Peter Burroughs, our April speaker, will give a talk on Thursday July 8th about Regency Ramsgate at 7.30 Albion House, Albion Gardens, Ramsgate.
Following the talk the ERA will hold its Annual General Meeting where the past Chairman will make a statement, the Treasurer will present the ERA accounts and Chairman and officers will be elected for the coming year.
If you wish to become involved in the ERA, join if you are not a member or just support your local Residents' Association please come.
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Tuesday, 6 July 2010
Thursday, 11 February 2010
ERA Talk cancelled
The talk tonight (11th Feb) has been cancelled due to the weather conditions.Vera Elliott will hopefully tell us about how to achieve a Sustainable Environment next month on 11th March.
Saturday, 6 February 2010
A Sustainable Environment What can we do LOCALLY to achieve this?
Monthly Talk
Albion House 7.30pm Thursday 11th Feb 2010
Vera Elliot
will talk about
A Sustainable Environment
What can we do LOCALLY to achieve this?
www.eastcliffra.org
Vera Elliott has been active in the environmental movement for many years, becoming co-ordinator of Sutton Friends of the Earth in April 1983.
Through the Open University she studied The Handicapped Person in the Community, An Ageing Population, Making Sense of Society, Living with Technology, Man Made Futures, Peoples Policies and Administration and Systems Design.
From 1987-94 as founder-director of registered charity The Centre for Environmental Initiatives (CEI), her work was 'to promote a greater awareness of environmental problems and the potential for resolving them'. Having created the first ever Environmental Charter Vera was instrumental in working up the concept of ‘Towards a Sustainable Sutton’ implemented as The London Borough of Sutton's Local Agenda 21/Sustainable Development Initiative. This became Sutton Environment Network and the CEI has now updated its name to Ecolocal www.ecolocal.org.uk. The borough remains at the forefront of ‘green’ progress serving as a role model throughout Europe and worldwide. She was instrumental in the foundation of the Bioregional Development Group www.bioregional.com, assisted Green & Away to expand from weekend green holidays to Europe’s only eco conference centre www.greenandaway.org.uk, has instigated many projects and worked with organisations in the voluntary, statutory and business sectors.
In September 1994 Vera handed over the work of the CEI to a very capable team, whilst becoming a Trustee of the Centre.
Having moved to Thanet, and now working in a voluntary capacity, she persevered to get a Local Agenda 21 process started there and was chairman of the LA21 Steering Group during its early years. However this group was disbanded in October 2005 due to lack of council commitment. She was founder in 1999 and now manager of Sustainability Actions (SA) - Enabling Change in Thanet, a project that initially benefited from the considerable experience and support of the CEI.
In 1999 she received a Special Mention Certificate in The Queen Mother’s Birthday Awards and has since received a Thanet Local Agenda 21 Award 2000, Kent Award for Volunteering Excellence 2001 and Experience Corps Award 2002 for outstanding service to her local community. In December 2002 Vera was recognised as a ‘Social Entrepreneur’ and from October 2003-June 2005 managed a European funded project enabling SA to facilitate ‘Enterprise and Sustainability Thanet’ (EaST) which worked directly with around 30 local businesses encouraging them to put Corporate Social Responsibility at the forefront of their agendas.
She was Chairman of East Kent Council for Voluntary Service until its demise in December 2006; was a member of the Thanet Voluntary and Community Sector Forum Working Group and Thanet Compact Implementation Group until 2008; a member of the Margate Stronger Safer Communities Board until her resignation on ethical grounds; Thanet Fairtrade Steering Group until early 2009 and is on the committees of Thanet Senior Citizens’ Forum and the Thanet Volunteer Centre. She has organised the KWT Gardening for Wildlife Awards Scheme in Thanet for the past 4 years and would like to enable Thanet’s many residents’ groups to create a forum and to help Dreamland become a ‘Back to the Future’ Visitor Attraction. Climate Change is now top of her agenda and all that must be done at a local and personal level to address this potentially catastrophic situation.
Her overall aim is to achieve a socially, ecologically and economically sustainable society by empowering and networking people's potential - and after that . . . become compost!
--oOo-- Updated 2010
Albion House 7.30pm Thursday 11th Feb 2010
Vera Elliot
will talk about
A Sustainable Environment
What can we do LOCALLY to achieve this?
www.eastcliffra.org
Vera Elliott has been active in the environmental movement for many years, becoming co-ordinator of Sutton Friends of the Earth in April 1983.
Through the Open University she studied The Handicapped Person in the Community, An Ageing Population, Making Sense of Society, Living with Technology, Man Made Futures, Peoples Policies and Administration and Systems Design.
From 1987-94 as founder-director of registered charity The Centre for Environmental Initiatives (CEI), her work was 'to promote a greater awareness of environmental problems and the potential for resolving them'. Having created the first ever Environmental Charter Vera was instrumental in working up the concept of ‘Towards a Sustainable Sutton’ implemented as The London Borough of Sutton's Local Agenda 21/Sustainable Development Initiative. This became Sutton Environment Network and the CEI has now updated its name to Ecolocal www.ecolocal.org.uk. The borough remains at the forefront of ‘green’ progress serving as a role model throughout Europe and worldwide. She was instrumental in the foundation of the Bioregional Development Group www.bioregional.com, assisted Green & Away to expand from weekend green holidays to Europe’s only eco conference centre www.greenandaway.org.uk, has instigated many projects and worked with organisations in the voluntary, statutory and business sectors.
