Can anyone tell me what is happening to the BPCA ( Bowes Park CommunityAssociation) which has done such sterling work over the past 25 years?  There were suggestions that it should lose the Charitable Status but revert to its original status of being an association which has an overview of the whole area and highlights projects that need attention and a bit of TLC.  This appeared to have been rejected and there ws a small meeting when it seems the Committee were going to resign and close the whole venture down.   I have contacted them to try and find out what will happen to the following but to no avail

The Community Gardens  - leased to BPCA from Haringey

The Gym - not sure of its status

Public Liability Insurance - which covers , amongst other things the Community Choir and no doubt other offshoots of the BPCA

What will happen to the funds that have been collected.  Will they be ring fenced for the benefit of the whole community?  

And I am sure there are other questions that need answers that I know nothing about,

The huge advantage of the BPCA was that it was not involved in commercial operations.  They provided a forum for discussions such as traffic flow through the area long before the latest changes.  They provided forums and insurance for  the walking group, and the art group and the folk group  and the Community Choir for many years.  They allowed Finsbury Gardens Fins Fest to be conceived and run by volunteers for many years  as a non profit making good afternoon out for local children who were not going to get a summer holliday.

I am not sure if people realise that the BPCA appears to be being closed down with little public discussion as far as can see.  Or is it not?  The lack of information from the Committee is extraordinary. Perhaps it has served its time.  But looking at the huge range of things it co-ordinated (it fills an A4 page) over the years including the resurrection of Myddleton Road with the cooperation of Haringey and Heritage England, so many ago.  Some of its other achievements were.  The cladding of land that became the Community Gardens, the Community Gym, saving Shaftesbury Hall from being turned into flats,  successfully securing a Lottery Grant to refurbish Finsbury Gardens, securing funding to refurbish the original railings around the Gardens.  Stopping the old Police Station from demolition and an IKEA type building being built in its place to house all the police cars of Haringey. And there is much, much more.

Do people care?  If so are they prepared to  give a little time to keep it going?  Perhaps in a new form?

But most of all would someone on the committee tell all members what is being proposed because most of the people I talk to have absolutely no idea what is happening.