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Small Suburb organisation wins big award Pay for your

Headquarters, who sang and green bin collection?
played to a packed and very
appreciative house. Barnet consults
Long-time supporter and
Suburb resident Martin Bell OBE
introduced the proceedings,
members of Merchant Taylors’
Combined Cadet Force helped
with stewarding and many other
tasks, and there were moving
speeches from Combat Stress HQ’s
Peter Butterworth and former
PTSD sufferer Graham Smith. At
the end, choir, band and audience
joined together for a rousing
performance of Jerusalem.
The Combat Stress Committee By the time you are reading this, link provided. The consultation
are now selling a large selection you might already have had your finishes on November 22 and
of newly-designed Christmas last green bin collection of garden the outcome will be considered
and Seasons Greetings cards, as
well as some ‘blank for your waste on the Suburb for this by the Environment Committee.
year – due on November 6. The
Given the continuing planned
own message’ cards in aid of next time you see a green bin Treasury cuts to council support
Combat Stress. They cost £4.50 lorry will be in February next year. grants it will be surprising if we
for 10 (35p each). To buy them
Emma Rodwell, Gerlinde Crossley, HGS Combat Stress Committee Chair Ruth Smith and Yvonne Oliver receive their Community Our annual winter pause do not find ourselves having to
Group of the Year Award from Combat Stress at the Cavalry and Guards Club you can contact Ruth Smith at has been extended because of pay to have garden waste
ruthafsmith@hotmail.com.
On 18 September, Ruth Smith then invited to come up to of music and song featuring essential works to the Oakleigh collected – no matter how the
and three other members of receive the charity’s inaugural The North London Military MARJORIE HARRIS Depot, and Barnet suggests you consultation goes.
HGS Combat Stress Committee, Community Group of the Year Wives Choir and The Royal Naval Martin Bell, with members of the North compost your waste or take it to But consider yourself lucky
London Military Wives Choir, launches
Gerlinde Crossley, Yvonne Oliver Award to much applause. Volunteer Band – Northwest the concert on 5 October the Summers Lane site. not to be a resident of Waterlow
and Emma Rodwell, attended But the group didn’t rest on Barnet is also considering Court. You may remember reading
an evening reception given by its laurels by any means. On 5 charging householders for their in our spring issue about a
Combat Stress HQ at the Cavalry October they and the other four green bin collections. Barnet surprising consequence of the
and Guards Club in Piccadilly. members of the committee does not have a statutory duty changes to bin collections last
While they were watching launched their most ambitious to deal with garden waste and year. It was suggested that
the presentation of the Extra project yet, when they put on a wants to make the collection an residents would have to pay the
Mile Awards, the group was special centenary concert at the opt-in service for which there annual sum of £11,000 to have
utterly amazed to hear the Free Church, North Square. will be a charge. their bins moved to the kerb for
speaker mention the HGS Having already raised well You can read their reasoning collection in order to assuage
committee by name, including over £40,000 for Combat Stress for making this move at www. the Health & Safety concerns
the fact that they had raised over the last eleven or so years engage.barnet.gov.uk/garden- that led to the suspension of
more than £40,000 for Combat through Christmas fairs, catering waste-charging-2019, and then their bin collections..
Stress mental health outreach for other organisations, etc., this you can complete the online Beware, moving bins in
services since 2008. They were time they provided an evening questionnaire by clicking on the Barnet is clearly very hazardous!

Mayoral visit to Northway gardens RA group litter pick

In the Summer edition of Suburb some keen to get involved If you too can spare some
News, readers were able to learn going forward. The Gaya Park time to help pick up litter in the
about the launch of the litter Café supported our volunteers’ area, please contact Michael Green
picking volunteer group led by efforts by supplying delicious at litter@hgsra.uk. We would love
Michael Green. This group has coffee as well as cold water at to have more volunteers to cover
continued to grow and flourish the end of the morning’s work. this large area so please do get
and now boasts some 70 members, Volunteers collected seven in touch: every bit helps and
many of whom are involving large refuse bags of litter for LB you are never too old or too
their children and grandchildren Barnet to collect. They are keen young to get involved.
in keeping the Suburb clean to repeat the event. EMMA HOWARD
and green. We hope readers will Litter pickers with their morning’s catch
have seen the difference.
On a bright, dry Autumn
morning the rains kept away for EMMA HOWARD
the first group litter picking
session attended by volunteers
and two of our Councillors,
John Marshall and Rohit Grover.
We were tackling Lyttelton
Playing Fields, a much-loved
facility in the area, which gets a
lot of use, and sadly also a great
deal of litter.
Volunteers’ ages ranged from
8 to 80 and all set enthusiastically
to work armed with litter picking
grabbers provided by LB Barnet
Brian Ingram of the NGO showing the Mayor of Barnet, Cllr Caroline Stack, around the Rose Gardens with wind in the willows to pick up the litter which had
The Mayor of Barnet, Councillor there was, at last, hope that the local people can achieve through blown into hedges and onto the
Caroline Stock, visited the rose Northway Rose Gardens would their own voluntary hard work, banks of Mutton Brook. There was
beds in Northway Gardens as enjoy a welcome facelift. and with the help of donations the usual assortment of bottles,
part of her declared intention At the time Brian Ingram of from supporters and local sponsors. cans, crisp packets and cigarette
to encourage people to make the NGO declared, “All of us are The NGO would like to butts. However, our litter
the most of the borough’s green HGS residents. We came together thank Ellis and Co Estate Agents, pickers even retrieved a (replica) G Cohen
spaces, and promote healthy because of our mutual annoyance Streathers Solicitors, Gavzey gun and parts of a motor bike.
living during her term in office. at the continued deterioration Opticians, Ant Removals, the Everyone enjoyed themselves ANTIQUE SILVER
When the Northway Gardens of the Rose Gardens area in HGS Trust and the Hampstead and were pleased that local
Organisation (NGO) won the bid Northway Gardens.” Garden Suburb Residents families visiting the park were
to manage the beds five years ago, During her visit the Mayor Association for their support. interested in our efforts with
we wrote that after a long wait saw the evidence to show what
We wish to purchase items of silver in any
Litter picking record? condition. As a long standing resident of the
P R HARTLEY This was the headline on an • only one gas capsule (record Suburb, Gideon Cohen is happy to view

e-mail (reproduced below) sent here is 26) your silverware at home and will make an
CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT to the RA’s message forum, the • two banana skins
& REGISTERED AUDITOR HGS List. It prompted some wry • two fast-food boxes (empty) offer to purchase, free of any obligation.
replies, and opened some eyes. • three coffee cups with lids on
Accounting & Taxation Services “My pick today yielded (inter • one abandoned bag of dog faeces 17 The London Silver Vaults
one heck of a lot of alia): Go on, can anyone beat that? 53-64 Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1QT
Call 020 8731 9745 or 07850 634395 • one full half-bottle of rum REVOLTED. TOM HEINERDORFF 020 7404 1425
• one dead squirrel (no, it was stiff
Email paul@prhartley.co.uk and I didn’t kill it for the record) Thanks to the writer and litter picker, enquiries@gcohen.co.uk
www.prhartley.co.uk • one long piece of motor vehicle Tom – it’s clearly a demanding job www.gcohen.co.uk
• only 4 red bull cans (my but, we hope, much appreciated by
record on this item is 12) the community.
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