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Call for volunteers as Ventnor Repair Café postpones upcoming session

The next Repair Cafe session in Ventnor, originally scheduled for 23rd November, will not take place.

The organisers say a shortage of volunteers has led to the cancellation.

Volunteer shortages affect session
Repair Cafe sessions are entirely run by volunteers who generously offer their skills and time.

For the planned November session, the team was unable to secure enough repairers to operate the cafe effectively.

Call for new volunteers
The organisers are encouraging anyone interested in joining the team as a repairer or helper to get in touch.

Potential volunteers can reach out via email at repaircafeisleofwight@gmail.com.

Next session
The next Repair Cafe in Ventnor is set to take place on 22nd February 2025.

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Rod Manley
29, February 2016 12:40 pm

The hope is that this “devolution” should be buried out of the way. The MP should take a stand on behalf of the Isle of Wight and say the same.

End the Bid now!

Jim Moody
29, February 2016 1:05 pm

It’s clearly not devolution, as that would involve giving powers to an entity split away from a larger one. Examples are Scotland and Wales. This is an amalgamation, with certain powers currently exercised by the Isle of Wight county council being surrendered. The only reason Bacon et al are interested is trying to scrabble around for funds so they won’t be seen as implementing Tory government cuts.

Jonathan Bacon
Reply to  Jim Moody
29, February 2016 4:32 pm

This does not involve surrendering powers but you are perfectly right that the reason to pursue this is the money. If it might give us the £17m + per year that is needed to balance the books into the future the least we can do do is stay at the table and consider it.

Cicero
Reply to  Jonathan Bacon
29, February 2016 4:49 pm

JB- Who, where and how would a devolved Hants & IoW region decide which local councils (or groups of councils) would take responsibility for delivering the various services across the region?

Jonathan Bacon
Reply to  Cicero
29, February 2016 6:01 pm

The Councils would continue to deliver their own services and come together to deliver those functions handed down from central government (eg infrastructure development and transport planning). The model originally offered was of an Executive group of leaders heading a small number of committees dealing with each of these functions with proportional representation for all authorities involved across these committees. No separate administration was suggested with all… Read more »

Cicero
Reply to  Jonathan Bacon
29, February 2016 7:45 pm

Thanks for the clarification. How would the “proportional representation” be worked out?

prof
Reply to  Jonathan Bacon
29, February 2016 7:49 pm

Given the IOW’s small population relative the combined region our voice in a PR arrangement would have been virtually inaudible. Does the new proposal include any measures to ensure we do not end up as a junior partner, dominated by the influence of the two large cities in the southern region? Additional money is great but only if it we have sufficient control over it to ensure… Read more »

Jonathan Bacon
Reply to  Jonathan Bacon
29, February 2016 11:23 pm

This is for Prof but the Reply option doesn’t appear under your comment. The PR Model is based on an LGA model for balancing the interests of different types of authorities based on population but also relating to whether they are one or two tier (Hampshire of course is served by both the County Council and District Councils). The model would put us roughly on the same… Read more »

Cicero
Reply to  Jonathan Bacon
1, March 2016 8:01 am

JB “The PR Model is based on an LGA model ”

Pls post a link where I can inspect the details of the LGA model. Thanks

billy builder
Reply to  Jonathan Bacon
1, March 2016 8:43 am

Proportional Representation noun an electoral system in which parties gain seats in proportion to the number of votes cast for them. That sounds like an ideal basis for regional elections, where each party (including the less desirable ones) would have appropriate representation. In this area we would have a slightly right of centre administration – not perfect but certainly significantly better than the makeup being proposed. On… Read more »

Cicero
Reply to  Jonathan Bacon
1, March 2016 9:49 am

“This won’t happen as the rich areas will not support the poorer ones. Tory dogma through and through”

…. so PR is waste of time in addition to being undemocratic due to the selection and ranking procedures of political parties? :-))

billy builder
Reply to  Jonathan Bacon
1, March 2016 10:05 am

Cicero, as I may well have said before, it is because we do not have PR or a PR variant that we do not have representative democratic government.

Cicero
Reply to  Jonathan Bacon
1, March 2016 10:18 am

BB that is true, but you still will not have representative government until every citizen is compelled to vote.

Currently UK governments are often chosen by only 35% of the electorate. The better organised political parties are more successful in getting their voters to turn up at the ballot box., which skews “representative government”

billy builder
Reply to  Jonathan Bacon
1, March 2016 10:26 am

I would also suggest that the current system focuses the vote to the extremes rather than to the centre where most voters would be more at home.

Ali Hayden.
29, February 2016 1:32 pm

So it seems the more prosperous areas want a Mayor + aren’t happy, reading this. A reminder of why the Isle Of Wight Council were in talks about devolution; (a) Support the prospectus for a devolution deal for Hampshire and Isle of Wight as the basis for negotiation with government. (c) Confirm that the final devolution deal must ensure the financial security of Isle of Wight and… Read more »

Cicero
29, February 2016 3:48 pm

(Beeb) Hampshire had a crunch meeting of county and district leaders. This one of the biggest, and most prestigious applications. One leader told me afterwards “It was a bloody business.” The districts have been spooked by increased housing numbers. All along they’ve ducked and weaved to avoid the hated election of a “metro-mayor”. And into that disunity I hear the government has thrust a fatal blow, calling… Read more »

Cicero
29, February 2016 3:51 pm

(Beeb Hants & IoW ) “Death of the Southern Shire Powerhouses”

Mark Francis
1, March 2016 9:59 pm

This is more about amalgamating the IOW with Hampshire on account of the IOW not being trusted to run itself due the screw up that Pugh & his chums made of children’s services such that Hampshir had to take them over.
Say it ain,t so.

ThomasC
Reply to  Mark Francis
2, March 2016 12:36 pm

Well it’s probably a certain element of the failure of certain parts of the IWC, but it’s also about centralising services to cut costs. With the technology infrastructure available to under-pin and support the efficient delivery of certain services, the existence of multiple very similar units deserves to be questioned and reviewed. The combined delivery of health and care services on the IW has been highlighted as… Read more »

Cicero
Reply to  ThomasC
2, March 2016 1:40 pm

Centralisation rarely cuts costs owing to the growth of beancounters and unproductive managers recruited to set and monitor “targets”, viz NHS under Blair/Brown/Cameron.

Interesting that now it seems that Cameron/Feldman are trying to “centralise” grass roots Tory branches.

The gauleiters are coming!

Terry Carpenter
2, March 2016 1:11 pm

If it looks like a duck and you can hear quacking… it may be a decoy.

Why split Hampshire in half and then try to glue the Isle of Wight to it?

What do the Tory Government wish to achieve from this crack pot scheme?

Is the Solent just a stream running through their new back garden?

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