Bellenden Residents' Group (BRG)

From Youtube: "An amazing collection of country cottages in Peckham. Beautiful homes, amazing gardens and lovely people. Opens just once a year for us to enjoy. Also had an art show for Chock Lee."  This is a lovely Sunday each June, our very own local village fete. Each year I am there with The Peckham Society, and Bellenden Residents' Group, stall in a corner. We have some wonderful conversations about local things, meeting new local people and visitors and developing links with existing members and contacts. This 10 minute video from Youtube captures some of the enjoyment of the day. If you live in this area this is an event not to be missed.

Such a positive community event organised by The Friends of Warwick Gardens. A wonderful family day in the park with music, art, food, yoga & hula hooping. A big thank you for all the musicians who gave their talents for free and of course the wonderful people who came to enjoy the day. It had such a lovely peaceful vibe and truly demonstrated the strength of our community. For our first effort, we're very pleased with ourselves and the feedback has been so positive. It was really hard work but the success of the event has made us totally enthused to do it again in this year. Please do get involved to help us organise The Warwick Wingding 2010. We need all manner of skills & talents. Thank you.

On Saturday 26th September 2009 there was a lovely festival in my local park so I filmed it. The festival was called The Warwick Wingding 2009 and was organised by the Friends of the Warwick Gardens.

The Big Lunch features Bellenden Road in Peckham SE15, tuba, bunting, birthdays , community, carved water melons, food and new friends what a fantastic day.

A Big thanks to everyone who helped make this year's Big Lunch an amazing community event.

You can watch Bellenden Roads Big Lunch here http://www.youandiskills.com.

On Sunday 19th July 2009, communities all round the UK took to the streets to share home-made food and meet the neighbours. This is a quick little video of the Bellenden Big Lunch in Peckham, South East London. It was an absolutely fantastic afternoon. I can't wait until the Big Lunch 2010! If I had it my way, we'd do this every Sunday! Many, many thanks to the organisers, the musicians and the folks who provided food. Geeky details: Shot on a Panasonic GH1 at 720p50 with the stock lens and a Nikon 17-55mm f2.8 DX. Graded in Premiere Pro CS4.1. All handheld (poorly!) Excuse the shakiness! My Fader ND filter hasn't arrived yet so the shutterspeed was uncomfortably swift.

We had a brilliant time and we hope you all did too.  Thank you so much for involving us, and here's to next year's BBL!

This is Bellenden shopping parade, on Bellenden road between Maxted Road and Choumert Road. Bellenden Road is a long road. The shopping parade which also took part in the Big Lunch, is several hundred yards along from the part that was closed off for the street party.

Some familiar sites for those of us who don't drive everywhere in a people carrier, can't afford organic food and don't employ an Eastern European Nanny to look after our kids which, incidently. all have triple barelled names like Oliver-Dolphin-Evelyen James Joyce Harry.

Highshore School at the northern end of Bellenden Road: Attractively designed (opposite the 'concentration camp' of Peckham Academy)

On the left, the view of Peckham Academy from Highshore Road. On the right, the view from Bellenden Road. But how academic, and need it look like a concentration camp?