Saturday 14th June, 7.30pm All Saints’ Church
Verdi Requiem (chamber ensemble version)
Tickets £20 from http://www.barneschoir.org.uk/tickets, or on the door on the night.
The annual opportunity to take a look at other people’s gardens.
Wednesdays 12 noon to 1pm. Free but donations welcome.
Wednesday, 4 June: Alexia Daphne Eleftheriadou – solo piano
Wednesday, 11 June: James Druce – trombone and piano.
Wednesday, 18 June: West London Tuba Quartet.
Friday 13 June at 7pm : Ella Stavrou – solo piano £10 on the door or on Christ Church Instagram
Charlie Standing is giving a concert of his musical mishaps and disasters on June 8th. For many years Charlie was Organist at All Saints, and is a popular jazz pianist at a number of London Clubs.
Charlie’s repertoire ranges from Bach to Star Wars, and according to one fan he can play Messiaen with his right hand and I do like to be beside the seaside with his left!
The concert is raising funds for All Saints Church, East Sheen. Charlie will be playing on the excellent Yamaha grand piano there. Ticket price includes a glass of wine and a savoury nibble, £12 on the door or email ksheldon.vol@outlook.com
The Painkalac Valley Network is an ongoing coalition of community groups that meet regularly to collaborate on and advocate for issues of mutual interest regarding the Painkalac estuary and its valley environs. The Network will action diverse strategies to further its objectives.
Vision
To revive and maintain the Painkalac from source to ocean [from park to river] as a thriving interconnected community and ecosystem that must be protected for future generations.
Approach
We acknowledge the inherent rights of the entire Painkalac landscape including ecosystems on land, in fresh and estuarine waters and at sea, recognising the fundamental interconnectedness between humans and the natural world. We embrace collective responsibility for its wellbeing and see the Painkalac as a community to which we belong, rather than the other way around. What is good for the Painkalac is good for all.
Explore the history of Richmond’s waterside right where it happened. At this exhibition, hosted by Richmond’s boatbuilding craftsmen, you’ll uncover the rich, centuries-old connection between Richmond and the Thames. Delve into the diverse history and numerous uses of boats and wherries that have defined life along the riverside through the ages. This exhibition will be accompanied by a talk on wherries and a family workshop at the Old Town Hall, promising a weekend filled with riverside celebrations.
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The Heygate estate in Elephant and Castle was demolished in 2014 and replaced by Elephant Park, a development of thousands of luxury apartments, built by the Australian developer Lendlease.
Elephant Park is seen as an exemplar of a new global regeneration industry. In place of lower- and middle-income family housing, the new neighbourhoods are typically created to include luxury apartments. Today two-bedroom apartments in Elephant Park are on sale for between £900,000 and £1m, (comparable to Teddington Riverside) and of the 2,704 new homes, only 82 are for social housing. Twenty-five per cent of the new homes are designated “affordable”, but since the government changed the definition of affordable in 2010 to mean up to 80% of market rent or market value, that is financially far out of reach for the majority of Londoners and their families. One local resident says: “They’ve got rid of family homes in the area and replaced them with one- or two-bedroom apartments – all the families are moving out; they should have seen this coming.”
The regeneration of so many new districts, from King’s Cross to the Olympic Park, is part of a larger story of the extreme gentrification of cities like London where soaring house prices are leading directly to a decline in birthrates.
The knock-on effects are that across the south-east, millennials are leaving London for Bristol, Brighton and seaside towns along the south coast, such as Hastings, Eastbourne or Deal. It’s not just schools, but GP surgeries and small businesses – the “ecosystem of the city” – that are closing.
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This post will be informative for readers interested in the various strands of Christianity, religious education, Middle Eastern religion and politics, and the career to date of the new Vicar at St. Mary the Virgin.
The Revd Ayoob Adwar joined St Mary the Virgin Church, Mortlake High Street as Team Vicar in March 2025. His Licensing Service took place on Wednesday, 26 March 2025. He kindly consented to be interviewed for EastSheenMatters.
The Revd Ayoob was baptised and grew up in a Christian family, in the ancient Chaldean Church in Iraq. It is in full communion with the Catholic Church. He was ordained a deacon and priest in the Chaldean diocese of Alqosh in Nineveh in 2008. He joined the Chaldean Catholic monastic order of pontifical right. He trained for ministry in Babel College in Baghdad, which is affiliated to the Pontifical Urban University in Rome. He also studied at Al Mustansiriya University in Baghdad and he gained his bachelor’s degree in Social Anthropology. Later he studied in Rome for five years to gain a master’s degree in Social Pedagogy at the Salesian Pontifical University.
In 2012 Rev Ayoob visited the UK to undertake a short period of study, improved his English, became interested in the Olympics and stayed with friends in Brighton. While there he visited the Parish Church of All Saints in Hove and was surprised to find a female Vicar, not an experience he had had before.
During that time the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) perpetrated genocide of Christians in 2014, especially around Nineveh. The Revd Ayoob then emigrated to Canada, staying with his Chaldean parents who had moved there earlier.
While there in 2017 and influenced by his positive experiences in Hove, his priesthood was recognised and he was welcomed into the Diocese of New Westminster and the Anglican Church of Canada.
In 2021 he joined Christ the Saviour Church in Ealing for a year. He then moved to be Curate in South Mimms, Ridge and Potters Bar for three years, where he was able to study to take on full responsibilities as an Anglican Vicar in the UK. He was so impressed by the ministry of Churches Together in Potters Bar, and he enjoyed working with the ecumenical team in the area.
The Parish should benefit from his international experience.
There will be a further posting in due course looking at how the Revd Ayoob sees his future in the Parish.
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