Posts under ‘Local services’

North Finchley business breakfast

On Tuesday, we held what may become known as ‘The Inaugural Finchley Business Breakfast’ at Cafe Buzz on the High Road. There was a modest turnout – about a dozen people were there for at least parts of it – and a few things were agreed. It’s been written up fairly comprehensively here by RogT [...]

North Finchley local business breakfast meeting

Cafe Buzz is holding an informal business breakfast for local traders next Tuesday. In case you’re interested, there’s also a LinkedIn group for local businesses – here. Full details are here – or you can sign up using this form: Event Registration Online for North Finchley local traders business networking breakfast powered by Eventbrite

Increase in crime concerns local traders

Crime was second only to the contentious issue of parking as a major concern for local traders at the North Finchley Business Forum held at Trinity Church on 1 December. This was the second NFBF meeting and was again chaired by Gary Ince of North London Business. The meeting was attended by two local Crime [...]

Parking – the live rail of local politics

I’ve fought the temptation to write too much here about the issue of Parking – mainly because it is one of those issues that seems to polarise people. I’m trying to cover issues with a bit of balance here, but I can’t find anyone to publicly take one side of the argument (the pro-changes brief). [...]

Community Safety & Cleanliness in Finchley

I’ve now had the minutes from the North Finchley Business Forum meeting the other week. You can download the whole thing here if you like (PDF file). A few aspects of it stood out and I’m planning to pull individual issues out as stand-alone posts if anyone wants to comment on them either here, or [...]

North Finchley Business Forum – detailed research

Last week, I posted a write-up of the North Finchley Business Forum meeting at the Arts Depot. A survey of local businesses was circulated at that meeting, and I’ve now had an electronic copy of it passed on to me. You can download a copy of the report here (large-ish PDF file). It doesn’t contain [...]

Meeting with the North Finchley Business Forum

On the Finchlinks local business forum LinkedIn page, there’s been a discussion about getting a meeting with the local town centre manager running for a while now. Richard Pell has been following this up and he has now received the invitation which is open to local businesses. Here it is: North Finchley Business Forum Monday, [...]

Local parking row: Is Finchley subsidising the Council Tax for the rest of Barnet?

Anyone who lives in a Controlled Parking Zone (CPZ) will be aware of the recent proposed hike in charges. Dino has a very well-executed bit of campaign material against this here and a well-developed campaign has emerged, hoping to take it’s case to Judicial Review if it can raise the funds to do so. A [...]

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