In September 1994 Vera handed over the work of the CEI to a very capable team, whilst becoming a Trustee of the Centre.
Having moved to Thanet, and now working in a voluntary capacity, she persevered to get a Local Agenda 21 process started there and was chairman of the LA21 Steering Group during its early years. However this group was disbanded in October 2005 due to lack of council commitment. She was founder in 1999 and now manager of Sustainability Actions (SA) - Enabling Change in Thanet, a project that initially benefited from the considerable experience and support of the CEI.
In 1999 she received a Special Mention Certificate in The Queen Mother’s Birthday Awards and has since received a Thanet Local Agenda 21 Award 2000, Kent Award for Volunteering Excellence 2001 and Experience Corps Award 2002 for outstanding service to her local community. In December 2002 Vera was recognised as a ‘Social Entrepreneur’ and from October 2003-June 2005 managed a European funded project enabling SA to facilitate ‘Enterprise and Sustainability Thanet’ (EaST) which worked directly with around 30 local businesses encouraging them to put Corporate Social Responsibility at the forefront of their agendas.
She was Chairman of East Kent Council for Voluntary Service until its demise in December 2006; was a member of the Thanet Voluntary and Community Sector Forum Working Group and Thanet Compact Implementation Group until 2008; a member of the Margate Stronger Safer Communities Board until her resignation on ethical grounds; Thanet Fairtrade Steering Group until early 2009 and is on the committees of Thanet Senior Citizens’ Forum and the Thanet Volunteer Centre. She has organised the KWT Gardening for Wildlife Awards Scheme in Thanet for the past 4 years and would like to enable Thanet’s many residents’ groups to create a forum and to help Dreamland become a ‘Back to the Future’ Visitor Attraction. Climate Change is now top of her agenda and all that must be done at a local and personal level to address this potentially catastrophic situation.
Her overall aim is to achieve a socially, ecologically and economically sustainable society by empowering and networking people's potential - and after that . . . become compost!
--oOo-- Updated 2010
Wednesday, 13 January 2010
EAST CLIFF RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION CALLS FOR COMPENSATION FOR RAMSGATE IF AIRPORT IS EXPANDED
In response to the Thanet District Council Core strategy Consultation the East Cliff Residents Association has called for the benefits of airport expansion to be weighed against the possible detrimental effect on Ramsgate.
Paul Warrick, acting Chairman of the Association said: “Expansion of Manston has the potential to bring great benefits to Thanet – but will undoubtedly have a blighting effect on Ramsgate. The core strategy plan doesn’t recognise that the quality of living of 33 % of Thanet’s residents and the values of their homes could be seriously affected by insensitive airport expansion. Obviously ERA does not want to see Ramsgate suffer because of airport operations – and we believe development of the airport should only proceed if the quality of life in Ramsgate is preserved.
The new high speed rail connection, if combined with intelligent strategy set in place by the Ramsgate Town Council, give Ramsgate the potential for substantial regeneration and for large growth in property values. The true cost of insensitive expansion of the airport includes sacrificing that potential. Ramsgate property owners should receive compensation from TDC or the airport operator for the millions of pounds the town will miss out on if TDC puts the needs of Thanet as a whole ahead of , and to the detriment of , Ramsgate.
ERA calls on the RTC Councillors , especially the Councillors who are also on TDC, to put serious effort into ensuring that proper compensation is paid if Ramsgate is going to be sacrificed for the greater good of Thanet.”
Ed. for ERA’s full response to the core strategy consultation click on the link http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/blogpicts110/id5.htm
Paul Warrick, acting Chairman of the Association said: “Expansion of Manston has the potential to bring great benefits to Thanet – but will undoubtedly have a blighting effect on Ramsgate. The core strategy plan doesn’t recognise that the quality of living of 33 % of Thanet’s residents and the values of their homes could be seriously affected by insensitive airport expansion. Obviously ERA does not want to see Ramsgate suffer because of airport operations – and we believe development of the airport should only proceed if the quality of life in Ramsgate is preserved.
The new high speed rail connection, if combined with intelligent strategy set in place by the Ramsgate Town Council, give Ramsgate the potential for substantial regeneration and for large growth in property values. The true cost of insensitive expansion of the airport includes sacrificing that potential. Ramsgate property owners should receive compensation from TDC or the airport operator for the millions of pounds the town will miss out on if TDC puts the needs of Thanet as a whole ahead of , and to the detriment of , Ramsgate.
ERA calls on the RTC Councillors , especially the Councillors who are also on TDC, to put serious effort into ensuring that proper compensation is paid if Ramsgate is going to be sacrificed for the greater good of Thanet.”
Ed. for ERA’s full response to the core strategy consultation click on the link http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/blogpicts110/id5.htm
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