Mapperley Park Residents’ Association Newsletter No. 15 March 2009 STRICTLY DANCING

Budding ballerinas from the New English Contemporary Ballet. WHAT IS TV STAR CRAIG REVEL HORWOOD’S CONNECTION WITH Join the Residents’ Association ’S NEW ENGLISH now and come to the Annual CONTEMPORARY General Meeting on Monday BALLET (NECB)?

20th April at 7.30 pm. Details See Page 3 for full on page 20. story.

Deadlines for the Contents next newsletter Ballet school 3 Photographer’s day 16 3 Recipe for a roast 5 Chairman’s news 13 Sherwood Festival 13 For the 1st September Coffee mornings 2 issue of Park Small ads 19 News the deadlines are: Flower Club 10 Spring arriving 11 Editorial copy: 1st July Gardening Group 11 Subscription form 20 Advertising copy: 25th July Gardens to open 10 What’s on 14 Wine choice 5 Contacts on page 2 A day in the life p16 Mapperley Hall gardens 10

MAPPERLEY PARK NEWS IS NOW AVAILABLE BY EMAIL Mrs A W Rae, Holly Tree House Dental Practice 962 2882 Directory of Useful 334 Road CHURCHES St. Andrews C of E, Chestnut Grove 960 4961 & 912 0098 Contacts Main services Sunday at 10.15am and 7pm MAPPERLEY PARK NEWS St Augustine’s Catholic Church, Woodborough Road 953 9839 Editorial Team Suma Harding e-mail: [email protected] Principal Mass times: Vigil Mass Saturday at 6pm Sharon Jamieson email: [email protected] Sung Mass Sunday at 11am Sue Ahsan email: [email protected] Annette Blair email: [email protected] St John’s C of E, Mansfield Road, Carrington 962 1291 Correspondence to The Editors Main service Sunday at 10am c/o 31 Lucknow Drive, Mapperley Park, Nottingham NG3 5EU Advertising/Production Christine Walker 947 2485 St Jude’s C of E, Woodborough Road 985 6131 18a Cavendish Crescent North, Nottingham NG7 1BA Sunday: Traditional service 9.15am Contemporary service with children’s groups 11am THE MAPPERLEY PARK RESIDENTS’ ASSOCIATION Informal service 6.30pm Chairman Carole Ayre 962 2004 Sherwood Methodist Church, Devon Dr/Mansfield Rd 962 2616 Secretary Elizabeth Sanders [email protected] Main services Sunday at 10.30am and 6.30pm Treasurer David Towers 962 1513 Membership Marcus Wakely 960 9038 Traffic David Cummins 969 1106 YOUR LOCAL COUNCILLORS Trees David Podesta 960 3029 Emma Dewinton (Lab) 960 8198 Social Events Suma Harding [email protected] Michael Edwards 915 5050 or 07876 203352 Members Mark Cox 844 9894 [email protected] email [email protected] Paul Watts 960 9964 Mo Munir 969 3126 David Hughes 960 7746 Surgery: Outside Co-op, Mansfield Rd. Third Saturday of every month 10.30-11.30am (except August & Bank Holidays). For Neighbourhood Telephone for advice or appointments outside usual surgery times. Watch/Private Rd Laura Archer 960 6986 For Elm Close Peter Henson 960 7561 COUNCIL NUMBERS SOCIAL GROUPS Anti-social Behaviour 915 1135 City Information 915 5330 Mapperley Park Tennis Club, Carisbrooke Drive 969 1278 Cleansing Services 915 2000 Council Tax 915 4851 Membership Secretary Cynthia Lyndo Abandoned cars " Trees: Dumped rubbish " Street 915 2264 Magdala Tennis Club, Magdala Road 966 3047 Street cleansing " Protected 915 5414 Club Secretary Jenny Wheelhouse Dog Warden 915 6223 Education 915 0706 The Nottingham Bridge Club, Mansfield Road 960 7992 Pest Control 915 6170 Drains 915 6650 Mapperley Park Book Club Stasia French 910 7644 Highways & pavements Library 915 2828 (Lively discussions about books of your (cracks & potholes) 915 6156 Planning Permission 915 5426 choice; meets monthly at residents homes) Building Regulations 915 5358 Pollution Control 915 6410 Public Health 915 6798 (smoke emission & noise) Book Club 2 Sheila Reece 962 1320 Social Services 915 5500 Street Lights 915 2211 Meets on 3rd Wednesday of month 1pm to 3pm Trading Standards 950 7910 Drugs 915 1956 DOCTORS If you cannot find the service you require listed above then Dr Andrew Flewitt and Dr Mona Vindla 985 8552 try the City Council switchboard on 915 5555 Sherrington Park Medical Practice, 402 Mansfield Road Dr Mark Stevens 841 2022 POLICE Mapperley Park Medical Centre, 41 Mapperley Road Station 967 0999 Dr D G Black & Partners 985 8822 Beat Officer, Mapperley Park, PC Jeanette Stasuik 07792 437306 Sherwood Health Centre, Elmswood Gardens, Sherwood Police Community Support Officer Prostitution Task Force DENTISTS 967 0555 ext 4249 Anil Chand, Mapperley Park Dental Care 962 4607 Paul O’Dwyer and Gary Morphus 18 Mapperley Road (NHS & Private) Dr Andrew Cluskey & Dr Chris Stead (Private) 960 2717 Whilst every reasonable care is taken, neither The Mapperley Park Tavistock Drive Dental Care, 1 Tavistock Drive Residents’ Association nor its agents can accept any liability for Brian Snape, Mapperley Dental Care 960 5282 any inaccuracy or any loss or damage arising from any articles, 431 Woodborough Road (NHS & Private) advertisements or other items in this publication. The views expressed in Dr Mistry, The Grange Dental Centre 962 3432 this publication are not necessarily those of the Association. 480A Mansfield Road, Sherwood (bottom of Private Road)

