Sincere Thanks

The Covent Garden Community Association sincerely thanks the following for their financial help during 1999/2000:
• The London Borough of Camden and the City of Westminster for their generous grant towards our operating costs.
• The many generous individuals and subscribers, who have helped us financially with donations and help-in-kind.
• The members of the Covent Garden Business Group, whose subscription fees have supported the CGCA's work.
• The following, for their generous donations and help-in-kind:
  Schroders, Universal Consolidated, Coutt's Charitable Trust, Westminster Meeting Society of Friends, Stringfellow Restaurants Ltd, National Farmers Union, Covent Garden Housing Co-operative, Centre Point House Residents Association, Maxwell's Restaurants Ltd, Moss Bros, The Westminster Trio & José Maria Guerrero, KPF Architects, Garrick Club, Mercers Company, Smith's of Covent Garden, Integra Personnel, New Connaught Rooms, London City Mission, Jubilee Hall Clubs, Rugby Estates, Dudley Court Tenants' Association, Tuttons, Community of the Resurrection, Rosenbaum Charitable Trust, Allied London Property, Good Brand Works, Venus Internet, Mega Products Ltd, Punjab Restaurant, The Design Council, Shaftesbury plc, F W Collins & Son, St Paul's Church, Los Locos, Royal Opera House, Marks & Spencer.
• Robert Clark and Mary Henry for their unstinting voluntary help in the CGCA office and Liam DelaHunty for his 'Webmaster' services free-of-charge.
• The CGCA wishes to thank the following for their help, advice and support during the year:
  The Voluntary Sector & Grants Unit, the Planning Enforcement & Development Control Planning Teams, the Noise & Pollution Teams, the Entertainment Licensing Departments, the Traffic Management & Highways Teams, the Street Environment Teams, the Street Trading Departments and various committee clerks at both Westminster and Camden Council; Westminster Amenity Society Forum; Camden Amenity Forum; Voluntary Action Camden & Westminster; Camden & Westminster PCCG; various Licensing Justices and their clerks; the Westminster and Camden Borough Police Teams; staff at Soho Fire Station; the Covent Garden Area Trust; many Camden & Westminster Councillors; our two local MPs; all members of the CGCA Executive Committee and sub-committees and, above all, our many members and friends - we do not have the space to mention you all by name, but your help, support and encouragement during a difficult year have been greatly appreciated.

The following are some of the things that you have said about us during the past year:
• "The work of the CGCA, particularly in connection with development proposals, is crucial in maintaining the special nature of Covent Garden. It is the unique nature and mix which has made it such a special and attractive place to live and work - and in which to invest" P.S.
• "It is absolutely essential that the CGCA continues to exist and to flourish!" R.McC.
• "The CGCA must somehow remain active. Without it in the past 28 years, anti-social forces would have plundered Covent Garden and driven more residents away and destroyed its charm" S.H.
• "The CGCA is far more effective at defending the area and its long-suffering people than either local council - both of whom remember us at election time" E.I.
• "The CGCA has made an enormous positive influence on the Covent Garden area, with remarkably little public funding. Amenity groups like the CGCA should be given sufficient funding without the need to waste valuable resources on raising money to survive" S.V.
• "Keep Covent Garden clean and resist big developments that are about to overwhelm this last village-like place in the West End" Y.R.
• "Thanks for all the CGCA's hard work, help and morale-building over the years - there'd be no neighbourhood or housing here, were it not for the CGCA!" A.R.
• "I am impressed by the CGCA. I like the constructive, non-confrontational attitude to commerce, etc - the absence of shrillness makes your protests carry so much more weight!" A.O.
• "Keep at it! I think the CGCA is the focus for the community" R.M.
• "The CGCA does an excellent job with limited resources" P.S.
• "The CGCA's support is invaluable - housing, planning, licensing. Covent Garden would be wall-to-wall restaurants & shoe shops without you" J.S.
• "You helped us fight the noise & music situation, which was unbearable. You do a damn good job" M.C.
• "I have found your informed and active interest in the ROH development extremely encouraging and useful, as well as your continuing support for neighbourhood concerns" C.M.
• "The CGCA gave good advice and assistance when I opposed a late-night music licence" E.A.
• "The CGCA helps me a great deal to keep in touch with all the different aspects of the area. Thanks to them I feel I am being kept informed on what's going on" P.M.

Cover illustration: Covent Garden's 22 theatres-collage by Liam DelaHunty, photographs by Robert Clark.
Duchess, Cambridge, Albery Coliseum, Ambassadors, Strand, Aldwych, New London Fortune, Theatre Royal Drury Lane, St Martin's, Tristan Bates, Peacock, Adelphi Duke of York, Royal Opera House, Vaudeville, Wyndham's, Donmar Warehouse Lyceum, Shaftesbury, Garrick.

All articles, cartoons, photos and design © copyright Covent Garden Community Association 2000.

The printed version of the 1999-2000 Annual Report was printed by the London Print Company, Shaftesbury Avenue, WC2, tel 020 7497 2862.

 

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