Grays Central Community Forum

Open Meeting

 

Tuesday January 13th, 2009

 

Attended: Ross Bannister, Ursula Garwood, Vivienne Wright, Steve Veitch, Sharon Pritchard, Colin Baker, Geoffrey Nathan, Corin Whymark, Holly O’Neill, Kingsley Edore, Yash Gupta, Jean Dexter

 

Apologies: Claire Bannister

 

 

  1. Meeting opened at 7.35pm, All welcomed.
  2. Apologies: Claire Bannister
  3. Agree minutes of 9th December.

Change name to Kingsley

 

  1.  Matters arising:
    1. Hathaway Road Park in the hands of the works department of Thurrock Council.
    2. £300 for equipment for Alison Baker from our funds.
    3. No request from Piggs Corner.

Airey Neave court funding being sorted, some money must come from other department.

    1.   No crime stats received
  1.     Items for discussion
    1. Memorial Rest Garden Sign – redesign.

New design accepted for sign by meeting. Council are paying for it? Ask Ross..

  1.  Chairs Report
    1. Playbuilders Report:

1000 questionnaires for children’s views on play equipment, 109 replies received. Graphs produced by Ngage. Questionnaires sent to two schools. Grants come from the government. Climbing equipment wanted in Grays Town Park, age group 7 – 13 years. There are two phases; one for the play schemes and one for parks. Geoffrey will ask Ngage. Mr Gupta thought that our ideas for the Hathaway Road Park are a good idea.

    1.  Ross asked Geoffrey what he had signed for; Adult ‘Play’ Equipment - £5000, we are waiting for council to get a quote from the supplier. Colin asked about our supplier. Geoffrey said that we are required to use the council preferred supplier; money for Alison Baker.
  1. Correspondence:

Ross read news about the Art project at the underpass in Grays. 

 

  1. Finance and Funding

Update from Ross

 

  1.   Any Other Business:
    1. Sharon Pritchard – Waste and Recycling

Sharon gave a talk on promoting recycling. 67% of our waste goes to landfill and 33% recycled. A few years ago it was just 10% recycled. All green waste can be turned into soil improver. Kitchen, garden and cooked food can be put into the new brown bins. 1700 leaflets dropped, only 6 people turned up. All schools have blue boxes. There is a new reuse and recycling centre at West Thurrock.

 

 

    1. Holly O’Neill

Schools in Chafford Hundred have breakfast and after school clubs, who work with the community. They would like one of us to come along to their next meeting. Thurrock has been given extra money to provide somewhere for youths to go on Friday’s and Saturday’s. Kingsley is trying to get a sports centre up and running.

c.        Kingsley would like lights in Hathaway Road Park. Geoffrey to approach council.

d.       Jean asked about the bark for the memorial gardens. Ross to speak to Luke Love.

e.          Yash Gupta mentioned that the councils are looking at the funding of the forums to see what money is being spent. Need to ensure that all our funding requests are completed on time so that we do not lose our money. The council are £6,000,000 short and are looking at ways of saving money.

 

 

 

  1.  Meeting closed 9.05 pm

 

 

  1. Next Meeting:

 

                   Tuesday February 10th. 2009