WELCOME TO THIS YEAR’S FEEL GOOD FESTIVAL OF SPORT, HEALTH, LEISURE, LEARNING AND CULTURE.
We are enjoying a fantastic This could be a sporting activity such as tennis with one of our summer of sport and culture in partners, learning a new skill or hobby at the Adult Learning Waltham Forest this year – from Service or perhaps volunteering with our Legends of the Forest in Bicycle Ballet at Chingford May our London Borough of Culture programme. Day Fayre as part of London Featuring over 300 events over 30 days, from Tai Chi to Borough of Culture 2019 and trampolining, walking football to fun runs, gardening to computer the CEV Beach Volleyball courses, there will be a huge range of activities on offer including Continental Cup at Feel Good health workshops and family-friendly activity sessions – many of Too Centre in May to the launch them are free. of Waltham Forest and England We want to build upon the feel-good factor this summer of sport and Wales Cricket Board’s first has created in our community by staging a festival that is jam- Urban Cricket hub at Leyton packed with events and activities to help you look after every Sports Ground later in June. aspect of your health and wellbeing, whether that’s through sport, learning or cultural activities – everyone is different! But rather than watching on the sidelines, it’s now time for you To find out what’s going on this month and how you can connect, to get involved and emulate this be active, take notice, learn or give – and help us to make summer’s sporting and cultural Waltham Forest the Feel Good borough – pick up the Feel Good heroes. The Feel Good Festival of booklet in your local library, leisure centre, Town Hall reception, Sports, Learning and Culture, which the Junction Centre or Queen’s Road Learning Centre. You can runs throughout June, will shine also visit walthamforest.gov.uk/feelgoodfestival. a spotlight on the different ways Cllr Simon Miller, Lead Member for Economic Growth and you can improve your health and High Streets, and Cllr Naheed Asghar, Lead Member for wellbeing by partaking in a variety Health and Voluntary Sector Partnerships of different activities. This year the offer is even bigger and better than ever as we combine the Sports and Leisure offer with our Adult Learning Service offer, and ways you can get involved with London Borough of Culture 2019. Improving the quality of life of our local residents is important to us, and that relies on the availability of different opportunities for people of all ages and abilities to participate in something that makes them feel good. Movement is people power!
Marvin believes even 5 minutes of physical activity can make a difference to your health and wellbeing.
Marvin, 43 Mental health and stigma One in four people will experience a mental health Mental wellbeing problem in their lifetime yet many people still feel ashamed to say they are one of them. This can prevent people from seeking help or even talking to Take part in our Feel Good festival this June friends or family about their problems. to support your wellbeing. There are lots of We are supporting the Time to Change campaign activities to help you participate in the 5 ways to tackle stigma and discrimination around mental of wellbeing. Evidence suggests that there are health. You can find out more about our campaign It’s never too small actions everyone can take to improve late to start and how to become a local Time to Change wellbeing, decrease and prevent mental health champion by visiting www.bit.ly/timetochangeWF problems and also help people to flourish. Some or email [email protected] of these actions can be summarised in the 5 ways to wellbeing and are as follows: Support for mental health and Mental wellbeing is about feeling healthy and happy, wellbeing and able to live a fulfilling, quality life. It allows us to If you are experiencing low mood, feeling anxious, enjoy positive relationships and be able to deal with stressed or having problems sleeping, there is online the day to day challenges that come our way in life. support available at www.good-thinking.uk Young
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TGOGC TGOGyms GreatOutdoorGym @TGO_Outdoor Gyms ALCOHOL The Chief Medical Officer has published new safe drinking guidelines. Here are some of the Be sugar smart key points: • Both men and women are advised not to regularly drink more than 14 units a week. Too much sugar is bad for our health. • That is equivalent to 6 pints of 4% beer or 6 Did you know that an average school glasses of 13% wine. child in England consumes half their • It is best to spread alcohol consumption evenly across the week. recommended sugar allowance before they even get to school in the morning? • If you are pregnant you are recommended not to drink alcohol at all. Here are simple steps you can take to Find out more by visiting reduce your family’s sugar consumption: www.drinkaware.co.uk. • Why not consider swapping fruit juices, For anyone concerned about their drinking our sugary drinks and milkshakes for water alcohol services are able to help. Contact CGL Waltham Forest on 0203 826 9600. or sugar-free varieties. • Remember most products have traffic SEXUAL HEALTH light labels, usually on the front of the Welcome to All East, a sexual health service that’s here for you. pack. Try and pick ones that have a All East provides free and confidential sexual green light for sugar. health services at centres across East For more ideas on how to cut back on London, providing everything from sexual health screenings (including HIV testing) to sugar visit www.nhs.uk/change4life contraception services. Visit alleast.nhs.uk/ to find out about our Waltham Forest services. 02 05 08 Smart E17 Art New recycling Trail markets
