Would be great to have a “Maths Mad” workshop on the kids day if you’re up for it 
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Brilliantly demonstrating why Dartmouth Road has been included in this list - weekend festival sound sheet great, thank you!
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Thanks for your post, very much appreciated.
After our meeting this evening, anyone care to help with the following for the overall event initially:
Here’s our first call out.
" Dartmouth Road will be closing for refurbishment for one weekend over march so we are taking this opportunity to create a special event for Forest Hill! We want to host a 2 day street party on the Saturday and Sunday (exact dates TBD) and we want all the local community to get involved. We are calling all local creatives and businesses to join us on Thursday 26th October for an initial meeting to discuss ideas for the event . Would you like to run a workshop? Promote your business ? Are you a musician or performer?
In particular we are looking for locals to help with:
- Designing a flyer / poster
- Helping to market the event
- Volunteers to help on the day
- Sound technicians to help with the live music etc
Any local businesses please do get in touch whether it is to run a free workshop or have a stall.
We want to create a fantastic street party that everyone in Forest Hill can enjoy on this very rare occasion!
Pauline & Em
Facebook page has now been created.
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How long will Dartmouth Road be closed for?
Sections will be closed during 5 of the last six weeks of the works, though it will only be the last week the whole/most of the Rd will be closed to traffic - the Rd will never be closed to pedestrians at any time 
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I am a local pro DJ that has a small P.A system I store at the Bird in Hand pub. Id love to set up and play some music somewhere on the street.
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Brilliant, hope to see you at our next meeting Thursday week (26th October) venue TBC
Excellent.
I’ll be there.
Robert
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Our next meeting will be:
- 7pm
- Next Thursday 26th October
- @AllInnOne
All are more than welcome to join us if you want to be involved in anyway.
We hope to see some of you there.
Pauline & @emmad
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Hi.
Excellent.
I will be there to discuss providing some musical entertainment.
Regards.
Robert Smith
07999646978
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It would be great to get some of the local amazing foodies with stalls or at the very least encouraging people to eat in their restaurants!
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I agree, though you need to apply & pay for a license if you have more than a few stalls - I will be looking into this if we get some funding, though at the same time I would only encourage extra food stalls that won’t compete with existing food traders that have shops/businesses on D Rd.
Existing shops/businesses pay rent, business rates etc day in day out & some are suffering financially due to the works going on. I think they all deserve to get the extra business to try & pull back income they may have lost due to the works over a long period of time.
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What is the actual planned date of the event @Pauline? I can’t see it on this page or on the Facebook page and it would be good to start getting publicity out for it. Sorry but I have no I idea when the works are supposed to be ending but I have no idea when the last weekend of the road closure will be!!
At present it is the first weekend in March, but I will know exactly by the end of this year
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Perfect. So plenty of time to plan and early in Spring!
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Some good news re funding for this at a LC assembly coordinating meeting I attended tonight
We have been awarded £1250 from Lewisham Council Assembly funding which will cover the cost of the marquee & stage set up for the entertainment.
@Michael was also at the meeting & we will work with FH Society on this event to make it the best we possibly can.
So now we only have to raise £500-£1000 to be able to pay for what is needed to make this amazing
The more hands we have on deck to help in anyway the better, so a reminder of our next meeting is:
- 7pm
- This Thursday 26th October
@AllInnOne
Hope some of you can make it,
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Even more potentially good news re funding today!
I had a chat with Curtis (the chap that’s overseeing the D Rd Improvements) today & he will be asking Kier (The construction company carrying out the works) to fund the remaining amount needed for the overall events - he sees no reason why they shouldn’t as they’ve done this for other areas when requested
So it’s looking like we’ll have all funding needed in place thanks to Curtis, Lewisham Council Assembly Funding, and @Michael Forest Hill Society
It would be great to have a few more hands on deck to help us organise the events, so hopefully we’ll see a few new faces at the meeting tomorrow evening
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Excellent News!! Good Job👍
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