|
HCVS AGM & Celebration 2008
Over 60 people from Hackney's voluntary and community sector, The Learning Trust, Hackney council and the Metropolitan Police attended our Annual General Meeting and Celebration event on Wednesday, 12 March at the Community centre for Refugees from Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos in Haggerston.
HCVS members voted in four new trustees and formally appointed two of our co-opted trustees.
 Click here to find out about our new Management Committee
Niall Sweby announced the results of our Strategic Review which shows the plan for HCVS for the next three years.
Click here to read our Strategic Review
Carole Stewart from Hackney council and Ian lewis, Team Hackney presented the borough's plans for the sector. Following this, we held a panel discussion on the Future of the voluntary and community sector in Hackney.
Members of the panel included:
- Adam Hart, HCVS Trustee and Director of Hackney Co-operative Developments
- Ali Riza Aksoy, Chair Hackney Refugee Forum
- Carole Stewart, Assistant Director Community Services, Hackney Council
- Eileen Bellot, Hands Inc.
- Ian Lewis, Director of Team Hackney
- Mary Cannon, Chair of the City & Hackney Social Care Forum.
People from the audience raise a number of issues including concerns around the move to commissioning and decrease in the availability of small grants, the importance of good communication and information sharing, the need to retain the sector’s independence as well as the ongoing rise of premises costs.
 Click here for photographs from our AGM (1.7 MB)
Finally, we celebrated those unsung heroes who work so hard in Hackney's voluntary and community sector with the first Adiaha Antigha Community Achievements Awards. Jennifer Rowe, HCVS' longest serving members of staff who worked with Adiaha for seven years, gave a moving speech in memory of Adiaha. The awards were were presented by HCVS' Kristine Wellington, Jennifer Rowe and Elizabeth Adebola.
Click here for to find out more about the Adiaha Antigha Community Achievement Awards
For more information about our AGM please contact Gillian Trevethan at gillian@hcvs.org.uk |