election hustings
2025-03-04 19:00 - 21:00 (Europe/London) | Golden Lane Community Centre, London
Golden Lane Community Centre, downstairs

for election to the city of london common council

Common Council elections are being held on Thursday 20 March – here’s your opportunity to come and meet the candidates, ask them questions and find out how they hope to represent you.

There are four candidates from Golden Lane Estate, including all three of our current resident councillors:

Anne Corbett | LABOUR

Dawn Frampton | INDEPENDENT

Gaby Robertshaw | INDEPENDENT

Ceri Wilkins | INDEPENDENT

You can see the full list of candidates here

GLERA committee meeting (change of date)
2025-03-05 19:00 - 21:00
Venue tbc / online

PLEASE NOTE THIS MEETING WAS PREVIOUSLY SCHEDULED FOR 6 MARCH

If you are a Golden Lane Estate resident and would like to attend a GLERA committee meeting please contact secretary.glera@gmail.com

The next GLERA residents’ meeting will be on 3 April – all residents welcome, just turn up!

estate office drop in
2025-03-06 17:00 - 19:00 | Golden Lane Community Centre, London
Community Centre

Estate walkabout and drop-ins are your opportunity to speak to your estate team to ask any questions or offer any suggestions to improve life on your estate. All residents are welcome.

cripplegate ward surgery
2025-03-06 18:00 - 19:00 | Barbican Library, Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DS
Your Cripplegate representatives hold a monthly drop in surgery – no appointment necessary. We are here to help if you want to talk about matters that affect you, obtain information and advice, make a complaint or enquire about council services.

Thursday 9 January @ 6 – 7 pm | Barbican Library

Saturday 1 February @ 10 – 11 am | Sir Ralph Perring Centre

Thursday 6 March @ 6 – 7 pm | Barbican Library

election hustings
2025-03-06 19:00 - 21:00 | St Giles Church, Barbican, EC2Y 8DA
St Giles Church, Barbican

for election to the city of london common council

Make your voice heard! The upcoming election hustings are your chance to meet the candidates, ask questions, and learn about their plans for our community. This is not just an opportunity—it’s your responsibility as a resident to engage with the democratic process. Your attendance can help shape the future of our neighborhood, ensuring that our leaders understand and represent our priorities. Let’s come together, show our strength as an informed electorate, and take an active role in deciding our collective future. Join us at the hustings—every voice matters, including yours!

– Barbican Association

There are four candidates from Golden Lane Estate, including all three of our current resident councillors:

Anne Corbett | LABOUR

Dawn Frampton | INDEPENDENT

Gaby Robertshaw | INDEPENDENT

Ceri Wilkins | INDEPENDENT

You can see the full list of candidates here

golden lane estate surgery
2025-03-19 16:00 - 18:00, 2025-04-02 16:00 - 18:00, 2025-04-30 16:00 - 18:00 | Golden Lane Estate Office, Great Arthur House, London, EC1Y 0SJ
Golden Lane Estate Office

Peta Caine (Assistant Director – Housing) and some members of the Housing Senior Management Team (SMT) are hosting a series of surgery sessions starting in March. The aim of these sessions is to gain a better understanding of the issues and concerns you have about the estate and your home.

The first surgery will be on Wednesday 19 March, 4-6 pm in the Golden Lane Estate Office, Great Arthur House.

SMT members will attend on a rota basis and will be available to discuss specific projects relevant to the Golden Lane Estate.

Further surgeries at the Estate Office will continue fortnightly throughout April:

Wednesday 2 April, 4-6 pm

Wednesday 16 April, 4-6 pm

Wednesday 30 April, 4-6 pm

Your feedback is invaluable to us, and we believe these surgeries will provide an excellent opportunity for open dialogue between residents and members of the Housing Senior Management Team.

We encourage you to bring any topics or concerns you would like to discuss.

R +M | meet the contractor
2025-03-27 17:30 - 18:30
online via Teams

Sent to subscribers of @Home newsletter:

Dear Residents,

I hope this message finds you well.

