Creating our urban garden in Norwich’s alleyways- Beaconsfield and Knowsley Road

10th March 2023- planting Hawthorn, hazel, oak, and blackthorn along the allotment path. Volunteers: 6. Mix of TCV and Pockthorpe members. 17th March 2023- Volunteers …

The very talented Kev built planters from pallets found locally around Pockthorpe, NR3. Wroxham barns and The Theatre Royal also donated wood to the project. …

Matt Davies from The Fringe Project and TCV are working at our lovely park this Friday and next week. Pop along and help if you …

Sunday 12th March- Alleyway project. More info on FB- Pockthorpe Group. SUNDAY, 2 APRIL 2023 AT 10:00GB Spring Clean Litter-pick Time to give our green …

Last week 10 of us spent the evening removing nails and dismantling old pallets. We are using reclaimed wood to create planters in our lovely …

18 neighbours and friends turned out this morning to start transforming one of our many local alleyways. Fences were painted, planters made, moss scraped off, …

Calling everyone who lives in the Pockthorpe and Heathgate areas of #nr3 Join us for our next Love Norwich community clean-up event:Saturday 18 February 10am-2pm …

In 2019, neighbours from Beaconsfield and Knowsley Roads got together one sunny Sunday afternoon to clean up their much neglected alley way.  About twenty people …

Over the Christmas period, the paths got extremely slippy, so a few of us got together and gritted the paths.

I have been really lazy at keeping up the blog posts! Apologies. The lovely local NR3 green party has been helping our community group with …

Thank you so much councillor Gary Champion! I started the ball rolling to get our area a defib. It turned into a massive headache, so …

At Christmas, I did a cheeky ask at Hill construction‘s Christmas carols and asked if they could possibly help us with removing 100 metres of …

Today we had another fantastic clean-up at Kett’s cave park. We mostly removed brambles from incredibly old broken wire fences ready for Hills property developers …

Litter-picking and bramble clearing off old broken wire fences is next planned on Saturday 12th Feb at 10 am. We are going to concentrate mainly …

During the hazy long lockdown days what Lizzie and I realised whilst wandering around our area is how rich in birdlife the Ketts Cave park …

Fantastic litter pick and fence removal prep at our last event. We invited the Good gym crew to help! Find out more about Good Gym …

Kett’s Cave Litter PickVolunteers NeededCalling all people of Pockthorpe… Kett’s Cave Community Litter Pick 29th January 2022 10am start Come and help: We would love …

Minutes of the Annual General Meeting of the Pockthorpe Community Group held on Tuesday 11 January 2022Members present: Billie Anna-Tony, Gary Champion, Alex Catt, Gill …

Happy New Year everyone! Sadly, we have had to change next Tuesday’s AGM to an online Zoom meeting because of the current Covid situation. The …

Dec 2021 It’s been a busy couple of months and we have some really exciting news to share. We finally got the money for a …

We’ve got our first AGM scheduled for 7:30 pm Tuesday 11 January – in the Scouts Hut. Now that we are working with the Council …

Planning the event & who we invited We got 500 flyers printed by Minuteman Press in Norwich, these were posted through homes around the two …

Last year a group of volunteers came together to try and improve the Council owned land at Kett’s Cave and Sandy Park and run community …

Over the last few years we have seen plenty of evidence of hedgehogs scurrying around the Pockthorpe neighbourhood. They have been spotted on Dibden Road …

As a group, we are proposing Norwich City Council removes these hazardous wire fences at Kett’s cave, NR3 1NH. They are historic and serve no …

We reported our two street benches to be repaired in Jan 2021 to the Labour party, Norwich City Council and Norfolk county council. Sadly they …

Timeline and information on the derelict piece of land next to the Kett’s cave park. Owned by Norwich City Council housing Derelict, boarded up site …

We have some great news. Anglian Water has approved for us to paint the two Anglian water cabinets on Silver Road, Norwich NR3. I have …

This year the residents of city centre Pockthorpe in Norwich are creating a Halloween trail for the local children. Join our FB group to get …

Norwich as a city is really lacking public 24-hour access defibrillators. I am currently trying to piece together all the information I need to get …

We are really excited to announce a new Stay and Play starting on Tuesday mornings at Mousehold Hub on Mousehold Avenue. It will run from …

This is the opportunity to come and say what you love and hate about the Pockthorpe community proposed ideas. We are calling it a wider …

Sunday 19 September 2021 is Norfolk Car-Free Day – an initiative that started with 2019’s Norwich Car-Free Day before going countywide last year. For this …

PresentLiz Smith-Dane, Rob Bakewell, Shelley Donaghie, Billie Anna-Tony, Tony Moore, Bekka Quantrill-Tozer, Nicki Collins.ApologiesGary Champion.Decisions⦁ Agreed that Shelley will act as Chair, Rob as Deputy …

Residents noticed the area surrounding Heath Road Park has been a little neglected. The park itself is usually clean and tidy and the kids love …

A few months into litter picking we discovered the area around the Sandy Park (Gertrude Road) park used to be a horse riding school. Which …

* wild areas of Sandy park slope and Kett’s cave* Gertrude Road and Mousehold Avenue. Me, Rob and Tony just had an amazing meeting with …

Most, if not all, of the green Open Reach and Virgin boxes in our area have been vandalised with Graffiti, so we asked residents if, …

I think it’s important to start this blog by understanding how the council works first. It’s divided up into Norfolk county council and Norwich City …

As a community we have been meeting up regularly to litter pick around the Kett’s Cave on Morley Street in Norwich, NR3 this is on …

We recently found out that sadly Norwich City Council doesn’t restore our historic road signs. If you report one using their online form they just …

If you are keen to get involved in our project and want to borrow our community litter pickers please contact us and we can arrange …

This project started in February 2020 when Rob Bakewell a local resident started arranging litter picking events around the streets of Sewell ward in NR3. …