Meeting with Brian Harris

I spoke to Brian Harris on Saturday. He was very involved in the Street Party in 2002 and 2005. He was extremely helpful and so here are some notes I took.

For insurance they went to Zurich Municipal - here are the forms with addresses and contact details:


A different group, MAGPIE, has applied for insurance for something completely different to someone else, so we might try these guys:
He thought we should just write down what our party was going to be - number of people, times, not on the street, etc. and then ask these two companies for quotations.

The permissions they needed to get were for closing down the streets, so they won't apply to us. They put up comment forms on the day for people to vent their anger or happiness. He reckoned this was a good way to make people feel they had a say. Here is a transcript of some of the comments they got:
He thought we should speak to PC Bert Bruce to get his opinions on permissions and to let the police know.

For the grant applications they had to submit two quotations for each item they wanted to get money for. Apparently the council was not pleased that their estimates were not accurate. They had money left over which they had to give back. Here are the budget they worked out for 2002 and a few quotations they got:





Here is some of the publicity material they had:


He said that if we needed tables we could ask the local churches who would probably lend us them.

Brian thought that maybe the Gazebos were in the hands of Iain Forbes at 57 Arden Street.

I told Brian he would get an invite for helping us - I hope you all don't mind :-)