I am writing to invite you to an upcoming Meet the Contractor online event on 27 March from 5.30-6.30pm to meet our new repairs and maintenance contractor, Chigwell.

As you may know, Chigwell have been appointed as our new repairs and maintenance contractor from 1 April. This event is a fantastic opportunity to learn more about Chigwell and ask any questions directly to them and to myself.

Whether you’re curious about the new contract, eager to share your feedback or want to meet the faces behind the work, this is your chance to connect.

What to expect:

Introduction to the Chigwell team

Brief presentation on the new R&M contract and what is and isn’t changing

Q&A session

We highly value your input and presence, as resident engagement is important to us and Chigwell. Together, we are committed to an improved repairs and maintenance service and working towards a collaborative environment where your voices are heard and respected. If you have any specific questions you’d like answered during the event, you can send them through in advance by reply.

We look forward to seeng your there.

Best regards,

Bev AndrewsHead of Repairs and Maintenance

REGISTER ONLINE HERE

GLE action day!
2025-03-29 11:00 - 14:00 | Golden Lane Community Centre, London
Golden Lane Community Centre

At the last GLERA residents’ meeting on 6 February we discussed an action day where we can come together and take a ‘stocktake’ of our estate – what improvements would we like to see, outstanding repairs, ideas for greening and biodiversity…

In April we will have a new Repairs + Maintenance contractor (Chigwell), along with a new set of Councillors (don’t forget to vote on 20 March!), so this will be a perfect time to feedback to them the resident perspective.

Join your neighbours to explore the estate, take photos and add to the digital interactive map and on the wall giant map of our stocktake findings (signs of disrepair, ideas for greening etc…)

Plus find out more about our resident lead events group GLEE and the newly forming Golden Lane Archive, help form a working group to look into Right to Manage, or just hang out at the community café!

programme

11.00 | Community café opens, grab tea and cake and chat to some of the resident groups who’ll be there for the duration.

11.30 | first quick briefing before heading out to take photos, log observations.Briefings will continue as and when needed so don’t worry if you can’t get there then.

12.30 – 2.00 | photos and comments uploaded to the online map. Add your own comments and ideas to the massive printed out map at any time

GLERA residents' meeting
2025-04-03 19:00 - 21:00 | Golden Lane Community Centre, London
Community Centre, downstairs

general updates

WINDOWS + ASSOCIATED WORKSAt the February GLERA meeting we reported back on a meeting with Judith Finlay (Executive Director of Community and Children’s Services), Peta Caine (Assistant Director Housing Community and Children’s Services) and Greg Wade (Head of Major Works Housing). See GLERA residents’ meeting.

There is a follow up meeting scheduled for last week in March and will be reporting back on any updates.

We have again expressed concerns about the quality of legal opinion that the Corporation is able to produce in-house and will hopefully soon receive a full response to our email dated 15 October highlighting this concern. See why the delay in providing legal opinion?

Plus updates re COLPAI and REDEVELOPMENT OF THE LEISURE CENTRE.

special guest

We have invited Cooperation Town to come and talk to us about setting up our very own food cooperative – this could be a really exciting resident run initiative.

Cooperation Town co-ops are small neighbourhood buying groups, providing their members with free and affordable groceries, sourced in bulk and distributed at a very low price.

Cooperation Town food co-ops are owned by their members and run according to local needs. Members decide collectively on how to organise and are responsible for the day to day running of the co-op.

While each Cooperation Town co-op is independent, the network is designed to share resources and support across the movement.

cripplegate ward surgery
2025-04-05 10:00 - 11:00 | Sir Ralph Perring Centre, Golden Lane Estate
Sir Ralph Perring Centre

Your Cripplegate representatives hold a monthly drop in surgery – no appointment necessary. We are here to help if you want to talk about matters that affect you, obtain information and advice, make a complaint or enquire about council services.

