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Time: August 23, 2011 from 6:30pm to 9pm
Location: Harringay Club,
Street: 50 Tottenham Lane,
City/Town: Crouch End, N8 7EE
Website or Map: http://thorntonsbudgens.poste…
Event Type: public
Organized By: Andrew Thornton, Jim Shepley, Azul Thome
Latest Activity: Sep 2, 2011
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I write this from rural west Ireland, where I currently have limited access to television or the internet, learning in horror of the riots in London via text and the radio.
I am heartened to hear of the response to our offer to help ferry donations up to Tottenham Green Leisure Centre. We have now taken two van loads and the cages outside the store continue to fill up.
I feel that it is time for the people of east and west Haringey to get together as a community and look for ways in which we can give the young people of our borough hope for the future. Be that by mentoring, offering work experience or re-opening the youth clubs.
Myself, Jim Shepley, programme director of Hornsey YMCA, and Azul Thome from FOOD from the SKY would like to call a public meeting (venue TBC) on Tuesday 23rd August at 6.30pm to discuss ideas and get our heads together or indeed link up with other local groups and initiatives who would like to meet.
Further to this if you would like to make suggestions before the meeting then please comment below or email al@thorntonsbudgens.com
Warm wishes, Andrew Thornton
Andrew Thornton just commented on the post "A response to the riots and an invitation to the community" on Thornton's Budgens
We would like some input into the areas we discuss in the form of some open questions. We'll be using the World Cafe format (see below). Pse can you post or send suggestions by the end of Monday. Here are some examples we are considering:
What called you to this meeting?
What is possible for a committed group of people in Haringey to do for our young people?
How can we offer hope and solutions to our young people’s future?
What do you perceive as the biggest obstacles?
What do you perceive as the resources available to us in Haringey/Crouch End /Tottenham?
World Cafe:
Participants discuss the issue at hand around their table and at regular intervals they move to a new table. One participant (the table host) remains and summarises the previous conversation to the newly arrived participants. By moving participants around the room the conversations at each table are cross-fertilised with ideas from other tables. At the end of the process the main ideas are summarised in a plenary session and follow-up possibilities are discussed.
I attended this meeting, called to unite the people of East and West Haringey in response to the riots originating in Tottenham.
In a great many ways the meeting was very heartening:
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