Haringey Council Must Resettle Four Syrian Refugee Families by Christmas! Refugees Welcome Haringey are calling on Cllr Claire Kober, leader of Haringey Council, to ensure the resettlement of four Syrian refugee families in the borough by Christmas 2016 via the Vulnerable Person Resettlement (VPR) scheme. The scheme is funded by central Government. Refugees will be living in private rented accommodation, not social housing, and will be entitled to work and claim benefits. Please sign if you agree. Why is this important? Haringey has the expertise and resource available to provide a good home for many more than four families. It only remains for the Council leadership to submit a request to the Home Office. Why have they refused to do so? The VPR scheme was established by central Government in 2014, and in September 2015 David Cameron promised to resettle 20,000 Syrian refugees during the lifetime of the current parliament. The refugees are currently in UNHCR camps in countries neighbouring Syria, and have particular vulnerabilities such as disabilities, or having survived torture, which mean they cannot safely stay in the camp environment.

Each refugee is funded to a total of £20,000 over five years, which is channelled through the local authority to pay for the costs of resettlement. So, a family of five would be funded to a total of £100,000. Four such families would be funded to a total of £400,000. These funds are already available to provide important wrap around care and support to refugees arriving through the VPR scheme. Resettling refugees through the VPR scheme would give them the opportunity for a new start. But Cllr Kober and Haringey Council are still refusing to resettle even a small token number of refugees. They claim that central Government funding is inadequate and that they must wait until negotiations via the GLA are concluded. We agree that central Government’s role in dealing with the refugee crisis has been wholly inadequate, but there are funds available now. Eleven other London authorities – including Camden, Islington, Barnet, Tower Hamlets, Hackney, and Kingston – have started resettlements.

We do not agree with using vulnerable refugees as political bargaining chips in negotiations. We must provide support for all those we can, right now. We call on Cllr Kober to take action immediately to bring this about. Four families by Christmas! Please sign the petition if you agree. By signing this petition your details may be placed in the public domain (e.g. they may be published on the Council’s website).Prom Dresses In Foxboro Flag this petition for reviewWholesale Tire Shreveport La Can you chip in?Toilet Seat Tuba Thousands of us from across the UK have already chipped in to help fund the 38 Degrees website and the staff team who help people win their campaigns. Will you chip in to make sure we can move fast to support the Haringey Council Must Resettle Four Syrian Refugee Families by Christmas!

and others like it? You can make a secure donation here: We want to be transparent and accountable about how we spend your donations - for more information please see our Donation Policy. Tottenham Hotspur's new stadium will be built on the site of their existing White Hart Lane homeTottenham Hotspur have had revised plans for a new stadium approved by Haringey Council.Spurs hope to move to their new 61,000-seat home for the 2018-19 season.The planning proposal featured aspects tied in to a deal that will see at least two NFL matches at the stadium each season in a 10-year period. The plans must be formally approved by the London Mayor and the current incumbent in that position, Boris Johnson, is a fan of the project."Stadium Update: We can announce that Haringey Council's planning sub committee has approved the club's new stadium proposals," the Premier League club tweeted.The stadium will be built as part of a development that would also include the land their current White Hart Lane ground, which has a capacity of 36,240, stands on, with work due to begin in spring 2016."

A key driver of the design of the revised scheme has been to address and improve crowd safety and crowd flow issues along the High Road," a recent Spurs statement explained."This issue has long been a concern for the club and is largely caused by the location of three buildings on the High Road: Edmonton Dispensary, The Red House, and the former White Hart Public House."The current planning permission does allow for increased space behind the three buildings but the crowd flow modelling shows that spectators would be much more likely to continue to take the most direct route along the High Road, with people regularly moving into the bus lane and the road."Given the increased number of spectators, not simply for football but for the NFL and other visitor attractions, this is simply not a situation the club can accept."Tottenham intend to play away from their home ground for the 2017-18 season "to enable a faster construction of the new stadium" before opening it in time for the 2018-19 campaign.

No Work, No Food Hyakujo, the Chinese Zen master, used to labor with his pupils even at the age of eighty, trimming the gardens, cleaning the grounds, and pruning the trees. The pupils felt sorry to see the old teacher working so hard, but they knew he would not listen to their advice to stop, so they hid away his tools. That day the master did not eat. The next day he did not eat, nor the next. "He may be angry because we have hidden his tools," the pupils surmised. "We had better put them back." The day they did, the teacher worked and ate the same as before. In the evening he instructed them: "No work, no food." Here are some helpful links just incase the above didn't help:Housing Moves is the Mayor of London's housing mobility scheme. It was set up to help people in social housing to move to other boroughs in the capital. It can be an ideal solution for you, if youAll council tenants and housing association tenants can apply under the scheme, as long as they have a secure or assured tenancy.

Priority is given to:  Housing Moves is a choice based lettings scheme. This means that once you have registered on the Housing Moves website, you will be able to see details of all available properties and express your interest.  Housing Moves is separate from the local housing transfer scheme. So, if you are interested, you will need to apply direct to Housing Moves rather than through your landlord or your borough.Your application form will be checked by your landlord before you can express an interest in properties.Our Fresh Start scheme enables you to move outside of London into private rented accommodation or sheltered housing (age 55 and over).To join the scheme you must be a Hackney resident and either:Permission to join the scheme may be refused if you are in rent arrears or have a history of anti-social behaviour. Contact our  Lettings Initiative Team for more details.The Mayor of London also runs a scheme to help tenants who are aged 60 and over to move to other parts of the country from London.Get paid for downsizing - households moving from properties with more bedrooms than they need, may benefit from our cash incentive scheme.