Saturday 5 April @ 10 – 11 am | Sir Ralph Perring Centre

Thursday 1 May @ 6 – 7 pm | Barbican Library

crescent house community meeting
2025-04-08 17:00 - 19:00 | Golden Lane Community Centre, London
Community Centre, main hall

The City of London Corporation Housing Major Works team would like to invite Crescent House residents to a meeting about the windows refurbishment and other associated works.

Date: Tuesday 8 April

Time: 5-7pm, presentation starts at 5.30pm

Venue: Golden Lane Community Centre, main hall

Members of the team will share a presentation with an update on the revised high-level programme for the project, followed by a Q&A session.

Please send any questions you would like answered at the event to info@goldenlaneprojects.co.uk or call 0800 772 0475.

We look forward to seeing you there.

golden lane estate surgery
2025-04-16 16:00 - 18:00 | Golden Lane Estate Office, Great Arthur House, London, EC1Y 0SJ
Peta Caine (Assistant Director – Housing) and some members of the Housing Senior Management Team (SMT) are hosting a series of surgery sessions starting in March. The aim of these sessions is to gain a better understanding of the issues and concerns you have about the estate and your home.

The first surgery will be on Wednesday 19 March, 4-6 pm in the Golden Lane Estate Office, Great Arthur House.

SMT members will attend on a rota basis and will be available to discuss specific projects relevant to the Golden Lane Estate.

Further surgeries at the Estate Office will continue fortnightly throughout April:

Wednesday 2 April, 4-6 pm

Wednesday 16 April, 4-6 pm

Wednesday 30 April, 4-6 pm

Your feedback is invaluable to us, and we believe these surgeries will provide an excellent opportunity for open dialogue between residents and members of the Housing Senior Management Team.

We encourage you to bring any topics or concerns you would like to discuss.

spring garden festival
2025-04-26 11:00 - 15:00 | Golden Lane Community Centre, London
Community Centre

Our new events group !GLEE! and the Golden Baggers invite all residents to a Spring Garden Festival – arts and crafts, willow weaving, gardening and composting, gardeners Q+A, lunch and refreshments…

If you fancy helping out at the community cafe then drop a line to gleeventsgroup@gmail.com

!glee! social
2025-04-27 10:30 - 12:30 | Sir Ralph Perring Centre, Golden Lane Estate
Sir Ralph Perring Centre

Come along to the !GLEE! first social and find out how you can get involved.

Do you have ideas for a stand alone event or monthly group for residents and would like some help pulling it together, getting funding? Or would you just like to volunteer with the community cafe, or generally help out with setting up, leafleting or other very useful tasks?

We’ll have information about the funds that our currently out there (Culture Mile BID, Community Fund, Estate Office film monies etc).

Or just pop in for some tea and cake and a chat!

funds

Mayors Community Weekend – LondonFunding available (£500 – £2,000) for events or activities taking place between 12 September and Sunday 14 September 2025

City of London Stronger CommunitiesRolling programme – small grants available for £3,000 or less and take around 8 weeks to process

Culture MiIe BID Community Fund Applications open 14 April, close 23 May. Up to £6,500Apply through Action Funder

Estate Office Film Monies

0-2 childcare policy consultation drop-in
2025-04-29 16:30 - 17:30 | Sir Ralph Perring Centre, Golden Lane Estate
Sir Ralph Perring Centre

We know that the early years are crucial to a child’s development and that childcare can be an essential offer for families.

We’re thinking about options for 0-2 Childcare in the City of London. This relates to the care of a child aged zero to two-years-old provided by registered childcare in the City of London. By this we mean nurseries and pre-schools registered with Ofsted.

We want to hear about what’s important to you if you are 18-years-old or over. We look forward, in particular, to hearing from:

parents and carers who currently access 0-2 Childcare in the City of London

people who are thinking about using 0-2 Childcare in the City of London in the future

people who work in a childcare setting or related service in the City of London

people with interests in 0-2 Childcare in the City of London

READ MORE

EARLY YEARS SURVEY

help form a food co-op
2025-04-29 19:00 - 21:00
Sir Ralph Perring Centre

At the April GLERA residents’ meeting we were joined by Sheri from Cooperation Town who talked to us about setting up our own food co-operative. Cooperation Town are a network of community food co-ops.

