Barnet Alliance for Public Services

The first Annual General Meeting of the Barnet Alliance for Public Services will take place on Tuesday 12th June 2012, 7-9pm, at the Greek Cypriot Centre, Britannia Road, N12. All who support our aims or would like to find out more about the Alliance are welcome.

Our recently finalised constitution will be available with the agenda closer to the date. Please contact barnetalliance4publicservices@gmail.com if you wish to be sent the agenda and constitution.

There will be an opportunity on the evening to join BAPS and gain voting rights. The amount of membership subscription will be decided during the AGM; the constitution allows for a reduced subscription for those on benefits or who are unemployed.

It is also possible for groups and campaigns to affiliate to BAPS. Again, please contact us for details or attend on the evening to discuss.

The guest speaker at the AGM will be Professor Dexter Whitfield, who will talk about the dangers of privatising council services, here in Barnet, through the One Barnet programme, and more widely.

Dexter Whitfield is Director of the European Services Strategy Unit and Adjunct Associate Professor, Australian Institute for Social Research, University of Adelaide. He has carried out extensive research and policy analysis of regional/city economies and public sector provision, jobs and employment strategies, marketisation and privatisation, modernisation and public management (www.european-services-strategy.org.uk).

He has undertaken commissioned work for a wide range of public sector organisations, local authorities and agencies and worked extensively with trade unions in the UK at branch, regional and national levels, and internationally. He has advised many tenants and community organisations on housing, planning and regeneration policies.

Please join us! We have a very important year’s work ahead of us and we need the involvement of as many groups and campaigns as possible.

“A Tale of Two Barnets” – more chances to see this short film about Barnet, its council and the concerns of its residents.

Director: Charles Honderick
Website: http://ataleoftwobarnets.yolasite.com

Screenings are free and open to all.

Monday 21st May
2pm
Royal British Legion Club
1 St. John’s Buildings
Friern Barnet Road
London N11 3DP
020 8211 9888

Monday 21st May
7pm
Boyden’s Kitchen cafe
61 Friern Barnet Road
London N11 3EH (corner of Beaconsfield Road N11)

Tuesday 22nd May
11.30am
Colindale Community Club
The Hyde United Reformed Church
Varley Parade
Edgware Road
London NW9 6RR

Tuesday 22nd May
6.45pm
North Road Community Centre
230 Burnt Oak Broadway
London HA8 0AP

Thursday 24th May
7pm
Waterfall Tennis Club
R/O (behind) 100 Pymmes Green Road
New Southgate
London N11 1DN
020 8368 5025

Saturday 26th May
7pm
Royal British Legion Club
1 St. John’s Buildings
Friern Barnet Road
London N11 3DP
020 8211 9888

Saturday 21st July
1–2.30pm (doors open midday)
TUC Congress House
Great Russell Street
London WC1B 3LS

Barnet Alliance for Public Services (BAPS) has produced a leaflet outlining why we think people should not vote for Brian Coleman as London Assembly member for Barnet and Camden. The election is on Thursday 3 May. We will be distributing our leaflet in Barnet at the weekend, Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 April.

In the meantime, we would like to share with you a poster produced by the Barnet CPZ Action campaign, who want to outline some of the disastrous effects of Barnet council’s parking policies. Brian Coleman is the architect and champion of these policies.

(P.S. You might also like to look at this website for 101 Reasons to Sack Brian Coleman.)

#SackBrian Weekend of Action

-          Are you fed up with Brian Coleman?

-          Do you want to stop him being your London Assembly member?

-          Will you stand up for public services?

Make a stand by joining us this weekend as we deliver 10,000 leaflets to the community.

Details:

Saturday 28^th April, 11am – 1pm

Friern Barnet Pop-up Library, Friern Barnet Road, London N11 3DS

Sunday 29^th April, 11am – 4pm

Cafe Buzz, 783 High Rd, North Finchley, London N12 8JY

Can’t make it but want to take leaflets to deliver down your street or through your organisation? Then let us know by filling out this two minute survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LC9PSVN or call David on 07717 531164 or email BarnetAlliance4PublicServices@gmail.com.

Free entry to all screenings .

Monday 14th May at the Green Man Community Centre, Strawberry Vale, East Finchley, N2 9BA

At 6.30 p.m.   followed by open discussion.

Tuesday 22nd May at Colindale Community Club, The Hyde United Reformed Church, Varley Parade, Edgware Road, NW9 6RR at 11.30 a.m.

Local Area Screenings – open to anyone and everyone

Wednesday 28th March, 1-2pm
New Barnet Community Centre, 48-50 Victoria Road, New Barnet, EN4 9PF

Wednesday 28th March, 6-8pm
Greek Cypriot Community Centre, Britannia Road, North Finchley N12
Includes screening of “A Tale of Two Barnets” plus the Our Barnet Residents’ Forum – all welcome!

Tuesday 3rd April, 7.30-9.30pm
The Larches, 1 Rectory Lane, Edgware, HA8 7LF

Wednesday 4th April, 7pm
Cafe Buzz, High Road, North Finchley

Wednesday 18th April, 7pm
The Wilson Room, The House of Commons, SW1A 2TT

Saturday 28th April, 7pm
The Church of the Sacred Heart and Mary Immaculate, Mill Hill Broadway, NW7

Further dates announced for “A Tale of Two Barnets” – the film Barnet council doesn’t want you to see (even though the Leader and the Chief Exec are in it)!

Wednesday 28 March – 7pm
Greek Cypriot Community Centre
2 Britannia Road
North Finchley
London
N12 9RU

Tuesday 3 April – 7.30pm
Larches House
1 Rectory Lane
Edgware
Middlesex
HA8 7LF

Wednesday 18 April – 7pm
The Wilson Room
The House of Commons
London
SW1A 2TT

A tale of two Barnets

Barnet, site of the famous workhouse from the story Oliver Twist. Two hundred years after the birth of Charles Dickens, how has the area changed and how has it stayed the same? The people of Barnet talk about their lives and their concerns in 2012.

Film-maker Charles Honderick presents his new film “A Tale of Two Barnets” at the Phoenix Cinema, East Finchley, on Monday 19 March. The film lasts 30 minutes but there will be a full programme including questions and answers with the director from 6-8pm, entry fee: £1 on the door.

Please come and join us!

More details: http://ataleoftwobarnets.yolasite.com/

Barnet Unison members will strike this Thursday 9 February. Please visit them to lend support on their pickets at North London Business Park and Mill Hill depot, from 7-10am. The strikers are then going to do some community work in the borough, among other activities… Visit the union’s website here.

Send messages of support to contactus@barnetunison.org.uk and follow the branch on Twitter: @barnet_unison

The union members involved are those working in the services first due to be outsourced under the “One Barnet” mass privatisation plan, including revenues and benefits, and development and regulatory services.

Save Friern Barnet Library write…

Click here for our leaflet advertising our ‘I FB Library’ event for National Libraries Day, 4th February 2012 at Friern Barnet Library.