It was reported that the paint had been stolen on 26 Oct, unbelieveable I know. But we just had to get more paint and carry on. A meeting has been set up for myself and the secretary to meet with the Young family group on 10 November to establish their needs for the Halls.
Management Committee meeting. The 2 new Managers seem to be making a good team and putting on various events for clients. Xmas Party 12 th Dec. Allotment secetary to visit to possibly help with gardening as they ae neighbours.
Hillcrest Halls Committee have decorated the Halls over the half term, such a big job, it is good for a group to come together and achieve such projects. As usually only a small team were involved. Cllr Crowley supplied the paint that was no small job just to estimate the paint needed. Here I am with marigolds on cleaning down the paint work. The Chief Executives group came along and spent a day pitching in.
A resident of Redford Avenue came along with yet another Lime Tree problem.
I attended one of the Award ceremonies, held at the Quad Centre, Green Wrythe Lane. The young people presented their achievements. A big thank you goes out to the Leaders for their involvement.
This meeting was at the Church of Good Shepherd. The Primary Care Trust came along to present the idea of the Local Care Centres to the meeting, it was again mentioned by Councillors and member of the audience that Clockhouse is not adequately catered for, as it seems that the Shotfield centre could see 100% of residents from Clockhouse - that is if they could get there, most of the resident see GP’s in Croydon as no GP on Clockhouse. Other items included werethe green garden collection, how many bags could be collected etc, Orchard Hill update by Nigel Simms, Public Realm update.
I hope you will agree I took a well earned weeks holiday.
I was invited to be the October Speaker by the Carshalton Beeches group who meet at the Baptist Free Church Hall on the 1st Tuesday of each month. I put together notes of some of my achievements since being elected and groups I have become a member of in CS & C. At the end of my speech I was asked what vitamin pills was I taking as to work full time and achieve so much. If you want to do something you find the time. I am now a paid up member of the Towns Womens Guild.
I was invited to attend to meet up with the Keith the director and Jeremy Bates. I was joined by two other Councillors, we were shown the facilities available, there even is a gym for children, all the usual equipment but to a smaller scale. Jeremy had played a game of tennis with our Councillor Eric Howell. The Academy are keen to find interested youngers to get involved. Cheam High School is already heavily involved. I feel we must do all we can to promote this fanastic academy afterall it is in our Borough a world’s first.
Major works are going to be completed on these flats so a meeting was called between contractors, council and residents, to discuss materials. Some leaseholders were worried about the money they had to pay and the timescale for the payment.