Sounds good Pauline - you deserve a relaxing weekend doing nothing - sounds like it’s been a crazy busy week for you.
Hahaha @anon5422159 no rest for the wicked so they say!
Weekend is my busiest work time, so off to bed for me soon for work in the morning 
Roll on Monday #MyDayOff
Here’s a sneaky peak of our library bid!
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Please feel free to leave comments & suggestions on our bid all!
Best of luck - you all deserve it. With you all the way
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Fingers crossed 
Our bid was mentioned in the Evening Standard yesterday!
Cheers for mentioning it on Twitter @CllrPaulUpex 
Sure you’ve seen this already @Michael @V22_Louise_House @JohnRussell 
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The Forest Hill Society have been working with V22 and Forest Hill Traders Association to bid to manage Forest Hill Library. We have now been recommended as the preferred partner group to take on management of the library.
Lewisham Council’s Safer Stronger Communities Select Committee will meet on Monday 4th July to discuss library services. Documents online show that council officers are preparing a report to Mayor and Cabinet will recommend that:
"V22 is approved as the preferred partner for Forest Hill and that the Executive Director for Regeneration is delegated to negotiate a lease for the Forest Hill Library building for a minimum term of 25 years to enable the provision of a community library in partnership with Lewisham Council."
There will still be a number of contractual and technical issues to sort out before the transition occurs, but we are confident that we can work with the council to create a good community library for Forest Hill.
In the last few months more than 80 people have got in contact to offer their help volunteering in the library once it becomes a community run library. Thank you to all our members who have been in contact to tell us the importance of the library in the community, and who are willing to put their time and energy into ensuring a successful future for this important asset in Forest Hill.
However, the library is currently open for 66 hours per week, so we will still need more volunteers to help staff the library properly and safely. Whether you are available during the day or in the evenings for a few hours per week, it would be great to hear from you.
If you would be interested in volunteering for a few hours per week at the library we would like to hear from you so that we have a great volunteer list ready for the transition in the autumn. At this stage we don’t know what your duties would be, but an interest in books and internet research would be a big advantage. If you would be interested, please contact michael@fhsoc.com
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Massive thanks to everyone for supporting us on this, we really appreciate it.
And as Michael has said the more volunteers we have the better 
We’re one more step closer now, just one more to go 
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Very encouraging. Happy to help eves and the odd weekend. I also have some gear which might be useful:
Acer 17" laptop with WiFi, DVD drive. Running W7, could be upgraded free to W10 if you’re quick, deadline looms.
External USB hard drive, 1TB capacity
Guillotine (with guarded blade!)
Paper / card creasing machine (manually operated)
Hand-held electronic label printing machine - Epson LW400, new
None of this is earning its keep with me, let me know if anything looks useful and I can drop it in.
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Thank you so much!
Thats amazing, thank you for the laptop etc. That’s a massive bag of sweets on me when you drop it in
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OK should be next weekend. See you on Thursday across the road anyway!
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Thank you again & yup see ya there
Hi
Gotta say I’m so super excited about our bid, but really scared just incase…
We have to win this right?
My stomach is in turmoil…
I know we can do this!
ETA We need to be allowed to do this
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stomach cna relax - well done all of you!
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Thanks so much for dropping off the laptop & accessories today Dick, they’ve now gone to our safe storage space
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It’s the “Mayor and Cabinet” meeting tomorrow evening where we will be put forward as the preferred partner to run our library.
Myself & @Michael will be attending if anyone else wants to join us, none of us have requested to speak & this is a public meeting, so anyone can attend.
The meeting is at
Civic Suite
Town Hall
Catford
6pm
http://councilmeetings.lewisham.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=139&MId=4248
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