Subgroup meeting - Mon Nov 1st at 6:30pm

I've since had a chat with Dorothy and she/we will address the engagement of residents and businesses. I don't know about the other 'tbc's.

I’ve looked at that, but I don’t know which ‘tbc’ items others have responded to, and don’t want to duplicate. Any idea where there are still gaps?

Hi Susan, I think there are agenda items on the draft slides that are marked 'tbc' that need someone to take up the issue. Matthew's email of 31st October gives details.

I’m not sure what’s needed from me - I don’t have anything specifically identified for me to address?

Just a reminder to the engagement subgroup to submit (i.e. email me) your slide for the forum meeting by tomorrow (Friday).

You can use the template attached (which is the same that Matthew circulated)

@Linda Royles you've nailed it - that would have been the sensible approach. Unfortunately social media by its nature tends to encourage participants to dumb down their content, and I'm certainly not immune to that. I am aware and I do try but the occasional post will be sub-optimal.

One problem we have though is that I seem to be the only one on Twitter - we lost Geraldine last year when she decided to concentrate on something else. Lawrence does Instagram I think. We could do with more posts from more of us, with a bit of a discussion about the "voice" that we want to use for FPSGNF.

Thank you both - is there a way to reframe this tweet and instead pose this as a question - one that seeks to engage and informs views surfaced here but on twittersphere? Asks naive of n4

I'm not disputing the negative environmental impact of concrete high-rise development, but not all high-rises are built (or will be built) that way. Crucially, to comment from the account "no more towers" expresses a view that is not that of the Forum, nor that of the community with which we're trying to engage with.

Because of the nuances of the topic (e.g. what if the tower is in cross-laminated timber and built to PassiveHaus standards?) I would refrain from sharing opinions from the Forum's account.

That was me. I assume we are all against climate change? The article is pretty damning.

I just checked our Twitter account and noticed that we shared the article below with a comment against more towers in Finsbury Park. Is this the official position of the Forum?

I don't want to start a debate about whether high-rise buildings are good or not, but purely pointing out that our social media messaging suggests that we as a Forum are against them.

If this is not the case, please whoever manages that account refrain from posting personal views and framing them as the Forum's views?

Link to tweet: https://twitter.com/N4NPForum/status/1453663510710431746

Hi All

Recent tweet from Tiffany:

Here is the new link with the same questions. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc4rmGoMd_Z0zZq0E6Y39tMngxPN8u7TYXLWXgK6Y1bpZrq6w/viewform

She also thanked me for sending it to @N4NPForum.

Sue

I just clecked it and it said "this survey is currently closed". I'll mention it to Ruth Clarke from the FP Network of Women's Groups this morning and see if she's seen it D

will do

I don’t see why not - she seemed keen to get as many responses as possible & her deadline is looming!

Can I circulate this around some of the groups I manage locally ?

good luck today and sorry I cant make this

And here’s the survey link from A-level student Tiffany that she put on Twitter. She also said it only takes 2 minutes and she needs responses by next week. As discussed, I will see if I can make direct contact to let her know about us.

“If you live in the Finsbury Park ward in the Islington borough can you please answer my survey titled "Opinions of the Finsbury park station and the nearby area". This is to help aid my research for my A level geography NEA. Thanks! #finsburypark”

surveymonkey.co.uk/r/V5BL86J

Here’s a reminder about tomorrow’s Finsbury Park SNT meeting - I might make it, but Elizabeth said she could.

Dear Ward Member,

Come and meet your local team tomorrow at Costa Coffee outside Finsbury Tube Station between 12:00 and 13:00 PM.

Regards,

Finsbury Park SNT

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81963890196?pwd=ZXFSNFhtZmhWOXFYdDkwdExDU1RJZz09

Hi, sorry I can't find my Zoom link in my calendar; could someone kindly post the Zoom link here for our meeting at 6.30?

Thanks, sorry to be a pain. Dunno what happened there, it worked fine last time from the calendar .

