"NEWSTEAD TREEFEST SUPPORTS THE CAMPAIGN TO DEFEND COMMUNITY EVENTS"

[Tank Girl]

Under recent ACPO guidance (“Guidance on charging for police services” ACPO 2005) police forces around the country have been charging community events such as community arts and music events for the cost of policing.

Under the ACPO guidance any event with a few stalls, stewards and a stage / entertainment license can be charged for the cost of policing. We believe that community events fulfill a vital service in our society promoting community cohesion, encouraging community engagement and generally being a force for good in society, all of these are key national indicators of the department for culture media and sport (DCMS).

Community events are often organised by volunteers and the events run on a shoestring budget, they cannot afford the additional cost of policing. This is why we urge you to safeguard the future of community events by stopping the police charging them.

Please sign the petition:

Petition to: stop the charging of community events for the cost of the policing. | Number10.gov.uk

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[joshd96320]

definitely support this one ;O

[Anonymous]

Dear Partyvibe Types,

Small festivals and community run arts and music events are under threat from the association of chief police officers (ACPO) and we need your help!!

Around the country police forces are beginning to implement the ACPO guidance on charging events, in practice this means that any event, even community run and charity events, with a few stewards, some stalls and a music license are now liable to be slapped with a HUGE bill for the policing costs. This is threatening the future of a large number of the small festivals we all know and love, these events are often run by volunteers on shoestring budgets and they simply can’t afford it.

We urge the government to defend the future of these events and stop these unfair charges.

Please sign the petition online at

[URL=”mhtml:{02C253C5-7A5D-4514-839B-72F9382B997C}mid://00000048/!x-usc:http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/communityevents/”]http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/communityevents/[/URL]

and join the facebook group at

[URL=”mhtml:{02C253C5-7A5D-4514-839B-72F9382B997C}mid://00000048/!x-usc:http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=76854665212&ref=mf”]http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=76854665212&ref=mf[/URL]

Cheers

Ozzy

Strawberry Fair East Stage Production Manager & Campaign to Defend Community Events

PS. and if you think the police are running this protection racket because they are short of funds they clearly aren’t, cambridgeshire police spent £82,000 of taxpayers money on a self help guru… [URL=”mhtml:{02C253C5-7A5D-4514-839B-72F9382B997C}mid://00000048/!x-usc:http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/cn_news_home/displayarticle.asp?id=434086″]http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/cn_news_home/displayarticle.asp?id=434086[/URL]

PPS. if you run an event and would like to join the long list of supporting events please email your contact details to ozzy@strawberry-fair.org.uk

[Tank Girl]

http://www.partyvibe.com/forums/law/38210-newstead-treefest-supports-campaign-defend.html

signed :group_hug

[globalloon]

just saw this and thought i’d post it up

Quote:

Under recent guidance from the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) local police forces have been charging community arts and music events for the cost of policing.

Any community event with a stage / entertainment license , a few stalls and stewards is at risk from the police charging for their services. These events are often run by volunteers on shoestring budgets and cannot afford the charges. A number of events are under threat of closing / not happening in future years.

Community events promote community cohesion, encourage community engagement and are generally a force for good in society, these are all key national indicators for the department of culture media and sport (DCMS).

We urge the government / home office to stop the police charging these
events for policing costs.

Please sign the petition online at

Petition to: stop the charging of community events for the cost of the policing. | Number10.gov.uk

Also please join the facebook group

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And please forward this to all your mates

Cheers

Ozzy

Campaign to defend community events

it’s this charge that could mean the end of Stawberry Fair
Strawberry Fair: Cleaner & Greener – Strawberry Fair, Cambridge

[sinner69]

this was posted yesterday….

http://www.partyvibe.com/forums/law/38239-strawberry-fair-supports-campaign-defend.html#post343548

[General Lighting]

the other dude accidentally posted it with a duff link for the petition I couldn’t access so fair play to Globalloon for putting up a working link!

[sinner69]

http://www.partyvibe.com/forums/law/38210-newstead-treefest-supports-campaign-defend.html

Good, but we still have 3 threads about the same petition….someone tidy it up or pull them 2gether maybe?

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