Colleagues from across Greenwich Council are mourning the death of Christine Grice, the cabinet member for finance, after she was diagnosed with an aggressive form of stomach cancer. Grice, 68, who had represented the Kidbrooke with Hornfair ward for Labour since 2014, was an enormously popular figure in the town hall. She was presented with […]
April 2020
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‘People really want to help’: Hundreds helping Greenwich Mutual Aid group
Just four days after Cathy Wang set up a quick Facebook page, the Greenwich Mutual Aid group had already begun helping some of the borough’s vulnerable people. Now it has hundreds of volunteers helping their neighbours and working alongside Greenwich Council’s community hub. “Within a day of setting it up we had 800 members – […]
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Stop dumping goods outside our shops, under-pressure hospice charity pleads
Greenwich and Bexley Community Hospice has appealed to people to stop dumping items outside its 17 charity shops, as it is having to pay for the cost of clearing the rubbish up. The hospice, which is based in Abbey Wood, is already having to deal with a loss of funding due to the coronavirus shutdown […]
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Mercury Man: SuperMike and the good neighbours of Collindale Avenue
In these strange times – especially now that all the betting shops are shut – you can trust 853‘s special correspondent MERCURY MAN to find a moving tale of community involvement to make us all feel just that little bit better… You wouldn’t normally rely on a burglary to bring people together, but that’s exactly […]
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Jumbo’s last stand: East Greenwich’s gasholder reaches its end
While London has been in lockdown because of the coronavirus emergency, East Greenwich’s gasholder has been slowly disappearing from the local skyline, with just two sections of the frame now remaining in place. Work began on dismantling the East Greenwich gasholder, one of the last remnants of the Greenwich Peninsula’s old gasworks, last April. 853 […]
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Greenwich Park bosses tape off Wolfe statue to keep people apart
The General Wolfe statue in Greenwich Park was taped off at the weekend as park bosses tried to keep visitors two metres apart during the coronavirus emergency. While some pathways in the park, as well as the flower gardens, have been closed off since the beginning of the lockdown five weeks ago, this weekend was […]
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Coronavirus grants for Greenwich community groups announced
Charities and community groups in Greenwich borough can apply for up to £10,000 in funding to help them through the coronavirus crisis, it was announced today. Greenwich Council and a charity linked to the local NHS, the Greenwich Charitable Trust, have each put in £75,000 to fund the grants, with the voluntary service organisation Metro […]
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It’s okay to let our gas engineers into your home, Greenwich Council tells tenants
Greenwich Council has begun sending engineers into tenants’ homes to check their gas systems once again, and it says it is taking steps to make sure tenants are comfortable with allowing workers into their home. Annual inspections, which have to be carried out by law, had been suspended when the lockdown was imposed five weeks […]
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