The regular weekly meeting of the Barnet Alliance takes place each Wednesday from 6.30-8.30pm. Our usual venue is closed for the month of August so we will be meeting instead at: The Old Barn Community Centre 20 Fallows Close Tarling Road East Finchley London N2 8LG Tarling Road is off Oak Lane N2, which is off High Road, bus 263 runs there. N.B. This updates the information provided earlier. Please join us to find out more about Barnet Council's

The 'Our Barnet, not One Barnet' torch relay and parade on Saturday 21 July was a great success. Below are press reports. And this was in spite of Barnet council preventing us holding our final rally in Victoria Park - or even on the grass verge in front of it! Hundreds march against Barnet Council's One Barnet programme - Hendon Times Protest over Barnet council privatised services - BBC news

Our Barnet – NOT “One Barnet” community torch relay and parade and rally goes ahead despite Barnet council banning the closing party Dear friend, The ‘Our Barnet – NOT “One Barnet”’ community torch relay and parade will go ahead, including the closing rally outside Victoria Park from 1 o'clock, today, Saturday 21 July. Unfortunately, due to the council's unreasonable and deliberately anti-democratic stance, we will have to have our

Join the 'Our Barnet, Not One Barnet!' torch relay and community parade this coming Saturday 21st July! We want to highlight our concerns for the quality of our services if Barnet Council goes ahead with its 'One Barnet' privatisation programme. How can we have any control over our services if they are handed over to two private companies along with £1bn of our taxes? Please share information about the event with friends, neighbours, relatives,

Tuesday night's (10 July) Barnet council meeting is important. Please go along if you can! It is from 7pm at Hendon Town Hall, the Burroughs, NW4. The paperwork is here. The Labour group have submitted a motion calling for a referendum on the Conservative group's One Barnet privatisation programme. Under this programme, the vast bulk of council services will be handed over to be run by the private sector. It is the scale of this programme that is

Barnet Unison and Barnet Alliance for Public Services INVITE YOU TO Barnet Council - Not for Sale! Public Conference Saturday 7 July, 12-3pm, Greek Cypriot Community Centre, 2 Britannia Road, London N12 (North Finchley) Free entry, all welcome! *** The bankruptcy of the South London hospitals as a result of Private Finance Initiative (PFI) schemes, demonstrates the dangers of involving private, for-profit companies in running public services. This