DELAY STARTING

I had Planned to start events for Weekenders in July.The purpose of the group is to organize activities available at the weekend and during the holiday periods i.e. bank holidays.

I was planning a fantastic Carnival Celebration but SLAM (South London and Maudsley)
through CLAPHAM PARK TIME BANK have such a long process that giving out money the time has passed and I can not funtion until We have the funds.

The stupid thing is that SLAM have nothing to do with Weekenders other than We had to have a sponsor (as we are not a constituted group) to have the money passed through and I picked CP TIMEBANK.It have been 4 weeks since the invoice for the money was sent to SLAM and nothing.

Our aims for the group is to encourage the participants to attend other Clapham Park events and projects. The targeted group of people that we hope to cater for are those adults with few or no dependents and who feel isolated during this period as well as those who are not accessing CPH, CCP and NDC during the weekdays because of work, study or other commitments.

We would like to also develop a once a month “drop in” or workshops on a weekend. We hope that CPH. CPP, NDC as well as other practitioner in the Clapham Park area will be able display, talk to, and interact with the Clapham Park NDC residents at this “drop in”/ workshop meetings. I have already started dialog with Clapham Park Homes

We would like to bridge, from volunteers prospective. the gap that often occurs when other projects have finished and a new project starts. This we hope to use these activities as a great lead into active citizenship. We intend this project to be about co production and be 100% participant managed, acquiring services to deliver information only when needed.

We hope by keeping the activities of engagement fun we will be encouraging a higher levels of democratic participation and citizenship
I hope that our funds will be haere asap so that we can start our events.