Waltham Forest branch Coop Party London elections campaign fundraiser

Waltham Forest branch Coop Party 

invites you to its 

London elections campaign curry night fundraiser

Wednesday 13th April 2016 at

Waltham Forest Community Hub, 18a Orford Road, London E17 9LN

Click the address for Google maps. Tube or Overground to Walthamstow Central (8 mins walk), 

Bus W12 from Walthamstow Central Bus Station (doors open at 8pm)

• Ticket prices: Concessions — £20.00, General Admission — £25.00, Table of 4 — £ 80.00, Table of 8 — £155.00
• To book tickets and pay on the night Email: coopcampaignse17@gmail.com
• or call 07957 228019
• Alternatively you can click here to pay direct online at Billetto (booking fee applies)

All proceeds from tickets, raffle and donations go towards Waltham Forest branch Cooperative Party campaign for the London elections. Event promoted by Andy Dixon , chair Waltham Forest branch Cooperative Party, c/ o 23 Orford Road, E17 9NL. 

The Cooperative Party, developing from the Rochdale Pioneers, was one of the three founding elements of the Labour Movement in the nineteenth century, along with the trade unions and the Labour Party. It campaigns alongside the Labour Party, and there are a number of Labour and Cooperative MPs, including Walthamstow's Stella Creasy.

For further enquiries email: coopcampaignse17@gmail.com

Where to find Stella Creasy MP for Walthamstow, this week

• Monday 21st March 2016: Holding a Circular Firing Up Squad training event to promote women's leadership 
• Tuesday 22nd March 2016: seeking to speak in the debate on George Osborne's budget
• Wednesday 23rd March 2016: leading an adjournment debate on the law around registration of births. 
• Thursday 24th March 2016: Speaking at the London School of Economics on Campaigning. 
• Saturday 26th March 2016: Campaigning in the Scottish Parliament elections for Labour.

The Guardian "MP throws charity boss out of parliament after row over residents"

From the Guardian on Thursday:

Stella Creasy says chair of Glasspool Trust, which sold flats to a developer, said ‘It happens’ when confronted over evictions

The chair of a poverty charity found himself being escorted out of parliament by a police officer after a bad-tempered meeting at which he told an MP the eviction of long-term tenants from flats sold by the charity was not his problem.

Keith Nunn, chair of trustees for the Glasspool Trust, said “It happens” when asked about the impact on the tenants, some of whom are vulnerable families, according to the Labour MP for Walthamstow, Stella Creasy.

Creasy said she was so appalled by the attitude of Nunn, an executive in the energy industry, that she ended the meeting and asked a police officer to escort him out of parliament.

The Glasspool Trust, which makes individual grants for household goods to people in poverty, has faced significant criticism after selling 63 flats it had owned for decades in Walthamstow, north-east London, to a property development firm without first informing tenants or offering them the chance to buy the homes.

. . . . The new owner, a newly-formed private property development firm, has begun evicting a number of residents and has already resold some of the flats. The company says it plans to gradually evict the remainder of the residents, some of whom have lived in the area for many years.

Original Guardian article here

‘Walthamstow is in Business’ Cooperative Party reception, Parliament Monday 14th March

The Cooperative movement is the only political movement built on the foundations of business and this event has been put together to allow attendees to find out more about the support available around walthamstow for businesses, and how and why social forms of business engagement can bring added benefits to both business owners and the communities in which they work and live. There will also be plenty of time to meet other local business owners and entrepreneurs from the Walthamstow and Waltham Forest area.

Joining Walthamstow MP Stella Creasy, will be Chris Leslie MP, former Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer and member of the Cooperative Party, Andy Dixon the Chair of Waltham Forest Cooperative Party, as well as Karen Hayes who runs the Tritons CIC in Walthamstow who will share her experience of setting up a social enterprise in Walthamstow.

Also on hand will be local representatives of business support organisations including the @stowstartup group, the Hive (a new business support programme the Cooperative Group has set up) the East London Business Alliance and many more. The East London Brewing Company which is based in Walthamstow has offered to bring some of their products for attendees to try - and of course non alcoholic refreshments will also be available too!

Please note as it is in parliament registration is essential for this event, and once registered you will need to allow approximately fifteen minutes to pass through security. The event is open to residents of Walthamstow and those who run businesses in the Walthamstow area, so if you wish to bring other people with you please do let us know as they would be very welcome.

