Tuesday 30 October 2012
Monday 16 July 2012
KA Summer Newsletter 2012
NEWSLETTER
SUMMER 2012
Chair: Anna Tapsell C/-235B Kennington Lane, London SE11 5QU
Deputy Chair: Diane Kavanagh
Secretary: Chris Eames-Jones KenningtonAssociation@gmail.
Treasurer: Lucy Wells http://sites.google.com/site/
FROM THE CHAIR
Dear Members
Over the years, several people have suggested that the KA become a more official organisation, such as a Registered Charity or a Company Limited by Guarantee so that we could increase our chances of winning funding grants and perhaps lease office space.
Our Constitution allows us to become a Company Limited by Guarantee and we have been fortunate that Fisher Meredith, our local solicitor and member of the Business Forum, has agreed to act for us on a pro bono basis as we explore these options. They have advised us that, at this time, it would be better to become a Company than a Charity because it’s a much simpler process and the usual way of enabling a group like the KA to take on a lease etc. while retaining its non-profit status. And it’s essential that KA have some legal status to lease any kind of office to use as KA’s new address when Cathy Preece retires as Administrative Assistant this October. We have been very lucky and blessed that Cathy has allowed us to use her personal address for so long.
As you see on page 7 we are making progress on our bid to lease and manage Lollard Street Adventure Playground. Our presentation to the Council, parents and young people at a public meeting held at the playground two weeks ago was well received.
If we are fortunate enough to be successful in our bid, with all the advantages it can bring to the future of KA, the Council has already told us that we will need to become a Company or Charity to protect the significant funding that will come from the Council as well as awards from other major funders, such as the Lottery.
The Committee view was unanimously in favour when we discussed it in May but we also need to be sure that you, our members have no problems with this.
We will be having our AGM on 22nd October and this new status will be a formal item on the agenda. However, if you would like the opportunity to discuss this with me or any of the Committee members in advance of the AGM, we would be happy to meet up with you.
Thank you for the support you have given to the KA Committee during this campaign to save our Adventure Playground and the many ideas you have put forward on how we can improve and develop its use for all ages.
Anna Tapsell
KA BAZAAR BREAKS RECORD
Once more, our volunteers did a spectacular job fundraising for KA’s charities. In April our spring Bazaar brought in more than £1000 for Lollard Street Playground and Tai Chi, beating our record set in 2002. And on 19 May our Table-Top Sale netted nearly £120 for Secret Santa. The book stall at the Kennington Fête on the last Sunday in May brought in another £227 for Secret Santa and brought us lots of attention and new members as well.
Congratulations to all our hard workers especially Gisella Azzopardi who organises our Bazaar Team, Marie Bradley and Mike Strong who run our Table-Top Sales and Margaret Barilone who pulled a team together quite quickly for the Fête bookstall.
See the calendar for our next events and remember, Bazaar donations can be brought to the venue after 6pm Friday night and from 9-10 Saturday morning. Donations for the Table-Top Sale can be brought to the pub that morning. And remember, we can always use more hands—especially to help publicise our events. Contact the coordinators to volunteer. You’ll have fun and perhaps meet new people too!
CHARITY DRIVES
Secret Santa – Help a Local Family NOW!
Once again, it’s time for our annual Christmas Charity drives. Secret Santa provides Tesco vouchers for Kennington families who could use a bit of extra help at the holidays. Families (who remain anonymous to KA) are chosen by a network of health visitors and staff at local schools and each year we get reports from these people telling us how much this extra help means. One mother commented, “I felt so alone at Christmas--just knowing people care made such a difference.” Another mother was so grateful to be able to provide essentials for her newborn baby after a family breakdown.
As everyone must be aware, this year extra help will be more crucial than ever as many families face cutbacks in support they’ve come to rely on. Please give as generously as you can, using the enclosed form. Last year 100 families were helped, and with your support, KA should do even better this year.