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For Mapperley Park March 9th residents and friends April 6th in the Ukrainian Centre Mansfield Road (opposite the end of Mapperley Hall Drive) May 11th On the 2nd Monday in the month June 8th (except April which is a week early to avoid Easter) July 13th EVERYONE WELCOME August 10th WELL ATTENDED

2 MAPPERLEY PARK NEWS March 2009 Strictly dancing DANCE has a new home in Nottingham. are delighted he has agreed to support us.’ The NECB was set up in Nottingham The New English Contemporary Ballet has in 2006. As well as being a national touring officially opened a new dance school, just a dance company, it runs the Nottingham stones throw away from Mapperley Park. Youth Dance, which has performed at the And already scores of budding ballerinas Edinburgh Festival, and has an Associates from our area have auditioned and joined Programme which trains young dancers from this prestigious company’s new dance school. across the region. The new school will run a 3 As well as attracting many youngsters from year full-time vocational course (for students Mapperley Park, the school has signed up from 16 to 22) that will ultimately lead to a aspiring dancers from all over the country. foundation degree in dance. TV star Craig Revel Horwood, of Strictly Says Niall, ‘It absolutely delights me to Come Dancing fame, has become official know we can offer students a place where they patron of the New English Contemporary are able to train in excellence and fulfil their Ballet (NECB), something of a coup for the ambition to become the very best they can’. company, which is based at The Haywood Mapperley Park resident Mike Blair, who Studios, Edwards Lane, Sherwood. ‘He is on the ballet company’s Board of Trustees, might play a bit of a villain on Strictly Come says, ‘There aren’t many professional dance Dancing,’ says NECB Artistic Director Niall companies in the UK, and even fewer dance McMahon, ‘but he’s one of the good guys schools, which offer this level of training. So for Nottingham to have both is fantastic really. Craig has a fantastic pedigree as a Stretched out: NECB dancers limbering up before choreographer, director and a dancer and we news for the city and something we need to a training session cherish’.

