The Kilburn Rose

Residents continue to voice concerns about the lack of youth facilities and therefore absence of youth service support in the North Kilburn area. Several small initiatives are taking place but no overall solution to the problem that there are no facilities in which to locate youth and community workers and to co-ordinate programmes to focus on the local needs. Here's a quick update:

Developments
- Commitment from Kilburn Youth Centre to provide generic and music-specific sessions for young people from North Kilburn
- Funding commitment from South Kilburn NDC
- Brent Centre for young people running a workshop for 5 young people to run a film project on their experience of living in Kilburn and to promote services for young people, including sexual health, drug and related problems.

Issues
Scout Hut, designated for community use, has been on market and a commercial buyer is showing interest, but constrained by planning consent. Applicants will need to show there is no demand for community facilities and/or make contribution to reproviding this. Funding from the Kilburn Sq development due to go to planning committee this month could also contribute.

Residents around Dunster Gardens and James Stewart House in Dyne Rd are concerned about the anti-social behaviour of some young people in the area and point out there are a lack of facilities. They have petitioned for action and I am leading a multi-agency group to address the problems.

Mary Arnold

Come to the branch AGM plus monthly meeting on: Thursday 1st
February, at 7.30pm, at Community Resource Centre, South Kilburn
Housing Office, Albert Road (use entrance on left side of building).

Agenda:

AGM:
1 Apologies for absence
2 Officers’ reports
3 Election of branch officers and delegates
4 AOB

Monthly meeting:
1 Branch news
2 Council news
3 Any other business

Please note the venue and start time. Contact a branch officer for
further directions on how to find the venue.

This is your chance to play a bigger role in the branch: All the
posts (except for Councillor!) are up for election/re-election at the
AGM. We need to fill them all – plus we should have a branch
organiser – so if you think you might be interested, come to the
meeting or contact Dan.

This is your chance to play a bigger role in the constituency: We can
also make nominations for LGC delegates and CLP officers – the new
constituency is eager to get more input from our side of the High Road.

Executive positions are: Chair, Treasurer, Secretary, Vice-chair
(Campaigns), Vice-Chair (Membership), Women’s Officer and Youth Officer.

Functional roles include: Fundraising Officer, Education Liaison
Officer (Brent), Political Education Officer, Trade Union Liaison
Officer, Press Officer, Senior Citizens, Auditor, Fraternal Delegate
to Brent CLPs, IT Officer, Health Liaison Officer and Disability
Officer.

<i>Branch meetings normally first Thursday of each month (except
August). GC meetings, which any member is entitled to attend and
speak at (though only official branch delegates may vote), are at the
Kingsgate Centre on the fourth Thursday of the month (except August).
Contact Dan Judelson for further details.</i>