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The team celebratesWE’RE an amazing season including, front row left to right: James Brophy, Dale Gorman, chairman NigelBACK! Travis, captain Jobi McAnuff, vice-chairman Kent Teague, manager Justin Edinburgh, Macauley Bonne. Image: Simon O’Connor
Waltham Forest has a Football up petitions with debts of more back into the Football League at an League. He told us: “This has been League team once more as Leyton than £5.5m. emotionally-charged match against my best experience in 55 years of Orient finished the season as Salvation came in the form of Braintree on 27 April in front of a crowd following Leyton Orient. It just shows champions of the National League. Woodford-born businessman Nigel of over 8,000. what can be achieved with the right Following the club’s appearance in Travis, a lifelong O’s fan who had owners in charge.” Sunday’s FA Trophy final against FC become Executive Chairman of Dunkin’ “This has been my best Fylde at Wembley, they’re looking Brands, home of Dunkin’ Donuts and experience in 55 years of More info forward to a bright future that few Baskin-Robbins ice cream. Joined by following Leyton Orient” Visit www.leytonorient.com fans could have dreamt of when they US investor Kent Teague, the duo led crashed out of League Two at the end the takeover of the club in 2017. The John Day has been supporting the of the 2016/17 season. final piece in the jigsaw saw former O’s for over half a century. He and In 2014, the club was brought by Tottenham defender Justin Edinburgh his daughter Alicia are season ticket Hit the beach International beach volleyball is coming businessman Francesco Becchetti and joining as manager in November 2017, holders and they joined fellow fans to to Waltham Forest. under his stewardship, faced winding- successfully leading the Leyton team celebrate their return to the Football Read the full story on page 7 2 News Collection crews will check residents’ Free start-up support Wrong items in recycling bins and if they spot anything inside which can’t be recycled, they’ll green recycling leave it uncollected and put a sticker over the lid so you can take out the item by bins costs council your next collection. Unfortunately, a small number of tax payers over bins containing the wrong items are collected by mistake. In 2018, it cost £300,000 per year the council over £300,000 to dispose of this contaminated recycling as general The council wants to keep it as rubbish. easy as possible for residents to During that time, 800 lorry loads of recycle, and unlike some authorities recycling couldn’t be recycled because we don’t make you separate your they were too heavily contaminated with recyclable paper, glass, cans and Please put black bin bags in your the wrong items. If enough incorrect black bin, not your green one plastics. Instead, these get sorted items – like black bin bags, food and mechanically and by hand at a clothes – are collected in green bins by Knowing every single type of item recycling centre after your green bin mistake, they get mixed with the rest of which can go into your green bin can be is emptied. the clean and dry recycling and cause the tricky, so start by understanding which Support for start-ups will be available in whole load to be rejected. items definitely shouldn’t go in: Waltham Forest libraries and co-working spaces Top contaminating items Waltham Forest Council will have a chance to: Leave out of your Why? has made it a priority to • get support researching green bin provide ongoing support and testing your business to residents starting new idea. Is it viable? Black bin bags The type of plastic they’re made of can’t be recycled. Remember, black bin bags are for the black bin. businesses. Competitive? If you’re an aspiring • learn how to start/improve Food/drink Even small amounts smear over everything in the collection vehicle, making all the recycling dirty. entrepreneur (anyone with a your own business in an good idea for a business to interactive workshop or These cause jams in the sorting machinery. To reuse or recycle them properly, place them inside a Textiles/clothes start), or early-stage start-up course public Salvation Army or Traid clothes bank. (small to medium enterprises • gain personalised, one- that have been registered on-one support from local Nappies/sanitary items These can’t be recycled, even if they’re labelled `biodegradable’. Always put in your black bin. or trading for fewer than 12 business experts until months), come along to one you’re up and running Small electrical items Small electrical items can only be recycled at grey public recycling banks, or at recycling centres. of our monthly events. Held • become a part of London’s in Waltham Forest’s libraries thriving entrepreneurial Garden waste These can’t be recycled in the green bin. Instead put them in the brown bin to get composted. and co-working spaces, you community. All support provided to entrepreneurs is entirely free-of-charge. More info Visit www.walthamforest.gov.uk/content/business-advice For a full list of items that can and can’t be recycled, or check out the council’s social media pages visit www.walthamforest.gov.uk/content/bins-green-brown-black-what-goes-them
From the Leader Cllr Clare Coghill
