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CH1 said:
I know nothing about this - though may investigate further if it is not resolved. I would say that unfortunately in Mental Health charities is is quite normal to have massive problems due to bitter personal disputes.

Southwark MIND came a cropper a couple of years ago and had to be restructured as the dispute became legal challenges, and being unincorporated, the organisation's trustees could have been at risk of personal financial liability.

The MIND functions were merged into Lambeth MIND (a company limited by guarantee) and the more free-wheeling community activities (mainly poetry writing I gather) moved into another organisation called Southwark Association for Mental Health.
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Not all MH charities but indeed the larger ones are very political places.
 
Trinity has always been pretty white, in my experience. Even when the bar was mostly propped up by older local chaps. And I was probably in there two or three nights a week when I lived around the corner.
 
editor said:
For some reason, my story about Brixton being renamed East Clapham is all over social media again and spawning fresh outraged comments!
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Two of our young front of house staff told me this tonight, with some horror. I said it was old news and that Clapham residents were now asking that Clapham Common be re-named West Brixton. They believed me for a moment, until I rescued them from their even more extreme horror.
 
Rushy said:
Trinity has always been pretty white, in my experience. Even when the bar was mostly propped up by older local chaps. And I was probably in there two or three nights a week when I lived around the corner.
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Much as it pains me to agree with the poster I'm quoting, as I have nothing in common with him and often retch when reading his posts, but the above is true. The Trinity has always been an inordinately white, middle class boozer, both clientele and staff. I took an Asian ex in there a few times, and although she liked it, she certainly noticed. All that said, it's a nice pub - just not one reflective of the diversity in Brixton (some of us) know and love.
 
shifting gears said:
Much as it pains me to agree with the poster I'm quoting, as I have nothing in common with him and often retch when reading his posts, but the above is true. The Trinity has always been an inordinately white, middle class boozer, both clientele and staff. I took an Asian ex in there a few times, and although she liked it, she certainly noticed. All that said, it's a nice pub - just not one reflective of the diversity in Brixton (some of us) know and love.
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It's pleasant enough, but it's not the kind of boozer I'm interested in. All a bit too Home Counties to me.
 
Rushy said:
Trinity has always been pretty white, in my experience. Even when the bar was mostly propped up by older local chaps. And I was probably in there two or three nights a week when I lived around the corner.
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Older chaps = council hacks.
They are being "regenerated"!
 
shifting gears said:
Much as it pains me to agree with the poster I'm quoting, as I have nothing in common with him and often retch when reading his posts, but the above is true. The Trinity has always been an inordinately white, middle class boozer, both clientele and staff. I took an Asian ex in there a few times, and although she liked it, she certainly noticed. All that said, it's a nice pub - just not one reflective of the diversity in Brixton (some of us) know and love.
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You've had a girlfriend? :eek:
 
So long as venues do not seek to manage or influence the racial makeout of its clientele in any way, I have always been wary of criticising any establishment on the basis of its racial demographics myself. Some bars and pubs are pretty mixed, some have punters of predominantly one racial group, and others are almost exclusively patronised by people of the same skin colour. I'm not one to judge The Trinity because most customers are white any more than I would judge, say, the bar on Norwood Road which name escapes me whose clientele is almost exclusively black. That way madness lies IMO.
 
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That's easy to say when the predominant demographic is white and you're white I guess. I'd not speak for how a poc felt in a bar that was mostly white... I have no way of knowing and suspect it depends on the bar and the person involved.
 
Casaubon said:
I've just received the latest edition of Lambeth Talk, and this piece on Somerleyton Rd caught my eye.

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I'm sure the ex-residents of Carlton Mansions will be happy to hear that 'the local community will be involved in the long-term management of the development'.
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Apparently the issue of the mural is not so clear cut.

Perhaps boohoo can give us an update.

I try to not read this PR.

Its about time the Council explained how exactly the community will be involved in the management.

I would also like to know how the Tories new Housing and Planning Bill will affect the scheme.

From what I have read having a Coop will not stop RTB under the new bill.
 
Gramsci said:
Apparently the issue of the mural is not so clear cut.
Perhaps boohoo can give us an update.
I try to not read this PR.
Its about time the Council explained how exactly the community will be involved in the management.
I would also like to know how the Tories new Housing and Planning Bill will affect the scheme.

From what I have read having a Coop will not stop RTB under the new bill.
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I was taken with the picture of Jane Edbrooke's sniffer dog - which she will use to sniff out illegal tobacco apparently (page 5)

I don't think this means wacky baccy - more untaxed baccy.

