What’s on at Hornbeam
Regular events:
- Every Tuesday 7pm to 9pm – Italian Class
- Every Wednesday 7pm to 8pm – Italian Class
- Every Thursday 2pm to 5pm – Knitting and crafts group
- Every Saturday 10am to 11.40am – E17 Junior Guitar Club
- 1st & 3rd Thursday each month 7.30pm: The Melting Pot (dishes from around the world)
- Every last Saturday of the Month 3.30pm – Science Fiction Reading Group
- Every 2nd Wednesday - Waltham Forest Cycling Campaign
- Every 4th Wednesday 7pm – Transition Walthamstow
- Every 2nd Friday of the Month 8.15pm – Open Mic performance night
- Every last Friday of the month 7.30pm – Bakers Arms Book Group
- Every last Saturday of the month 6.30pm: Fork to Fork Seasonal Supper Club
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- The Melting Pot:
Thursday 20th June 7:30 pm-Come and sit with friends and strangers and share delicious authentic dishes from around the world. Each week's menu will feature a specific cuisine.
Menu for 20th June:
- Main: spinach and leek tagine with dates, coriander and spices with lemon couscous and a leafy salad
- Dessert: Turmeric cake with a strawberry and rhubarb compoteTwo courses for £10, full range of beverages.
Advance booking is essential. Email cafe@hornbeam.org.uk with your name, and how many people.
- The Art of Living Well:
Friday 21st June 11:00 am-2:00 pmCome and help paint a mural ‘the art of living well’, every Friday in June, at the Hornbeam Cafe. We provide paint and brushes and you will be guided by a local artist.
All ages welcome.
This event is part of the "Appetite" festival during June 2013. - OrganicLea market stall:
Saturday 22nd June 10:00 am-3:00 pmThe market stall outside the Hornbeam Centre on Saturdays sells organic and ultra-local sustainably grown fruit and vegetables, plus homemade bread, jams and preserves from 10am - 3pm.
It’s a buzzing space, where buying fresh produce is an enjoyable activity and where information about food can be freely shared.
The produce we sell comes from:
- Soil Association certified organic farms in East Anglia and their partners in Europe
- Ultra-local London growers sharing their surplus through our Cropshare scheme
- Our own Hawkwood site in Chingford.
Healthy Start vouchers can be used to buy fruit and vegetables at the stalls or box scheme. - Fork to Fork Seasonal Supper Club:
Saturday 22nd June 6:30 pm-10:30 pmAs part of the Walthamstow "Appetite" festival, we're running our Fork to Fork Supper Club every Saturday evening in June....
The Hornbeam Cafe invites you to a feast with delicious healthy tasty food – locally sown, grown, picked and cooked! We're offering a tasty main course, as well as scrumptious starters and delightful desserts, all for just £15! And making use of as much local produce as possible, provided by Organiclea Community Growers.
The supper club is open from 6.30-10.30pm so you can choose your time to book a table (latest booking 9pm).
Advance booking is essential - email cafe@hornbeam.org.uk with your name, how many people, and what time.
The café can cater for all special dietary requirements, intolerances and allergies - just let them know when you book. - Transition Walthamstow Skillshare:
Wednesday 26th June 8:00 pm-9:00 pmJoin us for an evening of skillsharing, discussion and cups of tea.
Transition Walthamstow is focussing on the pressures of climate change, fossil fuel depletion and economic contraction, with the aim of tackling these threats and creating a vibrant and sustainable future. Everyone is welcome, doors open 7.30pm, and we start at 8pm.
Free.
More information about the evening here: http://transitionwalthamstow.org.uk/ - The Melting Pot:
Thursday 27th June 7:30 pm-Come and sit with friends and strangers and share delicious authentic dishes from around the world. Each week's menu will feature a specific cuisine.
Menu for 20th June:
- Main: spinach and leek tagine with dates, coriander and spices with lemon couscous and a leafy salad
- Dessert: Turmeric cake with a strawberry and rhubarb compoteTwo courses for £10, full range of beverages.
Advance booking is essential. Email cafe@hornbeam.org.uk with your name, and how many people.
- The Art of Living Well:
Friday 28th June 11:00 am-2:00 pmCome and help paint a mural ‘the art of living well’, every Friday in June, at the Hornbeam Cafe. We provide paint and brushes and you will be guided by a local artist.
All ages welcome.
This event is part of the "Appetite" festival during June 2013. - Bakers Arms Book Group:
Friday 28th June 7:30 pm-We are an informal and friendly group (sometimes some of us haven’t even read the book!).
Tea, coffee, wine available.
New members welcome, just turn up. - OrganicLea market stall:
Saturday 29th June 10:00 am-3:00 pmThe market stall outside the Hornbeam Centre on Saturdays sells organic and ultra-local sustainably grown fruit and vegetables, plus homemade bread, jams and preserves from 10am - 3pm.
It’s a buzzing space, where buying fresh produce is an enjoyable activity and where information about food can be freely shared.
The produce we sell comes from:
- Soil Association certified organic farms in East Anglia and their partners in Europe
- Ultra-local London growers sharing their surplus through our Cropshare scheme
- Our own Hawkwood site in Chingford.
Healthy Start vouchers can be used to buy fruit and vegetables at the stalls or box scheme. - WF LETS information & enrolment:
Saturday 29th June 10:30 am-12:00 pmPop along to the comfortable surroundings of the Hornbeam Cafe 10.30am - 12noon on the last Saturday of every month to find out about Waltham Forest LETS (local exchange trading scheme).
If you like the way that people can exchange all kinds of goods and services with one another without the need for money, then you can also join up on the spot. For more information please check out our website http://www.wflets.org/ or email info@wflets.org




