Thanks to Eva Shack for all her hard work in organising the Hobbayne event on 17 October with special guest Jonathan Collett, the Chairman of Nuneaton & Bedworth Conservatives, who was responsible for organising the local campaign which resulted in the Conservatives gaining 8 seats and Labour
Together with the Pitshanger Village Traders Association, the paper petition collected over 2000 signatures and our on line petition finally achieved another 800.
At the request of residents in the Pitshanger Village area and the Pitshanger Village Traders' Association we mounted a campaign to join with local people and all those affected by the potential closure of this valued and, indeed essential, facility.
On 16 July, Hannah David, elected National Policy Director of the Conservative Policy Forum gave a talk on the work of the CPF to members of your executive. She explained that this was the platform through which all members could make their views know and urged all party members to join.
Jamila Bibi Sarwar, our new Chairman, has written to all our members and a copy of the letter is here just in case we missed anyone, for which we apologise as we are having a few teething problems, and for those of you who have not yet joined us
Interestingly, there are no ward forums scheduled for any of our wards, all of which are Labour controlled. Compare this with other Ealing Constituencies with Conservative Councillors who have already scheduled a number of ward forums in order to understand their constituents concerns.
On 20th June Jamila Bibi Sarwar became the new chairman of Ealing North. She has worked tirelessly as an activist for many years and stood as a candidate for Greenford Green in the 2014 local elections.
On 8 June there was a briefing on the replacement leisure centre at Gurnell. The main points highlighted were that the pool will be still 50 metres long but will have 10 lanes as opposed to the current eight, there will be better facilities and underground car parking for 175 cars.
