The Kensington & Fairfield Voice is produced by The Kensington & Fairfield Voice CIC FREE! April 2013 ISSUE 17 CONTACT THE VOiCE: 0151 345 1290 [email protected]www.kfvoice.wordpress.com Following on from the success of the The City Wide Odyssey Titanic Puppets Festival last year Kensington and Fairfield is to play host to its’ own “Marionette Marathon”. The international brewing company Carlsberg-Tetley is funding the puppet based event Le Skolodyssey to mark the sale of the millionth can of Skol Super Strength in Kensington and Fairfield. The Le Skolodyssey will take place across the Ward beginning at Noon on Monday 1 st April when the giant puppet of a Young Girl “Kirsti” (based on a character from the successful radio soap “Kirsti Streat”) will be awakened next to the bandstand in Newsham Park. Her giant dog “Kenny” will lick her awake and she will then read a short note left there by her absent Father Derek, the note will read “Kirsti girl, gone to get some cans, put some money on the eleci card will you love Dad”. Kirsty will then go on a fantastic two day Skolodyssey across the area. Expected crowds will be able to follow her as she follows the trail of crushed giant Skol cans across the Ward, asks her Nan for a tenner for the eleci, quizzes her Dad’s mate Chuckie by the Bus Stop/Smallest Pub in Britain and finally finds her giant Dad Derek “Blowing his last tenner on the Machine’s in William Hill”. Reunited Kirsty, her Dad and her faithful companion Kenny “Jump a Delta Cab” to the Pierhead, climb aboard a giant vessel in the shape of Skol Can and sail off into the sunset. “Le Skolodyssey” will be created and delivered by the Toulon based arts collection “Monderriere” and is the brainchild of their creative Directeur Etienne Farojelski. In a brief statement to the Voice Mr.Farojelski was able through an interpreter to justify the £1 million cost, “Le SkolOdyssey” is a Situationlist extravaganza which will highlight the poverty and suffering brought about by the exploitation of the proletariat by transnational corporations. “Ze event will allow zeunderclass to examine zer plight in a publicly created art form zay will be able to consolidate, organise and rise up against zer oppressors as one”. A spokesperson for the council’s culture department added “This unique community led capacity building event will engender community cohesion, build sustainability and regenerate the area” When pressed further whether any real jobs would be created she paused and said “Well I suppose someone will have to clear up the mess after “Monderriere” have gone back to France”.
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The Kensington & Fairfield Voice
is produced by The Kensington & Fairfield
Voice CIC
FREE! April 2013 ISSUE 17
CONTACT THE VOiCE: 0151 345 1290 [email protected] www.kfvoice.wordpress.com
Following on from the success of the The City Wide Odyssey Titanic Puppets Festival last year Kensington and Fairfield is to play host to its’ own “Marionette Marathon”. The international brewing company Carlsberg-Tetley is funding the puppet based event Le Skolodyssey to mark the sale of the millionth can of Skol Super Strength in Kensington and Fairfield. The Le Skolodyssey will take place across the Ward beginning at Noon on Monday 1st April when the giant puppet of a Young Girl “Kirsti” (based on a character from the successful radio soap “Kirsti Streat”) will be awakened next to the bandstand in Newsham Park. Her giant dog “Kenny” will lick her awake and she will then read a short note left there by her absent Father Derek, the note will read “Kirsti girl, gone to get some cans, put some
money on the eleci card will you love Dad”. Kirsty will then go on a fantastic two day Skolodyssey across the area. Expected crowds will be able to follow her as she follows the trail of crushed giant Skol cans across the Ward, asks her Nan for a tenner for the eleci, quizzes her Dad’s mate Chuckie by the Bus Stop/Smallest Pub in Britain and finally finds her giant Dad Derek “Blowing his last tenner on the Machine’s in William Hill”. Reunited Kirsty, her Dad and her faithful companion Kenny “Jump a Delta Cab” to the Pierhead, climb aboard a giant vessel in the shape of Skol Can and sail off into the sunset. “Le Skolodyssey” will be created and delivered by the Toulon based arts collection “Monderriere” and is the brainchild of their creative Directeur Etienne Farojelski. In a brief statement to the Voice Mr.Farojelski was able through an interpreter to justify the £1 million cost, “Le SkolOdyssey” is a
Situationlist extravaganza which will highlight the poverty and suffering brought about by the exploitation of the proletariat by transnational corporations. “Ze event will allow zeunderclass to examine zer plight in a publicly created art form zay will be able to consolidate, organise and rise up against zer oppressors as one”. A spokesperson for the council’s
culture department added “This
unique community led capacity
building event will engender
community cohesion, build
sustainability and regenerate the
area”
When pressed further whether any
real jobs would be created she paused
and said “Well I suppose someone
will have to clear up the mess after
“Monderriere” have gone back to
France”.
