Camberwell Business Network – Engagement Officer

Are you well-organised, with excellent interpersonal and communication skills? Have an interest in helping businesses in Camberwell come together?

The Camberwell Business Network (CBN) needs an Engagement Officer to:
– engage with local businesses and create a database of business contacts
– build and maintain social media presence
– research and compile informative and interesting topics for the CBN e-newsletter and distribute it to database.
– coordinate outreach events, including finding a venue, arranging catering, managing the budget, booking relevant speakers and inviting attendees.
– produce progress reports in line with grant requirements.

This is a 52-week contract on a self-employed basis for approximately 5 hours per week, paid at £14.50 per hour.

For a full role description, please see below or download the PDF here: Camberwell Business Network role description

To apply, please submit by email your CV, including two referees, and a short cover letter/email by 5pm, Friday 22 June 2018 to: admin@se5forum.org.uk

The SE5 Forum for Camberwell is a grassroots, non-political umbrella organisation that exists to work for the improvement of Camberwell to benefit all members of our diverse community. The SE5 Forum is supporting the Camberwell Business Network with the help of a grant from Southwark Council.

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Southwark News has reported on SE5 Forum’s campaign, with local supporters, to reopen Camberwell Station in this week’s issue of the newspaper, published on Thursday 9 May.

You can read the news piece in Southwark News here.

SE5 Forum organised a protest on Camberwell Green last Saturday 5 May, to highlight how reopening Camberwell Station should be part of a Cleaner Transport means Cleaner Air approach to transport and air pollution issues in Camberwell.

Local supporters joined SE5 Forum campaigners to don free giveaway air pollution masks and hold up a banner demanding more to target air pollution, which is twice the EU legal limit, according to pollution monitors installed by Southwark Green Party.

Getting TfL to support the right choices in terms of our transport options is important for cleaner air, and healthy streets. So the Camberwell Train Station Campaign continues!

Changing our older buses for lower emissions models is just one small step – we need to make radical changes to SE5 transport options available to residents, and road users.

SE5 Forum now has access (via a Freedom of Information request) to the background planning documents TfL is using for its business plan for the station. So far, air quality is not on the agenda. Our protest aimed to show TfL that this an important issue for Camberwell, including re-opening the Camberwell railway station.

Tweet your support at:

#CamberwellStation
#openourstation
@OpenOurStation
@OpenCamberwell
@HealthyAirLDN
@SE5Forum
#TFL #SE5

SE5 Forum Press Release, 7 May 2018:

‘CLEANER AIR, CLEANER TRANSPORT: REOPEN CAMBERWELL STATION,’ SAY CAMBERWELL CAMPAIGNERS

Supporters of reopening Camberwell Station donned anti-pollution masks at Camberwell Green on Saturday to highlight air pollution levels that are twice the legal EU limit in the centre of Camberwell[1]. Traffic is a major source of air pollution in the area, and reopening the Camberwell railway station could provide a cleaner transport alternative, campaigners say.

Local group SE5 Forum for Camberwell has now won access, via a Freedom of Information request, to studies[2] showing clean air is not a priority in TFL’s analysis of the benefit of reopening the station. Campaigners will now aim to convince Minister of State for Transport Jo Johnson that using the train rather than cars and buses will improve local air quality. They are briefing local MPs Harriet Harman and Helen Hayes, who will hand a 2000-signature petition to reopen the Camberwell station to the Transport Minister on 15^th May.

Campaigner Sophy Tayler, who obtained the background planning documents and comments, says:

‘We are worried TfL is shunting this important project into the sidings. The studies fail to take seriously traffic pollution, slow bus services, growing population and difficult access to hospitals in Camberwell. These issues will continue unless there is a step change in transport options.’

According to SE5 Forum, the studies suggest the train service would provide a time saving of 15 minutes for those travelling from Camberwell to Elephant and Castle. Users already on the train would experience an average delay of only 42 seconds (and only on those trains that stopped at Camberwell). The study says that this change “arguably… would not be noticed by existing users”.

According to Tayler: ‘More rail users come from outside London, than get on at Camberwell, so we don’t get a high enough BCR (Benefit Cost Ratio) to boost the business case for re-opening. But this could mean inner city Camberwell never gets a meaningful chance to improve transport options and air quality.’

Campaigners are now demanding a say in the economic and social assessment of the local benefits that they believe TFL’s business case should provide. They say the 36-page report TfL commissioned to cover ‘economic appraisal and wider impacts assessment’ does not mention Camberwell’s hospitals or the particular needs of patients, staff and visitors in relation to transport; it also fails to take into account the growing local population, new housing developments and five redevelopment areas, all of which would benefit from the station; and that it does not consider the area’s future, if it continues to suffer poor transport, poor air quality and challenges, in attracting and growing local business.

