Saturday, 29 October 2011

Reminder: Bazaar @ Sat 26 Nov 11:00 - 13:30




Dear Neighbours

If anyone is available to help with the bazaar on the Friday evening and/or the Saturday,
please phone Gisella on 020 7820 0434 over the weekend (as she is on vacation from Monday).

Very many thanks
Best wishes
Cathy Preece
Administrative Assistant



On 29 October 2011 12:00, Google Calendar wrote:

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Bazaar
Confirmed:

Arfa Shah
Betty Severn
Cathy Preece
Christine Eames-Jones
David Tisdall
Julie Tidsall
Marie Bradley
Maureen Malcolm
Pat Brennan
Veronica Ledwith

Tentative:

Mike GebreYohannes

Apologies:

Eric Guibert


Bazaar

Saturday
26th November
1 1 am – 1.30 pm
St Anselm’s Church Hall
Kennington Cross
(Junction Kennington Lane / Kennington Road)

Having a clear-out?
Deliver items to the hall Friday 6pm-8pm or Saturday 9am-10am
or contact Arfa on 07875 100276
Sat 26 Nov 11:00 – 13:30 London
Kennington Association

Monday, 17 October 2011

Saturday, 1 October 2011

Reminder: KA AGM @ Mon 10 Oct 18:30 - 20:30

Confirmed:

Christine Eames-Jones
Steve Morgan
Veronica Ledwith
Betty Severn
Brenda Collins
Fiona Clark
Stephen Blurton
Ann Carey
Jon Davies
Nikolas Fordham
Pauline Amphlett
Stephen Blurton
Cathy Preece

Tentative:

Jonathan Hall
Rani Biring
Mark Harrison

Apologies:

Andra Nelki
Malcolm Baines
Henry Ashwin
Brian Clivaz
Caroline Pidgeon
Jo Hykin
Kay Coombs
Robert Doberschek
Vicky Bowman
Sarah Ritchie Calder
Richard Malins
Priscilla Baines
Rod & Pat Brown
Sally Prentice
Sally Gainsborough
Marie Bradley
Laura Swaffield
Nazir Sulemanji
Keith Hills
Linda Haddock
Sr Marie Therese
Mary Acland-Hood
Paul Graville
Mark Brown
Meredith Dufton
Judith Weir

Dear KA member

It would be very helpful if you could let us know if you are able to join us.

Very many thanks
Best wishes
Cathy Preece
Administrative Assistant

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 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:

CONTACT NAME ______________________________________________

ADDRESS ____________________________________________________________

_________________________________________ POSTCODE ___________________

Telephone ____________________________________________________________

Email ____________________________________________________________


On 30 September 2011 18:30, Google Calendar <calendar-notification@google.com> wrote:

KA AGM

When
Mon 10 Oct 18:30 – 20:30 London
Where
Durning Library, 167 Kennington Lane SE11 4HF (map)
Calendar
Kennington Association
Who
(Guest list is too large to display)
Going?   Yes - Maybe - No    more options »

Tuesday, 20 September 2011

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!


Saturday, 17 September 2011

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 _________________________________________________________________________

Wednesday, 14 September 2011

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 (16th 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.