Review of 2013 meetings & campaigns
Date | Meeting | Speakers | Venue and number attending |
Jan 23rd | AGM Talk on Fire Safety | Snow was bad and Fire Fighter could not come | Hilldene Court, 18 |
Feb 20th | The Elderly in Hard Times | Maggie Pether Haringey AgeUK & David Clements Coordinator, Neighbourhood Connect Haringey Council | YMCA Hornsey, 34 & cllr. |
Mar.20th | Do you agree with land sell-off at Whittington Hospital? | Robert Aitken – Deputy Chairman, Whittington Health & Jan Pollock – Defend Whittington Hospital Coalition | YMCA Hornsey, 18 & cllr |
April 17th | Antibiotics: Do we know enough about them? | Kapil Sadawana, pharmacist.Also Firefighters Mark Jordan & team on Fire Safety | Marian Centre, 22 |
April 24th | Trip to Trent Park | ||
April 19th | Picket at East Finchley Crown Post Office | Members supported PO staff | |
May 15th | How Confused are we about Mental Illness? | Gillian Payne SANE & Jo Cahill, Alzheimer’s Society Haringey | Marian Centre, 23 & cllr. |
May 18th | Defend London’s NHS march | Members attended | |
June 19th -20th | National Pensioners Convention 2013 Pensioner Parliament | Delegates Clive and Audrey Evers, Janet Shapiro GLR NPC delegate | |
June 19th | Outing to Geffrye Museum | ||
July 17th | Let’s Talk about Bereavement | Hans Meijer, Humanist Integrative Counsellor & Pschotherapist | Marian Centre, 21 |
Sept 8th | Muswell Hill Festival | Cherry Tree Woods, HPAG had a stall | |
Sept18th | Are you prepared for when you need care? | Paul Hatchment, Haringey’s Interim Team Manager for Neighbourhoods and Older People & Marcella Gibbi from Financial Assessment Team | Marian Centre, 29 |
Oct 16th | The History of Alexandra Palace | Stuart Little, who showed excerpts from his DVD | Marian Centre, 26 & cllr. |
Nov 20th | “Scrimp & Save”, Come with your ideas! | Members worked in teams. Their work has been collated in a booklet. | Marian Centre, 22 |
Nov 27th | NPC Lobby of Parliament | Members reported on the rally in newsletter | |
Dec 11th | Social | Members provided the entertainment of readings, songs and poems. Father Bruce attended | Marian Centre, 23 |
Ham& High articles; Jan 24th – Clive, March 7th – Clive, April 18th – Janet, May 30th – Janet, August 22nd – Ann, October 3rd – Janet, Recent – Lauritz, January 9th 2014 – Clive