Note for editors

Camberwell Station Background
Camberwell station sits on the Thameslink line between Loughborough Junction and Elephant and Castle. While the station last served passengers in 1919, platforms and infrastructure exist and could be re-instated. In 2014, despite a majority vote favouring Camberwell in the TfL Bakerloo underground line consultation, the route down the Old Kent Road was selected. However, the response to the consultation recommended that the business case for reopening the Thameslink station should be undertaken. In Summer 2017, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan promised that TfL’s business case would be published the autumn of that year. Now in 2018, and still with no business case in sight, campaigners made a Freedom of Information request to obtain the background documents, so as to better understand the issues.

SE5 Forum for Camberwell
The SE5 Forum for Camberwell (se5forum.org.uk) is a grass roots community organisation, which promotes the development and improvement of Camberwell in South London. It provides a cross-borough forum in which local residents, organisations, groups and service providers can share expertise and information and work together to improve the local area. It has a track record of more than 10 years of raising the profile of Camberwell as a place in which people can live and work.

[1] The legal EU limit for nitrogen dioxide is 40 micrograms per cubic metre(μg/m3). The level recorded in May 2018 outside McDonald’s restaurant in Camberwell was 84.3 micrograms per cubic metre, according to pollution monitors installed by Southwark Green Party.

[2] Camberwell Station Reopening, Railplan Strategic Modelling, Mott Macdonald, September 2017; Camberwell Station Re-instatement Economic Appraisal, Steer Davies Gleave, TfL, 6 June 2017; South London Stations Report (Camberwell Station) Final v1-0, Steer Davies Gleave, TfL, 18 July 2014

Open Camberwell Train Station: Cleaner Transport means Cleaner Air

Come and join the SE5 Forum campaigners on Camberwell Green this Saturday 5 May at 11am!

Please join us to show your support and find out more – we’re giving away 50 free air-pollution masks to show TfL how SE5 residents want cleaner transport for all in Camberwell.

Getting TfL to support the right choices in terms of our transport options is important for cleaner air, and healthy streets. So the Camberwell Train Station Campaign continues!

Changing our older buses for lower emissions models is just one small step – we need to rmake radical changes to SE5 transport options available to residents, and road users.

We now have access to the background planning documents TfL is using for its business plan. So far, air quality is not on the agenda. Let’s show TfL that this an important issue for Camberwell, including re-opening the Camberwell railway station.

Join us at Camberwell Green this Saturday May 5th, at 11am – and collect your free face mask.

Join in the group photo. Or take your own face-mask-selfie and Tweet your support:
@OpenOurStation
@OpenCamberwell
@HealthyAirLDN
@SE5Forum
#TFL
#openourstation
#CamberwellStation

Hope to see you there!

Best wishes,

SE5 Forum for Camberwell
admin@se5forum.org.uk
www.se5forum.org.uk

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Dear SE5 Forum Members

On our first ‘real’ day back I would like to wish you all  a Happy New Year and all good wishes for a peaceful and prosperous 2018.

It is the board’s intention this year to review recent work and map out plans to focus our energies in a clear and transparent manner informed by our constitution.

With this in mind I thought it might be helpful here to share with you our aims and objectives as enshrined in our constitution.

AIMS:

1. To promote the development and improvement of Camberwell
2. To raise the profile of Camberwell as a place in which people can live and work.
3. To provide a cross-borough forum in which residents, organisations, groups and service providers can share expertise and information and work together in Camberwell SE5 to improve the local area.
4. To encourage service providers in Lambeth and Southwark to work more closely together, better co-ordinate their activities and increase funding for SE5.
5. To act as a representative consultative body for the local are
6. To secure additional resources and funding in order to address these aims.

OBJECTIVES:

1. In furtherance of these aims, the Forum will:
2. Co-ordinate regular meetings of Forum members.
3. Identify issues of local concern that affect the quality of local life.
4. Prioritise these issues and seek ways, together with partner agencies, to address them.
5. Celebrate and support the area’s diverse community with full regard to age, ethnic origin, religion, sex or disability by facilitating communications and networks.

We are ambitious for Camberwell which is defined as the postal district of SE5 that lies across the boundary between the London Boroughs of Southwark and Lambeth.

We look to you to help by sharing information and expertise so if you have ideas or information that could help improve Camberwell I look forward to hearing from you.

Let us all work together to make 2018 the best year yet for Camberwell!

With all good wishes

Barbara Pattinson

Chair

SE5 Forum for Camberwell

Working for a Better Camberwell

020 7274 8045

07758 449 162

chair@se5forum.org.uk

www.se5forum.org.uk