Family Day – Kennington Park Estate – 28 May – all welcome!
Category: Local events
Cricket World Cup at the Oval
The 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup is coming to The Oval. Five of the tournament’s fixtures will be held in South London. This means the area will be very busy. There will be two preparatory ‘ warm up’ international matches on 25 and 27 May 2019 and then The Oval’s five 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup Fixtures are: 30 May – England v South Africa 2 June –South Africa v Bangladesh 5 June – Bangladesh v New Zealand 9 June – India v Australia 15 June – Sri Lanka v Australia
Christmas is a Circus – Come to KPCC’s Panto on 15 December!
Be Santa’s Secret Helper!
Kennington Chartist Project – 7 July 2018
7th July 2018. 11am – 4pm Take Part in a Day of Workshops, Participation and Action in Kennington Park. Banner & Printmaking, Storytelling & Spoken Word, Community Choirs, Local history, Debate Full Programme: (subject to change! Signup for updates. 11-12: Storytelling. Join professional storyteller Sandra Agard as she tells the story of the 1848 Chartist rally on Kennington Common and other tales. (All ages) 11am – 4pm Printmaking with South London’s Portable Print Studio. Print your own FREE souvenier poster of the famous engraving of Kennington Common in 1848. Or design you own slogans and print onto T-shirts. Bring your own T-shirts for printing (light colours). 11am – 4pm: Banner Making. With Calverts design Co-op, and textile artist Lu Firth. A group workshop to design and make a banner for the Kennington Chartist Project, within the day! For adults.(And accompanied children 10+) (SIGN-UP required). 11.30am & 2.30pm: The Kennington 1848 Walk. Historical tour of the park …
Is Kennington sinking? Public Meeting – 17 May 2018
Zumba Gold Exercise Classes – Mondays from 16 April
Our popular Exercise Classes for Over 50s return to Monday mornings in the Community Centre from 16 April to 16 July. There is now a choice of two classes – one at 11am and the other at 12.30pm. Free!
Kennington, Oval & Vauxhall Neighbourhood Plan Consultation
Kennington Oval and Vauxhall Neighbourhood Plan Regulation 14 Consultation From Helen Monger, Chair, Kennington Oval and Vauxhall Forum I am delighted to write to you to announce the launch of our Regulation 14 Consultation for our Neighbourhood Plan, and invite your comments. In accordance with Regulation 14 requirements we are letting as many people as possible know about our plan so that we can take into account any comments they may have. We are launching our plan with a public exhibition, food and fanfare, on Monday 19th March at 6pm at the Kennington Park Community Centre on Harleyford Street – all are welcome. We will be taking our exhibition around to local churches, community halls and markets over the next few weeks– look out for further promotion in due course. In any event, the full draft plan may be viewed: online at our website kovforum.org.uk or in hard copy at: Tate …
Oval Safer Neighbourhood Panel meeting 21 March
Northern Line Extension works at Kennington Green
Northern Line Extension (NLE) Works Site at Kennington Green At the end of March, the acoustic enclosure at Kennington Green will be taken down. This process will start at the end of March and take approximately five weeks to complete. Following the removal of the acoustic enclosure, the next phase of works will involve the construction of the basement structures for the Head House. Between April and June 2018, the concrete slab located on Kennington Green will be removed 16 metres underground will then be excavated for the basement. Construction of the basement taking place between June 2018 and January 2019. It will be necessary to move the line of the hoardings out temporarily, although footpath access will remain. It will also be necessary to reopen the road barrier to Montford Place, (outside the Beefeater entrance) to allow access to properties. 24/7 working will continue underground, however above ground …