9th September

The next Community Anchor Meeting will be at

Tuesday 9th September 7.30pm
Dolce Mare Cafe, Ashfield Parade

Find below suggested agenda for meeting. Please kindly pass on this invitation to others who may be interested.

Proposed Agenda:

1. Market Update, Report on Petition and Discussion about hearing on 17th Sept.
2. Alan Pullinger Project - Youth Engagement
3. STAR Association Update
4. Website
5. 2nd Edition Phoenix
6. Introducing Arul's Health Project - Proposed Sunday Provision
7. Belgian Waffle Party
8. Local Sports Groups
9 Fundraising report
10. Next Meeting
11. AOB

Has anyone got further suggestions for the agenda..?
If so, pls comment / email southgatephoenix@gmail.com

Urgent

TO RESIDENTS, TRADERS & OTHER SUPPORTERS

Please read and sign our petition by scrolling down to the bottom of this post and clicking on 'comments' link below.

ASHFIELD PARADE MARKET PETITION

We would like to see a Sunday street market in Ashfield Parade along with the freedom for all cafes and restaurants there to have tables and chairs - subject to pavement access - outside their establishments. We support the initiative of the Community Anchor for a regular Sunday community-owned street market, involving local farm and allotment grown produce and other specialities not otherwise available in Southgate. We strongly believe this to be in the best interests of Southgate, and ask the Council to respect the wishes of Southgate residents and traders by giving them the chance to work together in common cause. Therefore, please grant all the cafes and restaurants in the Parade the right to have their tables and chairs set out outside, and the Anchor association a free license to Sunday street trade in Ashfield Parade, so they can self-fund their community-cohesion and citizenship building project.

Please sign this petition by putting your name in the comments section below or texting your name, postcode and words "support market" to 0785 439 0408

For copy of the Council's draft street trading policy, go here:
Draft Street Trading Policy

And/ or respond to the Council's questionnaire that goes with it, visit here:
Questionannaire

To sign this petition: simply click on "comments" (below), fill in the comments box with name and postcode and whether you are a resident or a trader then publish by clicking on "anonymous" and "publish comment"

If this is too complicated you can also text or email your support to 0785 439 0408 / greenpeaproject@gmail.com or contact the Council direct to tell them you support the Ashfield Parade project (on 0208 379 4743)

For more info on market project, Veg Revolution
Cheers, Mark

The Art of Veg Revolution

Green Pea Southgate believes that local community self-governance and local provision of public services are the way forward.

A civil society political-economic synthesis which naturally flows from the old state versus private provision debate, but which also encompasses: egalitarian decision making, grassroots planning, a participatory budget and the drawing of commonsense ward boundaries based, here in Southgate on the old, postal N14 neighbourhood. Local decision making, and therefore also: greater administrative efficiency and political accountability, increasing community cohesion and resilience, a lower ecological footprint and an overall upsurge in political freedom, civil liberty and.. joy!

Therefore, using the Southgate Street Market as a pilot scheme we call on Enfield Borough Council to let Southgate N14 show, starting with this modest proposal, what's really possible.

Our request for a community owned market will be formally put to the Council by way of petition at this evening's (Borough Council run) Local Area Forum Meeting. Come along if you can, it's a good chance to air your views and hear others too. Meeting starts at 7.30pm and is being held at the Bourne Methodist Church, the Bourne, N14.

FYI First picture featured is taken of long-time local Hadley Wood farmer, Chris Savva's lovely produce at Palmer's Green Farmer's Market. Chris and other local producers are keen to line Ashfield Parade with fresh produce as a nice alternative to ASDA. Other members are keen that allotment holders can sell their produce too. And we must have music and nice things for the children.

Rather than, for those same children putting up bounty hunter signs on Ashfield Parade. Second picture, the Council's recent 'bag a tagger' - community cohesion building - initiative. talk about 'yob' culture. Blog culture response = ahem.

May 20, 25 & Beyond

Ladies, gentlemen, good people of Southgate, you are cordially invited to join us (on the dates set out above) to begin the debate, team building and democratic action now necessary for genuine, commonsense solutions to bear fruit in this lovely lovely town.

You can find out more about the concept of a Community Anchor by visiting Community Alliance

Community Anchors:

• encourage people from different cultural and economic classes to get to know one another, united in concern for the locality they inhabit
• ensure great participation in decision-making about local affairs
• practise community-led solutions to social problems
• bridge the interests and aspirations of local people and governing bodies
• liberate the power and resources of local people
• develop resilient community spirit
• support individuals to fulfil their dreams

Yes, we want to build cohesion, something that brings people together to restore the community fabric. But also a new, creative movement: can we beat the beastly bureacratic machine in a skilful, artful and inspiring way - something genuinely-of-the-people to put Southgate Town & Green, Enfield N14 (and all its beautiful Hertfordshire surrounds) right up there where it belongs - on the World City map?

