Agenda

Cllr Foxcroft welcomed everyone to the meeting and explained the agenda of the meeting. She also gave Cllr Adefiranye’s apologies who could not attend the meeting due to other Council business. 

Cllr Foxcroft explained the Assembly Fund process and how the vote would be carried out.

Cllr Foxcroft explained that in Category A and Category B there would be some funding leftover, even if all the projects were supported. 

The Assembly was asked to vote on whether this leftover money should be rolled over into Category C or used to commission projects in areas of the ward that had not submitted any/to meet unmet Action Plan priorities.

The Assembly voted to roll the money over into Category C.   

Category A projects (£0-500)

A1 -  Tyrwhitt Road Neighbourhood Beautification Programme – Tyrwhitt Road Neighbourhood Watch

• Bryan Pope (local resident) and Al Rivers (Pinnacle) gave the presentation about their project to fund hanging baskets for Tyrwhitt Road.
• The Neighbourhood Watch want to cut down crime and improve the look of the area. The Jubilee Lunch they held earlier in the year was the spring board for this project.
• Pinnacle will be supporting the project and their gardening team will be supporting the residents in implementing it.
• No questions were received from the audience.

A2 - Christmas Theatre Trip for local families – Brockley Parents Forum

·        Sam from the Brockley Parents Forum introduced Janet Pearson from the Children’s Society to talk about the project.

·        She explained that they want toincrease facilities for children and bring the community together. 

·        They also want to increase awareness of Children's Centres and that the Children's Society is now running these and to promote the Parents Forum and get more people to join in. 

·        Janet said that a contribution of £1 from each family that go is being asked for and that one-third of the tickets would go to children in need.

·        The Chair opened the meeting up for questions.

·        Q1. Are the tickets for a family or individuals?

·        A1. For an individual - usually balance between adults and children but sometimes more of the latter

·        Q2. Where do children come from?

·        A2. They are all Brockley residents and come from all over the ward.

·        Q3. Why aren't all the tickets going to people in need?

·        A3. The Children’s Centre is a targetted early years service so lots of the tickets will go to families on low incomes.

·        Q4. Have you thought about taking just the children so can involve more?

·        A4. A parent/guardian have to be present to allow the project to go ahead, not enough staff resources. 

Category B projects (£501-1500)

B1 – Hatcham Village Big Lunch 2013 – New Cross Learning

• See slides for an overview of the project

·        The Chair opened the meeting up for questions.

·        Q1. Did you invite the bordering communities to come to your last big lunch?

·        A1. Yes they were invited - we had lots of good press coverage. Everyone that uses pub, church, school etc was invited.

B2 – Toys and play equipment – St John’s Baby and Toddler Group

·        See slides

·        The Chair opened the meeting up for questions.

·        Q1. Can I donate my old toys?

·        A1. Yes please!

B3 – Garden Ambassadors Course – Tanners Hill TRA

·        Gillian Lewis - one of the garden volunteers at the Heston Nature Garden – spoke about the project.

·        She explained the group had successfully submitted a bid to last year’s Assembly Fund to put on three events in the garden. These events brought lots of people together.

·        Gillian said they want to build on this success and conduct a project

·        Young people would be involved in various activities including designing a manual, garden badges, write a  ...  view the full agenda text for item 3.

St John's Action Group asked the Assembly to endorse the following motion: “We the residents of St. John's living around the Thameslink rail works are suffering with sleeplessness from continuous nightly construction at St. John's station. The vibrations, machinery, lorries, trains, workers voices, hammering, drilling and shaking of our homes foundations all cause nightly discomfort. We ask that the local assembly support us in our future endeavours to allow this process to proceed with consultation, communication and consideration afforded to the residents of St. John's by Network Rail, Birse, Lewisham Council and Lewisham Homes.”

• The Assembly unanimously supported the motion

Rupert King spoke about the Council’s survey on parking and urged everyone to complete it.

Tony from Lewisham Community Council spoke about the Council Tax benefit survey and asked everyone to complete it.  He also distributed flyers with details of a public meeting on the issue.

All projects in Category A and B were successful and will receive funding.

In Category C, the Brockley Society; Wickham Mews; Breakspears Mews all received their funding.  In addition, the Peabody Threadz project  received part funding of £1470.

Cllr Foxcroft thanked everyone for coming and reminded people to fill out their evaluation forms.

No declarations of interest were made at the meeting