Tornado Residents

To All Residents of Balsall Heath, The Tornado Area, and friends of the Good Neighbour Scheme.

Here are some dates of events that you may be interested in. Please call me on 446 6183 or email if you want more information on any of the events:

Friday 21st October, Kings Christian Centre, 2pm.
Chamberlain Lecture on Civil Renewal and Active Citizenship. Given by Mike Whitby.

Tuesday 8th November
Seven Streets Walkabout, start 10am at the Tree Nursery
Children and Young People’s Theme Group, 4pm venue tbc
Chesterton Residents Group meeting, 7pm, The Tree Nursery

Wednesday 9th November
Clifton Residents Group, 7pm, The Tree Nursery

Wednesday 23rd November
Good Neighbour Scheme; Street Rep’s Event, 7pm Old Clifton Building, Clifton Road

For more details on any of these events, please get in touch

Nicky

With apologies for the delay in sending these out – I was away.

Esther

—–Original Message—–
From: John Newson
Sent: 17 October 2005 15:26
To: ‘Esther Boyd’
Subject: Renovate your home with green materials ?

Dear residents
WWF (World Wildlife Fund) is campaigning on climate change. They are very interested in tornado-affected families in Birmingham.
Soon, they want to have TV coverage of a family who own their own home and need to do extensive renovation work following the tornado. They would offer practical assistance and advice for the family to be able to choose sustainable materials and methods that will help to prevent future climate change, e.g. timber rather than plastic etc. In return, you have to tolerate being interviewed on TV and not be camera shy.
So if you are a family with an interest in green issues and a lot of repair work to get done, this could be for you.
Please contact by the end of this week; Mark Mclachlan mmclachlan@wwwf.org.uk saying how you fit the profile that they are looking for.

—–Original Message—–
From: John Newson
Sent: 18 October 2005 11:51
To: ‘Esther Boyd’
Subject: Youth Base at St Paul’s Trust

Dear Residents
The Youth Base at St Paul’s Trust has now been renovated and improved for young people from Balsall Heath and surrounding areas.
There is no longer any excuse for being bored!
The Youth Base is behind the old Clifton junior school on Clifton Road.
Clubs meet early evening and include: Girls’ Group 14-19 yrs, Youth mixed 14-19 yrs
There is also Sunday football team. The Youth Theatre meets on Tuesdays (11+ yrs).
There is also a connexions personal advisor and Way Ahead project for school leavers
Have a look on the website
http://www.stpaulstrust.org.uk/Services/Youth/Youth.htm

The first planned tornado fundraising event – for females only – benefit yourself and your neighbours

—–Original Message—–
From: John Newson
Sent: 19 October 2005 16:23
To: ‘Elaine_Wills’; ‘Esther Boyd’
Subject: Mass Aerobics for Ladies

[John Newson] Approved by Chris MacGuiness Healthy Living Centre. Please circulate.

Get Fit Exercise Session for Ladies

Saturday 3rd December 1-3pm
at the Sports Centre, Belgrave Middleway

Healthy Living Centre presents an afternoon of mass aerobic exercise
Benefit yourself and your neighbours
It’s fun and fights the flab.
Just turn up and do it!
Ladies only
Wear loose clothes for exercise

Crèche for children
Small entry fee to go to the Tornado Hardship Appeal

Prize Draw - lots of prizes

Hi folks
A couple of people could not read these notes so I am sending them again .rtf - if you still have problems please let me know. They were written neatly in a table and if the text is just pasted in an email it becomes an awful muddle.

Esther

I hope that this message arrives clearly - there are 3 important matters
listed below:
FIRST
Meeting to be held this Thursday - 03Nov05 at 7 p.m. - at St Pauls (old
Clifton building) Clifton Road
To discuss tactics and how to present our case at the Council organised
meeting at Clifton School, St Paul’s Road on Tuesday 08Nov05 at 7 p.m. The
meeting next Tuesday is for the Council to present their post tornado
regeneration plan to us - we must make sure that the plan belongs to us.
SECOND
Change of venue for the Table Top Sale now at OLD CLIFTON SCHOOL HALL,
Clifton Rd
Saturday 5th November 11am to 1pm
This could be an opportunity for residents to replace lost items at
reasonable prices - clothes, toys, books, household goods. Admission is 20p.
Or you may have second hand items to sell. Tables can be booked for £5
Phone 464 1888, or call at St Paul’s Venture, Clifton Rd

Fees for tables and admission money will be divided between the Tornado
Hardship Appeal and the Asian Earthquake Appeal.

THIRD

Forwarded message about a resident’s problems with a builder, and the effect
on the insurance claim - please get in touch with Richard if you can help:

From: Marsh Richard
Sent: 31 October 2005 10:48
To: esther
Subject: how are you fixed?

Fellow tornado survivors

I hope that you do not mind me sending you this email -

We have recently had some work done at our house by the construction
contractors B&N Babbage of Cheltenham who were appointed by our loss
adjusters Cunningham & Lindsey.

After many, many issues with poor workmanship we finally managed to get
them off our property and some reliable local builders are now continuing
the works. We have an issue however as we need some of the Babbage work
to be re-done but the loss adjusters don’t want o authorise this.

Has anybody else had a problem with Babbage, Cunningham & Lindsey or
other?

Please let me know as it may help with our claim and perhaps we can help
yours?

Richard Marsh
42 Woodstock Rd