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THE MAGAZINE FOR PEABODY RESIDENTS AUTUMN 2015 Prize fruit and veg at Cumberland Market’s annual Winning smiles show ENGAGE Winning veg from Cumberland Market AUTUMN 2015 From December 2015, Engage A word from Steve Howlett magazine will be replaced by elcome to your an email newsletter. autumn issue of Engage. I’m very Editor: Kirsten Edwards W partial to home grown veg, Design: Camille Neilson and I’m very impressed by the Photography: Paul Sanders; allotment holders at Cumberland David Boucher; shutterstock.com; Market, who grow everything Jody Kingzett from peaches to courgettes. You can see photos of their amazing Address all content suggestions, produce above and on p8. contest entries or comments to: This will be our last full for checking out the Peabody Editor, Engage, Peabody, printed issue of Engage so, if newsletter and browsing our 45 Westminster Bridge Road, you haven’t yet signed up to our website. See p10 to find out London SE1 7JB email newsletter, turn to p14 to about just some of the features Email: [email protected] find out how to do it. Everyone you can find online. who subscribes will be in with © Peabody 2015 the chance to win one of three Amazon Fire tablets – perfect Peabody Direct: 020 7021 4444 or 0800 022 4040 (free from BT landlines) In this issue Email: [email protected] 03 News 15 How are we doing? Residents of Cumberland Market, 08 Grow your own Performance information Millbank, Victoria Park and Lee Green Cumberland Market held its 77th 16 Your money can also call 020 7255 4100. horticultural show this year Benefit changes 10 A tour around our website 17 Your home Time to go digital Keeping your bills affordable 12 Your neighbourhood 18 Get online with Net Worx 14 Sign up to our newsletter www.peabody.org.uk 19 Peabody Champion PeabodyLDN SUMMER ENGAGE, P11 We’d like to point out that the photos used in our article ‘Support for our older Please recycle this magazine residents’ in the summer issue of Engage were for illustrative purposes only and are not related to when you have finished with it the case studies referred to in the text. We apologise for any distress caused. 2 peabody.org.uk News New tenants welcome pack New social tenants of Peabody homes now receive a Welcome Pack containing household items such as washing up liquid, cleaning cloths, bin bags and air freshener. Their Neighbourhood Manager will also visit them within six weeks of the tenancy starting to ensure they are settling in. Find out Reading sessions what’s on near you are a big success Have you checked out our online events calendar yet? t’s been a year since impact on increasing cognitive It lists daily events and Peabody’s literacy project, abilities and language skills later activities taking place on or I Reading from the Start, was in life. near our neighbourhoods launched in Hackney. The scheme, run in partnership across London. Since then, more than 100 with VINCI Facilities and Dolly From family fun days to families have benefitted from Parton’s Imagination Library, computer classes, youth fun family activities at 36 is supported by dedicated clubs, history groups and Reading from the Start book volunteers. It’s now being rolled t’ai chi, there really is corners, offering storytelling out to other areas, launching at something for everyone. sessions, nursery rhyme Palmer estate on 17 September, And the majority of these singalongs, arts and crafts. with sessions taking place at events are free. Open to parents with children the community centre every Have a look and see if aged between two and five, Thursday, 10.30am–12.30pm. there’s something that takes Reading from the Start helps Sessions at Hugh Cubitt will your fancy. You’ll find it parents to support their child’s take place every Friday from on our website at www. literacy skills during the early 10.30am–12.30pm, starting on peabody.org.uk/events. years. This can have a significant 25 September. peabody.org.uk 3 News Smart meters are coming In 2016, a nationwide project will begin to change every gas and electricity meter in the country, replacing them with smart meters. At the moment, if your supplier wants an accurate meter reading, you have to give it to them, or they have to send someone to read Steve Howlett with Anna it. Smart meters are more Campbell from Look Ahead like smart phones – they (left) and Amanda Clark record your energy use and from Riverside (right) use a telephone signal to send it straight to the energy company. This means you will receive accurate bills. Bruce House turns 20 The meters also come with a eabody’s Bruce House, a