We stumbled across a familiar issue - finding decent sized, affordable rooms for community groups and charities to use. We were asked by SWLEN if we knew of any spaces they might use for a 1st Aid training session they have scheduled, on a weekend. Quite a challenge in our borough - which is bountiful with talent and enthusiasm, but finding places to let that flourish is difficult. Ham Library's new space and Whitton Youth Centre are excellent examples of what we could do with more of. Perhaps we need to speak nicely to local businesses about what spaces they may have that are not being used on weekends that the community might be able to make use of?
I had a bit of a Twitter 'moment' on the Monday. With all the terrible flooding and constant wet weather it's quite timely that the Council is currently running a consultation on it's flood defence strategy. I was going to tweet a link to it... but when is the right time? People are definitely thinking about such things, but to be asked what they think of such things when family and friends are at risk of flooding seems insensitive. Moments before tweeting, I decided against it. Perhaps this blog post will serve to highlight the survey in a more tactful way?
Thursday and Friday were busier - we supported two stakeholder invovlement events for Whitton and Heathfield, and Kew. All part of the next stage of Village Planning. Some interesting conversations around some now familiar concerns. This includes 'what to do for young people'? Hopefully answers to this question can be found in the coming months.
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