Lordship Lane local investors wanted

[TJS]

I too and very keen to give my full support and backing....what needs to be done?

[Keef]

Someone's got ?'s in front of their eyes ;-)

[Kathryn]

I'm really interested to. Especially after following the other threads about the white stuff and the like. It sounds like beth knows so much about it. Is this something we could all too easily let us pass by when we really could do something worth while as a community in ED. There is a lot of talk about the changes in ED and if they are for the better or not. Perhaps we should stop procrastinating and do something surley a communtiy lead initative is the most posive thing we could do and stop a slip into LL becoming another once was good and now is full of the normall annomonous high street chains. (I still havent gone into Nero and it saddenes me that only a company with that kind of money can afford the rates, imagin how great that space would be if it was an independant coffee shop. There is obviously a niche, yet all that money is flowing back into a corpate company nothing back into our community.

We could have a real lounge, a real music room ect they are great concepts and dont just have to be virtual.

Any way are there enough people interested at least to properly get together and discuss this or is this going to become a forgotten thread?

[beth]

I would go along to something and give my time and support around the fundraising and setting up the trust but with a toddler in tow, I don't have the energy to be the leader or co-ordinator to get it together!

It does really need a couple of energentic people with the time and energy to get it going. Also Keef and others, bear in mind that setting up a development trust isn't going to generate money for individuals - all money raised and profit gained will go back into the trust so the board running it would have to be prepared to be volunteers and not make a dime from the project themselves!

[Quaywe]

As passionate as I am on this subject I don't know if I have the time and/or expertise to lead it. I'm certainly willing to try and get the ball rolling though. Watch this space and I'll try and organise a gathering to discuss.