£2 WHEN Prospect SOLD Charity Reg No. 1156379 Barnes Community Association Newsletter DEC 2017-JAN 2018 Barnes builds up to Christmas! For starters, don’t miss White Hart Lane’s Christmas Day drivers Christmas Charity night needed on Tuesday 5th December If you can spare some time to collect guests and from 6pm. You can help the return them home after lunch at the Barnes Green White Hart Lane traders (Age UK) Centre on 25th December we would be raise money for local delighted to hear from you – and very grateful. charities as you browse the Please contact Julia, 8878 2359, [email protected]. shops for your Christmas presents and soak up the festive atmosphere. February Prospect The BCA Christmas Festival This issue of Prospect covers both December and is bigger and better than January and is distributed to all households in ever this year! On Friday Barnes. Copy, adverts and diary entries for the 8th December, from the top Castelnau Chorale February issue should be sent to the BCA, of Church Road to the river [email protected], by 10th January at the end of the High Street, latest. For further details see page 16. Barnes will be getting into the spirit of Christmas. Please note that the BCA office in Rose House will close for the Christmas break at noon on The Christmas Lights Fair, Friday 15th December and will reopen at 9.30am a new BCA event in aid of on Thursday 4th January. the Barnes Christmas lights, opens in the Sun Inn yard In the meantime we would like to take this at 11am. Entrance to the opportunity to wish all readers a Merry Fair is free and there will Christmas and a Happy New Year. be around 16 exhibitors with Christmas goods for sale. The Sun Inn will Chairman’s letter serve festive refreshments Barnes Concert Band Dear Residents throughout the day and you will be able to enjoy Christmas carols, a prize draw and plenty of Christmas cheer. 2017 is almost over and I would like to take this opportunity to look back at some of what has As darkness falls, the main streets of Barnes will be aglow with lights as the happened in Barnes this past year – a year which festivities get underway, and many of our local shops will be open until 8pm has demonstrated the level of passion and to welcome customers old and new. Along the way you will hear the strains commitment that you have for our community. of seasonal music from the St Mary’s Handbell Ringers in the High Street, Castelnau Chorale carolling outside Rose House at 6pm, Barnes Community In February, the BCA launched an appeal to Choir outside Olympic Studios at 6.30pm and Barnes Concert Band on the assist FiSH raise £30k to purchase a new bus to traffic island from 7pm. transport their clients to their various activities. You responded magnificently and it was hard to Father Christmas’s reindeer will be dropping him off to meet the children at believe that the target was reached in only 22 the Castelnau Community Centre at about 5.30pm and he is due at his special days. The bus is now on active duty and can be grotto in the OSO at about 6.15pm. The OSO opens its Christmas market at 5pm seen daily as it wends its way around Barnes. with merchandise including stocking fillers, books, candles and games as well as (continued on p2) homeware, fashion goods and accessories. The Everyday Cafe will serve delicious seasonal treats. We look forward to seeing you all at the Christmas Festival! Town Centre Manager p2 Follow @BarnesCommAssoc Barnes Fairs p2 For more details of the Christmas Lights Fair: [email protected] Fashion Show p3 To help fund the lights: Text XLTS £10 to 70070 Environment Group p3 For information about the OSO: osoarts.org.uk Bulb planting p4 Marathon runner p4 BCA membership fees due on 1st January; please join us – form enclosed. maers... Barnes Pond new boat p4 Town Centre Manager news (continued from p1) Changes in our shopping areas for the new playground, as well as for improvements to the rest of Talking of FiSH, as you may have heard, Jenny Word on the street is that Oka, an Hughes, Director of FiSH, is stepping down after Asian fusion and sushi restaurant, the recreation ground. We have a brilliant Friends team in place led by leading the organisation for 17 years. It has been a is opening at the former Monzil site pleasure working with Jenny on several collaborative on Church Road. We still have a few Laura van der Beugel - see p10. This is a great community project and one projects. On your behalf, I would like to say thank empty shops across Barnes, with you to her for all her efforts. sites on Church Road and on White which will benefit young and old. Hart Lane, which we are doing our We are also saying goodbye to Ben Mackworth- Thames walkway campaign best to fill, working with agents and Praed, chairman of the BCA Environment Group, a interested businesses. This project has great support locally, group at the core of the BCA, continually working from both Richmond and Hounslow hard over the years to ensure that the village Progress with Town Team projects Councils, from our local MP and from maintains its identity and character to make Barnes River access other key stakeholders and is heading one of the best places to live in the country. Thank in the right direction, albeit slowly. you so much, Ben, for all your hard work. Following our successful river clear- We have a great team in place with up, plans are moving forward to Earlier this year we instigated our Dementia experience in conservation projects restore Small Profit Dock so that it Friendly Village project. This has now been and fundraising, but now need a can be used by local paddleboarding completed and was carried out by Sanchi Murison, project manager to take this work and canoeing businesses. The dock co-funded by the BCA and the Barnes Workhouse forward. Ideally from an engineering will be cleared by the Port of London Fund. Sanchi’s report can be read on the BCA or project management background, Authority in the coming weeks and website, but see also p7. you will have time on your hands (this in future we hope to organise regular is a big project) and a passion for the In the London in Bloom competition we achieved a local community clear-ups to keep concept of renovating this listed bridge Silver Gilt Award in the London Village section and litter at bay. and restoring it for the community to in the Richmond in Bloom competition we achieved Gold. 22 bus update enjoy. Please let me know if you can help us: [email protected]. There are many more projects and events that Discussions are still ongoing with have been a central part of our community: the TfL about the future of bus services Christmas in Barnes BCA Barnes Fair, the BCA Barnes Food Fair and the in Barnes, particularly when A big thank you to everyone who Barnes Children’s Literature Festival amongst them. Hammersmith Bridge is closed. Leon contributed to our Christmas lights These are all community projects which could not Daniels, the Managing Director of crowdfunding. We have done be delivered without the many hours given to the Surface Transport at TfL, who came fantastically well and thanks to local Barnes community by volunteers. I can assure you to Barnes in April for our campaign schools, churches, community groups, that the BCA is very grateful for all that you do to meeting, will retire at the end of residents, businesses and the Council, make Barnes a better place. the year so it is unlikely that we Barnes High Street and Church Road will see him in Barnes again. We will look festive and sparkly again Our many generous sponsors have once again been will keep you updated on progress this year. Unfortunately we did not extremely helpful in sponsoring the BCA and the with this campaign via our website raise enough to light all the shopping work it does. I am very grateful to them. bringthe22bustobarnes.com. parades in Barnes so will be relying This edition of Prospect is distributed to every upon our brilliant shopkeepers to household in Barnes, giving me an opportunity to Improvements at Suffolk Road create a festive feel in White Hart appeal to those of you who are not members of the recreation ground Lane and on Castelnau parade by BCA to join and become a member of one of the Thank you to everyone who had Hammersmith Bridge. most active community organisations in London. We their say on the future of Suffolk must all work together to ensure that our voice is Road recreation ground through the Emma Robinson heard by Richmond Council, the London Assembly consultation process. I am delighted Barnes Town Centre Manager and in national government. Over the next few that there was overwhelming support years we face challenges, particularly with the development of the Stag Brewery and the Barnes Hospital sites. We cannot say that we are the voice of the residents unless the residents across the BCA Fairs entire village join us. You will find a membership application form included here. Please take just five Following David Stott’s retirement and looking minutes to complete the form and then, together ahead to 2018, we are delighted to confirm that with your payment details, return it to us in the the new BCA Fairs Chairman is BCA trustee pre-paid envelope (if you stick a stamp on it we will Mandy Stewart.