Call for the community to meet to discuss how to help the young people of our Borough

A response to the riots and an invitation to the community

I write this from rural west Ireland, where I currently have no access to television or the internet, learning in horror of the riots in London via text and the radio.

I am heartened to hear of the response to our offer to help ferry donations up to Tottenham Green Leisure Centre. We have now taken two van loads and the cages outside the store continue to fill up.

I feel that it is time for the people of east and west Haringey to get together as a community and look for ways in which we can give the young people of our borough hope for the future. Be that by mentoring, offering work experience or re-opening the youth clubs.

Myself, Jim Shepley, programme director of Hornsey YMCA, and Azul Thome from FOOD from the SKY would like to call a public meeting (venue TBC) on Tuesday 23rd August at 6.30pm to discuss ideas and get our heads together or indeed link up with other local groups and initiatives who would like to meet.

Further to this if you would like to make suggestions before the meeting then please comment below or email al@thorntonsbudgens.com

Warm wishes,

Andrew Thornton