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4 MAPPERLEY PARK NEWS March 2009 TONY WRIGHT’S RECIPE Rib of Beef with Roast Onions (Serves 8) 6lb rib of beef Dust the surface with flour, a pinch of mustard powder and pepper. Place in a roasting tray with 6 cooking onions. For a medium roast, cook at gas mark 5 or 190c for 25 minutes per pound. Serve with: Glazed Parsnips 8 small parsnips cut in half. Blanch in boiling water for 3 minutes, glaze with honey and mustard. Bake at gas mark 6 (200c) for 40 minutes, turning once. Roast Potatoes 4lb Desiree potatoes, peeled, halved and par- boiled. Place a generous portion of goose fat in a roasting tin then heat in oven to gas mark 7 (220c). Add potatoes and roast for 45 - 50 My Favourite Dish: minutes, turning once. Steamed Seasonal Veg Local Butcher Tony Wright’s Best of British Of your choice!

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www.st-josephs.nottingham.sch.uk Tel: 0115 941 8356 8 MAPPERLEY PARK NEWS March 2009 down on a Saturday or Sunday morning at around 10 am and ask Never to speak to the Club Captain. No appointment necessary but avoid too late days when Nottingham Forest are playing at home. by Netty Cox Anyone fancy Last year I won my first race on a freezing cold morning in a a Champagne Women’s Quadruple scull on the river Soar. This was my second Breakfast? race; a month earlier I had entered country between September and with an age range of 25-48 and I THE Nottingham branch of the the ‘Trent Head’ on another bad- March. It is a sight to behold and am the oldest! NSPCC is hoping you do and hair weather day in a single scull is all part of the preparation and The club attracts a broad is appealing to local residents but had the misfortune to capsize build-up to the regatta season when spectrum of ages and ability - from to organise one of these bubbly twice on the start line. It took two crews and boats race side by side recreational rowers to former and events to help them raise funds! beached landings to get back in but hoping to qualify for elite events hopeful Olympians. It also has a People all over the country I managed and in time to compete. such as Henley. very lively social scene. If you are have been hosting Champagne I came last but coming through Nottingham Rowing Club is small, narrow of beam and would Breakfasts and raising much- Trent Bridge with my entourage of the middle boat house between like to learn a new skill, you could needed cash for the NSPCC launch boats, it felt like I had come Trent Bridge and Nottingham try your hand at coxing. I have and Child`s Voice Appeal (Let No first! Forest football ground. In May it is great fun - you can be in charge Cry Go Unheard). So if a few Head racing is all about posting last year the club had an open day of a whole crew of men or women of you fancy getting together the best possible time over a set to attract new members. I went steering the boat and putting them to organise one of these events distance, anything from 3,000 to along and from my first outing in through their paces. Suffice to say, for such a worthy cause, please 6,000m. Crews row up to a point an ‘eight’, I was hooked. I then coxes need to be vocal, confident get in touch with Julia Stewart, of the river and then like stacking attended sculling school at the and not afraid of barking a few Nottinghamshire`s Fund- aircraft wait for their turn to charge National Sports Centre and the rest orders. Raising Manager, on 0844 back down the course. This type as they say is history. I am now part To find out more visit the 8920217. of racing takes place all over the of the Women’s Intermediate squad website at www.nrcuk.org or come

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Come to our Open Afternoon to view this completely refurbished 4 bedroom property. Light refreshments. For a private viewing contact Steve Parker of FHP City Living on 07917 460027 or 0115 9415931. Further details on www.fhpcityliving.co.uk 48 Lucknow Drive, Mapperley Park £425,000 This 4 bedroom detached house sits in a commanding position Master bedroom 16’x 12’ with fitted wardrobes and ensuite on the upper side of Lucknow Drive, one of the most sought after * 3 further double bedrooms * Family bathroom roads in Mapperley Park. Accommodation: Entrance Hall with * Separate WC. Outside: Double garage 23’x 11’ parquet floor, cloakroom and WC off * 2 Reception rooms * Brick storeroom * Private rear garden 50’ x 70’ divided into Fitted kitchen * Utility room three lawned terraces with established borders.

