Barnes Ponder 2 Report Back

Back in October you helped us to celebrate our achievements since the original Big Barnes Ponder of 2013 and to create a refreshed vision for Barnes for the next ten years.

The Big Barnes Ponder of 2013 helped shape Barnes as we know it today. Importantly, the exercise of the community coming together to shape our future has shown the positive influence we can have if we work as a team. Over the last ten years the community and businesses have together helped transform Barnes into a more thriving and diverse village with wide ranging cultural and environmental initiatives. Volunteers have worked with partners to deliver projects such as the new High Street scheme, Suffolk Road playground, the parklet, the outdoor events on Barnes Green, the 22 bus campaign and the re-routing of the 378, the rickshaw, the defibrillator phone box, the 20mph campaign, the Barnes Day Out destination project, the shop local campaign and mural project and much more.

Last October, ten years since the first Barnes Ponder, you were invited back to share your views on the challenges we face today. Over 250 residents came to the Ponder events at the Barnes Green Centre on Saturday 14 October and at the Castelnau Community Centre the day before and 600 commented via our virtual map. We gathered a vast amount of issues and ideas and the Barnes Town Team has been pulling everything together.

We have now produced a masterplan describing the main themes and the projects that came out through the Ponder sessions. You are invited to the Big Barnes Ponder 2 Report Back at the Barnes Green Centre 6:30pm – 8pm to hear more. Please do join us.

‘We need active citizens to make a difference!’