Now in its silver anniversary year, Open House London is a city-wide celebration of the buildings, places, and neighbourhoods where we live, work and play.
The initiative is a simple but powerful concept: for one weekend in September hundreds of great buildings of all types and periods open their doors to all, completely for free. Each year a quarter of a million people take the opportunity to get out and get under the skin of London’s amazing architecture.
Veolia Southwark’s annual Wonder Day will take place this September as part of Open House London.
Event: The Recycling and Waste Wonder Open Day
Address: Southwark IWMF, 43 Devon Street, SE15 1AL
Date & time: Saturday 16 September 2017, 10am to 4pm
On the day there will be tours of the facility for visitors to learn first-hand how recyclables and black bag waste are turned into green products and energy.
NEW for this year, we will be hosting recycled craft workshops throughout the day. Bring along your glass bottles, jars and vases and create something new and beautiful at our glass painting sessions!
Dr Bike will also be on hand to give your a FREE safety check, so don’t forget to being your bike along.
There will also be a host of interactive exhibits, free refreshment and entertainment for the whole family including:
Last year we welcomes 850 victors, here’s what they had to say…
‘Fascinating to watch; had no idea how clever the facility is.’ Mary
‘The visit was incredible. I will recyle the story of my visit to all my firends for years to come’ John Manson
For more information regarding tour rules and things to do on the day click here.
We look forward to welcoming you.
Veolia Southwark
t: +44 (0)203567 2600
Southwark Integrated Waste Management Facility, 43 Devon Street, London, SE15 1AL
Veolia Southwark is once again supporting the Peckham & Nunhead Free Film Festival. This year, you are invited to special screening of A Plastic Ocean.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A from Louisa Casson, a campaigner for ending plastics in oceans at Greenpeace.
A Plastic Ocean is a new feature-length adventure documentary that brings to light the consequences of our global disposable lifestyle. In A Plastic Ocean, an international team of adventurers, researchers, and ocean ambassadors go on a mission around the globe to uncover the shocking truth about what is truly lurking beneath the surface of our seemingly pristine ocean. During its four-year production period, A Plastic Ocean was filmed in 20 locations around the world in beautiful and chilling detail to document the global effects of plastic pollution and introduce workable technology and policy solutions that can, if implemented in time, change things for the better.
Date: Thursday 7 September
Time: 8.00pm (doors open at 7.30pm; arrive early to avoid disappointment)
Tickets: FREE
Address: Southwark Integrated Waste Management Facility, 43 Devon Street, London, SE15 1AL
Refreshments: A pop-up bar will be available on the night
Click here to watch the trailer.
We look forward to welcoming you.
Veolia Southwark
t: +44 (0)20 3567 2600
Southwark Integrated Waste Management Facility, 43 Devon Street, London, SE15 1AL
Hello
It’s Clare from the Bermondsey Street Area Partnership, here again. I was last in touch a few months ago about our Then and Now Photo Competition leading to an exhibition in Bermondsey Village Hall in June. It was a happy event, with some very happy winners and helped remind us about the strengths of community after the terrible events at London Bridge and Borough Market. Many thanks for your help in making people aware of the competition.
We’re still on the same track, wanting to find out what people feel contributes to the character of our area so that we can protect those things in the Neighbourhood Plan and celebrate them. The things people like most could be street furniture or trees, open spaces or views, public art or buildings, anything. With some Community Council funding and working with Team London Bridge and STAMP (Shad Thames), we’ve set up a website with a map of our area where anyone can click on the map and leave a comment, the more comments the better.
If it’s possible for you to publicise this in your area, that would be amazing, thank you. There is a jpeg of the leaflet below and I’ve left a stack of paper copies at the JMB offices. If you would like some leaflets I can deliver them to you this weekend. If you’d like me to come and talk at a meeting in September, I’ll happily do that, just let me know.
Look forward to hearing from you
All best
Clare
Clare Birks
Chair, Bermondsey Street Area Partnership
Tabard Gardens North T&RA 