Today FARA participated in the borough-wide Spring Clean, and appropriately we had a beautiful spring day and warm sunshine. The Council supplied us with litter pickers/sacks/gloves and high-visibility vests, and also a council official to take part alongside us (and get her ear bent about some of our local litter and recycling issues!). Some of…

At the annual meeting on 26 January the following people were elected to manage FARA in the coming year: Chair – Flash Bristow Vice chair – Wendy Reilly Minutes secretary – Mike Bristow Treasurer – Gail Smart Honorary chair – Jane Sterland Membership secretary – Vicky Allen Communications officer – Liz Dawson Street coordinators: Malvern…

Bushwood Residents Association have once again invited FARA members to join them for their next quiz night which will be held on Saturday 28th November at 7.30pm. The last time we fielded a team we managed to reach the dizzying heights of 2nd place, thanks to a couple of (much) younger residents on our quiz…

Woodhouse Players have kindly given FARA a pair of free tickets for the Saturday 7 November performance of a great new production. ‘The Lark’, a play about Joan of Arc by Jean Anouilh, mixes high drama with comedy. It presents Joan’s life in a series of flashbacks as she fights for her life before a…

Good news – the Leytonstone Community Council has awarded FARA £150 worth of funding towards next year’s photo competition. We hope to make it the best one yet!

If you are a permit holder for the CPZ covering Davies Lane, please be aware you need to renew it by 6 November. Last year quite a few residents missed the deadline and received parking tickets, so make sure you don’t get caught out this year!

FARA is setting up a ‘flu buddy scheme’ to help residents during the swine flu pandemic. More details about the Flu Buddy Scheme.

The FARA photo competition exhibition was held at Davies Lane Primary School today. Nearly 100 people came to see the entries and vote for the winners, who were: Junior Prize: Jessie Moore Junior Prize runner-up: Marie Campbell Best Buildings: Brian Hopson Best Buildings runner-up: Hilary Douse Green Spaces joint winners: Flash Bristow and Brian Hopson…

Did you witness an accident on Thursday 9th April (that’s the Thursday prior to Easter weekend) at 9.30am? An elderly man was walking on the zebra crossing on Leytonstone High Road, near the Methodist Church. He was hit by a rider of a motor scooter and left seriously injured. If you have information please contact…

Artists have until 15 May to register for this year’s Leytonstone Arts Trail. The Trail runs from 27 June to 19 July and involves many different visual arts events, from photography to painting to sculpture to textiles. The aim is to get art into as many venues as possible, so that artists can show their…