Some of the agenda items that will be discussed are:
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
KINGSBURY AND KENTON AREA FORUM
The next meeting of the area forum will take place on Tuesday 17th July at Kingsbury High School, Princess Ave, NW9.
Some of the agenda items that will be discussed are:
Some of the agenda items that will be discussed are:
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
NEW FOOTBALL FACILITIES IN WEMBLEY
A new sports ground is to open
near Preston Road Station in North Wembley giving local footballers first-class
pitches to play on.
Local young people in
particular will benefit from the opening of the Pellatt Road Sports Ground,
which will host an extensive football programme for players from Fryent run by
AFC Wembley.
Residents are being invited to
take a first-look at the fantastic new facility at an event on June 16, where
young people will also be able to put their names down for the football
programme.
Brent Council worked with AFC
Wembley and Middlesex FA to develop the £135,500 project and win a Football
Foundation grant to help pay for it.
The former GEC sports ground at
Pellatt Road was drained and re-levelled so it can now be used all year round
for football and Gaelic football, and a full-sized pitch, a youth football size
pitch and two mini-pitches were added to the pavilion already there. It will
open to the public from August.
The football programme is aimed
at giving local young people somewhere to go and play and to reduce anti-social
behaviour in the area.
See the location here - http://goo.gl/maps/Vi55
George Crane
Monday, June 11, 2012
VADAFONE PAY NO UK TAXES
It was reported by the Sunday Times over the weekend that
Vodafone have avoided paying any corporation tax in the UK for 2011. Despite
having a massive presence in the UK with a large customer base, they avoided
paying tax by using off shore companies mainly in Luxemburg. Vodafone only made
profits of 402M up 16% on the previous year and in 2010 its tax bill was 140 M
In 2011 Vodafone Tax bill -
Nil, zero, nothing.
Those profits came from individuals and companies, most if
not all, will pay UK taxes. I think it’s time Vodafone customers in the UK send
this company a message by signing off and joining a network that does
contribute in the UK and pays UK Tax.
George Crane
Thursday, June 7, 2012
COUNCIL TAX BENEFIT SUPPORT
There is bad news on the
way for local residents who currently get Council Tax Benefit.
Localising support for council tax
The government is proposing to localise support for council tax from
2013–14. CTB will be abolished, and local authorities in England – and the
Scottish and Welsh governments – must design their own systems for rebating
council tax to low-income families. Entitlement rates for pensioners in England
will still be set nationally and maintained at their existing level.
Cutting support for
council tax
As well as localising support for council tax, the government is
also planning to cut funding for it by 10 per cent, giving each local authority
a grant based on 90 per cent of what would have been spent on CTB in that area
– meaning a larger cash funding cut in areas where CTB spending is higher.
Central government is
forcing each local authority to come up with its own scheme for Council Tax
benefit, and abolishing the national scheme. Brent will be publishing its
proposals for consultation in early June. These are being rushed through
for implementation in April 2013, which effectively means that Councils will
have had little time to respond and consult on the government plans by the end
of this year.
The April 2013 deadline
means that the necessary scheme design
and implementation is kept to an almost impossibly short time table.
This is just another example
of Government making decisions that Local Councils have to implement and
probably will get the blame for.
Please pass this on so as many people as
possible know what’s happening.
Fryent Councillors.
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