March 2009 MAPPERLEY PARK NEWS 9 Restoration of Mapperley Hall gardens by Nigel Hughes I suggested the removal of most of the planting a period of time, I restocked two borders with old The Contented Gardener and start again. This was quite drastic but the aim English Shrub Roses and the other borders with was to get the residents to use the garden as their Irises, Delphiniums, Peonies and Geraniums. IT seems like yesterday when I was asked to look own as it was a communal garden. The weeds still crept through but eventually I at the gardens of Mapperley Hall. The gardens Work started in October 2000. The garden did manage to get on top of them. At the back had been planted and maintained by a landscape is on different levels with a medium size lawn, of the garden, there was a neglected woodland company employed by the building developers. surrounded by borders on 3 sides on the first level area and once cleared, Bluebells, Snowdrops and The garden in 2000 was planted like an out-of- and then down stone steps to another lawned Daffodils found their home. I also planted over town shopping car park - lots of mass planting area and further down to a woodland area. In 40 Rhododendrons which flower from December of evergreen shrubs for easy maintenance, but no the first two weeks I removed the shrubs which to June. character. It did not complement the beautiful were not required and began to get a feel for the In 2007, the garden was open to the public for period building at its centre. garden, including its soil type and its weeds! Over the Mapperley Park Garden Trail. A new border was created but I was shocked to discover a sheet of concrete underneath the turf. With the help of a sledgehammer and new planting, the border was created. I also built a stairway in the woodland area. The end result was a pleasing garden, viewed and admired by many in June 2007. Now my work is done and I must say goodbye. When you say goodbye to a garden, you say goodbye to a friend. I have shared the ups and downs of the reconstruction of the garden and I will always cherish the memories.

An invitation from Dover Beck Flower Club by Mary Wile of a warm and friendly welcome. For further This is our Christmas Open Meeting information please telephone 0115 9264649. All and is held at the Bonington Theatre, DOVER Beck Flower Club, Burton Joyce was meetings start at 7.30pm High Street, Arnold formed by some very enthusiastic ladies in 1991, meeting originally in Lowdham Village Hall. Meetings in 2009 If there are no titles, its because the Hence the name Dover Beck Flower Club, as Mar 19 Jackie O’Hare ‘The Mad March Hare’ demonstrator hasn’t let us know the title of their the Dover Beck runs through Lowdham. They Apr 16 Georgina Burrell ‘The Burrell demonstration. Many thanks for our inclusion then moved to the Carnarvon Rooms in Burton Collection’ in your Mapperley Park News Joyce, but the club became very successful and May 21 Marion Sudbury (National moved to its present home in Burton Joyce Demonstrator) Village Hall. Several of the of the founder ladies Jun 18 Carol Farmer ‘Seasonal Joy’ Local gardens to open Some gardens in Thorncliffe Road will be are still involved with the club. Jul 16 Sasha Fenby ‘Journey into the open on 21 June this year, to raise money We meet usually on the third Thursday of Unknown for the Friends of the Forest. We hope to every month, in the Village Hall, Trent Lane. Sep 17 Barbara Collins ‘Shades of Autumn’ do a small version of last year’s Mapperley There is a small fee for visitors of £4. If you have Oct 16 Lee Berrill ‘Lets be Different’ Park splendid garden day. Watch local press a love of flowers, foliage or gardens, do come to Nov 18 Bob Harris (National Demonstrator) any of our meetings where you will be assured for details.

