Notes Green Seniors’ meeting: Friday 26/10/2018 6pm meeting at
the Green Room 7 Grand Arcade Tally Ho Corner North
Finchley
1. Minutes Green Seniors’ meeting: Friday 31/08/2018: Matters Arising
a) Sandra
McLeod sandramcleod90@hotmail.com.of Hackney GP.,
please contact Green Seniors, do you still wish to be Treasurer? (you said you
might at Conference).
b) Peoples Vote march (anti-brexit), central
London,23/6/2018 massive turnout Caroline Lucas spoke, also on 20/10/2018,
estimated 700,000 turnout, reports of a large GP bloc.
c) International
Eco Socialist Network meeting currently exists as email list, website and fb page: contact yrrumuk@googlemail.com if you wish to
join.
d) )
Greener Jobs Alliance: agm Tuesday, January 29th, 2019. This will take place at
UCU, Carlow St, London NW1 7LH from 12.00 - 2.30 with Chi Onwurah, Shadow Industrial Strategy Minister,
e) Lucas
Conference working groups: Will be editing THE PLAN film down to 30 mins, 3½ hr
version shown at BFI and London Film Festival , also organising meeting in
Derby on November 24 and other future meetings planned.
f) Is age
discrimination legal? Yes, under EOps Act.
g)
Green Seniors email list complaints re spam notified to GP
head office.no further developments
h)
Green Seniors site still not listed on GP home page, Maureen
still following this up.
i) No luck approaching British Computer Society
j) Conrad
Taylor will be speaking on Seniors and Apps, possibly at Toynbee Hall.
k) Maureen attended Barbara Keeley MP talk “Who Cares
About Care? “at TUC 9/4/2018.
l) Irish campaign to pay
grandparents caring for children. Might succeed.
m) Financial crisis in
social care sector, privatisations failing.
n) Maureen
involved in research into needs of older people in Tower Hamlets. Presentation
of results had been disappointing. Maureen Maureen has contacted Tower Hamlets Cllr Rachel
Blake with a view to contacting the newly appointed older peoples
champion who spoke at the Older Peoples Day at Toynbee Hall. In the light of all the requests for volunteers we are
concerned that young people under the age of 18 are not required to have
police checks. Maureen has contacted Liverpool Street Police Station and local
advice groups who simply do not know!!
3 Green Seniors membership list: Noel Lynch to report
4. GPEW Conference: review and spring 2019
a) Fringe: Digital Exclusion
not accepted. Perhaps try again at Spring conference with Disability group, Maureen had
contacts.
b) Positive Green Seniors meeting, concerns expressed re transport issues
and IT & computing. YG’s invited to send rep, but no show. Some YG’s had
suggested a buddy system, The Young Greens representative was Claudine Lefsal.
She recommended GS should consider Twitter and a buddy telephone system We have
done both and both have proven to be unsuccessful for a number of reasons.
Please contact Maureen if anyone has further experience of either suggested
solutions.
c) Stall successful
d) Holistic review
passed and would now go to referendum of members, discussion on GP membership
site.
5 London Federation and GLA elections
a) London Federation
agm took place on 20/10/18, gs stall. New committee elected, proceedings
curtailed for pv demo.
b) GLA elections
constituency selections taking place, framework for list and mayoral selections
agreed.
6 Future Green Seniors activities: Age Action 30/10/18 @ the Claremont
Project, 24 White Lion St, London N1 9PD
7.AoB
a) Maureen attended conference on loneliness addressed by Tracey Crouch MP, Minister for Sport and Civil Society
(aka ‘Minister for Loneliness’).
b) Maureen attended Morley College event on positive ageing,
raised issue of freedom passes continuing after April 2020.
c). LOPSIC (?) need to consider
elders’ rights and put pressure on the Mayor of London
d) National Pensioners’ Convention
meeting at House of Commons 24/10/18 Maureen spoke re retaining freedom
pass
e) Recurring points that
are brought up and debated at so many events.
· Lack of
Transport in Rural areas that have knock on effects on the elderly
· Lack of toilets.
Some seniors unable to leave the house is this is of concern to them.
· IT problems,
expense and rip offs with IT companies taking advantage of seniors lack of
knowledge.
· Aggressive
persuasion of care Home Owners and other companies ie Equity Release etc to
'grab' the family home.
· Suspect Funeral
plans.
8 Date
of Next meeting Friday 18 January 6pm meeting at
the Green Room 7 Grand Arcade Tally Ho Corner North
Finchley
