After years of pressure from local residents with the backing of local Conservatives a new polling station will be based in Barnston.
Christchurch Village Hall will house the polling station for the new polling district of FE, which will take in Barnston. Local residents will be informed by Wirral Council of their voting place.
I am delighted that local democracy is flourishing. People in the local area need a local polling place, and I hope this will provide
Iain Duncan Smith came to visit Wirral on Friday. Iain who is founder of the Centre for Social Justice has spent much of his political career observing and researching into the issues of social justice and injustice and 6 years ago set up the cross party think tank The Centre for Social justice.
The centre has received much acclaim from all parties. It produced the often quoted document ‘Breakdown Britain ‘ and produced ‘Break Through Britain’ and over 600 policies of ways to change injustices within the system, policies now being used by all parties.
On Friday Iain met with a charity he supports through the CSJ in Speke called Five, after which he met with business owners from Wirral and Liverpool and visited the Woodchurch Leisure centre to meet with users and organisers of The Youth Inclusion Project. A project that over the last 12 months has won…..
* A Royal Horticultural Society award for the work our youths were involved in for North West in Bloom
* the Nat Association for Neighbourhood Management ‘Highly Commended’ Best Community Safety Initiative award (Nov 2009)
* the Nat Association for Neighbourhood Management ‘Volunteer of the Year’ award (Jenny Allinson)
* Nomination by Merseyside Police for the national ‘Tackling Drugs Changing Lives’ award
* TSP Directors received the Daily Mail Inspirational Woman of the Year award (June 2009) with the newspaper specifically highlighting the impact of the Youth Project
* the Home Office selecting the project as one of 4 from Merseyside/Greater Manchester/Lancs/Cumbria to be showcased at the regional event in Manchester on 16th March 2010
……and yet is having its funding removed in March.
For that reason Iain is now working closely with me, raising the matter in Parliament, to get it funded.
The Super Sunday team was out and working in Hoylake yesterday …..when quizzed on the number of Valentine’s cards each of us had received most of us agreed we had left the house before the postman had arrived – no doubt they’d be stacked up when we arrived home!!
Some of the Irby Conservative Action Team in Irby Village on Saturday promoting local businesses and a local shopper who’d popped by to fill in our Shop Local survey.
Jim, Esther, Sir Robin Knox Johnston, Lisa Pover & Nick Hawkins
Friday night saw the launch of the Lisa Pover Trust – an inner city charity to help disadvantaged kids get involved with sailing. If any of you have read my blog before you’ll have heard me mention Lisa. She’s a friend who changed her life after seeing an advert in the Liverpool Echo to be part of the the Clipper race team. So overnight she literally went from being a taxi driver to ocean yacht racer! On returning she decided she wanted to help other kids, children from where she grew up in Liverpool.
So Friday night was the launch of the charity – friends, buddies, colleagues were all roped in to help. I was the host for the night, BBC Radio Merseyside Roger Phillips did the auction (Roger was part of the judging panel that selected Lisa to be a part of the Clipper team) – the Corps of Drums of the 4th Battalian, The Duke of Lancaster Regiment, from Townsend Avenue, Norris Green, played – (Chris Lisa’s husband is part of the corps – and wow were they amazing – we’re all waiting for them to release a CD!) John Little and Ray performed too and Sir Robin Knox -Johnston, who is patron of the charity, was guest speaker.
It was a fabulous night by any standards and a whopping amount of money was raised that will go to buy a 4 man boat. If you’d like more information please go to www.lisapover.com to read Lisa’s blog