On Saturday 9 August from 12 to 1pm, Haringey Anti-Poverty Initiative will be leafleting outside Brighthouse (hire purchase store with dodgy debt-collecting practices and excessive charges) on Lymington Avenue, just off Wood Green High Road, N22 (opposite Boots/Holland & Barrett). Our leaflets have a bailiff advice guide plus  info about Brighthouse, with the aim of getting testimonies and potential direct action casework.

For more info on Brighthouse see www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/brighthouse

Any spare time in the day? There are regular sessions giving out leaflets which detail peoples rights to make homeless applications, please email back if you would like come and help. Sessions last from an hour to two, and can be on Monday, Tuesday. Thursday or Friday between 9am and 4pm, as that is when the homeless office is open. All welcome. Email londoncoalitionagainstpoverty@gmail.com and we will make sure you are paired with someone to leaflet with.

Would you rather leaflet in other areas?
Leafletting sessions are a great way to meet people and how LCAP mostly outreaches and finds people to take direct action with.
Please email londoncoalitionagainstpoverty@gmail.com if you are interested.

We now have an LCAP Office (in the same building as Freedom books/ ASS) which we hoping to open by the beginning of September.

There is an office working group who are working on getting the office open and making sure it has everything it we need. If you are interested in joining this group then let us know on londoncoalitionagainstpoverty@gmail.com

To make it work, we need to have people to staff the office. A good start would be to have it open for a few hours three days a week, with two LCAP members on each shift. Initially, this is likely to be to give support to people doing LCAP Direct Action Casework, take calls and to do casework allocations - the tasks of the newly-formed casework collective. Get in touch if you are interested in joining the casework collective - it doesn’t matter if you haven’t had experience of casework as you can be paired with someone more experienced. The notes from the first meeting of the casework collective are attached to this email. If you are interested in staffing the office but not in the casework collective get in touch too.

Contact us if you have any things or time to donate, and see a wish list below!

• Memory for computer 512 mb PC100 /133
• Light fitting
• Wireless adapter or router
• Kettle / biscuit tin/ coffee maker / cups etc
• Phone
• Fax Machine
• Hanging files for filing cabinet
• Folders
• Files
• Pens
• Paper (printing)
• Notepads
• Shelves
• DVD burning rom
• A rug
• Answer phone
• Stapler
• Scissors
• Hole Puncher
• Memory stick