Calling all volunteers! Helpers needed for the Auction!

Dear Volunteers
Calling all volunteers! Helpers needed for the Auction!

1. Can you help David with the bar, please?
• Set up on Thursday evening
• Manning the bar during the auction from 5pm for the viewing
• Closing down on Thursday evening after the auction
• Dismantling on Friday morning
2. Manning the Preview from 5pm to 8.30pm on Wednesday evening
3. Dismantling the auction on Friday morning
• Taking leftover items to the garage - Car Pool volunteers?

If anyone has any time to spare,
we'd all be very grateful for any help you can offer.

It's all for great causes: 

• Secret Santa
• Grey Power
• Art School Hardship Bursary

Very many thanks
Best wishes
Cathy Preece
Administrative Assistant

Reminder: Charity Auction @ Thu 22 Sep 18:30 - 20:30

Reminder: Table Top Sale: Saturday 24th September outside The Dog House PH - in support of Secret Santa!

Monday, 10 October is the Kennington Association AGM!

Dear KA member

Monday, 10 October is the Kennington Association AGM! 

This year, we have a guest speaker, Val Shawcross, CBE, member of the London Assembly for Lambeth and Southwark, who will give a brief talk and answer questions, so come prepared!!

Plus, most important, you will get an update on what the KA has been doing, and

ELECT NEW MEMBERS TO THE KA COMMITTEE!

The Kennington Association is completely dependent on volunteers and needs many to make it a successful concern.

The Executive Committee is made up of up to12 members plus at least four Officers (Chair, Deputy Chair, Secretary and Treasurer) for a total of no more than 16.  We also depend heavily on our administrative assistant, Charity Auction leader, Bazaar Coordinator, and Planning Forum head. 

If you would like to volunteer to serve on the committee, or would like to nominate anyone else to be a committee member, please use the following (and attached) form.

Nominations will also be accepted from the floor at the AGM .  The Officers are elected by the committee at the first meeting committee meeting following the AGM.

Those serving on the committee must be members of the KA.

So please join us 10 October, 6:30pm, Durning Library.

From:     

cONTACT NAME _______________________________________________________________

ADDRESS ______________________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________ POSTCODE ___________________

Telephone ____________________________________________________________________

Email _________________________________________________________________________

Signed _________________________________________  datE _________________________

NOMINATION(S)

I nominate the person named below: 

NAME _________________________________________________________________________

ADDRESS ______________________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________ POSTCODE ___________________

Telephone ____________________________________________________________________

Email _________________________________________________________________________

Reminder: Table Top Sale: Saturday 24th September outside The Dog House PH @ Sat 24 Sep 10:00 - 13:00

FOLSAP: Lollard Street Adventure Playground

Dear Councillor Robbins

Over the past six months the Friends of Lollard Street Adventure Playground have been pleading with you to delay the closure of our Adventure Playground to enable us to find an alternative model of management that would retain its opening hours to fit the needs of parents and children for safe after-school provision in an area of great need. You took the time to listen to parents and the young children who attended a meeting with you in May. You seemed to understand from what you heard, that this was not just about the need for free and adventurous play with excellent and varied indoor provision, important though that is. But, that this was also a safeguarding issue relating to after-school provision for parents struggling to work, often in low paid jobs with inflexible hours.

You persuaded us that it would be worthwhile our trying to produce a business plan and get properly constituted, in the spirit of the ’cooperative’ council! You assured us that your officers would provide us with the necessary information to do this so that we would be able to calculate costs and research outside partners and funders. We were working hard to do this when we learned that you had already gone out to seek tenders from a long list of organisations with whom the Council already had contracts. In the meantime, without proper notice to the parents and children, you closed Lollard Street Adventure Playground and others.

In my last letter to you (16^th August), I queried the process the Council had adopted in this case. It did not seem to accord with its own code of practice. We understand now that only two organisations/businesses applied to run the Council’s seven Adventure Playgrounds at much reduced hours. In three of the playgrounds this would amount to only one session a week. The contract would be for six months starting immediately.

Now we are told that the contract cannot be awarded as, surprise surprise, the process was wrong! We are told today, that Lollard Street, and we assume at least three others, will remain closed whilst the Council sorts itself out.

I ended my last letter to you, asking whether this was the best we could do for our kids?  Is it?

Yours sincerely

Anna Tapsell

Hon Treasurer Friends of Lollard Street Adventure Playground.

Chair of Kennington Association.

FOLSAP: Lollard Street Adventure Playground

The council have made considerable changes, detailed in the attached letter to users, to the opening hours of Lollard Street Adventure Playground. In effect the playground will now be open for only one day a week until next April when it is proposed, as part of the Co-operative Council Agenda, that the playground will be transferred to a new provider.

The Friends of Lollard Street Adventure Playground (FOLSAP) are continuing to seek out the means to keep this vital resource available to local children and their families and to reinstate the opening times to five days a week plus school holidays.