The communities where promised that when the council sold these hall's to Rose Leisure that the only changes we would see would be Investment and Improvement. All we have seen is the halls to be run down with no investment and Rose Leisure then selling these for a vast profit.

The idea of fining those who already have so little, that they are forced to sleep out in the cold or ask for food and money is a cruel and heartless act. This is attacking vulnerable people and does not resolving the issues homeless people face. Other campaigns have successfully stopped other councils from imposing similar fines and the undersigned call on Stevenage Borough Council to stop their use of PSPOs on people who are begging. This campaign is based on this information from Stevenage council's website: http://www.stevenage.gov.uk/about-stevenage/so-safe/165838/ If you have anything that suggests that Stevenage Council are no longer able to fine people for begging then we'd love to hear more from you, drop us an email at [email protected]

New developments are mostly aimed at younger families and couples, and retirement developments are for purchase. Small scale local social housing for older folk would allow them to stay in their communities and keep their local support network. Please support this petition.

Update from Chris Bullen Guys we are now preparing a face book page and a petition outlining the truth.. this will be the official page about not saving the railway or even fundraising it is about saving the track. The council have demanded the rails to be removed by the end of February. So the railway operation can be tendered to any interested parties. However if these rails are removed when and if they are replaced the whole railway will need to be fully fenced both sides. As a Poole park user you know this is not possible or even likely and Chris Bullen feels he will be responsible for the demise on Poole park railway forever. Will keep you all updated on here till we have finalised the Facebook.. Chris bullen is deverstated at the news he received today in his meeting and only has the future of poolepark railway at heart for future generations regardless of who wins the tender.. Chris is so Humbled at all your comments of support and will fight this to the bitter end .. please note he is not dieing for cancer .. maybe a vicious rumour put around so he can bow out gracefully which he's not prepared to do . Please sign our petition .. THANKYOU XX

People are homeless for a wide range of reasons; many are vulnerable, experiencing mental illness or the impact of traumatic life events and most have no financial security. Any one of us with the right combination of unfortunate circumstances could find ourselves in a position of being homeless and of needing to resort to asking passersby for money or food. Please encourage our local Northamptonshire councils to find more effective and compassionate ways of dealing with the issues related to begging than imposing fines that homeless people are unlikely to be able to pay. This campaign is based on this information from Northampton council's website: http://www.northampton.gov.uk/downloads/file/9044/draft-public-spaces-protection-order If you have anything that suggests that Northampton Council are no longer planning to fine people for begging then we'd love to hear more from you, drop us an email at [email protected]

It's self explanatory, really? Who came up with this horrible idea? Where does the money go? This campaign is based on this information from Newcastle council's website: https://www.newcastle.gov.uk/news-story/public-spaces-protection-order If you have anything that suggests that Newcastle Council are no longer able to fine people for begging then we'd love to hear more from you, drop us an email at [email protected]

***Jan 2020 Edit: Since this petition last was circulated, my ex husband abandoned the kids & I on our houseboat, I was diagnosed as Autistic and came out as non-binary. Despite being a single parent and disabled, Cambridge City Council are STILL refusing to give me a mooring license, whilst giving them to others in less need eg. Single white males who don’t live in cambridge. Please Sign & Share if you haven’t already done so*** Miss Lad is a full time secondary school teacher who has served the community of Cambridgeshire as a keyworker over 13 years, teaching at schools including Chesterton, St Mary's Upper, CRC, Castle School and is currently the Food & Nutrition teacher at Parkside & Coleridge in the city centre. Miss Lad lives with her husband who works full time as a maintenance man, and 3 children, who all attend Central Cambridge schools, onboard their Dutch Barge Trio II, listed on both the UK & NL historic ships registers. Trio II also has a historic link to Cambridge since her wheelhouse was built from the eaves of the, now demolished, historic pub The Penny Ferry/pike n Eel. Moored legally, whilst on the council mooring waiting list, with extremely kind permission of HC Moss developers, on their site at Water Street, Chesterton for the past 3 years, the family had thought that this would give the council plenty of time to consider their case, yet now that the new houses are built and they must leave their current mooring, the council has told them that they will evict the family if they moor on council land, which are the only other moorings available and that they should instead, sell their beloved home and apply for a council house. The family is ethnically diverse, consisting of several minorities, and as such is protected by law, particularly when considering Miss Lad's Roma status which gives her the right to live as a traveller. To suggest moving into a council house is highly insulting and discriminatory and goes against the family's right to a traveller way of life which is entrenched in law. If forced by the council out of Cambridge by eviction, the family would lose their jobs and school places (since the schools need to be within cycling distance for a child) and would ultimately lead to repossession of their home as they would be unable to keep up repayments on it and they would be made homeless. In this way the council intends to deliberately make this family homeless and is discriminating against the children's right to an education. In addition, forcing an experienced teacher out of a Central city school at a time when the profession is in crisis and the school will therefore find it very difficult to recruit, thus seriously affecting the education of hundreds of young people, as well as Miss Lad's Year 11 form group, who are in the middle of their GCSEs, is disastrous. Whether the council admits it or not, living on a boat IS affordable housing and we are in a housing crisis and instead of being persecuted and evicted by the council, the family should be applauded for finding a creative solution that does not make them a burden on existing council house stock which they would not take up anyway and the council should accommodate them. The family is also a shining example of off-grid living, with solar energy and a river water filtration system. In this way they are no burden on the national grid or water companies which fits in perfectly with the council's own plans for a sustainable city. There are plenty of mooring spaces available, yet the council recently chose to give 5 of them to single white males with existing moorings and jobs outside of Cambridge, instead of this diverse and hard working family of 5 in desperate need of a mooring, who all work/ attend schools in the city centre, which seems ludicrous. A family of 5 on 1 boat compared with 5 single men on 5 separate boats is also a much more efficient use of moorings and large families obviously contribute much more to communities than single households. The council are also very aware of the worrying trend amongst many of those with existing council moorings to rent them out for a profit, yet the council refuse to take action against them, preferring instead to evict working class families like Miss Lad's, further gentrifying the city centre with moorings used for leisure not their sole residence, as they also intend for the working class living on the Railings along Riverside. By signing you are asking the Chief Executive Antoinette Jackson and the Strategy & Resources Committee who are currently reviewing the mooring policy, that Miss Lad & her family be given permission to moor in the city centre with immediate effect. Please also share as widely as possible. Thank you so much for your kind support.