the FA Trophy Final. It was the centre on the 25 and 26 May. Find Waltham Forest is rightly proud Beryl’s story is highlighted in this culmination of a fantastic year for out how you can go along to watch of our local stars of today such year’s E17 Art Trail (see page 5.) First the club as they were crowned on page 7. as Tae Kwondo champion Lutalo staged in 2004 and now held every National League Champions Sport has the ability to bring Muhammad and England men’s two years, this year’s trail will see and regained their spot in the people together and boost football captain Harry Kane. But it’s 8,000 artists and residents taking Football League. community spirit – and it’s never also fantastic to celebrate the life of part, and is sure to be one of the We can all be proud of their too late to join in. Read our article a sporting legend from the past. highlights of Waltham Forest’s year achievements, whether you’re a on page 6 to find out how care Beryl Swain was born in as the Mayor’s first London Borough football fan or not. With the team’s assistants Patricia, Donnalee and Walthamstow in 1936 and in 1962 of Culture. future in doubt just two years ago, Janese are helping older residents became the first woman solo rider Sport and the arts both have the their success isn’t just a boost for the keep fit and have fun. to compete in the perilous Isle Of ability to bring communities together area of Leyton where they’re based, Sport can help Life Chances, Man TT motorcycle road race. Her and I’m proud that Waltham Forest but the whole borough. by improving well-being, as licence was later revoked when a has such a rich heritage in both. This month we also welcome the well as building confidence and minimum weight requirement was Last weekend saw Leyton Orient best in international beach volleyball offering valuable lessons in introduced to stop her competing in supporters descending on to Waltham Forest as the Continental working as a team. the male-dominated sport, but her Wembley to watch the team in Cup comes to the Feel Good Too Sport can also be inspirational. achievements live on.
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A walk through history in Chingford Mount Help for young people to leave gangs Waltham Forest’s Gang Prevention Programme has Chingford Mount cemetery East London. He explains: “Following commissioned a series of new services to support young is the final resting place for recent research into the history of people involved with, or affected by, gangs. thousands of local residents, the cemetery, we’ve discovered that The services will be recruiting and training local residents as including World War I flying there was a large German population community mentors, to help those caught up in gang activity, aces and the East End’s in London before World War I. We’ve including young women. most notorious gangsters. uncovered headstones inscribed in One service will work specifically with people who’ve been It’s also cherished by the German as well as mass graves of convicted of gang offences as they’re released from prison and living for its peace, natural German male civilians from Alexandra are returning to the community. beauty and history etched Palace internment camp. We also on every gravestone. had German airmen buried here who More info Residents interested in becoming community mentors are invited The cemetery opened crashed in World War II, tucked away to attend a mentoring event on 23 May at St Mary’s Church, in 1884. Abandoned by its in a quiet corner of the cemetery, close Walthamstow at 7.30pm. The event is open to all. private owners in the 60s to victims of the Blitz. Their bodies were Please register your interest in attending by emailing: and 70s, it was taken over later moved to a dedicated war graves [email protected] Visitors can explore over 40 acres of walkways by Waltham Forest Council cemetery at Cannock Chase.” and tributes to the people buried in the cemetery in 1978 and once more became a working cemetery. A short walk uphill from the shops It’s huge – covering over 40 acres, and restaurants of Chingford Mount with wide, tree-lined paths cutting is an oasis of calm where locals through the graves. The Kray Twins are can enjoy a quiet stroll or spend buried here, along with 18th century precious moments with lost sculptor John Bacon, whose work loved ones. features in St Paul’s Cathedral, and Benjamin Pollock, the man behind A peaceful resting place Pollock’s famous Toy Museum in Covent Garden. The cemetery hosts an annual More info You can visit Chingford Mount service of remembrance, when local Cemetery seven days a week. schoolchildren place poppies on Summer opening hours (until 1 around 300 Commonwealth war Deputy mayor visits the borough October) are Monday to Saturday, London’s Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime has visited Waltham Forest to graves. This year’s will take place on 7.30am to 7.30pm and 10am to 6pm discover more about the borough’s Violence Reduction Partnership. Friday 8 November. Sophie Linden met Cllr Clare Coghill, Leader of Waltham Forest Council, Katy on Sundays. Contact: cemeteries@ Thompson, lead of peer-to-peer support group, Streetbase, and others at Cemetery manager Tusar Sen Gupta walthamforest.gov.uk or visit www. One Hoe Street. The VRP brings together the Metropolitan Police, health and Original records of burials are still kept in is developing 10-point trails about both walthamforest.gov.uk/content/ education services, with youth and community groups to tackle violent crime the cemetery office in the borough. Find out more at www.bit.ly/WalthamForestVRP World Wars, and the social history of chingford-mount-cemetery
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