by | 31 May 2016 | campaigning, events |
Olive Road Street Party
Sunday 5th June, 2016 – 12pm to 7pm
Location: Olive Road, NW2 6UT
Come and join our neighbourhood party on Sunday 5th June, 2016, from 12pm to 7pm. Get to know your neighbours while enjoying great live music, poetry, literature and film, dance sessions, street games, loads of kids activities and more! Do this all in the knowledge that you will be supporting our new Cricklewood Library that will be launching soon.
Our live music includes professional and local musicians Red Box, Rubber Banned, Pen Parker, Emiliano & Marta, Drum Circle by Love to Drum, Elisa Jeffery, Daniel Woods and Zimmy van Zandt playing a variety of styles from pop to folk to jazz, psychedelic and an Iranian bag pipe player! For those of you who want to seriously move your feet, our stage area will also host Zumba Maggie, Adele’s Dance School and Fit4less instructors. For those of you who want to move your mind, you will be able to hear from authors and storytellers, Orna Ross, Anoushka Beazley, Jean-Marc Pierson and Ely.
We are hosting a fantastic kids zone that will include craft activities and street games for children of all ages. For our children’s fancy dress competition, kids are asked to come to the party dressed as their favourite book or film character!
All you need to do is gather your family and friends, bring food and drinks and if you have them, bring garden/folding chairs. We will be supplying tables, cups and paper plates. No glass and no BBQs are allowed.
If you live on Olive Road between Sneyd/Agave and St Michael’s, please can move your car off the street by 10am on the day of the party.
We would like to thank our fantastic NW2 Residents’ Association and our very generous sponsors who are making the party possible:
We are going to have a great party!
Marco & Galya
(On behalf of the organising committee)
by Admin | 27 Apr 2016 | events, fundraising, local, news |
Are you getting your teams together for the NW2RA Pub Quiz tomorrow night? Venue is The Crown on the Broadway. Arrive 7.30 for 8pm start. There are loads of great prizes and all proceeds go towards funding the Olive Road Street Party on Sunday 5 June. The Street Party is partly to have a great old knees up, and also partly to promote and raise awareness of Cricklewood Library. What could be better – have a great time at the pub quiz and the party AND help the library campaign! £2.00 per team member, 6 member maximum.
Hope to see you there.
The Library Team
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by Admin | 5 Dec 2015 | events |
If you would like to encourage a friend or neighbour to come along, you can download a flyer for our Carols by Candlelight event on 13 December here.
by Admin | 16 Nov 2015 | events |
Join us for a candlelit carol session on Sunday 13 December, 5pm, when we’ll be singing carols to raise funds for the library. We’ll meet on Olive Road, opposite the library site, and share a cheering cup of Gluhwein and some mince pies. Everyone welcome. Please spread the news – we hope we will raise money for the library at this session!
If you can help us out by delivering flyers to publicise the Carols by Candlelight, we’d be very grateful. Please email info@friendsofcricklewoodlibrary.org.uk to offer your services.
by Admin | 12 Nov 2015 | events, news |
On 4 November, Sally, Sonja and Annie went to Brent Civic Centre for the Brent Community Champions Awards 2015 ceremony, where Sally was presented with an award for her work on saving Cricklewood Library.
The Brent Community Champions Awards are held annually by Brent Council to honour and recognise individuals who have given outstanding community and voluntary service in Brent.
The award was presented by the Mayor of Brent, Cllr Lesley Jones MBE, who said:
“I am delighted to be a part of the Brent Community Champions Awards 2015.
“The awards are about finding, recognising and celebrating those selfless individuals who contribute so much for the benefit of their communities and our borough. These volunteers devote their time and energy to helping others in need and have given up days, weeks or even years of their time – quite often overcoming personal difficulties to do so.”
While Sally collected the award, she points out that it was “So great to get this award – which also recognises the hard work of Sonja Nerdrum and Eric Pollock amongst others.”
Well done to Sally, Sonja and Annie (pictured) and all other members of the FoCL team for their hard work.
by Admin | 13 Oct 2015 | events |
Sonja attends the vigil for our lost library with a celebratory recital – it’s not all bad news, really!
Campaigners held a vigil for Brent’s lost libraries with a spring in their step to celebrate volunteer campaigns to bring them back into use.
Source: Torch vigil remembers anniversary of library closures in Brent – Heritage – Kilburn Times