We’ve had generous donations already from Rolfe Judd and South London Pacific and many individuals who choose to remain anonymous.
Please join them! Don’t put it off! We need to collect money quite early to alert our team and work our way through Tesco’s corporate office for vouchers.
Grey Power
On the reverse of the Secret Santa form, you’ll find an appeal for Grey Power—the KA drive to provide Christmas-day lunches to local pensioners at a Kennington eatery! Once again, the beneficiaries of these lunches remain unknown to us and are identified through Lambeth Age UK who goes through sheltered housing schemes etc. to identify local people who would otherwise be alone on Christmas Day. Transportation is also provided.
It takes a lot of time and planning to organise, so please get your contributions in early. Once the summer gets in full swing, we all find we “forget” many things until it’s too late!!
AGM
Our AGM will be held in the Durning Library, Monday 22 October, 6:30 gathering for 7:00 pm start. In addition to electing new Committee members to replace people standing down, we'll be setting the direction for the KA for the next year and voting on some important issues. We'll also have a guest speaker, perhaps from the Council.
Committee meetings are always open to KA members (except votes) and currently are held the last Tuesday of the month at 7 pm. (This may change based on needs of new Committee.) We especially invite anyone who'd like to join the Committee at the AGM to come to a meeting on 31 July, 21 August or 25 September to take part. In the next few meetings we'll be finalising plans for our September fund raiser and AGM. The July meeting will be held at the Dog House PH at Kennington Cross.
SEPTEMBER FUND DRIVE TO CELEBRATE 10 YEARS OF KA
The Kennington Association is planning a September Fund-Raising Gala to celebrate 10 years of the KA and raise money for a number of local projects including Secret Santa, Tai Chi, and Lollard Street Playground.
We’re holding our event at Centenary Hall, just off Kennington Lane. But as in similar events in past years, we’ll still auction some work of the students at the City & Guilds of London Art School on Kennington Park Road to aid their emergency bursary.
Plans are still firming up so we can’t give a lot of detail now, but we’ll definitely have music, fun and a few items and vouchers (such as meals for two) to auction off as well.
We need two things NOW from our members:
1) HELP—we have a lot of ideas and a few firm plans, but we need an overall coordinator. Please send a note to KADeputyChair@gmail.com to volunteer or call to discuss.
2) EYE-CATCHING COLLECTIBLES--Unusual items to auction off that you’d like to donate to a good cause. Please send a note to KACharityAuctionCoordinator@
REMEMBER, REMEMBER – BE SURE YOU’RE A MEMBER!
KA memberships now run from October to October. If you don’t pay by Standing Order, make sure to renew your membership or pay at the AGM. Members should send cheques made out to Kennington Association and mark membership on the back. Use the address on the front of the newsletter. People who’ve joined since 30 April will be considered members until October 2013.
If you’re not already a member, please use the form enclosed.
And please use the form to volunteer!
Working together to build a better community is what the Kennington Association is really all about. So be sure to tick one of the boxes so we can contact you at the next opportunity.
Right now we especially need people to help publicise our upcoming events, someone to take over our membership database and a writer/editor for our newsletter, especially someone who can add some good design features and generally jazz it up a bit! You can also email your interests or suggestions toKenningtonAssociation@gmail.
PLANNING FORUM
At the March 2012 Vauxhall Triangle Public Inquiry, the KA Planning Forum opposed Kylun Ltd’s “Twin Towers” development as contrary to good strategic planning in London, given that Lambeth was still trying to get its game together on a coherent Vauxhall vision. The PF also found the affordable housing offer deficient, and the open space compensation offer inadequate. But they were able to support the St Anselm’s development at Kennington Cross proposal in March and the Beefeater Gin Visitor Centre proposal in April.
In May the PF had a joint presentation on the Beaufoy redevelopment from Bellway Homes (for the housing development) and Diamond Way Buddhists (for the refurbishment of the Beaufoy itself as a residential and study centre). This would refurbish a neglected Grade II listed building, yield neighbourly-styled flats in scale with adjacent buildings, and provide 40% affordable housing, and the group judged that in planning terms this would be a satisfactory outcome.