10 MAPPERLEY PARK NEWS March 2009 IN early Spring the days begin to lengthen; birds are singing, buds bursting and nature starts to re-awaken from its long winter sleep. Look out for some of our early wild flowers they will be adding a welcome splash of colour to the countryside, particularly violets, cowslips and primroses. Frogs will be spawning and each female will lay a thousand or more eggs. The reason why frogs produce so much spawn is to compensate for the huge losses of potential offspring. A rough estimate is that for every two-thousand eggs laid possibly only five of the tadpoles will survive to be an adult frog and breed themselves. If you are a tadpole, froglet or even a frog you are a potential meal for a wide variety of creatures. This almost endless list includes fish, newts, birds, mammals, water beetles, dragonfly larvae the list is endless. Spring is getting into full swing Birds will be starting to build their nests, if some haven’t already done so. To give them by Colin Green a helping hand by saving them time I create a DIY store for the birds visiting my garden. I collect the materials that birds need in order To me, its one of those sounds which to construct their nests, such as hay, moss and stops me in my tracks, whatever I’m doing. small twigs, etc. I put them in a container, When I was a young lad it was a common or a convenient location in the garden, and sound but sadly some summers pass by now wait for the birds to help themselves. You will without a sound from this unique bird. be amazed at just how quickly the birds take Hedgehogs will be about by mid-spring, advantage of these free DIY materials. having awoken from their long winter Birds are also getting more vocal and sleep. You may see them on their nocturnal woods, hedgerows, parks and gardens are wanderings in their search for food to build full of their songs. By learning to identify up their body weight ... one reason for having birds by their songs alone you become more a garden well-stocked with all kinds of creepy- aware of the variety of birdlife around you. crawlies. Bird watching by ear enables you to identify Spring is the most exciting time of the common birds and it will certainly impress year with nature getting into full swing by your family and friends! producing, developing and creating new Summer migrant birds will also be joining life. Whether you are wandering through us by mid-spring, so watch out for swifts, the countryside, local park or just sitting in swallows, martins, willow warblers and chiff- your garden, you will be surrounded by the chaffs. There’s always one summer migrant Colin Green is ITV’s wonderful colours, shapes, scents and sounds I always listen out for, the cuckoo. Environmental correspondent of nature.

Mapperley Park Gardening Group - plans for 2009

by Lorna Weir

I’m very pleased to be able to tell you that the Gardening Group now has 71 members and that is ‘blooming marvellous’ news! So if you have yet to join, do come along and meet us at one of the monthly events. In 2009 we will be visiting seven new and interesting gardens, both locally and further afield and also the Eglantine Vineyard in September. We will also be having a quiz, a plant swap, a Christmas wreath making session and a talk. Our coach trip will be to Rennishaw Hall and Fanshawe Gate Gardens on Friday 12 June, so pop that date into your diary. Our skills as gardeners range from the more experienced to the enthusiastic beginner and from active gardeners to ‘armchair specialists’! Our meetings are held at different times and on different days each month to give everyone a chance to come along to something. If you would like to see our programme do email me on [email protected] or call on 0115 960 3897. Membership is a bargain at £6 per household for the year. It is a lovely way to get to know your neighbours and to be part of the Visiting Clumber Park Mapperley Park Community. March 2009 MAPPERLEY PARK NEWS 11 call 0115 8411155 or click www.fhpliving.co.uk

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Committee has some time to spend on more social matters. CAROLE The Residents’ Association is not, AYRE primarily, a social club of course but there’s room for project ‘get to know your community’ on the agenda. Over the last two or three EVERY cloud has a silver lining years, the monthly coffee mornings and for Mapperley Park the credit at the Ukranian Centre have crunch has meant that the hunger proved to be a success in getting for redevelopment of our gardens people together and the gardening has, it would seem, disappeared, club has gone from strength to at least for the time being and so strength. I have nothing to report on that We are currently looking at front. the possibility of arranging a short (L to R) Maureen Gledhill, Gillian Clarke, Barbara McMurchy, The Committee is now starting series of evening talks on any topic Kenneth Clarke to plan for the forthcoming AGM of common interest at a local Kenneth Clarke, MP for Rushcliffe, and his wife Gillian attended the (7.30pm on 20 April at St Jude’s venue. annual Oxfam Lunch in St Judes church hall in January. The fundraising Church Hall) to which we always Many of you will know local event was organised by local residents, Paul and Ruth Watts invite councillors, council officers resident Martine Hamilton- and the police, so if you have Knight, a well known architectural any questions you want to raise photographer, who has kindly there consider letting me know in offered to deliver our first talk Alexander Technique advance so that we can ensure that - details to follow! Anne Rowlands m.STAT our guests come armed with the I hope you enjoy this edition relevant information. of the newsletter and look forward Filshie Osteopathic Clinic, Mansfield Road, Sherwood, NG5 2FB Having spent a lot of time on to seeing you at the AGM in April the difficult question of planning (see page 20 for details). 0115 847 8801 www.alexander121.com and the Conservation Plan, the

