 North Laine News - - - 2007 - |
North Laine News Items - December 2007 - January 2007 |
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 Christmas lights - 2007 - switched on! |
NLTA Newsletter 84
Christmas 2007
Is now online
+ click here |
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 The Christmas lights switched on
6pm Thursday 15th November 2007
Crowds at the Clocktower watched a firework spectacular and then the 2007 lights were switched on.
Southern Water's thank you to the traders of Sydney Street
Xmas Trees were donated to the traders
of Sydney Street by Southern Water as a thank you for the traders being so good when the new water main was laid. |
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| 100% North Laine Bags in the News! - 19th October 2007 |
 After the successful launch of the 100% North Laine Bag on Tuesday, Brighton and Hove city council voted on Thursday to ban plastic bags in the city in the next three years. Councillor Amy Kennedy said “We are calling on all retailers in the city to follow the example of those who offer reusable bags to their customers, such as the North Laine Traders Association which recently launched a sustainable bag”.
NLTA secretary Peter Stocker was interviewed by BBC South East Today on Friday and explained that many traders in the association feel that it is now unacceptable to keep giving out plastic carrier bags to our customers and that we should be asking them to reuse bags. It has been estimated that one sustainable bag such as ours saves up to 1000 plastic bags in its lifetime!
Images taken from the BBC South East Today program 19th October 2007. |
| Win a 100% North Laine Bag! (competition has now expired - sorry!) |
 The 100% North Laine bag launch
"the most exciting thing to happen in North Laine since it became a conservation area in 1976"
The North Laine Traders Association will be selling the bags from the 17th October and having a stall outside Hells Kitchen in Gardner Street on Saturday the 20th of October from 2pm until 3.30pm to sell the North Laine bags (£2.50 each).
The first 25 people at the stall to answer the simple question - when did North Laine become a conservation area will receive a free bag – (one per person)
Closing Date for the competition is 3.30pm Saturday 20th October |
| New NLTA Meetings - dates for your diaries |
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NLTA street reps meeting on the 2nd October 2007
6pm at Off Beat Coffee in Sydney Street.
+ Minutes from this meeting are now online!
North Laine Traders Autumn meeting 6pm, 16th October
at the Regent Street Bar of Komedia
+ Minutes now online!
Agenda
Welcome to members from Sharon Thomas
Apologies for absence.
Correspondence and meetings – Peter Stocker
Treasurers report – David Hall
Fire safety audit – Tom Welland (FIRECO)
Walking and cycling – Abby Hone (council)
North Laine website – Brian Pedley
100% North Laine Bag launch
All members are welcome to come and join us and help launch
the new 100% North Laine bags! |
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| New Environmently Friendly Shopping Bags spotted in North Laine! |
Street Reps Meeting
at 6pm at Off Beat Coffee
in Sydney St on Tuesday 21st August 2007
Agenda
Apologies
Meetings & Correspondence
Treasurers report
100% North Laine bag launch Newsletter &
Autumn meeting
A.O.B.
+ Minutes now online! |
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(above) First pictures of the new North Laine shopping bag
Sample NLTA bags being delivered to Members
Samples of the new North Laine bags are being delivered to members this weekend. Details of prices and ordering are included in the bags and we aim to order our first members bags at the end of August. The bags will be launched at our 10th October NLTA meeting |
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| Summer arrives in North Laine, finally! |
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| Thanks to Peter Stocker for these photos taken 20/07/07 |
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| The North Laine Traders Association Sustainable bag - Press Release |
Invitation to our members
NLTA Summer Meeting at 6pm at the Regent Street Bar of Komedia on the
10th of July (Tuesday)
Agenda will include - NL Sustainable bags ( now ordered ) Pedestrian closures and the Pride evening event in Gardner
St as well as general info about events and
meetings around NL.
+ View the minutes
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 On Wednesday 6th June the committee of the North Laine Traders Association in central Brighton selected a fair-trade organic cotton bag supplier, Supreme Creations, and chose a design for our sustainable bags. The bag project was first suggested by members in 2006 and local trader and NLTA committee member, Eddie Start has worked to source ethical suppliers and has produced articles for our newsletters.
Our aim is to make our customers realise that you cannot continue to receive plastic bags each time you purchase items - British shoppers annually use 20 billion bags - that's 350 per person, which eventually end up in landfill sites. The NLTA is not banning plastic bags - we are simply trying to persuade our customers to be more conscious of their actions and reuse bags.
+ Read the press release in full |
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| North Laine Environmently Friendly Shopping Bags - COMING SOON! |
The ideas keep coming!
There are now a total of 16 bag design ideas online for the new North Laine bag. Click any of the images on the right to view the designs in full. Thanks again to all those involved in creating these designs.
+ View all the designs |
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+ Just some of the proposed 16 design ideas for the North Laine Bag! |
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| Children's Parade in North Laine - Brighton Festival 2007 |
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Children's Parade in North Laine. Special thanks to Tim Hobbs for the photos |
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| North Laine Traders Association AGM 12th March 2007 - Minutes |
The new draft of the North Laine Traders Association constitution has been voted for and accepted by our members.
+ NLTA draft constitution
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| Happy New Year from the NLTA! |
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The North Laine Traders Association
Street Reps Meeting at 6pm on the 23rd January 2007
at the Off Beat Coffee Bar, Sydney Street
Sharon and Peter would like to invite you to the first Street Reps
Meeting of 2007 on the 23rd of January at the Off Beat Coffee Bar.
+ Minutes Online
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