October Meeting (AGM)

At the AGM , Jules Tennick replaced Mike Tyzack as Coordinator; Catharine Browne continues as Treasurer and Virginia Fassnidge continues as Chair.

We took the opportunity to look back over the year. Because we hadn’t gone all out on either of the main FoE campaigns (Get Serious and Food Chain) there was a feeling that we hadn’t been doing much; however, as soon as we began to list all the things we had done we realised that we had in fact been very busy.

 

We had a stall in Ealing Broadway Centre last autumn to publicise the Renewables Campaign, and during 2009 we collected signatures for Get Serious and the Food Chain at various venues, including Ealing Farmers’ Market. We had stalls at Hanwell Carnival, Ealing Homes Fun Day and CAPE (Community Action Project Ealing) Fun Day, and jointly with Brentford & Hounslow FoE we attended Sonic Recycler at Watermans, Osterley Day, and Brentford Festival.

We didn’t attempt much fundraising this year; however, we took just over £26 at Sonic Recycler, nearly £40 at Brentford Festival and last month a car boot sale netted us over £67.

 

EFoE members took part in two huge events, the National Climate March in December and the March for Jobs, Justice and the Climate in March, as well as several demos concerning the expansion of Heathrow.

 

A speaker from Food not Fuel came to one of our meetings to talk about biofuels, and subsequently EFoE helped with the Food Not Fuel / Biofuelwatch campaign against the proposed biofuel plant in Southall.

 

At another meeting a speaker from CAG Consultants gave us information about the West London Waste Plan and collected our responses as part of the consultation.

EFoE submitted a response to consultation on the plans for the Arcadia Centre.

 

Members attended various FoE events, including the Local Groups Conference.

 

Besides all this, we had two enjoyable social evenings, one at the New Inn in South Ealing in December, and another in August at Crispins Wine Bar on Ealing Green, and several of us went to the local People’s Premiere of the film “Age of Stupid”.

 

There may well be other things we did over the course of the year, but the above list goes to show that we have been pretty active.