Thames Life
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Thames Life aims to create positive spaces and opportunities for resident empowerment and wellbeing in Barking and Dagenham.
Barking, London
Joined January 2018
Huge thanks to community organiser Marion for leading Hockley Mews, which aids older people with weekly activities. Here's them enjoying Pancake Day and choir harmonies. #communityimpact #dagenhamrhythmchoir
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Fantastic Community Networking Event at The Rivergate Centre with Aspire Action. Local businesses connecting and growing together. #StrongerTogether #CommunityFirst #barkinganddagenham #Network #smallbusiness
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Appears Thames Water's advisors are charging "£10 million a month in fees, a bill footed by Thames' customers". Just thought you'd like to know. https://t.co/W6yAbd2Dqa
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The near £20 billion debt of Thames Water exposes a harsh truth: in a saga such as this, you can try to save face or save money
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‘Plainly wrong’: London flat dwellers fight shock £200,000 heating bill
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Almost 1m UK households are hooked up to heat networks. None had protection from poor service or price hikes … until last month
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Time flies when you're outlasting Prime Ministers
Larry the Cat will have been in Downing Street 15 years next week, he is the most stable thing about British politics these days @Number10cat @petercardwell
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Citizens UK is the UK’s biggest, most diverse, & most effective people-powered alliance. We’re pleased to publish our 2025 Annual Report, which is packed with stories of change from community leaders across the country. 🔗 Read our Annual Report here:
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Citizens UK is the UK’s biggest, most diverse, and most effective people-powered alliance. Read our Annual Report 2025.
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“Empty space” “Degraded land” Ripe for concreting under suburbia, solar farms, wind farms, highways, shopping centres, industrial estates….
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"It's very clear that it doesn’t matter whether you're a leaseholder, shared owner, or a tenant; the problems we face are the same. Remote & unaccountable landlords, limited routes available for justice, and a total lack of control over rising costs." - Well said.
SHAC Article - As Michael says, we need nothing less than total reform of our relationship with housing. https://t.co/QPSBg08ekf
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I’ve launched the APPG on Council Housing. Developers and their political mouthpieces have no answers. Their model caused the housing crisis. It won’t fix it. We need council housing in healthy, sustainable communities. Councils leading the way. The developer model in the 🗑️
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SHAC Article - As Michael says, we need nothing less than total reform of our relationship with housing. https://t.co/QPSBg08ekf
shaction.org
By Michael Savell Nothing less than total reform will cure the problems with housing. For the last several years I have been involved with SHAC as its Treasurer, and have occasionally contributed t…
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Creative Writing Class with Ian Ayris When: 7 February, 12-1.30pm Where: Barking Learning Centre & Online FREE Book Your Place: https://t.co/McOVlpOTPW Session Six: To discover your unique writing voice
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Labour is ending the outdated leaseholders system once and for all. Promise made. Promise kept. For too long, families in #Barking & Dagenham have been hit by unfair service charges and ground rents. My Fairer Deal for Leaseholders campaign has been calling out housing
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Michael argues that even within a relatively short period, it is possible to end many of the problems causing misery to millions.
SHAC Article - As Michael says, we need nothing less than total reform of our relationship with housing. https://t.co/QPSBg08ekf
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Very much looking forward to this report: our rivers desperately need a proper plan to protect & restore them. Rivers like my river (the Roding) are in a bad way, but with hard work, imagination & funding they could easily be made rich for nature and swimmable for humans within a
London is a city built around its rivers. Once declared biologically dead, the Thames is thriving again - thanks to the super sewer diverting millions of tonnes of pollution. This year, we’ll set out our plan to clean all 41 rivers across London over the next decade
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This will eventually become a blight too big even for the landlord cronies in government to ignore @mtpennycook & @SteveReedMP. It's time you took the initiative and started to impose some order on the chaos.
With thanks to The Sentinel for giving international exposure to the scandal of service charge abuse in the UK, and to SHAC's #endservicechargeabuse campaign. https://t.co/dHLX6976SG
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Happier January - Day 23: Put away digital devices and focus on being in the moment https://t.co/FzbUA9C7rm
#HappierJanuary
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Steve Reed copied Trump when proclaiming ‘build, baby, build’. Now he’s gone one-step further, peppering his evidence to the Parliamentary Select Committee with half-truths and outright falsehoods
theplanner.co.uk
George Turner responds to a comment by Steve Reed, the housing secretary.
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Keep smiling. It gives others a boost too. Even if today feels tough, things can get better Image: https://t.co/vFBbeltQ83
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BBC News - Barking & Dagenham Council faces £6m bill over fire safety flaws - BBC News https://t.co/6xSgdZe8K0
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