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Volunteers needed for the Highgate Festival
on Saturday 21st June
The
annual Festival on Pond Square (12.30 til 5.30pm) is Highgate's
most popular event and this year will see many new stands, a new
line up on the main stage plus lots of family fun throughout the day. We need volunteers, can you help with the following (no heavy lifting required!):
1) Set up (9am - midday)
2) Clear up (5.30 - 7pm)
3) Serving tea at the Highgate Society, 10a South Grove
4) Stewards to man the barriers and patrol the Square (and you get to wear a special jacket!)
Please e-mail lizm@mokita.co.uk if you are able to spare 1 - 2 hours
Fitzroy Farm Campaign - Fighting
to Save our Heath!
During a 2 1/2 year period developers
propose to drive a minimum of 1600 heavy trucks along the top of
Millfield Lane which will destroy the beauty and tranquility of Hampstead Heath for Heath users and Heath residents. Go to www.fitzroyfarm.com to find out more and sign the petition.
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Please e-mail Liz Morris at lizm@mokita.co.ukAims of the society - we need your support!
The Highgate Society is a voluntary organization of over 1,000 members living in and around Highgate, London N6. Our primary aim is to make Highgate a better place in which to live and work. To achieve this we mount a wide variety of activities for members, (while being wide open to ideas for further new activities) as you can see from the panel on the left of screen. Prominent among these, under the heading of ‘Environment', is our dedication to principles of sound planning, for the protection and enhancement of the public amenities that we all enjoy.
Much of our work requires close consultation with local authorities. Perhaps the biggest problem we face is the regrettable and insensitive division of our community – because Highgate is a community - between a number of London boroughs: the boundary between Haringey and Camden runs, if you please, slap up the middle of Highgate High Street; these boroughs' southern boundary with Islington runs along Hornsey Lane, across Highgate Hill at St Joseph's church, and down the middle of Dartmouth Park Hill; everything east of Highgate golf course lies in Barnet.
To deal with these various authorities, and to make sense, for Highgate, of their often conflicting objectives and prejudices, we need skilled help – which is not lacking among our members. But we also need all the support we can get from a sizeable membership, which has to be large enough to speak credibly for Highgate as a whole. Accordingly, we extend the warmest of welcomes not only to those who will work to help us achieve our aims; not only to those who want to pursue leisure activities within the Society's ambit; but also to everyone who is prepared just to give their voice (and a very modest membership fee) in our support.
Please explore the contents of this site, contact us for any further information you require – and join us, NOW!
Gordon Forbes , Chairman