March 2009 MAPPERLEY PARK NEWS 13 What’s on March to June 2009

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14 MAPPERLEY PARK NEWS March 2009 Something to look forward to ...

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Exciting changes - the popular lingerie and swimwear from fashion event ‘Spring into Summer’ Underwraps. rolls out twice on the 26th March FM’s Donna from the - first with a leisurely luncheon as Drive Time show and Sam and before and then as an early evening Amy from the morning show are show with champagne and canapes our hosts. Savills have donated the - an informal and upbeat format champagne. which is fast developing as a great This year the beneficiary networking opportunity. charities are The British Red Cross At both shows - champagne - and The Multiple Sclerosis Society. ten exclusive stalls - prize draw. New ‘Spring into Summer’ is already a for this year’s an auction of holidays date in the diary of many Mapperley in a villa near Disney Land, Florida Park ladies. Tickets are selling fast and a house in Aviemore, Scotland. - £35 for luncheon show - £28 for Fashion houses showing include evening event. For tickets call Clare John Lewis, Dressini, Bridge Moore on 0115 962 3168 or email Boutique, Debenhams Designer, Vivienne on viviennetregidga@ Hansons and Slaters. Also fabulous yahoo.co.uk See you there.

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March 2009 MAPPERLEY PARK NEWS 15 Today will now mean a more local job - this time a vision document for a local authority, and meaning lots of rooftop viewpoints, transport interchanges, retail and housing, for a development plan destined to last for the next ten years. You may have seen my images at work on a reasonably frequent basis - there have been a couple of books about our own city. In 2006 Nottingham Transformed was published, a 176 page book about regeneration and change in the city over the last 15 years. In addition, Campus Views, a picture book published by the about their six campuses came out in 2007. Also in 2007, there was a BBC4 series about photography which featured me, called ‘A Digital Picture of Britain’, in which I was challenged to do my job with a very different camera to that which I usually used - in this case a tiny compact one. I documented buildings such as the great 1930s masterpiece BOOTS D10 factory, and a stunning private house Martine’s photograph of the Playhouse mirror and Wellington Circus in The Park, complete with caves. It was fun and frustrating at the same time, and proved that working in front of the camera can be as By Martine Hamilton Knight challenging as staying behind it! After almost twenty years in the field, THIS Tuesday morning is typical of most starts 2009 sees another direction for me - a desire to the day - glued to the TV forecasts and, if in A day in to stay a little more in tune with my city, and doubt, down to the office internet looking for to connect with others keen on photography. backup to verify their predictions or to counter LINE +LIGHT is a photography school, with their views. Today I was picking up Anna, my training days in the field (with me), or in the assistant at 7am to go back to Wakefield for the the life classroom with my good friend Robert Rowe, fourth time to finish what should have been a where those interested in PhotoShop can spend single overnight trip. As I went to bed last night, brochures. Buildings are three-dimensional time improving their images via PC. Two days they were promising wall to wall sunshine. Now? objects and need to be shown as such. For the a month I shall take small groups around either Widespread wintry showers. Grrr. ..too risky. I best modelling and render, nothing beats good the beautiful University of Nottingham campus only get paid for the job I’ve priced, not for all strong sunshine, and that’s what I seek everyday. with its fine architecture and stunning gardens, the extra journeys made in the cause of finding Frustrating in the UK? You bet. Pointless? or around the city itself, on a day based at sunshine and meteorologists getting it wrong. Sometimes, but nothing beats the feel of the sun . Either side of that it will be So what’s it all about then? I photograph on your back when others are stuck in a dreary business as usual: chasing the sun and cursing architecture, brand new, or recently restored, in office, and you’re out and about with your the met office when they’re wrong, or skipping the cause of award submissions (seen the RIBA camera. Then, finally seeing the results in print for joy when that sky is deep blue! Stirling Prize on TV?), or for magazines and is the high point, the basis of which may reap books, for architects folios & designers awards and accolade for that project.