managing agents. The centre also display for your home, which centre offering specialist offers employment and training shows you how much energy Phousing and support to support, as well as a wide range vulnerable people in Covent of weekly arts activities. “Smart meters show how much Garden, celebrated its 20th Bruce House was built in energy you’re using, and how birthday in July. 1906 and has been providing much you’re spending” Bruce House is home to more housing in Westminster for 109 than 100 residents with a history years. George Orwell said it was you’re using, and how much of homelessness. Look Ahead “excellent value for one and you’re spending each day. and Centrepoint, together with a penny’ in his memoir Down This means you can see which supported housing provider, and out in Paris and London, appliances or behaviours cost Riverside, act as Peabody’s published in 1933. you the most money. The project starts in 2016 For more information about Bruce House call 020 7021 4160 or 020 7021 4719. and is due to finish in 2021. Your energy company is responsible for replacing your meter and will contact you Fancy a career in construction? directly to let you know when Peabody is building homes all • Dry lining it’s happening. This could be over London, and we’re offering • Painting and decorating next year or in five years time. paid apprenticeships through our • Business administration supply chain in: The scheme is open to people Once your smart meter is installed, • Site management aged 16 to 24. You’ll get to work • Bricklaying with some of London’s leading Peabody’s Home Energy Advice • Plumbing building contractors and come out Team can visit you to ensure you’re • Electrical with a qualification and a chance getting the best value from it. • Carpentry and joinery to work in the building industry. Contact the team on sustainability@ peabody.org.uk or via Peabody For more information, email [email protected]. Direct on 0800 022 4040. 4 peabody.org.uk News The new mural brightens up the bin store wall Rhinos in Wandsworth? esidents at our Eton with rhinos in the background memory of a resident’s dog, and Close estate in and a red squirrel on the steps! the rhinos were requested by RWandsworth are no The mural, created by artist Sue another resident. longer faced with a boring brick Groom (www.art2murals.com), wall when they dispose of their was funded through Peabody’s For more information about the rubblish. The bin store wall Make a Difference fund, which the Make a Difference fund, visit features a fantastical mural of a residents applied for together. The www.peabody.org.uk. Mediterranean piazza – complete dog on the bench was painted in Options for paying your rent Peabody offers several methods pay with either a debit or credit at the Post Office. You will need for paying your rent, including: card by calling your revenue your swipe card plus cash or a Direct debit We would prefer officer’s direct line or by calling cheque. you to pay your rent by direct Peabody Direct. You can also pay Pay online To pay online or by debit as it is the easiest way for outside office hours by phoning text message, register with the us to collect it. You can choose 0844 557 8321. When you make a Allpay website at www.allpay. from different payment dates so payment by phone you will need net. You will need your 19 digit that the rent comes out of your the 19 digit reference number reference number, and your account at the most convenient shown on your rent statement and debit or credit card. time for you. rent card. Please note that Peabody does Debit or credit card You can Post Office You can pay your rent not accept cash payments. peabody.org.uk 5 News Meet the neighbours Residents at one of our newest developments, Cooper’s Road, got together for a fun day over the summer. Residents from nearby Monmouth Court also came along to meet their new neighbours. Located to the north of the Old Kent Road, the new development is a mix of 247 rented, shared-ownership and privately owned new homes, designed around four semi-private courtyards. Childcare offer Pembury reuse project If you’re a parent, you might be Peabody is working with Pembury residents an opportunity interested in a new breakfast environmental charity to learn key skills in refurbishing and after school club that’s just Groundwork at Pembury to old furniture. A Reuse Coordinator launched at Walworth Hall, our bring new life to old furniture. has been employed to ensure your community centre in Rodney The Repurpose scheme is taking old furniture and electricals can be bulky waste such as wardrobes, given a second chance.