Finally, in June, the PF also supported the Sainsbury’s supermarket redevelopment, which provides interesting private open space in a roof garden over the new store, and, in the circumstances, a reasonable affordable housing offer. But they criticised Lambeth for downplaying the legal limitations on use of Sainsbury’s S106 monies, when handing the bulk of them over to the VNEB (Vauxhall/Nine Elms/Battersea) Strategy Board.
UPDATE ON LOLLARD STREET PLAYGROUND
As reported from the Chair in our last newsletter, the KA is working hard to ensure Lollard Street Adventure Playground continues to provide free, supervised play after school for children in our neighbourhood. To this end, the KA has tendered an application, including a business plan, to manage Lollard Street Playground.
Our intention is to form a contract with the Lambeth Play Association who is currently providing play workers, directly employed by LPA. We would also work with other organisations who have expressed a willingness to provide activities such as arts and crafts, homework help, and gardening.
Taking over the management of the Lollard Street facility will also give KA office space plus a venue for use during school hours and late evenings for other activities such as day-time gardening projects for pensioners and local group meetings, after 7 pm.
On 15 June at a public meeting, the KA presented its plan and answered questions by councillors, parents and young people. Informal feedback after the meeting was very positive. And as other groups have dropped out, the KA is now the only contender to manage the facility. However, the Council was clear that this does not mean KA is favoured. If the Council is not satisfied that KA has the wherewithal to run the Playground to their standards, they will continue providing a minimum service, in the short term, which will probably be only one day a week. Currently, with KA help in fund raising, Lollard Street Playground is open three days per week. In the long term, the Council could release it for development.
Where do we go from here? Well, we’re anxiously awaiting the Council decision which won’t be before the end of July. In the meantime, we await promised funds to build a ‘quiet area’ in the building that children have asked for so they can read, do homework and generally ‘chill out.’
SPORTS AND FITNESS
Tai chi has moved back to Kennington Park (near the Café).
Do join us Thursdays from 2:00- 3:00 pm and Saturdays from 11am to12 noon. Classes are open to all. No experience necessary. Just join in and follow the leader! You’ll soon catch on.
MARK YOUR CALENDARS NOW
21 August
Meet: 11 am led by Cathy Preece
Oval Tube Station and Muriel Whelan
8 September Table Top Sale
10 am - 1 pm Outside the Dog House PH
Kennington Cross SE11 6BY
29 September
7:00 – 10:00 pm Centenary Hall
Cottington Street SE11 4RZ
6 October KA Bazaar
11am – 1:30 pm St. Anselm’s Church Hall
Kennington Cross SE11 5DU
22 October
6:30 for 7:00 pm start Durning Library
Kennington Cross SE11 4HF
Monday 18 June 2012
Monday 28 May 2012
Sunday 13 May 2012
Bookstall @ Kennington Village Fête: Sunday 27th May 12 Noon - 4pm
Dear Neighbours
The date for the Kennington Village Fête is set!
please contact the Fête team on kenningtonfete@gmail.com.
We will have our usual bookstall.
The date for the Kennington Village Fête is set!
- Sunday 27th May 12 Noon - 4pm
please contact the Fête team on kenningtonfete@gmail.com.
We will have our usual bookstall.
If you have good quality, clean, hardback and paperback
books for our stall,
please bring them along on the morning of the Fête.
please bring them along on the morning of the Fête.
Thank you and regards
KA Bookstall Coordinator
Saturday 28 April 2012
Friday 13 April 2012
Calling all volunteers: more Car Pool people needed, please
Dear Neighbours
We have a small team of Car Pool volunteers;
however, we could do with a bit more help, please.
If you could be willing to occasionally schlep items
from one part of Kennington to another,
we'd be very pleased to hear from you.
If you have a van, even better!