Cast your mind back to April 2009 when as an April Fool’s Hoax we ran a piece on selling the empty homes on Prescot Road for a £1. The background to this story is the VOiCE
had been asking Liverpool City Council
whether the empty (but now demolished)
row of Victorian Homes on Prescot Rd
could be given to the local community in
the form a Land Trust, so that they could
be reinstated and refurbished for local
people to rent or buy and for any profits to
be ploughed back into the community.
We had been told the homes were beyond
repair and couldn’t be refurbished, and
anyway no one wanted to live there. So to
prove that they were desirable properties
and could be brought back to life we ran
the story that for the sum of £1 people
could buy a house, and get a mortgage
from the Ecology Building Society to do
them up.
The response for supposedly unwanted
homes was astounding, over £150 paid the
£1, people called in at Riverside Housing to
put themselves forward and the Ecology
Building Society even began to get phone
calls too.
To cap it all BBC Radio Merseyside wanted
to do an outside broadcast with a
spokesman from “McGuire Estates” (the
fictitious development company
responsible for the project).
Unfortunately these particular houses have
all but been demolished, but the city still
has lots of nice empty homes and 20,000
homeless people. Imagine our surprise
when we heard the council were actually
planning to give a whole Kensington Street
away for a £1 a house,
"We want to keep communities together,
but a lot of what we are doing in Liverpool
is attracting new people into the
community," says Damian Richards-Clarke
of the city council.
The VOiCE still thinks this type of
homesteading scheme is a good idea and
fully supports this “new idea”, and only
wishes this policy was in place before the
Edge Hill community was destroyed over
the last 13 years. Carry on Joe Keep
the Good Ideas Coming!
By Jolly, Joe’s Got it!!
It is with great regrets that the Einstein-Rosen Bridge situated at the rear of Wetherspoons on Kensington is being closed to the public and moved to a more affluent part of the City. In a past edition of the VOiCE in which we used the Bridge to investigate a Parallel Kensington and Fairfield Universe where the Kensington New Deal for Communities had been spent effectively and sensibly on the community. Since then use of the bridge by the local community has dwindled to only one or two trips a week. Given the enormous running costs of a trans-dimensional portal or “wormhole” it was seen as an extravagance in the current atmosphere of austerity. A spokesperson for the company which built, installed and ran the facility said “After having spent over £60 million to give the people of L7 a revolutionary and unique facility, we feel sad that it has to close, but in the end it seems there was little or no demand for it”.
The facility will be dissembled on the 1st April and re-installed in the vacant HMV shop in Liverpool ONE, where it is thought more people will be able to afford the £1000 per trip admission charge. The VOiCE feels that it’s a real shame this facility is going the way of the Liverpool Ice Rink and Capaldi’s Ice Cream Parlour.