Harrods is a wealthy organisation that does not need to survive by pocketing tips left for members of staff. It is demeaning to Harrods, as an organisation, to be known to be doing this and very, very, unfair to staff.

In the 19th Century, the authorities took steps to ensure that the children of canal boat families could go to school, by passing the Canal Boats Acts of 1877 and 1884. But the Canal & River Trust's recently imposed policy that forces boaters without permanent moorings to travel at least 20 miles before turning round is actively preventing children who live on boats from attending school. The policy means that children who live on boats can end up having to travel up to 20 miles to school which is not always possible. If the parents are unable to travel that far, they risk losing their home. This is what the head teacher of a primary school attended by many boat children says: “I feel very strongly that this is an issue concerning Human Rights. I do believe that the law is clear that children should be in education, and attending very regularly. Our children's attendance is carefully monitored and by law children are only allowed to be absent for exceptional circumstances. I don't think that any of the laws that refer to boating were intended to make it impossible for the children of parents who continuously cruise [ie. live on a boat without a permanent mooring] to attend a local school." For more information please see https://boatchildren.wordpress.com/

1.The Kino toilets, are used by the bikers who bring an awful lot of trade to the area and even in the winter visit in droves, and which are used by the bus drivers and is the only sensible and safe place to stop for the loo on most routes. Other residents, like myself, who are disabled or elderly cannot walk to the Mill Lanes toilets. I myself whilst waiting the other day needed the loo and couldn't go due to closures, and I cannot walk to other loo's which was frustrating! Don't put others through this dilemma. 2. It is not acceptable to expect people to pay for the loo's. It's meant to be convineient and it isn't if you don't have a 20p piece when you need the toilet. We pay council tax but see noting back! which we will struggle to find the money for (as if we cannot afford to keep them open in winter we cannot afford major renovations) and will be majory disruptive,

At almost two hundred years old, Northfields Allotments is London's oldest allotment site. It dates back to 1832, when the Bishop of London enclosed the site for use as allotments by the local community. The original allotments were more than twice their current size, however over half of the site was compulsorily purchased and built on several decades ago. We now fear that we could be facing the loss of the remainder of the site. Northfields Allotments is an important heritage site and we believe it should be given the same protection as Ealing’s many parks and public open spaces. The importance of allotments in London is recognised at the highest levels. The Mayor of London’s London Plan clearly states that “Boroughs should protect existing allotments” (section 7.22). The benefits provided by allotments are widely acknowledged. A large and growing body of academic research makes clear the social, mental and physical well-being benefits provided by community green spaces. What’s more, the Public Health Agency has identified numerous benefits of allotments to the community, including the promotion of good mental health, physical activity and nutrition, as well as the encouragement of social interaction. At Northfields Allotments, we have 141 plots with 72 people on the waiting list so demand is high. 29 plotholders live in flats meaning their allotment is their only garden. We have many families on site, with the result that the allotments provide approximately 50 children with a safe place to play and learn about nature. We have more than 25 retired plotholders who love the exercise, fresh air, and social aspect of being part of an allotment community. The allotments are an important habitat for a wide variety of wildlife, including hedgehogs, nesting birds and insects – and in particular stag beetles, which are endangered and protected. Bats are regularly sighted, not only feeding over the allotments, but also using the ancient hedgerows for navigation. These hedgerows are recognised by Ealing Council as a Site of Interest for Nature Conservation (SINC), which is supposed to provide protected under planning legislation. We recognise that housing is important, but so are green open spaces. It shouldn’t need to be a choice and there are alternative options that would allow Pathways to house its residents while leaving this historic site untouched by development. Ealing is already extremely built up. Once green space has been built on, it is lost to the community forever. This is why we implore Ealing Council’s planning department and planning committee to protect the allotments from development, whether that be now or at any point in the future.

The nearest Classic FM gets is a military band or occasionally a brass ensemble but I have never heard a true British style brass band played. This is a serious omission and I believe the station is missing a trick and potentially losing a large audience. Brass bands in Britain alone have thousands of players and hundreds of thousands of fans and are hardly catered for on ANY British station. After all, many of the brass soloists you play within an orchestral setting started their careers in brass bands. Let we brass band players and audience members assure Classic FM that brass band music is classical and not just marches and hymn tunes. Pretty much every major composer has arrangements of his/her work adapted and arranged for brass bands and hundreds of composers have produced works specifically for brass bands. Just a few of these brass band specific compositions come from; Eric Ball, Harrison Birtwistle, Malcolm Arnold, Edward Elgar, Gustav Holst, Elgar Howarth and John Ireland. There are many more. Go-on Classic FM programmers, be a devil and play some brass band classical music - there is more than enough for a weekly specialist brass band show but better would be to programme it amongst the regular daily offerings. Maybe we can suggest that you start with Eric Ball - perhaps his 'Resurgam' or 'Festival Music' which I am sure will be enjoyed by your regular audience as well as brass band 'people'. Please Classic FM - give us our fair share of programming - you may even introduce a whole new audience to the magnificent classical music that is the domain of the brass band.