[Reclaimmayday] [Fwd: RE: market stalls 28 April]

protag protag at aktivix.org
Sat Apr 14 13:40:42 UTC 2012


Hi

I couldn't send this email last week and decided not to retype it on a
different gadget.

Now it's sent itself somehow. 

Just explaining why I'm a week late. Feel free to ignore.

sols

ptg


n Sat, 7 Apr 2012 10:53:58 +0100, Protag <protag at phonecoop.coop> wrote:
> Hi Jules & Heather.
> 
> I don't think we'll get anywhere unless we resove the security issue: we
> either need to clarify who is doing overnight or declare a stall finish
> time that suits the council.
> 
> Beyond that, obviously he's confusing our event with someone else's as
we
> finished at around 6.30 last year. Who knows what other poorly recalled
> negative impressions what been mis-attributed to us?
> 
> You've probably already explained that we're providing a non-commercial
> community-led celebration which will animate the city centre as per the
> Council's remit. Maybe just put that though the re-babelizer and say it
all
> over again.
> 
> Try and write correspondence which will make us look brilliant if
someone
> does an FOI request. If they sense a PR disaster (without any actual
threat
> being made) their hearts and minds will follow.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Protag
> 
> 
> On 7 Apr 2012, at 01:09, Jules <anarchista at riseup.net> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Can we find out what the latest we could have the stalls would be? 
They
>> would be utilised throughout the day for a mixture of community groups/
>> organisations as well as traders so that is totally his "core
business". 
>> (expletive deleted)
>> 
>> There  are an unknown number of marquees supplied by the university -
>> one of which I assume would be used for the kids / art and craft area. 
I
>> think the only traders we need to worry about having into the night
would
>> be the ones providing food and drinks so is there any reason why we
>> couldn't just move these into one of the vacated marquees when the
stalls
>> get collected?  I think I remember this being mentioned at one of the
>> meetings anyhow.
>> 
>> (expletive deleted) the council :)
>> 
>> J x
>> 
>> 
>> On 06/04/12 21:13, Heather Blakey wrote:
>>> Hi everyone,
>>> This is where we are up to with the stalls loan - not looking good.
>>> Any tips on how to respond / updates on security?
>>> Cheers.
>>> Heather.
>>> 
>>> ---------------------------- Original Message
>>> ----------------------------
>>> Subject: RE: market stalls 28 April
>>> From:    "Richard Ambler"<richard.ambler at bradford.gov.uk>
>>> Date:    Fri, April 6, 2012 4:16 pm
>>> To:      wildheather at riseup.net
>>>
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> 
>>> One of the problems is the time that you are going on until and
>>> therefore
>>> the time that our that staff would need to be on site to take them
down
>>> which seems to be late.( I was informed of one event that finished
quite
>>> late last year and it may indeed have been yours)
>>> 
>>> Our stall loan rates do not cover this type of circumstance and our
>>> loaning of stall is not intended to facilitate you organising your
event
>>> from our resources it is intended to provide support to schools etc
and
>>> other organisations having afternoon fetes etc
>>> 
>>> Our loan of stalls is something we try to do to assist where
>>> circumstances
>>> allow and we do assist with quite a lot of events however as with all
>>> "low
>>> cost Council assistance schemes" it soon becomes expected and we have
to
>>> have a limit on what we provide.
>>> 
>>> I also have my concerns about the damage/loss that can be done to our
>>> equipment when it is loaned out for events that are not our core
>>> business
>>> and allow event organisers to have their event a
> 
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