The K&F VOiCE is joining forces with Liverpool Community Radio to get your VOiCE heard by the whole community and beyond. Free Voice Radio Training courses will be run from the studio on Holt Rd at various times throughout the coming year. Until 2014 To register your interest contact LCR on 0151 345 1290 Or email Steve Faragher at [email protected]
Local people asked that there to be better ways for them to find out what’s going on the Kensington and Fairfield ward. Local people, council officers
and your ward councillors have been working together to help improve this.
is a local Youth Club, supported by Local Councilors and Liverpool Youth & Play Service and offers the following program for young people in the area. Marie and the team are also running a Ready for Work session for young people on Friday afternoon between 2-4pm, please call in if you would like some support with employment. More details please contact
Marie Wallenfang, Youth Worker on 0151 263 3856
Has installed a community information TV screen in the window of their centre at 291-299 Kensington. This gives you information of local community events and services so be sure to have a look next time you are passing. You can advertise your event here giving the KCLC Team the details, email [email protected] or pop in to reception and give the details.
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For those unable to afford Max and Kenny’s Celebrity Pooh Bags, and thanks to a more than generous purchase by the Kensington and Fairfield Problem Solving Group, local residents will be able to regis-ter for a scheme to receive 100 free pooh bags a month for six months. The scheme is an extension to the scheme the VOiCE, KensingtonVision CiC and the three Local Councillors ran as a pilot project two years ago . The First 30 Dog Owners, with a strong social conscience, who want to “Kick the Krap out Kensington (& Fairfield)” will need to come down with their dogs to Hall and Steven Family Pharmacist, Prescot Road, on Saturday 6th and 13th April between 11 and 2pm. KensingtonVision’s Director Steve Faragher told the VOiCE “People will need to register for the scheme on these dates, and they’ll be given their first 100 bags, there’s no catch, we just want to drive the dog muck out of the area and make Ken-sington(&Fairfield) a better place to live and walk about in without dodging dog pooh” he then added “I’d also like to thank the local Councillors for their contri-bution and support with this project”. FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE
It’s Grand National day and you fancy a flutter in the big race...maybe a fiver each way on Creosote, who goes well over fences, or Dusty Carpet, who’s never been beaten! All jokes aside, the excitement of having a flutter on the ‘National’ invariably attracts the once a year punter to the nation’s betting shops, and for most people that annual small bet fulfils their appetite for betting. For lots of other people that first bet is only the beginning, and it doesn’t necessarily involve betting on horses, greyhounds or football matches. The new game in town to bet on doesn’t have four or two legs but is the flashy looking machines that you will find dotted around the walls of every betting shop. They’re called FOBTs, Fixed Odds Betting Terminals, and they tend to lure a new type of punter who isn’t always interested in the traditional forms of betting but is after a quick “Betting Fix”. Critics have claimed they are the ‘Crack Cocaine’ of the betting world, the various roulette games FOBTs have a twenty second spin cycle, with a maximum bet per spin of a massive £100, which means they can generate £300 per minute or £1800 per hour, per machine. Fortunes have sometimes been won, but more often
than not small fortunes have also been lost, by gamblers whose betting shop activities are limited to their next FOBT “Fix” and most alarmingly this can even include under-age gambling. In an undercover operation recently organised by a national newspaper, eight sixteen year olds were sent into betting shops to play these machines, and six of them weren’t asked to produce ID to confirm they were eighteen. Bookmaker’s response to this news was swift, with a Ladbrokes’s spokesman stating: “We will fully investigate the cases you raise using CCTV, and take appropriate action where our usual standards have not been upheld.” Corals, William Hill and Paddy Power came out with similar statements of intent when challenged by the newspaper. Ben Thacker is a reformed user of FOBT machines, and recently travelled from his home town Brighton to tell his story to Liverpool Community Radio, based in Holt Road. His story illuminated and frightened listeners in equal measure. One day he decided to take shelter from the rain in a betting shop, but it was a decision that was to fundamentally change his life for the next few years. “I was living in London at the time, and I’d never had a bet in my life,” he says. “I wasn’t even aware of how to write a bet out, I just wanted
to shelter from the weather that afternoon. I was struggling to find a deposit for a flat at the time, and decided to have a go at the roulette machine while sheltering from the rain.” Ben wasn’t aware that he was about to become ‘rich,’ as he drily recounts:
“I threw a couple of pound in the machine, and next thing I’d won £500! I’d walked into the betting shop with £2 in my pocket, and my only thought was where my next meal was coming from, and where I was going to sleep that night, and next moment the lady behind the Ladbrokes counter was giving me all this money. I’d never been so excited in all my life. That night I spent hours making charts and gambling systems to ensure that I won every time I played roulette, thinking it was easy money,” before admitting ruefully: “ I couldn’t wait
to play them again.” Liverpool Walton MP Steve Rotheram
sits on the Culture, Media & Sport
Select Committee, and is well aware
that high street bookmakers have
already stolen a march in this respect,
as he points out: “The genie has
already been let out of the bottle, as
you’ll find FOBTs in every betting
shop in the land.”
