7+January+2008

– raising money to continue: Ø promotion costs; meetings, exhibition space, administration etc || Baptist Church directly opposite Wards Corner on the Page Green side of the High Road Date: Monday 25th or Thursday 28th Wendy to check with Ricardo his availability on above dates || Promoting Ourselves** || **GENERAL** – **Posters –** need to raise £60 for printing (2,000 copies?) Ø Jeremy printed 800, will print more Ø Candy to wait for Jeremy to amend poster adding new wardscornercommunity.org website address before printing – ready Wednesday Ø Candy to bring photocopies to Wendy’s for collection and distribution Ø Wendy to arrange with Mohamed Dirshe, Community Development Officer for Tottenham Green to translate Poster (once J amended and sent through) – Weds Ø Wendy to find out what full translation services council will offer Ø Wendy to notify all RAs that the poster is on the website for downloading, printing, photocopying and distributing around their area (contact wendy to advise for records) – **A3 and A4 Laminates** – Ruth to do 40 A3 laminates Ø Wendy to do 20 A4 laminates Ø any others? Candy? Elizabeth? Ø Beth to ask Post Office and Printer on Broad Lane to put up A3 Ø ask Hazel to do Blenheim Rise (Wendy?) – **Leafletting** – leafletters to collect from Wendy Ø Elizabeth to do 2,000 around page green area Ø FARA to do FARA area (700) Ø CARA done Ø Wendy to do Holly Court and area to Wards Corner (not covered by an RA) Ø Wendy to approach Lomond Close RA for leafletting/involvement – **Making ourselves known** – Wendy and Sue to walk West Green Road and speak to shop owners, Ibi too if can make the time – **Press** – Ø Keith Flett to be co-opted if pos (advice sought esp national press issues). Either write to Keith or approach at SH meeting on 20th January (Wendy to contact by email) Ø everyone urged to write a letter a week to the press – **Website** Ø Paul Carrol added Wards Corner to RUDInet, bumped up hits and got Italy interested! Ø our Arts Council web-designer to create the mother of all wards corner websites! Ø want our site to be the number one google hit - Ruth to email Planning Committee members/planning officers; or - visit Civic Centre, Wood Green and get posted into their boxes || – Coin Street and Archway and Olympic Games – for olympics, Elizabeth recommends looking at http://www.gamesmonitor.org.uk || – promised meeting with Kaushika/NDC – Ruth to chase up – chasing NDC meeting minutes (Shelly, NDC) – Ruth to chase up || - petition to be given to businesses, traders, shop keepers and held by them for later collection – request they ask their customers to sign - RA meetings – request petition is signed || - researching social enterprise – Carlos and Ibi (Paul?, Noreen?, Ruth?) || - Jeremy to put up £10 to register domain name - he’s too quick for me – here it is [|http://www.wardscornercommunity.org.uk] ||
 * Draft Minutes of the meeting of 7th January 2008**
 * Present:** Alex; Carlos (Pedro Achata Trust); Jeremy (FARA, SH); Wendy (HFRA, FARA, SH); Candy, Ruth, (CARA); Judith (FoE, CARA); Rowan (TCS); Beth (Hanover RA); Elizabeth (Page Green Area); Ibilola (Tiverton and Tewkesbury RA);
 * Apologies:** Ricardo (House Design, Architect); Joseph (TCS, CARA, FoE)
 * **Agenda Items** || **Discussion:** ||
 * **Planning Application Fee** || – Jeremy to release paypal moneys (£260 + £20 cash) to Carlos, Elcafetal for payment of Planning Application fee to be executed asap by Carlos. £200+ raised by Vicky left monies for application fee payment (her own money)
 * **Joint Stakeholder Meeting** || Elizabeth to arrange venue. Favoured venue:
 * **Broadcasting and
 * TARGETTED**
 * **best practice community campaigns** || – look at pass success stories – community campaigns that succeeded and those that failed
 * **Consultation:** || – Glass-House – Wendy to contact to find out series of convenient times for training.
 * **Petition** || - petition to be circulated at Stakeholder Meeting in February
 * **Finance/Stacking up** || - stacking up our plan: look into utilising local experienced builders to restore Wards for half the price a developer would
 * **Website** || - Jeremy to set up wards corner community website domain name – linked to wiki until Arts Council website set up

**NEXT WEEK’S MEETING:**

 * HOW TO RUN A MEETING OF 200 PEOPLE PLUS?**
 * ADVERTISING EVENT
 * PROJECTION
 * POWER POINT – try to work with guest speakers to have power point = visual representation of speech
 * SHOW/DISPLAYS OF PLANS
 * CHAIR AND CO-CHAIR TO MANAGE MEETING (RUTH AND ELIZABETH?)
 * TEAS/COFFEES/REFRESHMENTS – ASK FOR DONATIONS SO BUILD UP COALITIONS FUNDS
 * PETITION – HAVE PETITION GO ROUND
 * REGISTER OF NAMES, ADDRESSES, ORGANISATION, EMAILS, PHONE NUMBERS
 * REGISTRATION 6.30PM START 7.00PM
 * GUEST SPEAKERS X 3 – 10 MINS EACH 30 MINS
 * 1)  [eg ricardo – the alternative plan
 * 2)  glasshouse – community consultation
 * 3)  nef - economic regeneration]
 * QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 30 MINS
 * RESPONSE/SUMMARY BY GUESTS 5 MINS 15 MINS TIME: 8.30PM
 * PLANNING FOR REAL EXERCISE TO END END TIME: 9.30
 * TO BE DISCUSSED FURTHER AT NEXT MEETING
 *  RUTH TO EMAIL WENDY IDEAS

FORMAT FOR NEXT MEETING:
To incorporate: • identifying key areas for discussion • breaking into smaller groups for discussion, each with own minute taker • come together at end to feedback to whole group FLIP CHART and POST-ITS