Haringey Alliance for Public Services

Haringey residents and workers march to defend local public services under threat

On Tuesday February 28th 150 residents and workers from a wide range of local concerned organisations marched to the Civic Centre to defend vital local services and jobs under threat. The demonstration, co-ordinated by the Haringey Alliance for Public Services, demanded Councillors reject proposals for another £21m of savage Government-driven cuts. Press release, 28.2.2012 After [...]

Written on February 28, 2012 | Posted in Benefits & Welfare Services,Burial Services,Education & Children's Services,Haringey Public Service news,Haringey Residents' Associations,Health services,Housing,Older people's services,Parks Services,Public transport,Voluntary services,Youth Services | Comments Off

ACCOUNTABLE HARINGEY

ACCOUNTABLE HARINGEY Holding to account public bodies funded with our money We are just a group of residents in Haringey who pay taxes and vote for representation. We are not representing any political party, but are clear that this Tory led coalition is playing a huge part in the social destruction of our borough. We [...]

Written on February 15, 2012 | Posted in Benefits & Welfare Services,Burial Services,Education & Children's Services,Haringey Public Service news,Housing,Older people's services,Parks Services,Public transport,Voluntary services,Youth Services | Comments Off

Welbourne Centre Campaign: Fight goes on to stay at community centre

[Haringey Advertiser] CAMPAIGNERS fighting to save the Welbourne Centre, in Tottenham, from closure met last week to discuss its fate. The Caribbean Senior Citizens’ Association hires the premises from Haringey Council and is being forced to leave after failing to pay rent for a year. The association owes more than £20,000 in arrears and court [...]

Written on December 4, 2011 | Posted in Haringey Public Service news,Older people's services,Youth Services | Comments Off

Save Our Community School: Downhills Primary Anti-Academy Meeting

Michael Gove, Secretary of State, wants to force Haringey Primary Schools to become academies. The Head Teachers, Teaching Unions, PTAs, governing bodies and other community groups oppose this idea and are launching a campaign to put pressure on the local authority to prevent them agreeing to this disastrous direction for education in the borough. See [...]

Written on November 15, 2011 | Posted in Education & Children's Services,Haringey Public Service news,Youth Services | Comments Off

Fri 4th Nov: Reopen Haringey’s Youth centres! Restore the EMA! Decent jobs for youth!

Join the Jarrow March this Friday 3pm, CONEL, Tottenham High Road. Watch a video by Save Haringey Youth Services Campaign Here. Youth Fight for Jobs and Day-Mer Youth, supported by HAPS, Haringey Unison & CONEL UCU, organised a lobby of the council cabinet meeting in the aftermath of the riots to demand the immediate re-opening [...]

Written on November 3, 2011 | Posted in Haringey Public Service news,Youth Services | Leave a comment

Save the Welbourne Centre, Tottenham

The Welbourne Centre in Tottenham has been given notice that bailiffs will be coming to the Centre on Wednesday 26th October. This will spell the end of one of the few community Centres in the Tottenham area which is home to teenagers as well as pensioners. The locals who use the Centre have sworn to [...]

Written on October 24, 2011 | Posted in Haringey Public Service news,Older people's services,Youth Services | Leave a comment

£19m of budget cuts put forward by Haringey Council

Haringey Independent – Thursday 6th October 2011 A RAFT of cuts totaling £19m from Haringey Council‘s budget have been proposed. The next stage of cuts to all areas of the authority’s work were provisionally approved by senior councillors on Tuesday night, to take effect within the next two years. However, finance boss Councillor Joe Goldberg [...]

Written on October 18, 2011 | Posted in Haringey Public Service news,Haringey Residents' Associations,Housing,Older people's services,Parks Services,Youth Services | Leave a comment

Angry women show staged to save West Indian centre in Hornsey

A cultural centre under threat after a major funding cut has staged a special theatre performance to raise much-needed funds to secure its future. The West Indian Cultural Centre in Clarendon Road, Hornsey, lost all its external funding and was forced to make four staff redundant and drastically reduce services in March. But cultural chairwoman [...]

Written on August 9, 2011 | Posted in Education & Children's Services,Haringey Public Service news,Youth Services | Leave a comment

Haringey residents and workers march through the borough to defend vital local services

Report, 27.6.2011 Haringey Alliance for Public Services held a lively and powerful demonstration on Saturday June 25th to oppose public service cuts. Over 250 local residents and workers marched from the Haringey Civic Centre in Wood Green, via Turnpike Lane and Seven Sisters, to Tottenham Town Hall. A wide range of community and trade union [...]

Written on July 2, 2011 | Posted in Benefits & Welfare Services,Education & Children's Services,Haringey Residents' Associations,Housing,News,Older people's services,Parks Services,Voluntary services,Youth Services | Leave a comment

Haringey youth service counselling service to close in two weeks

COUNSELLING FOR YOUNG PEOPLE TO CLOSE IN TWO WEEKS Teenagers across the borough are upset to hear that the counselling service run by Haringey youth service will cease from April 1st 2011 [in two weeks time]. The service is much used by young people in the borough who have been victims of crime, abuse and [...]

Written on March 15, 2011 | Posted in News,Youth Services | Leave a comment

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