Welcome to the latest TASK e-news, your regular newsletter from Take Action from Seven Kings sent fortnightly via email. This time we focus on policing, an exciting new play scheme coming our way, the imminent advent of a new trader group in Goodmayes and a live event in our new library.
Our October supporters meeting, open to all our supporters reading this, happens on Monday October 11 from 7-8pm at St.John’s Church, at the junction of St.John’s Road and Aldborough Road South. We will joined on the night by a special guest, Susan Heywood, who is trying to bring Redbridge residents’ and community groups together to share information, and where possible, collaborate as part of one giant co-ordinated effort. Hear what she has to say and catch up on all the local news.
Our autumn walkabout happens the same week, on Friday October 15 from 9am, meeting outside Seven Kings Railway station. It is a brilliant opportunity to join council streetscene staff, ward councillors and the police to take often immediate action on those everyday miseries of graffiti, dumping and anti-social behaviour which can so blight our lives. The route is always flexible and we welcome your suggestions on tackling eyesores and challenges near where you are.
Our local library is now well-established and continues to generate brilliant user figures. On Wednesday October 13 it hosts its first live evening event as part of the Word of Mouth arts festival, when author Orna Ross gives a lively talk on Literary Dublin called Meet the Dubliners. It runs from 7-9pm and tickets are free, although you are asked to reserve a place at the library itself or by phoning 020 8708 2737.
The quality of policing has been one of the constant themes of our TASK campaigning over the last two and a half years, with headline efforts on our part to get police to tackle public boozing and recognise the local fear of crime. On the basis that we do not just criticise but are always willing to take responsibility by getting involved ourselves, we are hoping to contribute to the local Seven Kings police panel - the body which decides local policing priorities - by nominating two TASK supporters as possible panel members for 2010/11. The Annual General Meeting of the panel is scheduled for October 18, at Canon Palmer School, starting at 7pm. It is is open to the public and we urge all interested supporters to attend to raise their policing-related issues.
Our Seven Kings council-sponsored business partnership is already in operation and we hear from councillors in neighbouring Goodmayes of their efforts to organise retailers and companies working there. The first meeting of the Goodmayes Business Partnership is scheduled for October 27, starting at 10am in Royal Sweets, at 58 Goodmayes Road, with a speaker from Business Link on seeking funding in these hard times. We wish them well.
Finally, for now, an update on a long-running story about the disused allotment site between Benton Road and Vicarage Lane, which some locals have been trying hard to develop as a much needed play site. The good news is that the Council’s Area 7 committee recently agreed to fund £2388 towards the cost of producing plans and submitting a full planning application for what is known as the Vicarage Lane Play Park, enjoying cross-party political support. This brings the dream a step closer in an area that has been massively developed as apartment housing over the last decade, but - shockingly - without any specific provision for play, and a long haul to existing open space like Valentines Park.
That’s all folks! Please pass us on to a friend or family member who might want to be part of our growing network, and get involved.
We are back in a fortnight when the first outline of the borough’s cuts will become clearer after the Cabinet meeting this Tuesday.
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