We need around twenty households to get going – if you’re interested please come along to find out more and help work out how we can collectively make it work.

You can find out more by taking a look at the Cooperation Town Starter Pack

repairs helpdesk
2025-05-01 15:00 - 17:00 | Golden Lane Community Centre, London
Golden Lane Community Centre

Before the Wider Estate Community Meeting (presentation starts at 5.15 pm) Chigwell (new repairs contractor) and the Repairs team will also be at the Community Centre from 3-5 pm to meet with residents.

wider estate community meeting
2025-05-01 17:00 - 18:45 | Golden Lane Community Centre, London
Golden Lane Community CentrePresentation starts at 5.15 pm

The City of London Corporation Housing Major Works team would like to to invite residents to a meeting about the windows refurbishment and associated works. (The Wider Estate refers to all houses on Golden Lane Estate except for Crescent House).

Members of the team will share a presentation with an update on the revised high-level programme for the Wider Estate followed by a Q&A session.

Please send any questions you would like answered at the event to: info@goldenlaneprojects.co.uk | 0800 772 0475

Repairs workshop: Chigwell and the Repairs team will also be at the Community Centre from 3-5 pm on this day to meet with residents.

We look forward to seeing you there.

www.goldenlaneprojects.co.uk

cripplegate ward surgery
2025-05-01 18:00 - 19:00 | Barbican Library, Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DS
Barbican Library

Your Cripplegate representatives hold a monthly drop in surgery – no appointment necessary. We are here to help if you want to talk about matters that affect you, obtain information and advice, make a complaint or enquire about council services.

Saturday 5 April @ 10 – 11 am | Sir Ralph Perring Centre

Thursday 1 May @ 6 – 7 pm | Barbican Library

golden lane estate surgery
2025-05-14 16:00 - 18:00 | Golden Lane Estate Office, Great Arthur House, London, EC1Y 0SJ
Estate Office

Peta Caine (Assistant Director – Housing) and some members of the Housing Senior Management Team (SMT) are continuing surgery sessions throughout the Spring. The aim of these sessions is to gain a better understanding of the issues and concerns you have about the estate and your home.

SMT members will attend on a rota basis and will be available to discuss specific projects relevant to the Golden Lane Estate.

May surgeries at the Estate Office:

Wednesday 14 May, 4-6 pm

Wednesday 28 May, 4-6 pm

Your feedback is invaluable to us, and we believe these surgeries will provide an excellent opportunity for open dialogue between residents and members of the Housing Senior Management Team.

We encourage you to bring any topics or concerns you would like to discuss.

estate walkabout
2025-05-15 17:30 - 19:00 | Estate Office, Golden Lane Estate, London, EC1Y 0RD
meet at Estate Office

Residents are invited to join estate staff on a walk around the estate where any areas of concern can be pointed out and discussed.

crescent house leaseholder meeting
2025-05-15 18:00 - 20:00 | Sir Ralph Perring Centre, Golden Lane Estate
Sir Ralph Perring Centre

Residents of Crescent House are meeting to discuss Leaseholder issues relating to the Golden Lane Investment Programme (previously Windows and Related Works).

topics

Welcome new comers and meet again

Discuss the legal opinion from April 2025 (read letter in full here)

Review our options

Decide on our response

Discuss / decide on next action

City tenants are also welcome.

barbican cluster panel
2025-05-15 18:30 - 19:30 | Golden Lane Community Centre, London
Community Centre

Any one who lives or works in the Barbican Cluster is invited to attend the panel meeting.

