Minutes:
The Mayor made the following announcement
Tonight, we are launching a piece of work from The Tamworth Unity Project, ‘We are Tamworth’, it’s a video aimed at promoting unity across communities in Tamworth following the awful events of August 4th.
It’s a great contribution by CIC our voluntary sector partners who have pulled this video together. I’m sure you will all agree that Tamworth is place where we all continue to promote unity and cohesion.
Cllr S Daniels made the following announcement:
Thank you for showing that video and this builds on this. I wanted to celebrate some of the events that have taken place in Tamworth over the Summer and Autumn and publicly thank those who have been involved in making that happen because we know it doesn’t happen without hours of work and commitment. Amongst things we have had D Day Anniversary, Armed Forces Day, the key anniversary for King Athelston, We love Tamworth, Street Eats & Beats, Art for Tamworth & Dine & Devour and not to mention a wealth of events in our local villages. These only happen because a huge number of organisations, groups and individuals step up. They organise, attend and encourage people to participate in activities and in doing so, like the video they sign post what Tamworth as to offer, charities, arts projects, sports culture and I hope members and those in the audience tonight have the chance to attend at least one of them but if not, fear not, one of our Mayors events is coming up soon in our ward Bolehall, a Charity Halloween Disco and in the town centre the fireworks are on, on 2nd November but for me personally on 10th November is one of the most important events Remembrance Sunday at St Editha’s and at other churches around the town centre. Historically, this is the day when many military youth groups come together to pay their respects to those who served and died so that we today can enjoy the freedom as a result of their service and their sacrifice and I especially wanted to remember that this evening because one of those freedoms is the right to freedom of expression to enter debate in a mature professional manner, and to recognise differences is what makes us stronger together. I also wanted to mention the service Mr Mayor because an important symbol of the service is the poppy. Thanks to our local branches of the Royal British Legion the Poppy appeal donations support the needs of the armed forces today and Councillor Bain and I were welcomed by the British legion selling poppy’s and I will be doing so again this year. So, members we know that we are here to help our communities and volunteering for the poppy appeal is a great way to do that. Councillor Clements you are a brilliant representative for the Tamworth British Legion and I’m sure you would be happy to support anyone who would want to volunteer this year and I look forward to seeing you all at the various remembrance services our town.