We are Local, Big Local We play football at Cruyff and basketball too And games of pool after school Chilling with my friends playing pranks and fortnite until the day ends We ride our bikes through Bushy park And be home before it gets dark Dinnertime is the highlight of my day We have fried chicken, spicy biryani, banana and rice and everything nice Margarita with bbq base, please put it all on my plate But my favourite is what my mum makes We are a fun, colourful and beautiful community Of English, Somali, Caribbean and Pakistani.... British Asian, Arabs and Africans All living in harmony We are St Matthews

Timeline Cleanse
On Monday night I went to the #StMatthewsBigLocal AGM. A genuinely inspiring evening amongst a wonderfully diverse group of people committed to their neighbourhood. My work here is done #BigLocal, but of course the people go on. Then a young man read a co-created #poem

Bike Park Gazebo and portable bike racks with a Christiana Rickshaw and BoxBike

A sheet of Perspex or film being decorated with Posca Pens in a park. It bears the words Big Local and streams of colour

A craft stall with badge maker and a yellow artwork reading St Matthews matters to Me. There are lots of handprints in many colours.

My office today #StMatthewsBigLocal
#ParksDay @rideleicester.bsky.social @localtrust.org.uk

A cargo bike laden with Christmas presents with rider in a red jacket, behind stands a masked cyclist with a baseball cap and dark glasses, two women pedestrians both with Perspex visors and holding a Santa hat, stand by the kerb. Behind is a small park with iron railings

A woman wearing a hijab with a face mask, a male cyclist in a black puffa jacket with a grey snood covering his mouth and nose, dark glasses and a baseball cap, with a bag across his chest and me taking the selfie with a snood and Santa hat and hiviz waistcoat

Three women, on the left a young woman in a tan coat holding a Santa hat and wearing a white hijab and black Covid mask, in the centre a smiling woman seated on a Christian’s black cargo bike with a sack full of Christmas presents, she has blonde hair and wears a red jacket and a Santa hat. On the right a PCSO in uniform wearing a blue Covid mask holds sheets of papers for the delivery addresses.

Five Ride Leicester Christiana cargo bikes with five riders in brightly coloured clothing discuss the task at hand

OTD 2020 delivering some Christmas gifts to the Lockdown folks of #StMatthewsBigLocal with a bit of help from @rideleicester.bsky.social
#CargoBikes
@sundance-cyclist.bsky.social
@canadarobin.bsky.social
@ppushbike.bsky.social
@activetravelcaf.bsky.social
@bricycle.bsky.social