Peckham Rye 1 'O' clock club shutdown

[Fuschia]

Yes, quite a few of us mailed and offered helP

[Gussy]

I know I was one of those people too and I never heard from the two ladies ([email protected]

and [email protected]) at Southwark council either. I'm not giving up though!

[Renata Hamvas]

I'm meeting with council officers next week (this is for prelim discussions on the running of the club)and will raise the points raised here. Gussy, I don't know if you are aware that the funding for such schemes was cut by central Government (early intervention funding ie for surestart and other childrens services) Southwark and some other inner London boroughs lost 90 pounds per child in grant funding compared to eg 30 pounds in Richmond and other more affluent boroughs.

At Council assembly on Wednesday 270k was allocated in the Capital building program for rebuilding the one o clock club. (FYI the Lib Dems voted against this.) This together with the money already allocated by Greener Cleaner Safer means that the facility will be rebuilt.

Renata

[Fuschia]

Renata what about thd opening date for thd playground - us it still July and will the one o'c club have access? Thanks

[The Nappy Lady]

Glad the club will be rebuilt. Wonder if we will end up paying fir entry, as at Crystal Palace.

I see a big pile of new turf next to the new playground ready to be laid which bodes well....

[Renata Hamvas]

Hi Fushia,

I don't know about access, but will ask this at the meeting, but I do know the official opening is on Saturday 23rd July, just in time for the school/nursery summer holidays. Unfortunately I had previous inflexible plans for the day, but I think the other two Peckham Rye Councillors, Victoria Mills and Gavin Edwards will be there.

Renata

[Fuschia]

I think on the original plans it did seem that the one o'c club would access the area when open, and the public would use it at other times

[Gussy]

Renata Hamvas Wrote:

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> I'm meeting with council officers next week (this

> is for prelim discussions on the running of the

> club)and will raise the points raised here. Gussy,

> I don't know if you are aware that the funding for

> such schemes was cut by central Government (early

> intervention funding ie for surestart and other

> childrens services) Southwark and some other inner

> London boroughs lost 90 pounds per child in grant

> funding compared to eg 30 pounds in Richmond and

> other more affluent boroughs.

>

> At Council assembly on Wednesday 270k was

> allocated in the Capital building program for

> rebuilding the one o clock club. (FYI the Lib Dems

> voted against this.) This together with the money

> already allocated by Greener Cleaner Safer means

> that the facility will be rebuilt.

> Renata

Renata, I just don't understand why on earth would there be money to rebuild, but there's no money to run the place? Why are they allocating money to it when there is such a dire need to make cuts everywhere? For goodness sake the libraries might be closing down, but I know, we could really do with a nice shiny new 1 o clock club. Totally doesn't make sense and is awful awful planning, it makes you wonder who on earth is running the council.

Does the Capital Building Program generously give money to building places, but then thats it? Set it up yourself and good luck?

Rebuilding is good, of course, but at what cost? A nice new building that we end up having either a small allocated slot for, or to have to pay for some 'class'. If that's the case I probably won't use it. There's enough other things like that available in the area. The main reason I use the 1 o clock club is because its free and a DROP IN. I really hope the future 'vendor' retains this ethos, but I'm sceptical. Personally I'd rather keep the old shack that it is and it stays open as is.