The organiser of the petition against the forced academisation of Calder High has asked for signed petitions to be returned to her by Monday 18th February. So this is a last-minute call for signatures! You can download and sign the petition here, and also find the address to send the petition to.
At this late date, it’s probably a good idea to email her to say the signed petition’s in the post, otherwise it’ll miss the deadline.
Here’s the link to the BIofuelwatch webpage which has an email to send to the Chair of the UK Green Investment Bank. Please send an email – you can re word it to suit yourself, or simply send the version that Biofuelwatch has written.
You might also want to email Councillor Janet Battye, who represents Calderdale Council on the Leeds City Region (LCR) Green Economy Panel. The LCR Green Economy Panel support the Green Investment Bank’s £100m investment in big biomass at Drax. Here’s the Email I have sent Cllr Battye – please feel free to use this as a template for your own email if that helps.
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You can download and print out a Petition regarding Calder High. (Use back button to return to this page once you’ve downloaded the Petition). Guidance on printing out, filling in and returning the petition to the organiser is at the end of this post.
Or you can email the petition organiser for more information and/or to ask her to send you a copy of the petition.
The Petition invites signatures from Calder High School parents, staff and students, and local residents within the school’s catchment area which is from Halifax to Todmorden, before the deadline of 18th February. This will allow time to get it to Gove before the sponsor matching process is finished.
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Please sign the online Ban The Burn petition, if you haven’t already. 335 people already have, and we only need another 65 signatures. Then we will present the petition to Natural England and Defra.
This is what the petition asks:
Last week the House of Lords voted to put on hold the ConDem government’s plan to abolish the Agricultural Wages Board (AWB). They intend to scrutinise the proposal, which would open the door for supermarkets and agribusinesses to cut farm workers’ already low wages.
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Ban the Burn! members and supporters might like to attend the free South Pennines National Character Area Profiles Workshop. This Pennine Prospects/Natural England workshop is about how the South Pennines Watershed Landscape Project has been influenced by Natural England’s update of the South Pennines National Character Area (NCA) profile.
The workshop takes place on Tuesday 29th January, 10am-2pm, at Hebden Bridge Town Hall. It is free, with lunch provided, and open to all, but you need to book in advance by emailing robin.gray@pennineprospects.co.uk or phoning 01422 847612, or 07582 101319.
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Calderdale Save Our Services is holding an Open Campaign Meeting on Monday 4 February 7 – 9pm at Horton House, 7 Horton Street, Halifax, HX1 1PU
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Lobby NHS Calderdale Clinical Commissioning Executive with Calderdale Save our Services
Thursday 17th January 2013, in Halifax at F Mill, Dean Clough, Dean Clough Road / Lee Bridge (next to the Travelodge, entrance via Gate 9). More information here. Download leaflet here. Please circulate widely.
KEEP OUR
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More info about Calderdale Save Our Services here.
Information from Liberty about protestors’s rights is here. Or download the National Union of Students leaflet Protest – Your Rights.