Right now, there are several neighbours who have some excellent items to donate,
that need to go across to the garage on the Ethelred Estate,
before next weekend's bazaar (21st April).
Last bazaar we tried to collect these on the Friday night;
however, it did mean that the bazaar team volunteers
were working in the church hall until 10pm,
which is really far too late,
especially as they had an early morning start next day for the bazaar itself.
We are trying to avoid that this time
and, anyway, some of these donors will be away then
so need stuff collected well beforehand.
Would you be able to help with this,
or other similar stints, please?
Very many thanks
Best wishes
Cathy Preece
Administrative Assistant
We have a small team of Car Pool volunteers;
however, we could do with a bit more help, please.
If you could be willing to occasionally schlep items
from one part of Kennington to another,
we'd be very pleased to hear from you.
If you have a van, even better!
Right now, there are several neighbours who have some excellent items to donate,
that need to go across to the garage on the Ethelred Estate,
before next weekend's bazaar (21st April).
Last bazaar we tried to collect these on the Friday night;
however, it did mean that the bazaar team volunteers
were working in the church hall until 10pm,
which is really far too late,
especially as they had an early morning start next day for the bazaar itself.
We are trying to avoid that this time
and, anyway, some of these donors will be away then
so need stuff collected well beforehand.
Would you be able to help with this,
or other similar stints, please?
Very many thanks
Best wishes
Cathy Preece
Administrative Assistant
Thursday 12 April 2012
Wednesday 11 April 2012
Monday 2 April 2012
Saturday 31 March 2012
KA Bazaar: Funds for Lollard Street Adventure Playground - Saturday, 21 April at St Anselm’s Church Hall from 11am to 1:30pm
volunteers needed for April BAZAAR!
The KA Bazaar is one of our main sources of funding. We have a grand team and the work is great fun, but rather physical and done to a tight schedule. But it’s a great way to get to know your neighbours. And we urgently need volunteers starting at 6pm on Friday night to sort through the donations and generally bring organisation to chaos!!
We also need strong bodies to carry bulky items on Friday and to dismantle tables and shift stalls on Saturday.
The next Bazaar is on Saturday, 21 April at St Anselm’s Church Hall from 11am to 1:30pm. This is a great chance to have a good Spring Cleaning of your wardrobe and re-cycle some unexpected gifts left from Christmas. Please bring saleable items to the hall from 6pm to 8pm on the evening before or from 9am to 10am on Bazaar day. If you need help with bulky items, please email KenningtonAssociation@gmail.
Tuesday 13 March 2012
Saturday 3 March 2012
KA Newsletter Winter 2012
NEWSLETTER
WINTER 2012
Chair: Anna Tapsell C/-235B Kennington Lane, London SE11 5QU
Deputy Chair: Diane Kavanagh 020 7793 0268
Secretary: Chris Eames-Jones KenningtonAssociation@gmail.com
Treasurer: Lucy Wells http://sites.google.com/site/kenningtonassociation
FROM THE CHAIR
Dear Neighbours
As we start 2012, the KA is facing new challenges as Lambeth’s Cooperative Council begins turning over to volunteer groups some of the facilities and services it has run in the past. As you know, KA was launched to improve the welfare of our community, and it’s now critical that we lead the way in saving essential services.
Of greatest interest to KA right now is the future of Lollard Street Adventure Playground. And we need the support of all our members as we work to keep this play facility open.
Two years ago we became aware that this play project was under threat, which led KA to help set up the Friends of Lollard Street Adventure Playground. The Council closed the playground last summer and reopened it in September 2011, but for one session only during term-time. Currently, it opens for three and a half hours on Fridays but every day during the school holidays. The playworkers are now provided by Lambeth Play Association. They are excellent, but as frustrated as we are that children cannot access the project when their needs are greatest: i.e. after school.
