Sunday, November 19, 2006
Forum Committee
Notes from the recent Herne Hill Forum meeting: 14/11/06.
committee meeting.
Funding bidssuccessful so far:
£1,520 from Lambeth - possibly via Community Chest. This is to carry out outreach work for hard-to-reach sections of the community to involve them in Forum projects.
£5,000 from Lambeth - possibly via Match/Partnership. This is to prepare a business case and funding applications for the town centre champion and associated resources.
£1,000 from Lambeth Town Centre office for ongoing funding between now and March 2007.
Hot news: Last night we won an award of £1,400 from Southwark Community Chest to carry out outreach work with young people to involve them in community issues and the Forum.
Mary raised the idea of working with the young people on the Lido 70th Birthday Party project.
Mary will also meet with Whippersnappers to discuss their involvement in youth and elderly community outreach work.
Popular Youth Club have put in a proposal to engage with young people to get them involved in the Forum work. Those present thought that it would be good to proceed with this - estimated budget around £600.
Yvonne mentioned a project to do a mural in the pedestrian tunnel under Herne Hill station - thoughts?
Junction update: In theory (and if pigs fly - Ed) a tranche of money will be available for a design consultant for the project. The design now includes a cycle lane from Norwood Road to Dulwich Road. Estimated project cost is now around £1.7M. It was also suggested that Living Streets be involved to do an audit of the area and be involved in the detail design - street furniture, layout, aesthetics etc. A budget would be necessary for this as part of the design fee.
Post sorting office - looks certain to be moved to Camberwell. Jenny has volunteered to lobby on behalf of the Forum on this one. However, every group, individual should also write in etc - street associations, clubs, traders etc. Sainsbury's say that they have no interest in the site at present. Contact details: Mandy Wombwell, Royal Mail Headquarters, 5th Floor, 148 Old Street, London, EC1V 9HQ.
Efforts are being made to see if in any future plans for the Garage site that they would include some right of way for pedestrians and cyclists as part of the junction plan.
It is a possibility that with the review of Area Committees we will lose all our support and funding from Lambeth. Jackie Meldrum (deputy leader) was unable to confirm that resource and support would still be available after March 2007. I suggest we lobby our local councillors about this - we cannot survive on a hand to mouth existence by applying for discretionary grants all the time.
The issue of comms was raised - improving our blogspot, producing an electronic newsletter etc. This would include training for maintenance etc. I am looking in to sources of grants for all of this. Let us know your thoughts on this - how we do it, what we are after etc.
The Norwood Road regeneration project needs a champion/group. John volunteered to be part of it - any others?
Next public Forum meeting is now February 1st. It will be back at the Baptist Church Hall - Half Moon Lane. The Carnegie Library was felt to be a better venue for the warmer Summer months than the cold of February (climate change willing).
Needed urgently:
We need to split some of the workload of the committee. I would really appreciate it if someone could volunteer to co-ordinate the committee meetings and public meetings. This would simply be sorting out suitable dates and booking the venue. The provisional meeting dates need to be checked for obvious clashes (Lambeth and Southwark council meetings) and other august bodies such as HH Society. It can all be done by e-mail etc. The role does not include any on-site work for putting out the chairs or similar. A simple but really useful role. Any offers?
Our next evening committee meeting is on the 12th - venue to be decided
To infinity and beyond....
Giles
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