Tulse Hill Community Market

On 25th January 2014, the Tulse Hill Community Market opened its doors in the Scout Hut in Upper Tulse Hill. The market opens fortnightly on Saturdays between 11am and 4pm. The market is now located at the James Wilson Coffee Shop, 357 Norwood Road, London SE27 9BQ.

Local young ladies aged between 13-17 years old set up the market to showcase their skills and products as budding business people and to help others locally to sell their wares. Everyone is welcome who can pay the modest table fee. 

Edward Ashdale estate agents have helped to publicise and fund the market. John Adamthwaite said, "It's a pleasure to be associated with the young ladies and their new market."

Tulse Hill Community Market upcoming dates in full:

• October    11th and 25th
• November    8th and 22nd
• December    13th and 20th

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Contact

If you'd like to get in touch with the market organisers, their contact details are:
 
Email: waistknotwantknot@live.com

Mobile numbers: Nicole on 07904 662306

Jennyfer on 07539 232992

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Our community: St Christopher's Hospice

We know it is helpful to people moving home to have an insight into the community they are looking to move into. So we have already started a series of postings about local schools, and we will be writing about other things including, on this occasion, a very deserving charity.

St Christopher’s is the first modern hospice, founded by Dame Cicely Saunders in 1967. They say that:

"Our vision is of a world in which all dying people and those close to them have access to appropriate care and support, when they need it, wherever they need it and whoever they are."

Comedienne Jo Brand joined the recent Midnight Walk

"We care for around 650 people on any one day serving a population of over 1.5 million in the London boroughs of Southwark, Lewisham, Lambeth, Bromley and Croydon. Our services include palliative care from specialist doctors and nurses, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, social work, bereavement and psychiatric support, creative therapies, complementary therapies and spiritual care. We also carry out extensive research and education, training over 12,000 health and social care staff a year."

"To continue these services costs £15 million each year, around £10 million of which must come from fundraising activities. The St Christopher’s Group comprises St Christopher’s Hospice in Sydenham and Harris HospisCare in Orpington."

We also asked for a few words from the people the hospice helps.

“I feel safe, I love it. Before I came here it took me a while to accept what was wrong. I was very frightened. When I came here all my fear went, I completely changed. You forget that you’re ill, it’s nice not to be thinking about being ill. The only day that my family don’t worry about me is the day I come here” (patient)

“I have been lucky enough, following the death of my wife, to have received bereavement counselling. I would just like to register my thanks for your help in easing me through a very difficult period of my life. Whilst my grieving continues I now feel much better equipped to face all of my tomorrows” (widow)

If you have any time to spare to raise money for a good cause, remember this one.

Website here, Facebook here, Twitter here

Harris Hospiscare website here, Facebook here, Twitter here