Lambeth has now invited expressions of interest to manage its play services, including Lollard Street. And with KA in the lead, we are now preparing an application for the first stage in this tender process. Our intention would be to form a contract with the Lambeth Play Association which is experienced in training and providing play workers who would be directly employed by LPA. The same arrangement would apply to other groups we might work with.
Please let us know that KA’s Committee has your support. Any ideas or offers of expertise would be most welcome.
Anna Tapsell
NEWS
TABLE-TOP SALES – A BRIGHT IDEA LIGHTS UP!
When Mike Strong found his cupboards runneth over with unused items, his friend who manages the Dog House PH at Kennington Cross suggested he take over a couple of tables outside the pub and hold a Table-Top Sale some Saturday afternoon.
What a great idea for KA fund raising, Mike thought -- and our latest fund-raising venture was born! With the help of Marie Bradley and Cathy Preece, three Table-Top Sales were held last year raising a total of £489 for KA. Keep an eye out for the next sale on 19 May.
CHARITY AUCTION
The seventh Charity Auction was held at the City & Guilds of London Art School in September providing fun for all who attended and raising funds for both the school and the KA. Once again, Angus Aagaard brought humour and a few gentle nudges as he auctioned off vouchers for dinners and services as well works of art.
Money raised for KA helped fund Secret Santa and Grey Power. Art works provided by the school’s graduating students were also auctioned with the funds being contributed to its emergency bursary. Last year, one student was able to complete his studies due to the emergency loan he was able to acquire from the fund.
NOVEMBER BAZAAR BRINGS IN RECORD AMOUNTS
A very successful Bazaar was held on 26 November, bringing in over £900 that was used to fund the free Tai Chi classes that have been so popular in Kennington. Several strong lads from the Tai Chi class helped us on Saturday, and their young muscles were very welcome. Special thanks to Pimlico Plumbers who provided a van to transport goods.
SECRET SANTA
For several years, KA has raised money to distribute £40 Tesco vouchers to local families at Christmas based on need. These families are chosen by local teachers, but remain ‘secret’ to KA. This year, 100 vouchers were given out through Charmaine Clarke at the Ethelred Nursery School and Children’s Centre. Feedback indicates they were very welcome — and more would have helped.
GREY POWER CHRISTMAS LUNCH
This year marked the second Christmas Day Lunch for older people in Kennington who would otherwise have been home alone. KA picked up the tab for transport and lunch at the Black Prince PH, and a good time was had by all. Our thanks to Age UK Lambeth who identified the local recipients and arranged taxis.
AGM FEATURES GUEST SPEAKER FROM LONDON ASSEMBLY
A change of venue and a guest speaker brought us the largest turnout yet for the AGM on Monday, 10 October. Over 30 people attended the evening do at the Durning Library. The usual business meeting, chaired by Anna Tapsell, took only 30 minutes and then our guest speaker, Val Shawcross AM, took the floor.
Val is the London Assembly member for Lambeth and Southwark. As Deputy Chair of the London Transport Committee, she spoke on a wide range of transport issues including the strategic challenge of reducing traffic as a whole in Kennington. She says she is at odds with the Mayor of London who is more concerned with keeping traffic going instead of getting people out of their cars.
Val invited the KA to put forward its own agenda at the upcoming election to sell our goals for our neighbourhood to all political parties. We should see ourselves as a guiding influence on change. And we must have written aspirations, according to Val, or they will be ignored. This is the way for KA to be heard and make a difference!
PLANNING FORUM
- Mayor’s Community Infrastructure Levy Charging Schedule
- Lambeth’s Core Strategy
- The Development Infrastructure Funding Study for the Vauxhall/Nine Elms/Battersea Opportunity Area
Have your eyes glazed over yet?
Do you wonder who on earth understands planning documents?
Our KA Planning Forum chaired by David Boardman does, and they keep a close eye on the Council’s proposals for development schemes that affect Kennington.
Right now they are busy monitoring and commenting on plans by Lambeth Council and the Mayor of London’s office for a number of huge residential high-rises along the river. These blocks will increase our population density astronomically. But, unfortunately, the plans are being developed with inadequate infrastructure for transport, schools, green space, and other amenities that are so essential!