You can meet the dedicated ward officer team and other members of the community.

receive an update on local policing matters

have a say on the cluster priorities for policing

CITY OF LONDON POLICE

city question time | culture special
2025-05-22 17:30 - 19:30 | Guilhall, Gresham Street, EC2V 7HH
Guildhall

This event will begin with a presentation and Q&A about the City of London Corporation’s upcoming Culture Strategy, and will be followed by an open panel event with the Policy Chairman and other Senior Members to discuss issues that affect you as a City resident. Discover the Corporation’s future plans, discuss local issues, and connect with your neighbours.

Spaces are limited so please book your place, if attending with others please register each place individually. Light refreshments will be provided.

If you are not able to attend, but you are interested in City Question Time events, please join the mailing list or register for updates by email.

give + take day
2025-05-24 10:00 - 15:00 | Golden Lane Community Centre, London
Golden Lane Community Centre

Several times throughout the year, the Recycling Team run Give and Take Days at different locations across the City. Have items in a reusable condition you no longer need? Looking for something new-to-you? This is your chance to declutter sustainably while helping to reduce waste and support your local community.

how it works

The day is spilt into two parts – the ‘Give’ where you can come and donate your unwanted items. There is no limit to the number of items we will accept. These items will be sorted and displayed ready for the ‘Take’ part of the day which will happen later, where you are welcome to select items you’d like to bring home with you. There is no limit on the number of items you can take home, but we ask that people take only what they need so that others in the community get a chance to participate.

give | 10 am – 12 pm

Donate your pre-loved items in a good, reusable condition, including:

Clothes and shoes

Toys

Kitchenware

Bric-a-brac

Books

DVDs

Electrical items

We can’t accept donations after 12pm, so please arrive between 10am-12pm to donate your items. You will only be able to ‘Give’ during these hours, and not ‘Take’ anything home with you just yet.

take | 1 – 3 pm

We open the doors for you to explore the day’s goods and find something you love for free!

1 – 2pm: Open to City of London residents (proof of residency required)2 – 3pm: Open to everyone

Join us on 24 May and be part of the reuse revolution!

estate office drop in
2025-05-27 17:00 - 19:00 | Golden Lane Community Centre, London
Community Centre

Drop-ins are your opportunity to speak to your estate team to ask any questions or offer any suggestions to improve life on your estate. All residents are welcome.

This drop-in session will include an update on the Golden Lane Lighting Strategy from the project team.

forming a leaseholder working party
2025-05-27 19:00 - 21:00 | Sir Ralph Perring Centre, Golden Lane Estate
Sir Ralph Perring Centre | Teams

Leaseholders will have recently received a letter from Corporation of London outlining their legal opinion on the planned major works projects on our estate. See letter.

GLERA has been active in getting this information for leaseholders, even though the outcome is unwelcome, and have responded to the letter. We will continue to press for more detail and actual anticipated costs along with better programme details. See response.

This meeting is for all Leaseholders interested in forming a working party to concentrate on building our negotiating/legal case. We know that many of our leaseholders have valuable skills to help us assemble our case and reduce the charges we are asked to pay.

There will be a Teams link for anyone unable to attend in person. It would be really helpful if you could email chair.glera@gmail.com if you plan to attend / or to request Teams link.

golden lane estate surgery
2025-05-28 16:00 - 18:00 | Golden Lane Estate Office, Great Arthur House, London, EC1Y 0SJ
Golden Lane Estate Office

Peta Caine (Assistant Director – Housing) and some members of the Housing Senior Management Team (SMT) are continuing surgery sessions throughout the Spring. The aim of these sessions is to gain a better understanding of the issues and concerns you have about the estate and your home.

SMT members will attend on a rota basis and will be available to discuss specific projects relevant to the Golden Lane Estate.

May surgeries at the Estate Office:

Wednesday 14 May, 4-6 pm

Wednesday 28 May, 4-6 pm

Your feedback is invaluable to us, and we believe these surgeries will provide an excellent opportunity for open dialogue between residents and members of the Housing Senior Management Team.

We encourage you to bring any topics or concerns you would like to discuss.