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18 MAPPERLEY PARK NEWS March 2009 House, garden and motor services

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March 2009 MAPPERLEY PARK NEWS 19 Your Residents’ Residents’ Association needs you!

Letter to all residents from Mapperley Park Residents’ Association the Chairman of the NOTICE OF Residents’ Association ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING To be held at St Jude’s Church Hall, February 2009 Woodborough Road Dear Resident Out of 2,400 families in Mapperley Park who receive our Newsletter free of at 7.30pm on Monday 20 April 2009 charge, there are only around 300 families who subscribe to the Residents’ AGENDA Association. So, we urge you to become a member of MPRA and give us 1. CHAIRMAN’S OPENING REMARKS your support. 2. APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE The work of the Residents’ Association includes: 3. MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING HELD * Publishing Mapperley Park News, our twice yearly newsletter ON 26 MARCH 2008 * Arranging for local Councillors, their staff and the Police to attend our 4. PLANNING 5. TRAFFIC AGM * Consulting with the local authority, police etc. on a wide range of 6. TREES 7. AREA COMMITTEE community issues affecting our area 8. CRIME & NUISANCE * Considering Planning Issues and making representations to the City 9. MAPPERLEY PARK NEWS Council 10. STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS * Organising social events, and monthly meetings at the Ukrainian 11. SUBSCRIPTIONS Centre 12. ELECTION OF OFFICERS AND COMMITTEE (See below) 13. APPOINTMENT OF AN HONORARY INDEPENDENT * Helping residents to establish interest groups EXAMINER: Richard Bonnello offers himself for re- * Organising bulb planting. election. One of our aims is to strengthen the sense of community in Mapperley Park, 14. ANY OTHER BUSINESS: Including matters, if any, arising but we cannot do it alone. The more members the Residents’ Association from the 2008 Minutes not covered above. has, the stronger its voice. So, we urge you to join now using the forms ELECTION OF OFFICERS AND COMMITTEE below. For those of you who are already members, thank you for your As at the printing of this Notice, the persons listed on page 2 continued support. have offered themselves for election. Nominations for the vacant Yours sincerely Committee positions, or to contest the posts of the Officers, are Carole Ayre - Chairman welcomed.

ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION 2009 The small subscription fee of £3 per household covers the minimal administrative costs of If you are paying £3 by cheque or cash fill in Form 1. To pay by Standing operating the Association and provides a Order fill in Form 2. Return both forms to David Towers, Hon Treasurer, modest surplus that is transferred to reserves to 31 Lucknow Drive Mapperley Park, Nottingham NG3 5EU. He will forward provide for the occasional costs of expert advice the SO form to your bank. on exceptional issues.

FORM 1 FORM 2: STANDING ORDER MANDATE Annual subscription to Mapperley Park Residents’ Association I apply for / wish to renew membership of the TO: Mapperley Park Residents’ Association. (Your Bank)...... Bank ...... Branch I enclose my subscription of £3 for the year 2009. (Please make cheques payable to MPRA) Address ......

( letters please) PLEASE PAY TO: Barclays Bank plc, 2 High Street, Nottingham NG1 2EN A/C No 10609080 Sort Code 20-63-25 for the credit of MAPPERLEY PARK RESIDENTS’ Name ASSOCIATION, the sum of £3.00, immediately for the year beginning 1st January 2009, ...... and continue to pay that amount on 1st January each year until further notice from me/us. Address DEBIT MY/OUR ACCOUNT ...... NUMBER ...... SORT CODE ...... SIGNED ...... DATE ......

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