a local charity working within our schools - http://www.carefreekids.org

13 - 19 years Youth organisations

Original Garmz is a youth outreach project working on fashion and design in Wood Street www.oggroup.co.uk 

Worth Unlimited- youth outreach group in Waltham Forest http://www.worthunlimited.co.uk/waltham_forest.html

Asianos Youth Football Academy in Markhouse - www.asianosacademy.org.uk

The Active Change Foundation in Lea Bridge http://www.activechangefoundation.org/

 

Local Public Service links

Local police safer neighbourhood teams - http://www.met.police.uk/walthamforest/saferneighbourhoods.htm#00BHGH

Waltham Forest Council http://www.walthamforest.gov.uk

Waltham Forest Community Safety Board www.walthamforest.gov.uk/wfcsb

 

Political links

Neil Gerrard http://www.neilgerrard.co.uk/

Waltham Forest Labour Party -http://www.walthamforest.labour.co.uk/

I Love Whipps Cross- find out more about labour's local campaign for services at Whipps Cross Hospital http://www.ilovewhippscross.co.uk/

Our local Amnesty International group - http://waltham.amnesty.org.uk

 

National links of interest:

The Labour Party - http://www.labour.org.uk

The Co-operative Party  - http://www.party.coop/ - you may also be interested in their blog http://politicsforpeople.blogspot.com

 

*please note that I am not responsible for the content of external websites.I also reserve the right to refuse to list any organisation or remove it!