The New Game In Town ‘Fixed Odds Betting Terminals’ The Crack Cocaine Of The Betting World BY EDDIE COTTON
Current betting legislation, allows bookmakers a maximum of four FOTB machines in each betting shop, but there are plans afoot to increase this number to twelve. Ask yourself why this is the case, and the answer in simple terms is the huge profits being made on FOBT machines by bookmakers, with a profit margin in the region of 82% on each spin of the roulette wheel. In other words, gamblers have just an 18% chance of winning in the long term when they throw their money into the slot. Steve Rotheram confirms that all major high street bookmakers are aware that their ‘bread & butter’ punters are being replaced by a new breed of gambler, whose sole desire is to play these machines. “You’re seeing a new breed of gambler emerging, and it’s not your traditional punter either, but rather, a younger element whose sole ambition is to play these machines.” The real cost of these machines on the poor working class is easy to count and Liverpool as well as having some of the poorest areas has also been deliberately targeted by the national Bookmaking companies both in the number of betting shops per area and by the amount of money the FOBT’s “Steal” . The effect is simple, making the poor even poorer and these companies phenomenally richer. Broken down by Parliamentary Constituencies, the Liverpool Riverside Ward (which includes the Kensington Fields area) has 52 Betting Shops and 189 FOBT machines and these shops generate an eye watering £197,198,213 (that’s almost £200million pound!!) per year, of which 50% comes from machines not traditional betting. Putting this money into perspective, Kensington New Deal for Communities received a mere £62.5 Million to regenerate an area over ten years. Luciana Berger’s Wavertree Constituency (which includes the rest of Kensington and Fairfield) isn’t far behind Riverside by having 33 Betting Shops and 120 FOBTs which directly remove £125,145,020 a year from the local pockets in a dangerously poor disadvantaged community of people. People like Ben Thacker and organisations like GRASP, which
stands for Gambling Reform & Society Perception, are striving to change things for the better. GRASP’s mission statement is concise and to the point: ’A problem gambler must take 100% responsibility for their actions and addiction, however, the gambling industry and our government are not taking ANY responsibility for the rise in problem gambling. We intend to make the industry safer for society to enjoy a flutter, and avoid the perils of problem gambling, and raise awareness of this insidious addiction.’ Ben Thacker reiterates that everybody has to take responsibility, saying: “The Select Committee have already stated that they don’t envisage a reduction in bookmakers advertising. I think individuals and organisations can do better than this. Wouldn’t it be nice to have MP’s fighting for the health and safety of their communities instead of lobbying for the gambling industry?” Maybe it’s time to let our elected representatives know the damage these hideous machines are doing and get them to take action. It’s also worth highlighting the one of the two constituencies with no Betting Shops and FOBTs is Henley on Thames which of course has a Conservative MP John Howell, one of the Authors of the Localism Bill, maybe the Bill needs a clause about the number of Betting Shops and FOBTs in Poor areas?