What’s also important is that local developers are actively seeking KA’s input on new building schemes. These include Sainsbury’s for the redevelopment of their Nine Elms store site at Wandsworth Road, CLS Holdings for its Bondway and Spring Mews developments, Native Land for its Old Fire Station development on Albert Embankment, and Beefeater Gin for its visitor centre development.
And the KAPF has had some success in overriding the blighting effects of the Kennington gasholders, with our support for the redevelopment on the derelict Elephant and Hippo pub site which was upheld at a public enquiry.
If you would like to help the Planning Forum by doing bits of reading or research, please contact them directly at KAPlanningForum@gmail.com.
UPCOMING EVENTS
volunteers needed for aPril BAZAAR!
The KA Bazaar is one of our main sources of funding. We have a grand team and the work is great fun, but rather physical and done to a tight schedule. But it’s a great way to get to know your neighbours. And we urgently need volunteers starting at 6pm on Friday night to sort through the donations and generally bring organisation to chaos!!
We also need strong bodies to carry bulky items on Friday and to dismantle tables and shift stalls on Saturday.
The next Bazaar is on Saturday, 21 April at St Anselm’s Church Hall from 11am to 1:30pm. This is a great chance to have a good Spring Cleaning of your wardrobe and re-cycle some unexpected gifts left from Christmas. Please bring saleable items to the hall from 6pm to 8pm on the evening before or from 9am to 10am on Bazaar day. If you need help with bulky items, please email KenningtonAssociation@gmail.com.
HELP US MAKE SOME NOISE!!
KA works hard on putting together fund-raising events, but they don’t always get the attention they need. We need a publicity secretary. We’re not looking for a professional PR – but we do need someone to put up posters, etc. to advertise Bazaars, Table Top Sales and our Annual Auction.
We also need a membership secretary to come up with some bright ideas to bring in new members. If you’ve experience in managing simple data bases, it would be a big boon.
To volunteer for either of these posts, or to help in any other KA activities, please phone us at 020 7793 0268 or email your details to KenningtonAssociation@gmail.com.
THANK YOU!
The KA wishes to thank our many volunteers and activity coordinators, especially Pauline Amphlett (Charity Auction), Gisella Azzopardi and Arfa Shah (Bazaar), Marie Bradley and Mike Strong (Table-Top Sales), and Margaret Barilone (Fete Bookstalls).
The following establishments also gave generously of their time and/or resources:
Black Prince Public House
City & Guilds of London Art School
Daniel Scuffell Hair Salon
Doost Persian Grill & Vodka Bar
Kennington Chiropody Surgery
Kennington Community Fellowship
Kennington Village Fête
North Lambeth Methodist Circuit
Pop-In Hair & Beauty
Royal Wedding Street Party
St Anselm’s Church
The Ship Public House
The Kennington Bookshop
SPORTS AND FITNESS
Tai chi has moved back indoors for the winter.
You are welcome to come and join us both on Thursdays from 2pm to 3pm at the Vauxhall Gardens Community Centre, Vauxhall Walk SE11 and Saturdays in the Lambeth Hall at the Kia Oval (entrance through Alec Stewart Gate) from 11am to12 noon. Classes are open to all. No previous experience necessary.
MARK YOUR CALENDARS NOW
21 April 11am – 1:30pm KA Bazaar
St. Anselm’s Church Hall
19 May 10am - 1pm Table Top Sale
Outside the Dog House PH
Kennington Cross
21 August 11am Kennington History Walk
Oval Tube Station led by Cathy Preece and Muriel Whelan
October AGM, venue TBD
Thursday 16 February 2012
CHILDREN'S PLAY EMERGENCY
Dear
KA Members and Friends
Lollard Street Adventure Playground
Two
years ago we became aware that this play project was under threat. It had
become embroiled in the future of the old Lilian Baylis
School site and a
possible scheme of land development that would have resulted in the demolition of
the playground. We won that battle but since then new threats of closure from
Lambeth Council led us to set up the
Friends of Lollard Street Adventure Playground and we reported that development
to you at our AGM last October and also in the Annual Report.
