This month with LCAP – get involved!

Posted on | November 10, 2009 | No Comments

There’s loads of things coming up this month and lots of chances to get involved. Get your diary out, have a glance at this post and see what you fancy!

Coming up this month…

This Thur 12 Nov 8pm Benefit for SELCAP and migrant worker poster campaign

At the Brixton Jam, punk bands and fun to be had! The benefit is to raise money for a South East London Coalition Against Poverty project, which will put together posters of stories from migrant workers in London and in detention centres to put up around London.

Every Thursday 12.00-13.00 Hackney Unemployed Workers Group Meeting

The group offers support to people who are being treated badly at the job centre or have issues with their claims; we take action to improve the way job centres in Hackney treat their clients; and we want to stop ‘work for your benefit’ being introduced in Hackney. Come along to find out how you can get involved.

Sat 14 Nov 11.00-13.00 Hackney Residents Group Meeting

At Navarino Mansions Community Hall (Dalston Lane, London E8 1AJ). The nearest stations are Hackney Central Overground or Hackney Downs Rail (which you can get from Liverpool Street Station). Also the 38 bendy bus stops outside.There is childcare and refreshments during the meetings.

Sat 14 Nov 11.30-17.30 No to Welfare Abolition National Planning Meeting in Manchester

More information here: http://www.lcap.org.uk/?p=253
Contact hackneyunemployedworkers@gmail.com if you’d like to travel up with us!

Wed 18 Nov 18.30-19.30 Meeting to discuss potential Key Meter campaign

Electricity/Gas companies charge far too much on key meters. Too many people can’t afford heating this winter. At the last LCAP meeting, we agreed to do some initial research on ways to tackle this, for example a take-up drive to encourage thousands of households with key-meters to apply to the company’s “charity” for help paying their bills.If you’re interested in getting involved, come along to this meeting at LCAP’s office – above Freedom Bookshop, Angel Alley, 84b Whitechapel High St, London, E1 7QX (we’ll move to a different space for the casework meeting to use the office)
Wed 18 Nov 19.00 Casework meeting

At LCAP’s office – above Freedom Bookshop, Angel Alley, 84b Whitechapel High St, London, E1 7QX If you have taken on casework recently, come along to share ideas and information, identify issues we can challenge collectively, and find out about LCAP’s support systems for caseworkers. If you haven’t been involved in casework, but are interested in getting involved, email us to find out if this meeting is the right one for you. Bring food to share!

Sat 21 Nov 9pm-6am Benefit Party for LCAP!

Private central London location (call partyline on the night 0797 558 1469). 2 rooms playing: Dubstep, DnB, Jungle, Bastard Pop, Punk, Ska, Wonk and Techno! Massive sound system provided by Underkonstruktion, RedEye and Flipside. More info here:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=166735786248

Sun 22 Nov 1.30-17.30 How will the Welfare ‘Abolition’ Bill affect us?

Hackney Unemployed Workers are organising a day to find out what the draconian changes in the Welfare Abolition Bill will mean for single parents, disabled people, carers, unemployed workers and job centre workers. Please help spread the word far and wide. See full details here: http://www.lcap.org.uk/?p=259
Thur 25 Nov SELCAP meeting

7.30pm at Deptford Housing Co-op. Email southeastlcap@gmail.com for more info.

Fri 27-Sat 28 Nov Office clean-up

If you’d like to help out contact Sarah.

Sat 28 Nov 11.00-13.00 Hackney Residents Group Meeting

At Navarino Mansions Community Hall (Dalston Lane, London E8 1AJ). The nearest stations are Hackney Central Overground or Hackney Downs Rail (which you can get from Liverpool Street Station). Also the 38 bendy bus stops outside.There is childcare and refreshments during the meetings.

Wed 2 Dec 19.00 Casework meeting

At LCAP’s office – above Freedom Bookshop, Angel Alley, 84b Whitechapel High St, London, E1 7QX If you have taken on casework recently, come along to share ideas and information, identify issues we can challenge collectively, and find out about LCAP’s support systems for caseworkers. If you haven’t been involved in casework, but are interested in getting involved, email us to find out if this meeting is the right one for you. Bring food to share!
Sat 5 Dec 12pm-3pm LCAP General Meeting

Hear report backs on what’s been going on this month, help plan our next steps as an organisation and get involved in taking our plans forward. Please bring ideas to add to to the agenda or email us if you want anything added.Venue tbc, but likely to be Navarino Mansions.

