Minutes GREEN SENIORS AGM 8 NOVEMBER 2019
5.30 pm at Café Caritas 30
Euston Square, London NW1 2FB
1. Election of Green Seniors’ committee
2019/20
Co-Chairs: MAUREEN CHILDS greenseniorsuk@gmail.com/
NOEL LYNCH: noellynch@lineone.net
Secretary: PETER MURRY yrrumuk@googlemail.com
Acting Treasurer: MAUREEN CHILDS
Secretary: PETER MURRY yrrumuk@googlemail.com
Acting Treasurer: MAUREEN CHILDS
Media Officer ERWIN SCHAEFER
2. Finances: agreed that Maureen Childs would investigate opening a bank account. All committee members to be signatories.
3. Report on Green
Seniors’ activities 2018-9 including Minutes Green Seniors’ meeting: Friday 16 August 2019. Minutes agreed for accuracy.
MATTERS ARISING
a) Maureen
to update on LOPSIG
b) Positive Ageing
meeting at City Hall discussed outsourcing and London Strategy for Age Friendly
cities. Next meeting Toynbee Hall (nr Aldgate) 4 December 2019 1-4pm
c) TfL bus route cuts
10, RV1, not adequately signposted Maureen Childs, Erwin Schaefer to attend future meetings.
d) TV licenses, BBC
to pay for licences for those aged 75+ Apparently only for those on benefits.
Noted that those aged 75+ had lived through ww2.
e) Erwin
Schaefer wrote article on “Are pensioners to blame
for Brexit?” – A personal view by an enraged EU citizen” which appeared in
Watermelon autumn 2019 see http://greenleftblog.blogspot.com/p/w-t-e-r-m-e-l-o-n-conference-newsletter_9.html
, now
posted on GS blog at https://greenseniors.blogspot.com/2019/11/are-pensioners-to-blame-for-brexit.html
f) GP Disability
group co-ordinator is Paul Weaver. London Federation Disability Officer is Zi Neil, Erwin to introduce her to Maureen.
g) Maureen is now the Special
Officer for Diversity at the British Computer Society
h) British Computer Society asked by House of
Lords for evidence that IT can assist with well-being. Suggested that M. Childs contact Baroness Jones about this,
who replied that this was not within her remit
i) . Noel Lynch to provide membership update.
j) email problems, size
limits, no attachments, banning of members (?)
k) Erwin to investigate possible 5G problems.
l) LB Barnet is abolishing the
public right to speak at council meetings. (?) . Noel Lynch to check.
4. Green Seniors’ constitution and aims agreed see http://greenseniors.blogspot.com/p/green-seniors-re-formed-29th-november.html
5 Green Seniors’ meeting a GP Autumn conference 2019 notes at http://greenseniors.blogspot.com/2019/10/minutes-green-seniors-meeting-6102019.html
6 Future events and activities including social media
·
Maureen to pay NPC sub,
to be reimbursed from GS bank account.
·
Maureen to circulate
details of NPC activities
·
Maureen is on NPC digital
working group. Reported that 20% of the population don’t use the internet
b)
Fundraising walk led by Roy Vickery (ex Natural History Museum, currently South
London Botanical Institute) 24 November 2019, approx. 2hrs meet East Finchley
tube 2pm £10/8 concessions, proceeds to Barnet GP.
6. AOB
a) GROUNDSWELL - THE
GRASSROOTS BATTLE FOR THE NHS AND DEMOCRACY is a moving, inspiring David and
Goliath documentary about ordinary Britons challenging the free marketeers’
annexation of the NHS and 40-year dominance of our society. A unique,
wide-ranging, revelatory personal journey by filmmaker John Furse on the pulse
of our times.
Filmed mostly by the director between 2015-18,
using cheap domestic cameras, and edited at home with Gus Coral, this independently
made documentary features powerful testimony from Professor Stephen Hawking and
NHS staff, with a moving climax by dying actor Dudley Sutton.
Guest Speakers: filmmaker John
Furse. Larry Sanders, the Green Party spokesperson on Health and Social
Care will also be attending.
Recommended Donation:
£4/person (to cover room hire)
Those interested in finding their local campaign
groups:
Contacts:
John Furse: http://bit.ly/GroundswellNHSFilm
Date And Time
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM GMT
Location
The Tabernacle
34-35 Powis Square
London
W11 2AY
b) Wales gov’t tablet loan scheme for seniors: more info
needed.
c) Maureen Childs now on the board of Age UK London
7. Date of next meeting 31 January 2020 at 6pm meeting at the Green Room 7 Grand Arcade
Tally Ho Corner North Finchley
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