Meetings
were held with parents and children at the playground, often attended by local
Councillors who were supportive. Councillor Pete Robbins, who holds the
responsibility for children and young people on Lambeth Council, also came and
explained to us the Council’s desire to enable local groups and voluntary
organisations to take over the management from the Council. He listened to children and parents who told
him how important it was to have the project open after school hours as for many
it was the only safe place for children of working parents to go. Not long
afterwards the Council closed the playground and reopened it in September 2011,
but for one session only during term-time. Currently, it opens for three and a
half hours on Fridays but every day during the school holidays. The play
workers are now provided by Lambeth Play Association, and they are excellent,
but as frustrated as we are that children cannot access the project when their
needs are greatest: after school.
Throughout
this time we have worked hard to find a way of reopening the playground each
weekday as it was before; providing a variety of activities as well as free play
for children from five to sixteen years old. We also felt that the building and
the playground could be developed to provide a real community hub for local
people of all ages. The development of the old Lilian Baylis site and the plans
for excellent sporting facilities by the Black Prince Trust and the Sports
Action Zone gave real impetus for this idea.
Lambeth’s Cooperative Council has now invited expressions
of interest to manage its play services, including Lollard Street. Of those organisations that
we know about, only our own is fully committed to children’s play and the only
group that has attempted to engage parents, carers and children from the
locality in our campaign. We have now been joined by Sparkworks Creative Arts,
the Homework Club and Progress which is a gardening and healthy living project.
Each of these voluntary projects is known to LSAP having provided additional
creative sessions in the past and are keen to do so again, if we can get the
play sessions reopened.
With KA in the lead, we are now preparing an
application for the first stage in this tender process. Our intention would be
to form a contract with the Lambeth Play Association who are well established
and experienced in training and providing qualified play workers to Lollard Street and
elsewhere. The staff would be directly employed by LPA who would be responsible
for everything concerned with their recruitment and employment. The same would
apply to our associates who recruit and employ their own people.
The lead group however, would be the Kennington
Association: responsible for the development, maintenance and funding of the
project. Our subgroup FOLSAP would be responsible for implementing KA’s
strategy. All members of FOLSAP have agreed to become members of KA, whether
individual or corporate. Your elected KA officers initiated FOLSAP and continue
to lead it. Our Honorary Secretary, Chris Eames-Jones is FOLSAP’s chairperson. The
other members are parents, local residents and our three associates, Sparkworks,
Homework Club and Progress.
Members and Friends of the Kennington Association, we need
your support:
KA‘s
Constitution embodies our desire to improve the health and welfare of our local
community and we have always held the welfare of children to be a priority. Amongst our members and our local community we
have huge talent and skill and we have a wonderful opportunity now to prove our
collective worth.
The Council has agreed to provide some core funding
for three years. In the first year, this will almost cover staffing the
associated administrative costs. There is also some provision for maintenance,
but local voluntary effort could help us save some of that. We may need some
legal advice too in deciding whether or not to seek charitable status and in
ensuring we are adequately insured and covered for contingencies. The building
and the structures in the adventure playground will need improvement and we
will need to fundraise to improve and enhance the equipment. We have already
obtained a small grant (£950) to provide the children with a quiet area, which
was at their request.
But we need to get through the first hurdle which is
that of having our initial application accepted as a group that the Council can
accept as provisional managers for Lollard Street Adventure Playground. We will
not be the biggest bidders but we are the most rooted in the community and the
only group that has consulted the families who greatly value this rare play
provision.
Please let us know that KA’s Committee has your
support and any ideas or offers of expertise would be most welcome.
With all good wishes
Anna Tapsell
Chairperson
Kennington Association
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