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We would like to welcome you to Badgers Mount.
The primary objectives of the Association are to promote social activities and to protect the environment and way of life
of the residents of Badgers Mount, Sevenoaks, Kent.
Membership of the Association is open to all residents of Badgers Mount for a small annual subscription, currently £2
per adult, maximum £4 per house, and all residents are welcome to become active members of the community.
BMRA contact details can be found here: BMRA Committee
Coming events
AGM
The BMRA Annual General Meeting is on
Thursday 8th June 2023 in the memorial hall.
Meeting starts at 8pm. Refreshments and nibbles from 7:30pm.
We would like to see as many residents as possible. It’s only by meeting up we can hear what support you would like from your committee and get more ideas for more social events!
Zena.
Agenda below...
AGENDA
1. Apologies for Absence.
2.
Minutes of 58th Annual General Meeting held 9th June 2022 at Memorial
Hall, to be agreed. 2024 AGM will return to being held in May.
3. Matters arising from the minutes and not covered elsewhere.
Harold’s Seat was installed. Footpath SR740 has had some work laying a
hardcore surface. OBP has had some sections of the road resurfaced.
Chevening House planning appeal was upheld, despite all efforts to
have it rejected. More recently the re-design of the A21 dual
carriageway/London Road is causing an increase in traffic travelling
from Bromley to Sevenoaks.
4. Presentation of the Chairperson’s
Report including:
a) Report on Planning matters (Gordon Plumb)
b) Report on Entertainment matters (Zena Belton)
c) Report on
Neighbourhood Watch (Arthur Evans)
5. Presentation of Accounts,
Treasurer’s Report and appointment of Auditor.
6. Appointment
of the Committee. Thanks to the outgoing Committee. All are willing to
stand for re-election. We need as many committee members as possible;
many hands make light work. Would anybody else like to join us?
(1)
Chairperson (2) Vice-Chair (3) Secretary (4)
Treasurer and minimum 4 members
7. Any other business.
Pedestrian Badgers Walks continue, next one this Sunday 11th June.
Keep watering your Sunflowers and Wild Meadow Flowers. Judging of the
Sunflowers will take place in September 2023, some flowers will have
blossomed early, some later, due to the nature of the different
varieties. Orpington By Pass renaming. This may need a separate
meeting.
If you can’t attend the meeting or have any items for AOB
please contact Arthur Evans,
secretary.bmra@gmail.com by Monday 5th June.
The next BMRA
Committee meeting is 7:30pm Thursday 13th July 2023 at Memorial Hall.
This spring newsletter has been jointly created by the Residents' Association and the Parish Council:
Badgers Mount Spring 2023
View the newsletter archive.
From the June 2022 AGM.
This year was Badgers Mount's coming out party.
We have come out
of lockdown - but not only that, we have come out of our houses and
met our neighbours some for the first time.
We have welcomed new
families that I hope they will stay and join the community events.
We have planned and taken part in some spectacular social events -
regulars like the wine and beer tasting and quizzes but this year with
additions such as the bring and buy toy sales, and cake to support
Ukraine which truly showed our generosity.
It has been an amazing few months with walks, clean-ups, and
Halloween celebrations.
We have come out of lockdown with more
technology - we have launched the BMRA shop, more about the
merchandise available later, but who knows what will be popular on
sale in the future, through this site we can connect and sell tickets
to events and book in to activities that we will be planning in the
future; and what better place to pay your BMRA subscription, it really
is very simple.
This year the BMPC website had a redesign (not quite our remit but worthy of a mention) along with the new parish magazine now in technicolour.
We have also made a difference to our physical community with the new planters and work planned to improve the footpath from Milton Ave to Highlands Road, using both the council and some local volunteers. Which brings me to the support we are also giving to a younger resident with their Duke of Edinburgh award – we may not be able to offer activities for the younger generation yet, but we will try to be supportive to anyone who has an idea that we might be able to help with – just ask.