To register for this event and get details of the venue in parliament please email:
admin@workingforwalthamstow.org.uk

Labour in for Britain - Webinar Special with Mr Postman

A webinar is a 'seminar on the web' and this one's about our fight to keep Britain in Europe and continue to enjoy the benefits it offers - like significant employment rights. If you haven't already you'll need to create a membersnet account [give your membership number and create a username and password - you only have to do this once]. You then sign in and away you go. 

Help fight our campaign to keep Britain in Europe - online session with Alan Johnson MP

[As this is a recording rather than a live broadcast it only works on windows, linux, or apple computers, not on tablets, and you have to install a viewer; depending how your browser works you may have to paste in this complete URL once you sign in to membersnet, otherwise it may just send you to the membersnet front page:
https://traintowin.webex.com/traintowin/lsr.php?RCID=8b8e881211bc023442eb524b5a0209fa]

Where to find Stella Creasy MP for Walthamstow, this week

• Monday 29th February - Participating in a statutory instrument debate on changes to funding for health services in parliament 
• Thursday 3rd March- visiting Manchester with the Science and Technology Select Committee and then running a Circular Firing Up Squad women's event. To book a place click here.
• Friday 4th March - holding a residents advice surgery. To book an appointment please call 020 8521 1223. 
• Saturday 5th March- running the Walthamstow Feminist Boot Camp and marching to tackle street harassment. See below for details.

On Saturday 5th March we will be holding a march to support local community activism to tackle street harassment. In partnership with the local police and the Take Back the Streets community group I'm asking residents to join us at 12.15pm at the Bell Corner (the corner of Hoe Street and Forest Road) to march along Hoe Street to raise awareness of this work and join the call to make all of Walthamstow's streets safe for everyone. We are currently finalising details of this march and would welcome support through volunteer stewards. If you can help steward please email. 

Then at 1.30pm we will be holding a ‘Generation to Generation: Feminist Bootcamp’ as part of seeking to encourage women to take up leadership positions. This is a women’s only event and we will be joined by a variety of speakers including Leyla Hussain, Charlene White, Jack Monroe, Ava Vidal, Reni Eddo-Lodge and many more. There will also be a special children's activity room at this event run by Walthamstow Toy Library and the Waltham Forest NCT, so if you would like to come and have young children please do let us know. Jack Monroe will be judging a cake competition (both vegan and non vegan entries welcome) with a Jack cake as the prize for the winner. ImageE17 and the local women's history project will also be on hand to capture the views and stories of participants.

Where to find Stella Creasy MP for Walthamstow, this week

• Saturday 20th February - holding the E17 Housing Awards at 11am with Sadiq Khan MP. 
• Tuesday 23rd February - meeting with the Women for Women International and then running a phone bank in support of Sadiq Khan for Mayor of London
• Thursday 25th February - attending the Walthamstow Labour Party General Committee Meeting at the WF Hub on Orford Road 

20 February - Help us help Sadiq Khan make housing a priority for London

E17 Housing Awards: Help Us Tell Sadiq Khan to Make Housing A Priority for the Next London Mayor

Next Saturday 20th February 2016 at 11am Sadiq Khan, Labour's candidate for London Mayor, will be joining us to announce the winners of our E17 Housing Awards. This is our opportunity to show Sadiq first hand how important it is to make tackling London's housing crisis a priority for the potential next London Mayor and to ask for his support with the challenges we face here in Walthamstow. All Walthamstow residents are welcome to attend to show their support for this campaign, but to help us with logistics for the day please email to RSVP and for further details of the venue. 

Your chance to vote:

All residents of Walthamstow are welcome to vote for their local housing heroes and horrors-you can vote using this link. The ballot will close at 12pm on Friday 19th February 2016.

Where to find Stella Creasy MP for Walthamstow, this week

• Sunday 14th February- attending the Waltham Forest Young Labour meeting at Waltham Forest Town Hall 
• Tuesday 16th February - Please note my office will be closed for staff training. We will not be answering calls on the day. If your query is urgent please email me and if it is a query regarding the Local Authority please call 020 8496 3000. As next week is also half term please note we will be short staffed all week. I apologise in advance on the delays you may experience in getting a response from my office to emails and casework queries.
• Wednesday 17th February - running a Cooperative Action Network Training event in Chelmsford. To book a place click here. 
• Thursday 18th February - running a Cooperative Action Network training event in Oxford. To book a place click here. 
• Friday 19th February - speaking at the Active Change Foundation training event for Walthamstow young leaders in Luton, and then holding an appointment only residents surgery in Walthamstow. To book an appointment please call 020 8521 1223. 
• Saturday 20th February - holding the E17 Housing Awards - click here to book a place, and  see here how to take part in the vote for housing heroes and horrors