Why is the council doing the job of Customs and Excise for them, when they normally complain they have been given 56% cuts and can't do anything at all other than cut their normal services, collect the council tax and award community grants to erect shipping containers?

Also I note that we in Coldharbour Lane have been spared this organ (at least so far this year). I only know what's in it due to flat minding for a friend in Morval Road.
 
Maharani said:
Does anyone know if Clubhouse, the Mind organisation on Brixton Road has closed down?
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Clubhouse is very much up and running, although it is nothing to do with MIND and is on Effra Road, not Brixton Road.

According to Lambeth Council's "The Collaborative" which is supposed to co-ordinate our mental health it is a Vibrant Hub.

The canteen is quite good - but much too cheap for Urbanites (50 p for instant coffee, 60 p for "percolated" I believe).

I go there on Mondays for them to weigh me, measure my blood pressure and ask me questions about my mood state.

You can get drawn into it - it has a "work ethos" which means people who have been dumped for years in bedsits on Olanzapine and now weight 20 stone can learn basic office skills, cooking or gardening.

If they are really keen they can the do a ¼ share job in supported employment, with a view to progressing further.

I have to say I don't fancy all that myself, but in my view the Club house pisses all over the Effra Day Centre which previously had that building.

Its just a pity their old premises in Thornton Ward were sold off to be used as a private Catholic Gells school charging £14,000 a term.

I expect that is where Mark Carney's daughters go.
 
CH1 said:
Clubhouse is very much up and running, although it is nothing to do with MIND and is on Effra Road, not Brixton Road.

According to Lambeth Council's "The Collaborative" which is supposed to co-ordinate our mental health it is a Vibrant Hub.

The canteen is quite good - but much too cheap for Urbanites (50 p for instant coffee, 60 p for "percolated" I believe).

I go there on Mondays for them to weigh me, measure my blood pressure and ask me questions about my mood state.

You can get drawn into it - it has a "work ethos" which means people who have been dumped for years in bedsits on Olanzapine and now weight 20 stone can learn basic office skills, cooking or gardening.

If they are really keen they can the do a ¼ share job in supported employment, with a view to progressing further.

I have to say I don't fancy all that myself, but in my view the Club house pisses all over the Effra Day Centre which previously had that building.

Its just a pity their old premises in Thornton Ward were sold off to be used as a private Catholic Gells school charging £14,000 a term.

I expect that is where Mark Carney's daughters go.
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Thanks. I meant Mosaic not Mind!
 
Does anyone know how long the road resurfacing work on Acre Lane/Coldharbour Lane/Brixton Rd junction is going to go on? The hammering beeping crushing drilling and flashing lights are doing my head in, haven't slept properly for days. (Of course I know the work is necessary, was looking at the bus lanes on Acre La the other day and noticing the road surface looked like an especially 'homemade' crumble topping, with massive craters and bumps all over - just want to know how long it will last.)
 
Gramsci said:
Apparently the issue of the mural is not so clear cut.

Perhaps boohoo can give us an update.

I try to not read this PR.

Its about time the Council explained how exactly the community will be involved in the management.

I would also like to know how the Tories new Housing and Planning Bill will affect the scheme.

From what I have read having a Coop will not stop RTB under the new bill.
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The preservation of the mural is definitely within all the architects plans and costings - and is within the scheme approved at Planning. The Plannning committee specifically mentioned the preservation of the mural.

Long term management has been the subject of some intense scrutiny and exploration by a Task and Finish group (aka working party) - to take into account all the issues you raise and more, including the feedback from the community throughout all the various consultations, and the financial viability. I haven't been a member of that group and not yet party to the complexities of the discussion, but once the recommendations are reported the next steps will be publicly reported.
 
Local musician Misty Miller in today's Standard: Misty Miller on the Brixton Windmill, punk rock and her kind of feminism
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shifting gears said:
Much as it pains me to agree with the poster I'm quoting, as I have nothing in common with him and often retch when reading his posts, but the above is true. The Trinity has always been an inordinately white, middle class boozer, both clientele and staff. I took an Asian ex in there a few times, and although she liked it, she certainly noticed. All that said, it's a nice pub - just not one reflective of the diversity in Brixton (some of us) know and love.
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Retching when reading internet posts? time to visit the doctor. :(
 
boohoo said:
yes I do. Shall I chase him on this?
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Yes, he will have all the details of the works scheduled to make the wall and render stable and preserve the artwork.
Timetable won't be known definitely until the procurement process for the contractors is complete.
 
Sad to hear today - while buying essentials from Diamond plumbers' merchants on Acre Lane - that they are soon to leave. Boss has sold the site for more than £5m! Inevitably, more flats.
A load of jobbing fellas in the queue were really quite distraught...
 
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