Tricky Skills
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Still, if anyone needs a freelance communications consultant with a network of colleagues for developing their marketing strategy, they now know where to look.
DietCokeGirl
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This exhibition of photos at Black Cultural Archives is worth a look, some great images.
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Tricky Skills
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I find this tweet rather inappropriate. The funeral for Cllr Parr is not until 31st August. Was the selfie really necessary?
When we posted this story on Buzz ahead of the Gipsy Hill 2016 by-election, there was an awful lot of pressure coming from Lambeth Labour for us to withdraw the piece.
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Paul Gadsby is councillor in Vassal
Philip Normal is councillor in Oval and has a shop in Granville Arcade.
Tricky Skills
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Funnily enough, Cllr Gadsby (far right) was the one leading the charge against Buzz two years ago, trying to shame us for posting up a news story.
He doesn't look too "sad" about the death of his colleague in that nasty tweet.
He doesn't look too "sad" about the death of his colleague in that nasty tweet.
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Actually, we won't take any lessons from Cllr Mohammed on social media etiquette after his sharing of a deeply anti-Semitic video.
I'm no flag waver for the Tories, but this is a little crass as well.
I'm no flag waver for the Tories, but this is a little crass as well.
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Gramsci
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Agree the LD leaflet covers same issues as local Greens. The LDs are going for same voter profile. I did see the LD canvassers. Very young and enthusiastic looking. Are LDs rebuilding after local and national setbacks?. The Brexit issue distinguishes them from main parties but not Greens.
I thought the leaflet was rather good.
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The Brixton Arches weren't 'demolished'! Who writes this nonsense?
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I see. Should say evicted.
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Thanks for this. I will go. Noticed this in the link
Not before time. Its just been the small exhibition space that has been open before to visitors. And the unused cafe space. Which could be really good.
TBH I've never found the BCA an inviting place to visit. Its a great building and could be good place to meet. I like visiting galleries/ museums but keep forgetting about BCA.
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It's been pretty awful to date. So much space, yet to little stuff for the public to see, and so few new exhibitions every year. I sometimes wonder if they got more visitors when they were opposite the Dogstar.
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Note Irfan Mohammed (who self-referred himself to Labour disciplinary panel recently) was an active and opinionated tweeter. This would have been approx a year after his "tasteless" repetition of a message claiming Jews had been advised not to go to work in the twin towers on 9/11.
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I think their agent if the same as the May elections lives in Coldharbour Lane (191 I think). So there is probably local input there!
However the sentiment is spot on, and it’s all very similar to general sentiment here.
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Urban75 is well known for being closely aligned with the Lib Dem viewpoint.
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The complication is that the BCA is an archive. That's not the same as being a gallery or a museum space, and has a different purpose & audience.
Whilst they do have exhibition space, their funding is going to be predominantly focused on documenting and preserving (and then allowing access) to the archive. This tends to be from individuals and academics, plus groups, e.g. schools. All of which is time consuming and requiring a resource heavy. Funds to run additional events / exhibitions and workshops come through generated income surplus (of which there's none) or grants.
They're operating on quite tight financial margins - income was 0.8m, expenditure was 0.8m so unless money is raised they don't have the resources to run it like a gallery / museum to cater for things outside of their primary purpose.
They are still advertising for volunteer roles to support that - (here: About in the volunteering section) if you want to help them open up more.
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It still feels like it's massively under performing though. They're smack-bang in the heart of Brixton in a beautiful building yet every time I've been there the place has been deserted, the cafe almost empty and nothing going on in the courtyard.
It surely couldn't be that hard to at least use some of that space for more regular and engaging exhibitions. Ones like this, for example, that only needed a single room in the town hall: In photos: Harry Jacobs and the Empire Windrush exhibition, Lambeth Town Hall. Even local history stuff in the cafe would encourage more people to visit.
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How do you know they're underperfoming and what are you measuring that by?
Do you know the number of people who are using the archive, or the progress towards cataloguing and digitising the archive?
Your definition of performance may not be what they've said they need to do in their annual strategy... and if you're operating with a few grand between profit and loss, as a charity (or any other type of operation) you have to be harsh on what you do and don't do based on that strategy. Their accounts I linked to show their business objectives for the last year, and I assume outline ones for the current financial year.
The Harry Jacobs exhibition required a whole bunch of work* that the Council will happily cover the costs of as it gets people into the new town hall. From my skim of the BCA accounts they don't have the funds to do that.
*The usual PLL, risk assessment, stewarding, set up, take down, launch event, monitoring etc.
Do you know the number of people who are using the archive, or the progress towards cataloguing and digitising the archive?
Your definition of performance may not be what they've said they need to do in their annual strategy... and if you're operating with a few grand between profit and loss, as a charity (or any other type of operation) you have to be harsh on what you do and don't do based on that strategy. Their accounts I linked to show their business objectives for the last year, and I assume outline ones for the current financial year.
The Harry Jacobs exhibition required a whole bunch of work* that the Council will happily cover the costs of as it gets people into the new town hall. From my skim of the BCA accounts they don't have the funds to do that.
*The usual PLL, risk assessment, stewarding, set up, take down, launch event, monitoring etc.
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I'm measuring it by the fact that it's always empty when I've been there, the cafe is always empty and everyone I talk to is disappointed by it. Do you think it's a raging success then?
Financially it certainly seems to be underperforming Lambeth Council considering funding Black Cultural Archives £540,000 for a further three years and I'd say everyone there had to be disappointed by a £50,000 crowfunding campaign that only managed to reach a mere 2% of its target.
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snowy_again
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So not basing it on anything other than your drive by perception of how a minor hospitality element is or isn't working to your demographic. I'm sure the trustees are waiting on your phone call.
Here's their plans for the current year and beyond. Tea and coffees don't currently appear to be a priority:
Here's their plans for the current year and beyond. Tea and coffees don't currently appear to be a priority:
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Oh it's let's be sarky time along with some selective quoting while ignoring the other points I raised. Nice.
Now tell me how the fuck you know who 'my demographic' supposedly are? How can you have an idea of who I've been talking to? Back up or button up.
But no, I wouldn't call a community based organisation who only managed to reach 2% of their crowdfunding appeal for funds to to stay open a raging success.
Oh, and IIRC correctly there was a discussion on Reclaim Brixton a while ago where many locals said that they were disappointed with the BCA. But if you think it's doing a great job, that's fine.
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