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In the last two editions of your K&F VOiCE we looked at where some of the Kensington New Deal for Communities £62.5 Million was spent. In this final part we find out the scale of some of the grants given, and where the grants ended up. Using a Freedom of Information requests to the City Council (the Accountable Body for KNDC) the VOiCE was able to get some answers to these questions. Before continuing its worth giving a potted history of New Deal and what it was meant to do “Act as a flagship component to the government’s National Strategy for Neighbourhood Renewal and is designed to help close the gaps between these 39 areas and the rest of the country”. Kensington (L7 area) was identified by Liverpool City Council as the area in most need of this initiative. The New Deal area was subdivided into five communities these being, Kensington Fields, Holt Road, Holly Road, Fairfield and Edge Hill. The process for deciding where the money was to be spent was given to the Regeneration Board, (the original Chair was the Bishop of Liverpool the Right Rev James Jones). Initial high hopes of change were slow in coming, regeneration of the area seemed to be taking a lot longer than people first thought and the Manager of the project was replaced by Lynne Spencer. The Bishop left as chair and was replaced by Richard Kennan, (a Director and Trustee of local organisations, Parks Options, Sure Options and The Kensington Sports Centre). The New Deal Board also included Graham Bell (Parks Partnership and Parks Options), and Ms. Norma Williams, (Chair of Royston Street Residents and Director of local children’s charity Prospects 2000+ ). Kensington Regeneration moved its office space from the centre of the area (291-299 Kensington), to rented space in the Job Bank (owned by Parks/Sure Options) on Tunnel Road. In 2006/7 the Chair of KNDC passed from Richard Keenan to Norma Williams with Richie Keenan moving to to Vice Chair, both remaining in these posts until the end of the scheme in March 2010. Parks/Sure Options had the new Surestart centre The Lifebank handed over to them during the duration of the New Deal too. The FOI answer gives an interesting insight into how a large percentage of the £62.5 Million New Deal money was distributed to organisations with connections to the Chair and Vice Chair and
board Members. Parks Options based in the Life Bank which provides “Education, Training and Development to the Local Community….” (Trustees include Richard Keenan, Norma Lee and ex councillor Frank Doran, both of whom were also on the Board of KNDC and ex Trustee Norma Williams) received a total of £1,749, 115 which included £660,000 rent paid from KNDC to them to rent office space at Parks Options owned Job Bank, £148,498 to buy Camp Terrig a “Colomendyesque”
residential building in North Wales and a further £766,000 to develop the “Kensington Campus”. Prospects 2000+ a Children’s Charity based in
Marmaduke Street which provides “Vocational Activities for Young People Living in Liverpool….” (whose trustees include ex KNDC Chair Norma Williams) received £632,794 in grants to take young people away to North Wales on holiday breaks. Finally HEAT (Health Energy Advice Team, Chair of Trustees is Norma Williams) was established to “Deliver Projects targeting the most disadvantaged members of our communities, providing confidential advocacy, Support and a range of individual and group services…” received £1,924,536 from KNDC to provide their useful services. The Grand total of grant given to organisations connected to the Board and the Chairs comes to a staggering £4,306,390 which account for nearly 7% of the total KNDC budget! The VOiCE contacted the City Council Auditors in
2009 regarding these matter and asked them to investigate, but we were informed that all the necessary “Declaration of Interests” had been carried out, but what we are worried about is that the organisations mentioned above and their officers were in a privileged positions given
their role in KNDC and whether any due diligence was carried out by examining the outcomes of all this spending by the then KNDC Officers, most notable the Chief Exec Lynne Spencer and Anne Marie Turner. The VOiCE is calling for the local Councillors to back our request for further investigation into the way the money was distributed so unevenly and whether monitoring of the outcomes were carried out? As a final flourish in November 2009 to celebrate the ten years a black tie event was held at the Anglican Cathedral, costing a mere £45,000 and hosted by TV presenter Gordon Burns, the jamboree event concluded Norma Williams (and Norma Lee) being “crowned” “Champion of Champions”. Stop Press: On a final note of the ‘power of
the press’ (see VOiCE issue 16 page 3) on a
recent stroll through the pastoral splendour of
Jubilee Park, we noticed Park Options have
had the signage pointing to “Phantom
Bowling Green” taken down and the
“Senseless Sensory Garden” have been
weeded removing the thistles and nettles.
