Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
West Green Residents' Association
At an Extraordinary General Meeting held in Christchurch Vestry this evening (Thursday) it was decided that West Green Residents' Association (WGRA) be wound up. For the past few years attempts have been made to expand the membership and find a new Secretary and Chair but these have proven unsuccessful. The members present also decided that any residual funds from the Association be donated to the fund set up by the past Mayor, Councillor Sheila Peacock which goes to support Haringey's disabled and vulnerable children.
Discussion, which at times became somewhat heated, ranged around various options available to prolong the life of the Association. However, it was accepted that, without people willing to immediately take up the roles of Chair, Secretary and Treasurer, the Association was nonviable. Papers relating to the 34 year history of WGRA will be lodged with Bruce Castle Museum.
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Permalink Reply by Justin Hinchcliffe on
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I did know about this sad news. Incredible! Why do I say this? Because the area is attracting a lot more, to be frank, middle-class professionals. For them, being 'civic minded' is buying a copy of the Guardian on a daily basis. Thoroughly depressing.
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Harsh, but true. Many didn't even vote-check the marked registers.
If West Green residents can't - or won't - sustain a local RA, what hope is there for a NF?
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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An RA is a small group of people that form so that they can have various bites of cherries offered to properly constituted and recognised groups in order to "improve" their area and in my experience almost always at the expense of a surrounding area without an RA.
A Neighbourhood Forum will be bigger, drawn from a bigger group of people and hopefully not engage in the petty beggar they neighbour stuff that I see RAs doing, just by dint of covering a bigger area.
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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I'm certainly interested to find out more about NFs, but at this point I'm cautious about them. I'm cautious for the very reason that you're not a fan of RAs. Do either of you know if there's yet been a study of how NFs perform and how inclusive/representative they're seen to be?
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Permalink Reply by pamish on
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Neighbourhood Forum meetings are about the most frustrating meetings I've ever been to (so that's out of thousands). Not even free tea and 'coffee' any more.
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Arkday led an interesting conversation on this a couple of years back.
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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I notice that "Arkady" turned out to be Ben Myring who on Twitter describes himself as "a Liberal Democrat activist in Stroud Green, North London." He stood as one of the LibDem candidates for Stroud Green ward.
At least in the run-up to the May election perhaps it would have been advisable for Mr Myring to include this political affiliation in his personal details?
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I don't see why he should. It's not as if he was promoting the LDs, was it? Chill.
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I see this as a general issue - and not simply HoL House rules.
I've been persistent - and I hope consistent - in getting my Labour colleagues, especially councillors and prospective candidates, to declare their political affiliation. And in nudging people from other parties to do the same. I think this applies even more when someone uses a pseudonym.
Having basic information on someone's personal details page doesn't intrude or affect the flow of a discussion.
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Permalink Reply by Philip on
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What a bigoted and narrow minded response. I think you will find that many people who give their time to serving the community are Guardian readers; certainly not Tory Daily Mail readers, who , like many Tories, hate public services, and, like your friends in the govt, are only too happy to sell off our 'family silver' to their rich friends, except in the case of our local schools, you seem happy to GIVE the away to your rich friends.
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