I can hardly do the Platinum Jubilee weekend justice at this meeting. I am truly grateful to the working party of Helen, Stacey, Emma and Judith who planned with me (with much wine) and then ran the whole weekend in my absence, I really did miss a fabulous weekend.
The WhatsApp group is gradually building with 86 members and whist
it continues to be the mainly about lost parcels and tortoises, bin
day, internet outage and ice cream van sightings! We are using it more
and more to plan and advertise events and take on suggestions and
generally connect with one another. From this group ideas for future
events will evolve.
Fortunately we have not needed ICE (in case of
emergency) WhatsApp as much, I won’t tempt fate but I do believe we
are very lucky where we live mainly because we look out for each
other.
A thank you to Arthur as BMRA secretary with his emails keeps us entertained and informed and to Gordon for keep the books balanced and the cash flowing, more from him later.
The committee have met regularly and continue to protect and
preserve what the community values Keeping us safe, making Badgers
Mount a place people will want to live in and be part of.
Listening to the residents and making sure we are reflecting
everyone’s views is always going to be difficult. We all know 20% will
make 80% of the noise so do make sure your voice is heard.
There
will always be contentious issues and we discuss them fairly. There
will always be the regular items that we do our best to keep at the
top of the agenda for example the speed of the traffic on our streets.
I also know the renaming of the Orpington by pass is ready for a
review.
We maintain strong with the links to the parish council with Gordon on both, we write regularly to Kent county council and connect with highways team as much as possible.
I guess the hardest agenda item is planning, we need to understand the needs of individuals as well as the impact on their neighbours, which we do try to keep in mind at all times - I can assure you there is healthy debate within our team and all aspects are considered fairly.
I wish to thank all the members of the committee - Vic Cunnell , Sarah Marshall, Dulcie Marshall, Nick Stewart, Rob Thompson, and Srini Katsuri.
So Looking to the future.
I regularly heard spoken and even have
said myself “I remember when” or “we used to”. This is now going to be
phased out - we have made our own mark, our own memories.
It is exciting times for Badgers Mount we have long standing
residents offering their experience and vast knowledge, we celebrated
those who have been part of the Badgers Mount Community for 70 years
at the Parish council meeting.
So couple that experience with great
enthusiasm and new ideas from new residents and I promise while I’m on
this committee you will never hear "but we always do it this way” when
asked “can we....?” I will do my utmost ensure this is not met
negatively and will to ask the committee” why not?”
This is going to be the year after Badgers Mount came out to play and playing is something we can do so back to the social events – I believe Arthur threw down the gauntlet for the next celebration to be better (is that possible with Bingo caller DJ Emma and Stacey) and bigger. However, I do hope he is not waiting on the royal family to discuss when we will have our next celebration!
Coming up we have teddy bear picnic pencilled in for 16th July - I will need a parent of a smaller person who likes teddy bears and picnics to help me with all that I don’t know.
Hopefully your sunflowers are growing tall and avoided the
hailstones and slugs, and you are starting to think about a fabulous
Scarecrow design – a few with a speed gun on Old London road and
Orpington by Pass might be a suggestion!
Plans are well underway
for the Christmas Fair, with some new ideas for perhaps a curry night
or Diwali lights celebrations.
So here we are at the beginning of our next year – we have come
out, we have got the party started now lets move into new and exciting
times, your committee are here, we are listening and we can do – we
have proved that.
I believe as did Margaret J. Wheatley "There is
no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares
about."
As you will see from the minutes we elected the new committee but there are always a few spaces if you would like to join us remember as Helen Keller famously said “Alone, we can do so little; together, we can do so much”.
I hope to see many of you as you are out and about in the Badgers
Mount community.
Zena.
The monthly Residents' Association meetings are open to the public.
Committee meetings of the BMRA are held on the 2nd Thursday of each month from 7:45pm in the Badgers Mount Memorial Hall. All are welcome.
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