Hello and welcome to my tales, I have been out of circulation for the past few months due to my prostate transplant and the loss of my Polish Carer Marek, who has got a “new, better paid job” in the Nuclear Facility where he says his qualification in nuclear stuff will be more useful than caring for me, we shall see. This week’s tale takes place outside the area in the Dale Street region of the City and involves that well know phenomenon ‘A Timeslip’. Because of the number of old buildings in the Dale Street area, there are many portals to the past where people can slip back and forth in the Space Time Continuum. One such person is local Kensington resident who we will call “Robert”. One dark evening in 1940 “Robert” an ARP Warden was walking home amidst a Luftwaffe Air Raid and was seeking shelter from the bombs, and he took a hurried short cut and hid in a doorway. Caught in a blast he ran towards a light only to find it day not night and in a place he was unfamiliar with. He looked around and saw strange new buildings, store fronts and strangely dressed people, he headed towards somewhere familiar, the Liverpool Town Hall. He walked into the doorway and the man on the door seeing his uniform ushered him up the grand staircase to
a grand reception in the Banqueting Suite. As he entered he noticed a sign “Liverpool Blitz Memories” and was shown towards the drinks table. A young lady asked him what he’d like to drink, after asking for a pint of Bents Mild, and being told that they only had wine or fruit juice, he moved about the room. He began speaking to some of the people and he realised the year was not 1940 but 2010 and he had mysterious been blown into the future. Leaving quickly he headed up Castle Street and stood aghast, before him was a completely new city, with people wearing strange garb, young women wearing large felt boots (UGGs), and large circular object in their hair (Curlers) and many, many tattoos. He then headed towards his favourite pub on Hanover Street but he quickly became lost, ending up in a place that looked a lot like the landscape in Fritz Lang’s film “Metropolis”. Feeling light headed he looked for somewhere to sit down and get his bearings. Sitting down in a café called “Nandos” a young lady approached him, passing him a menu, the number of meals available made his head swim and his stomach rumble as he had eaten only his small ration of lard and bread. He ordered a large Piri Piri chicken (not really knowing what a Piri was), ate the meal hungrily, despite the heat, he then realised the half crown in his pocket would not cover the bill, the management forcibly ejected him and
on the way out stumbled on the moving staircase, knocking himself out in the process. When he awoke what seemed like hours later, it was still daytime, but instead of being in 2010 in LiverpoolOne he was lying in the same doorway he had hidden in 1940. Had he been merely having a lucid dream or had he been transported 70 years into the future, he was not sure, it had all seemed so real but he passed it off as a vivid hallucination until he reached into his pocket for the tram fare back to Kensington, and out of his pocket fell a scrap of paper. He picked it up and spread it out only to see it was a paper napkin and on the corner was printed “Nandos Piri Piri chicken have you got the bottle” , Robert’s jaw dropped and until recently he kept this story to himself.
The VOiCE’s very own A.A.Gil, “The MYSTERY SCOFFER” has been stricken with an equally mystery illness, so unfortunately there wont be a food review in this issue of the VOiCE. Speaking from behind his mask in his isolation ward in The Royal Liverpool Hospital he was able to tell the VOiCE that after a visit to the Buffet Star in Hanover Street to celebrate the Jewish Festival of Purim with few friends from Mossad, he was violently ill and had both “Projectile vomiting and projectile diarrhoea simultaneously”
Within minutes he had been airlifted to the Royal and put on a life support machine. It’s believed he had developed a rare form of equine dysentery. He then added “I said I could eat a Scabby Horse and it looks like that’s what was served up, never again nay, nay, nay never”. We wish the Mystery Scoffer a
quick and speedy recovery and we
hope he’ll be back reviewing in the
next issue of the VOiCE.
THE BUFFET STAR
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