Town Team Meeting: 4 October

The letter below and the attachment are from Leroy Simpson, Chair of the Harlesden Town Team:

Dear Friends of the Harlesden Town Team,

We are contacting you as you have expressed interest in becoming a Member of The Harlesden Town Team and may have attended at least one of the meetings and workshops hosted by John Dryden and Urban Design Skills over the last few months.

Our purpose in writing today is to invite you to the first meeting of the Harlesden Town Team run by the Core Team (Chair, Vice-Chair, Secretary and Vice-Secretary), who were elected at the last meeting held on 26 July 2010.

We enclose with this letter an information form which which we would like you to fill in and bring with you. This will help us share infomration, progress and let us know if you would like to become an active member of the team, and perhaps at some stage be able to offer help in some of the projects we will be working on.

We know that many of you are already involved in a variety of projects to improve the lives of Harlesden residents.

The intention of the Town Team is to bring all these current projects under one banner, and progress initiatives to improve our town. This will allow us, as residents of Harlesden, to seek change in these and other areas in a stronger and more focused way, with an increased chance of success.

So please do attend this meeting, this is where the serious fun begins, as we start to marshal our forces to bring about real and lasting improvements to Harlesden for the benefit of all.

The Place: The Salvation Army

The Time: 6.30

The Reason: Active support and participation in the Harlesden Town Team

If you cannot attend for any reason, but would like to be active in the Town Team, then please return your form to Town Team Harlesden c/o Scott Adams, Urban Design Skills, 5 Vigo Street, London W1S 3HB, or send by email to Scott@urbandesignskills.com.

We look forward in keeping you up to date with our progress.

Kind Regards,
Leroy Simpson
Chairman of the Harlesden Town Team

THE GROUND RULES

1. Everyone is responsible for the success of the meeting
2. Please have your mobile phones on silent, or preferably, switched off
3. We will use our meeting time wisely, starting on time, returning from breaks and ending promptly
4. Share your knowledge, experience, time and talents
5. Keep confidences and assume others will as well
6. Have fun! Yes, you may be having a very serious discussion but life is too short to get hung up on it
7. Keep focused on the goals and avoid sidetracking, personality conflicts, or hidden agendas
8. Avoid sidebar discussions while someone is talking. One person talks at a time
9. Respect each other’s opinions and be sensitive to their views. No idea is a bad one
10. Challenge the statement not the person
11. Keep to the current agenda
12. Be creative and imaginative. Look for solutions.

PLEASE DOWNLOAD FORM (MS Word)