There are many ways to help. 1) Sign the petition, and gather signatures. We are gathering signatures from individuals who live, work, or study in Newham in a petition to the London Borough of Newham Mayor and Council to ask them to stop plans to reduce the size of the Stratford Children's Library. Please sign the online petition here: Please forward the link to other Newham residents and those who study or work here so that they can sign. If you are willing to gather signatures on paper, please download a printable version of the petition here. To submit the signed paper petition please email us using the Contact Us page. 2) Contact Newham local government, the mayor of London, and your MP By phone, email, or post: Please contact your local authorities, MP, local media, and Stratford LIbrary administration to raise the future of Stratford Library children's area with them. We offer some suggestions below on how to do this. Contact information for the Mayor of Newham, Sir Robin Wales, is available here. To find your local councillor and contact them by post, telephone, or email click here. To contact London Mayor Boris Johnson, email mayor@london.gov.uk. The MP for Stratford is Lyn Brown. We are asking her to help defend our cherished community space. Contact her here. In person: Newham Mayor Robin Wales holds in-person surgeries and telephone surgeries providing an opportunity to speak directly to the mayor. Upcoming mayor's surgeries are: The councillors who represent Stratford (Cllrs Richard Crawford, Charlene McLean, and Terrence Paul) hold surgeries to meet constituents in person each Saturday at 10:30am at St Johns Church in Stratford, on Stratford Broadway E15 1NG. Please consider attending at this time to voice your views. 3) Get involved with our campaign To contact us and to join our discussion forum on Facebook, please use the link at the left. |