Water reflection of The Grange

New Marcus Garvey Park Gardening Days

• Friends of Marcus Garvey Park facebook page

Free Exercise Classes for Over 60s

• Email Maxine - info@flatfeetdance.co.uk 
• Or call on 07872927288

Festive Service Information from TfL & Avonmore Library

Christmas Eve, Tuesday 24 December ‑ A reduced weekday service will operate across the Tube network until 20:00. Last trains will be earlier than usual. Buses will run until just after midnight. 

Christmas Day, Wednesday 25 December ‑ There will be no service on the entire network. 

Boxing Day, Thursday 26 December ‑ A reduced service will operate on most of the network; there will be no service on London Overground. 

New Year’s Eve, Tuesday 31 December ‑ Free travel will be provided on most of our services from 23:45 until 04:30. From around 17:00 central London roads will close to prepare for celebrations so buses will gradually be withdrawn. 

New Year’s Day, Wednesday 1 January ‑ A reduced service will operate on most of the network. 

For full details, please click the links above or visit: tfl.gov.uk/festive

Avonmore Library is closed on the following days:
25 December 2013 Christmas Day 
26 December 2013 Boxing Day 
27 December 2013 
30 December 2013 
31 December 2013 New Year's Eve  
01 January 2014 New Year's Day

• Avonmore Library Page

Boris Bikes are Live and Close

Top behind the Three Kings & below Olympia Way

Today two Bike Stations, near to the Lytton Estate, went live as part of the south west expansion of the cycle hire scheme. One is just behind the Three Kings pub, on the Cromwell Road and the other at the top end of Olympia Way. Eventually 60 bike stations will open in Hammersmith & Fulham by next spring.

• Main TfL cycle page
• TfL on the Expansion
• Hammersmith Today report
• Barclays Cycle Hire on Twitter

Crisis at Christmas Centre - West London College

Crisis at Christmas are again providing a centre on campus at Ealing, Hammersmith & West London College. The charity for single homeless people are looking for volunteers to come and help out over the Christmas holiday period,  the centres are open from Monday 23rd to Sunday 29th of December. You will be helping in the offering of food, clothing, healthcare and a range of educational facilities to homeless people. If you have some spare time during the holiday and want to help out contact Crisis at the link below. You can also contact Streetlink, to tell them about a rough sleeper via the link, or download their app for your phone.

Map for Hammersmith Day Centre and homeless pick-up stops

Click for Advice

• Volunteer for Crisis at Christmas
• To Make a Donation 
• Crisis London Day Centres Maps download (PDF)

Some other links:

• Homeless UK Advice
• Homeless in London
• List of London Winter Shelters - 2013/14 (PDF)
• Streetlink - tell them about a rough sleeper

Bulb Planting in Marcus Garvey Park - Saturday 14th December

• www.facebook.com/MarcusGarveyParkCommunityGarden

Hidden Homes Delay

Grange rear elevation, with new flats 

The Hidden Homes team have informed LETRA that the planned start date for the two new infill flats at  the Grange, has now been put back until the new year, with a likely start of 13th January.
The works are to begin with the demolition of 11 external sheds, followed by the construction of 37 new sheds and lastly the two flats. The estimated completion date for the project is now the end of May 2014.

• H&F's Hidden Homes page

H&F Remembrance Sunday, 10th November

Click to donate

The two annual H&F Remembrance Sunday parades and services take place on the 10th November in Fulham and Shepherds Bush. 
Here are the info links for them:

• Your H&F page
• HammersmithLondon page
• Royal British Legion donate
• HAMMERSMITHToday details of times

A & E Closures

A&E

CLOSURES

Government back A&E closures at Charing Cross
& Hammersmith hospitals

• Hammersmith Hospital A&E will close

• Charing Cross A&E replaced by a Minor Injuries Unit with no ‘blue light’ service

• Charing Cross Hospital still threatened by demolition with 60% of the site earmarked for luxury flats

• 500 acute beds will be lost

• The UK's leading stroke unit will go

To keep up the fight join on:

• www.SaveOurHospitals.net      
• Email:- campaign@saveourhospitals.net     
• Twitter:- @savehfhospitals
• Andy Slaughter-  Hospital Closure Update
• Save Our Hospitals Petition - for a 'blue light' A&E at Charing X