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.
Sign up for the Highgate Society's free e-newsletter
Please
e-mail Liz Morris at
lizm@mokita.co.uk
Aims 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
Watercolour Group Take a look at the updated gallery of the Group's work.
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Who's Who at the Highgate Society Need to find out who to contact if you have a question or issue that you want to discuss? Here's the full list of committees and their members.
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Membership
It
has been a great year for the team and it all started when 12
volunteers beat the record for stuffing envelopes with the annual
subscription reminder last April. The techniques are getting smooth: we
now have self-adhesive stamps and self seal envelopes that are A5 size
so we only have to fold once. These are some of the many skills you
would pick up as a volunteer with the membership team..
The”
back office team” ensure the smooth running of this year round task of
sending out annual subscriptions, sorting and filing and updating data,
banking and coding (yes we would like more direct debits), printing
labels, welcoming new members with letters and parties. We will have
held 3 parties this year and they are a great place to find new
volunteers!
The “get new members group“ has been
busy and successful this year in trying out new ways of attracting
Highgate residents and businesses to sign up and be counted.
We
never have enough helpers and if you would like to join us to make some
phone calls, fold a letter or two, help at a party, sell at a stall
then do please ring Jan on 0208 340 9490 or Christina on 0208 348 1003
or write to Freda at 10A South Grove. We would so welcome you.
Please visit our membership page to find out how to join the HIghgate Society.
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How can you help the Environment group?
There
is a slot here for any one of you and a whole range of tasks to do from
a letter or email to write, a development site to see, trees to count,
local borough councillors to hear , web site to explore, phone call to
chase and all for an hour or more a week. Cheap and satisfying
entertainment on your doorstep and we do need you.
Join up now and help one of the sub teams.
Planning
does just that - it reviews the planning applications in the area
against the UDP and works with the local council planning teams.
Open spaces
visit and talk and listen and liaise with the many open spaces we
enjoy: Hampstead Heath, Waterlow Park, Pond Square, Queens Wood,
Highgate Wood.
Keep Highgate Tidy
has a watching brief with the local Councils and have achieved so much
from both. You can’t miss the hard working volunteers here as they work
in their smart jackets as well as talk.
Traffic and Transport
keeps us moving whether on foot, cycle, car, bus, tube or train and
they have had a non stop busy time with CPZ’s and bus route changes.
Any
one of these four groups would welcome some help however small or big
so please do go along to a meeting or call or email. It is much more
fun to be a part of the Highgate Society and doing a small bit than an
onlooker. Thank you.
Its all here.
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