You can get involved…

Go leafleting!

We need people to leaflet outside:

• Job centres in Hackney
• Homeless Persons Units in Hackney and Tower Hamlets
• In South East London too

If you ever have an hour or two to spare Monday-Friday, get in touch and we’ll help find someone else available then too!

Go postering!

Hackney Unemployed Workers group want to get the word out about our event on 22 Nov (See above) as far as possible. If you have time to go out putting posters up, please email hackneyunemployedworkers@gmail.com or download them here and print some yourself! If you have time after the 22nd Nov, we also have general posters we need help with and SELCAP’s migrant worker poster campaign will need some posterers too!

Help do up the office

We want to do up the office this month to make it more user-friendly and a space where children can feel comfortable too.

• Can you provide any of these bits… shelves, toys, paint, blinds/curtains, a small sofa?
• Are you free to help out on the afternoon/evening of Friday 27th November or during the day on Friday 28th November?

If so contact Sarah.

Help with research to support our working groups

Hackney residents group have asked for support from a project group who would concentrate on research, press and outreach work, including cultivating the interest of particular councillors or MPs sympathetic to actually getting the policies that are being ignored by local authorities realized.
We need people willing to take part in a group, which would start by listening to the Hackney Residents’ Group and Hackney Unemployed Workers group, and undertaking research about widely felt issues which we could win a campaign on.

If this is something you would be interested in doing, please email londoncoalitionagainstpoverty@gmail.com, and come along to one of the next residents’ meetings 14 or 28 November, and an Unemployed Workers meeting on a Thursday!

We’re also looking for people to help us make solidarity links with other organisations and to help with our email admin. Let us know if you’re interested!

Join Hackney Unemployed Workers group or Hackney Residents Group

Come to the next Hackney Residents Meeting to organise action for better housing!

The meetings are a space for support on housing cases and situations and to campaign for overall change! Saturday 14th November 11 am – 1 pm at Navarino Mansions Community Hall (Dalston Lane, London E8 1AJ). The nearest stations are Hackney Central Overground or Hackney Downs Rail (which you can get from Liverpool Street Station). Also the 38 bendy bus stops outside.There is childcare and refreshments during the meetings.

Come to one of the weekly Hackney Unemployed Workers meetings and help build the campaign for justice at the job centre and against welfare abolition!

Every Thursday 12pm at Cafe Bohemia, 2 Bohemia Place, off Mare St, Hackney. Opposite Hackney Central station. Tea and coffee provided. They say:”There are 37 claimants for every new job in Hackney. Being unemployed isn’t our fault and we’re sick of being treated like we’ve done something wrong when we’re using the Jobcentre.We believe that by coming together and standing up for each other we can get the rights we are so often denied when we’re claiming what is rightfully ours.”

Have a look at our blog too.

South London and Tower Hamlets

There are also groups meeting in Tower Hamlets and South East London. Please email londoncoalitionagainstpoverty@gmail.com for more details.

Volunteer at the office!

We’re always aiming to staff the LCAP office as regularly as possible. At the AGM we agreed to aim to have it regularly staffed on Mondays and Thursdays but any time you’ve got that you fancy spending in the office is gratefully received! With that in mind, here are the November and December office shift sign up sheets. Just click on a link, update it and save it.

November: http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AQG8uQxJ2AdLZGZudjk4ajRfNTZxYjdmdHpmYg&hl=en_GB

December: http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AQG8uQxJ2AdLZGZudjk4ajRfNTc5bm00M3ZnYw&hl=en_GB

If you haven’t done an office shift before and you’d like to, just send us an email and we can arrange an induction for you so you know where everything is.

Sign your friends and family (and yourself!) up to standing orders

LCAP is a grassroots organisation that is funded by the grassroots. We don’t spend loads of money, but we currently are spending more than is coming in. Help us to take advantage of seasonal cheer this winter by inviting your friends and family to make a regular donation to LCAP by standing order. Email londoncoalitionagainstpoverty@gmail.com for our account number and sort code. People can then sign up through their online banking or at their bank.

That’s all for now… hope to see you at something this month!

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