I won't be able to make today's Engagement meeting, apologies.

However, @Elizabeth Lowe reminded me that at the last meeting I raised a potential issue with us collecting personal data as part of our engagement processes.

Ideally, we should strike a balance between collecting personal data on ethnicity, postcodes, etc. and the need to ensure our engagement process has been inclusive and representative of the local community.

These aspects should be captured, but it should be clear, while we're in the process of collecting the data, that individual persons will not be identifiable unless they agree to be so, and in that case they will have the right to access the information we hold on them and request for it to be deleted.

I trust @Lawrence Singha can implement the same systems that are in place for our Membership list to remain GDPR compliant.

Great questions E. In case there is chance to ask, I was wondering how they are with EID - equality, inclusion and diversity? Also an open question such were there any sorts of groups that helped raise your profile of membership (for ideas and also to use as leverage - for example, if a NF got specific help from their local council.. ) See you later

Great questions Elizabeth. We could also ask how they engaged with young people (we now have an 'in' with the My Place 'team but it would be good to know how other Forum's went about that); also, we could request any top tips from them that may not be covered by the questions.

I have an action to contact other NFs. I propose contacting Somers town and Kentish town. I attach the queries I propose raising. Comments/additions welcome.

Here is the agenda for tomorrow. The minutes of the meeting of 27th September are on the thread for that meeting.

Hallo everyone,

Sorry was out of town yesterday and didn't see the emails til this morning. Let's stick with the Zoom for Monday's meeting, the link to which Adam has already sent out, as Heenaaz is only part time so it is a bit short notice to fix the meeting for Monday, (though I must book the next Planning group meeting with her.) 'See' you at the meeting on Monday evening. Cheers. Susie

Im the haringey bod, let me know if I can look over my patch - I have 20 years in the area. Where poss I will add ones to that. Happy to engage where poss, including farmers market, school etc. I am currently connecting Neighbourhood Watch groups to discuss safety and crime and also linking in with reclaim streets march 04 Dec from Lidl through Fins park to ducketts common

I will circulate an agenda in the next couple of days. Please let me know of any items you want to include.

This is the thread for the current Engagement subgroup, including the meeting on Mon Nov 1st.

Adam, Lawrence, Dorothy, thank you for your work on this.

Adam please send me the login password and anything else I need for the Wordpress site.

I believe our next action needs to be to identify a smaller group from the 37 who would be the apex of a triangle of contacts..i.e those who could put us in touch with other groups/sectors that we could engage with. We will want to contact as many of the 37 as we can..but as a start we need to use those who can best extend our network. I'll make this an agenda item for Monday's meeting.

Dorothy and Lawrence provided most of the input here, identifying 37 groups from the Islington Council list who we should contact as part of the engagement drive.

The 37 groups are now in Wordpress with their email address and ready to be contacted.

You'll need a login to our Wordpress website, so you'll have to let me know. We can keep notes there and share tasks to make sure we don't duplicate our efforts.

Next steps - to start contacting them and to find a source for Haringey and Hackney groups.

The questionnaire needs doing as well - for the public meeting, for the website for anonymous web users and for filling in as a result of the outreach, I think?

We have an action from the last engagement subgroup meeting to review/group the community organisations in the Forum Area.  I suggest we aim to have this done by our next Engagement subgroup meeting on Monday 1st November.

Adam please would you set up a poll for a meeting between Wednesday 13th - 30th October. I suggest you include Saturdays but not Sundays.

I have extended this thread beyond engagement sub group members should any SG members wish to attend or have key points we need to take into account

Dorothy, Adam, Lawrence I hope we can find a date that suits you all as it would very helpful if you can join us as you have done most to compile/discover the lists.

Susie has investigated and confirmed that we can use the FP Trust offices and will book a room once we have agreed a date.

Please do complete the poll. I know that we all have other commitments though am hopeful we can get a nucleus of 3/4 to get us started. Thank you.