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Councillor Maggie Mansell RIP

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It is with much sadness that we share the news that Cllr Maggie Mansell passed away on Saturday 5th January after a short illness.

Maggie represented Norbury as Ward Councillor for many years and worked closely with Love Norbury. She was a lovely lady, always willing to help. She was very supportive of Love Norbury and often joined in with many of our Love Norbury events and meetings as well as many of the other activities and events organised by other community groups and residents’ associations across Norbury.

Maggie will be dearly missed.

Our thoughts are with her family, friends and colleagues at this difficult time.

Rest In Peace Maggie.

To commemorate Maggie’s passing, a Book of Condolence has been opened in her memory. It will be open for contributions from Monday to Friday 10.00am – 4.30pm over the next couple of weeks at Steve Reed’s Office 908 London Road, Thornton Heath, CR7 7PE (109 bus stops outside).

It will also be open this Saturday 12th January, at Norbury Library, Beatrice Avenue, between 10.00am & 4.30pm.

 

Can You Help Us Find a Volunteer With a Van?

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The Love Norbury by the Sea Summer Festival event committee are looking for some help to transport larger event equipment to and from St Helen’s Road triangle on the day of our event – 3rd June 2018
If anyone is able to help then we would love to hear from you…
Email: akonczak@yahoo.com
Facebook @LoveNorburyCampaign
Twitter @LoveNorburySW16

Help Love Norbury Raise Funds via the Co-op Membership Scheme

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Love Norbury has been chosen as a nominated group in the Co-op Local Community Fund and WE NEED YOUR HELP….

By becoming a Co-op member you will automatically help Love Norbury continue its good work every time you shop at the Co-op.

You pay £1 to become a member. This buys you a share in the Co-op, which gives you:

  • 5% back to spend next time when you buy Co-op products
  • A share in their profits if they do well
  • The right to vote on how they do business

For full details please visit the Co-op website.

Help your local community

Every time you buy selected Co-op products from Co-op food stores and other Co-op businesses, they give 1% of what you spend to local causes near you. Love Norbury is now officially a Co-op local cause.

Co‑op Members have helped raise an amazing £20 million for local causes. That means the Co-op have been able to help fund thousands of local projects that benefit communities across the UK.

This is where Love Norbury needs your help…

If you are already a Co-op member Love Norbury would love it if you could nominate Love Norbury as your chosen cause. This means that every time you shop at the Co-op, 1% of what you spend on Co-op branded products will go to Love Norbury and will be spent on local community events.

Simply follow the link and log into your account https://www.coop.co.uk/membership

  • You will see a section called ‘Choose a local project to back with your 1%’
  • Underneath this wording there is a link titled ‘See your local causes’
  • Click on this link and the local causes will come up
  • Click on ‘Love Norbury’
  • Click on the green ‘Back This Project’ button
  • That’s it – you will have chosen Love Norbury as your nominated project – thank you J

2).           If you are not a Co-op member you can follow the link to sign up:

https://www.coop.co.uk/membership

Once you’ve clicked on the above link then click on ‘Become a Member’.

This will take you to the sign up page where you need to fill in your details and follow the instructions.

Once your account is set up you can follow the above steps to choose Love Norbury as your nominated project.

You can also get a temporary membership card from the Co-op, which you can then register online.

Alternatively, just pop into the Norbury Co-op store where a member of staff will be happy to help you.

 

Love Norbury by the Sea Summer Festival – Sunday 3rd June 2018, 12noon to 4pm – St Helen’s Road Triangle, SW16 4LB

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We are very excited to announce that our Love Norbury Summer Festival will be going ahead in June with huge thanks to the Co-op Local Community Fund and Croydon Council Community Grants.

It will be on Sunday 3rd June, 12noon to 4pm

The theme will be ‘Norbury by the Sea’

There will be lots of free seaside related activities and entertainment, live music, a range of stalls and more to be confirmed in due course.

Full details coming soon…

Save the date for a free fun-filled event right on your doorsteps.

Here is a snapshot from last year’s event…

Love Norbury Christmas Fayre 2017

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The Love Norbury Christmas Fayre was held on Sunday 26th November.
It was a fun and festive afternoon with lots of local people coming along and joining in the variety of activities that were on offer such as pass the snowman, arts and crafts, gingerbread decorating and face painting to name but a few things,
Santa was very busy again this year, there were fabulous performances from the Norbury Manor Primary School choir and also Betty Wivell Academy and lots of stalls selling food, crafts and Christmas gifts.
As always there was a raffle and special thanks must go to both the Co-op, who donated a giant Christmas hamper, and the Moon Under Water (Wetherspoons) who donated a meal and a drink for two voucher.
There were a few raffle prize winners who were not present at the time of the draw. The Love Norbury team have been making contact with those winners and are arranging to get their prizes to them.
Love Norbury would like to say a big thank you to all the volunteers who helped organise the event, those who helped out on the day and to everyone who came along to support what has now become an annual event.

Vote for Love Norbury to win funding to put on a ‘Norbury by the Sea’ Community Festival in Summer 2018!

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Love Norbury is through to the voting stage of the Aviva Community Fund.

Please vote for Love Norbury and help us win funding to put on a ‘Norbury by the Sea’ Community Festival in Summer 2018 – a fun-filled event for the whole Norbury community to enjoy.

Please share the link widely and ask your friends, family, neighbours and work colleagues to vote for us.

Only projects with the most votes will become finalists so we need lots of support and votes.

You get 10 votes and we’d appreciate it if you could vote for us 10 times. You need to register, but it only takes a couple of minutes.

To vote, please follow the link below…

https://community-fund.aviva.co.uk/voting/project/view/17-3685 

The link is on also our social media:

Twitter: @LoveNorburySW16 (please retweet the link)

Facebook: @LoveNorburyCampaign (please share and like)

Thank You

Love Norbury Wins 2017 Mayor of Croydon Civic Award in the Category Voluntary Group of the Year

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Love Norbury was nominated for a 2017 Mayor of Croydon Civic Award in the category Voluntary Group of the Year. Some of the Love Norbury team attended the awards ceremony on Tuesday 17th October.

We were treated to a wonderful evening at the Hilton hotel and we are absolutely delighted to say that we WON!

We are officially Voluntary Group of the Year and we are literally over the moon.

After the ceremony Brenda presented the Mayor of Croydon with a beautiful bouquet of knitted flowers from the Norbury Knitters

We had an amazing time at the awards ceremony. There really are some inspirational people and groups in Croydon. We’d like to say a huge well done to all winners and finalists.

Here are some photos from a very memorable evening…