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Community Anchor Meetings

Southgate Community Anchor
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This project is a new initiative aimed at bringing the various groups making up the Southgate community together on a regular basis, to seek community-led, democratic and ecologically sustainable solutions. You can find details of the proposed agenda for both meetings below this post.

Tuesday 20th May
Community Anchor Forum Planning Meeting and Consultation
Morning session 10am-12noon and evening 7.30pm-9.30pm
Meetings at St Andrews Church Hall, Chase Side next to ASDA

Main Launch Meeting | Sunday 25th May 1-4pm
Community Anchor Forum Presentation and Group Discussion
With shared lunch, music & other refreshments
Alan Pullinger Centre, High Street (next to the Fire Station)


Community Anchors:

• encourage people from different cultural and economic classes to get to know one another, united in concern for the locality they inhabit
• ensure great participation in decision-making about local affairs
• practise community-led solutions to social problems
• bridge the interests and aspirations of local people and governing bodies
• liberate the power and resources of local people
• develop resilient community spirit
• support individuals to fulfil their dreams
  

A People’s Plan | Grassroots Consultation

We hope you’ll also be interested to take part in our Southgate Locality Survey. It’s been developed in consultation with Southgate residents and will contribute directly to the agenda for the Anchor project. Ideas raised in it will be fed into the initial meetings and overall project. If you’re interested to receive a copy, please contact me at the address below.

For more info contact Mark at:
65 Burleigh Gardens | 0785 439 0408 | greenpeaproject@gmail.com

Proposed Agenda Items - tbc

Introducing Community Anchor / C421 Project
Maybe Show Film
Introducing Concept of People's Plan | People In Common
Participatory Budget | Economic Democracy
Proposed Community Account
The Paradox of Ward Boundaries
Who Owns Southgate Project

Red Tape Issues
Parking
Ashfield Parade Licences
New Licences - Chase Side - Costa/Starbucks etc
Amusement Arcade

Major Projects
Lunch Stop Two
Newsletter
Youth Citizenship Engagement - September Pullinger Project
Police Station
Future of Leisure Centre
Street Market - Local Farm Produce - Introducing Chris Savva
Future of Ashfield Parade
Local & Mental Health Service - progress report

Other
Asylum/Migrant Issues


Agreed Actions
First Campaign ?
Local Honours Ceremony
Next Meeting - date /venue ?
Summer Sunday Picnics :-)

This wish list is ever-evolving, thanks to popular input and the results of our survey. To suggest other agenda items, pls email greenpeaproject@gmail.com

Thanks, M

Local Health Service

In an attempt to tackle the connected mental, emotional and community health problems prevalent in modern society Green Pea aims to pilot an arts based, free-to-use and local community-driven health clinic.

Essentially, we believe the best health solution will be found in small, independent and innovative health clinics, permanently situated and offering local patients community resident driven mental health services.

Patient feed will be from GPs and other local clinical referrals [*], and the services (which will be neither private, nor state provided, but administered independently) to involve a variety of effective therapeutic activities, provided daily in a local community-based setting, with detailed scheduling in advance.

Therapies will involve a sustained process to improve the state of each individual's overall mental and emotional well-being, encouraging personal healing in the context of the motto 'physician, heal thyself' (encouraging each individual to discover the practices that are most appropriate for them) whilst also encouraging a natural process of participant and community friendship building through the very local nature of the project.

This process will take local patients out of the usual ineffective treatment loop for patients with mental and emotional health issues (drug/one off psychologist referral before being left to their own devices) and instead put them into a healing setting that actively looks at the root causes of eg addiction, depression, obsessive compulsive behaviour, anxiety, anomie and other modern mental health ailments.

We are now recruiting a team to provide a regular programme of activities such as meditation, music, art, dance and yoga therapies, CBT, NLP, Karuna, martial art, sport/physical activities, local walks, intellectual/academic presentations, life coaching for skills such as career and debt/money management, job hunting and relationships etc etc.

[* aside from GPS, other professional individuals who might refer to us could include youth workers, occupational therapists, psychologists and nurses]

If you would like to get involved in this exciting project, either as a therapist, youth worker, local GP, potential funder/networker or patient, please contact Mark, Arul, Illi & Mahdi via
greenpeaproject@gmail.com or
0785 439 0408

"Health, contentment and trust, are your greatest possessions
Freedom, your greatest joy"