I  attended a Muster Of King's Scouts and Queen's Scouts with Bob Bushell Kingston District Commisioner at Kings College School Wimbeldon with Scouts and Mayors from Merton, Croydon, Sutton and Richmond. I myself am a Queens Scout, If it was not for my Scouting and gaining my Queen Scout award in Worcester, I don't think I would now be Deputy Mayor. As I gained an importance sense of community involvement and charity work, while involved in the movement. It was good to meet Queen and king Scout from the borough and share story's of scouting. 

I was fun popping back into Kingston Uni to say hello to new students and see what the clubs and societies have been up to. It a while since I was a student there by have fond memories of my time as a Sabbatical officer and I am now very proud to be a local councillor representing the University ward. A position I would not have attained if I had not been a past student so involved with the local community and Student politics.   http://www.kusu.co.uk/    http://www.kingston.ac.uk/

 Sowing the Seeds of Peace Event to mark the UN's International Day of Peace, Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park, Richmond. 

In the late afternoon I was interest to attend the Peace event with a number of Key speaker including Susan Cramer M.P on issues  of world peace and atrocities in Africa and how we can all look to work together to resolve conflict.

During the day as it was in Town with out my car day, I used the bus were possible .

In the evening I also pop in to see the Private View of Dave McKean at Kingston Museum, a interesting display of comic book art and illustration.

                                " The Joker "

An interesting but long meeting from issue of pigeons to cafe licenses,  for more details of agenda see agendas and minutes and the next meeting is on: Thursday 25 October 2007 7:30 pm in the main Guildhall.

An interesting meeting listening to feed back from the Police team on how local issue had been dealt with, also concerns raise over anti social behaviour especially  in the Mill street area. We also has a presentation on Community CCTV which could be a possible solution to help.

 Although a sad day it was, a bright day for a celebration of life, of my Great Aunty Val. I  caught up with family, most I had not seen for some time. I explained my role in Kingston with must interest.

The Mayor's Charity Picnic was a sunny afternoon watching polo in the grounds of Ham Polo Club in support of Charities : Momentum, Parkinson's Disease Society,  Royal Kingston Rehab Centre, Lahore

D.M , Mayor of Richmond Cllr Marc Cranfield-Adams and Cllr Shiraz Mirza.

Heritage Week - Islamic and Holly Quran Exhibition

I was very interested to attend the Kingston Mosque and find out more about the Islamic faith during the Heritage week display on the Holy Quran.

For more information please see this site   http://www.kingstonmosque.org.uk/

Tolworth Communtity Gardening Club Summer Barbeque

The BBQ was a chance for the group to meet at the end of the summer and celebrate the work done in growing on the allotments. It was great to see people working together to grow food at the Tolworth Main Allotments in Surbiton.  Recently a grant has been awarded from the Council and its contractor Quadron to develop a raised allotment garden to allow inclusive gardening experience for the whole community. For more information please Call Joe on 0208 399 1618 of check out the council web site: Allotments and join the Gardening Revolution.

The Great River Race 2007. The Race was a challenging, 22-mile course from Richmond, Surrey, to Island Gardens, Tower Hamlets opposite the Cutty Sark at Greenwich. To which I was not quite prepared for and had a few blister and a sore back when I finished. But a huge thank you to all my team from the Kingston Rotary and of course my rowing partner Bella.

On the 6-7th September I attended an international conference on Sustainability organised and hosted by Kingston University.  The 2 day conference brought together an array of highly influential speakers who delivered informative and thought provoking speaches and workshops.  I especially enjoyed meeting eco builder and author, Will Anderson.

As part of Kingston Food Fortnight I attended the opening party for the Nuggs 1268 store on the Market Place.   It was a relaxed evening and was a good opportunity to sample some of the delicious products the store will be selling.

It was great to see the residents of Kingston joining together to enjoy the carnival.  The event is very close to my heart as I used to sit on the organisations committee for the All Nations Health Fair, the event that grew into the carnival.  I was out with other volunteers from the Save the World Club as Green Police ensuring the carnival goers acted responsibly with thier rubbish.

Canbury Music Awards  

During the afternoon I also attended Canbury Music Awards were the Kingston Youth Big Band Played.

In The evening I then Prize Giving for the Minima Yacht Club Regatta 2007

It was great to see the community and local organisations getting involved to promote this event.

Kingston Horticutural Society Annual Garden Show