Welcome

We represent residents’ views at Neighbourhood Partnership and Neighbourhood Partnership Steering Group Meetings and encourage as many of ECRA residents to attend and become involved by direct action. We also represent those interests to wider bodies such as Transport for London (TfL), English Partnership, Coulsdon Forum, Road safety, Green Belt and Environmental Sustainability, Policing and Neighbourhood Watch / Police Ward Panel and we keep an eye on all of the current planning applications in the area, objecting or supporting where appropriate or necessary, including supporting Old Coulsdon Residents’ Association (OCRA) Coulsdon West Residents’ Association (CWRA), Hartley & Distric Restidents' Association (HADRA)  and other Residents’’ Association in the area if required or necessary.

Our three Ward Councillors – Councillors Terry Lenton, Brian Udell and Chris Wright - attend our Committee Meetings when they can – at least one of them will be there and often all three - so that they can raise matters of concern or interest with the Officers of the Council, other Councillors and organisations and report back their findings or actions to be taken.

We publish the very popular Review which Pauline Payne our Editor produces so well and which is published 4 times a year and delivered to all Members and is also put into libraries and supplied to other Residents’ Association who request it. Pauline welcomes articles of interest to include in The Review . It is the advertising which largely pays for the publication of this magazine but is subsidised from membership fees. If you would like to advertise in The Review please contact Pauline whose details are under Committee Members . You can join ECRA for the sum of £3 per year by contacting our Treasurer or to one of our volunteer Road Stewarts who deliver The Review and collect the subscriptions. These volunteers are highly valued by ECRA and should you like to become involved and volunteer to become a Road Stewart we would be delighted. We would also be delighted should residents like to put themselves forward to become members of the Committee. AGMs are usually held in June - this year it is 10th June at Old Coulsdon Congretation  Church, Opposite Tuder Parade, Old Coulsdon 7.30 p.m..

Social events are arranged by our Social Secretary Gill Rogers with the help of the Social Committee. This includes theatre visits, Jazz Nights, Quiz nights and, of course, Christmas dinner. Again Gill would welcome help and any ideas for additional outings. Visit the Dates for Your Diary to find out current events on offer.

Within the ECRA area is the very popular Farthing Downs and Happy Valley with its Saxon burial mounds and Iron Age field system which is a stone’s throw from Coulsdon South Station and the A23. This is managed by the City of London Corporation . The area has been awarded Green Flag  status - an independently judged award given annually to the best parks and green spaces in England and Wales. Friends of Farthing Downs run many events throughout the year, a current list of which can be found on the Dates for Your Diary Page.  Also within the area is the Marlpit Lane Recreational Ground with its Children’s playground, recently updated with lottery money, Bowling Green, Putting Green, tennis, netball and basketball courts.

In the pages which follow is information which we feel would be of help and interests to our residents and anyone new to the area or thinking of moving here. The contents list to the left and,  apart from the first two welcome pages, has been set out in alpha order to make finding items easier. Should you wish to contact us the e-mail address is info@eastcoulsdon.co.uk

Advertising - If you wish to advertise with us in our magazine ‘The Review’ which is distributed to over 2000 households and libraries. Please contact Pauline Payne the Editor of ‘The Review’ who will be pleased to hear from you.

Recruitment to ECRA – Should you wish to get involved with ECRA as a Committee Member, Road Stewart or helper we will be very please to hear from you. Please contact one of the Committee Members.

ECRA RULES

THE EAST COULSDON RESIDENTS’ ASSOCIATION

RULES

1.       The  Association shall be called ‘THE EAST COULSDON RESIDENTS’ ASSOCIATION’ 

2.       OBJECTS :

(a)    To advance and protect the interests of the Residents and preserve the amenities of the district.

(b)   To ascertain the opinions of the Residents and to lay such opinions before the appropriate Authority when desirable.

(c)    To promote such cultural and social activities as may from time to time be deemed desirable.

(d)   To co-operate with other Organisations in any of the foregoing objects. 

3.       The Association shall be non-party and non-sectarian.

4.       All adult Residents in the East Coulsdon Ward shall be eligible for membership.  Former residents in the ward shall be eligible for Honorary Membership on payment of 25p per annum, but shall have no power to vote. 

5.       The minimum annual subscriptions shall be such as is recommended by the Committee and approved by the A.G.M., which shall cover all members of the same family unit resident at the same address.  Subscriptions are due on 1^st July in each year and payment thereof shall constitute membership. 

6.       The Officers of the Association shall be a Chairman, Vice-Chairman, Honorary Secretary, Honorary Treasurer, and such Assistant Honorary Secretaries and/or Treasurers as may be considered necessary, all of whom shall be elected at the Annual General Meeting. 

7.       The Executive Committee shall consist of the Officers, together with such  fifteen other members  as the Annual General Meeting  shall determine, five to  form a quorum. The Executive Committee shall hold meetings as required, and shall have power to co-opt members either to fill vacancies on the Committee or in a consultative capacity. 

8.       Any nominations for Officers, other members of the Committee and Honorary Auditors made before the Annual General Meeting must be in the hands of the Honorary Secretary in writing seven clear days prior to the date of that meeting. 

9.       The Annual General Meeting shall be held in May or June.  Further General Meetings shall be held whenever the Executive Committee so decided. 

10.   A Special General Meeting may be called at any time on application in writing, stating the object for which such General Meeting is desired and signed by not less than twenty  members.  No business other than that stated on the Agenda shall be dealt with at the Meeting. 

11.   The Audited Accounts for the previous year ended 31^st March shall be presented to the Annual General Meeting and two Honorary Auditors shall be elected at that meeting to act for the current year.

12.   Notice of each Annual General meeting with the Agenda and Audited Accounts shall be delivered to members at least fourteen days prior to the date of the meeting.  At least seven clear days’ notice shall be given of other General Meetings. 

13.   The Association shall not be dissolved except by the vote of two-thirds of the members present and voting at a General Meeting, on the Agenda of which shall appear the question of dissolution. 

14.   No alteration to these Rules shall be made except by a two-thirds majority of those present and voting at a General Meeting, on the Agenda of which shall appear the proposed alterations.  No Rule shall be amended within twelve months of a previous decision on a proposal to amend such Rule, except upon the recommendations of the Executive Committee and all notices of suggested alterations shall be sent to the Honorary Secretary in writing.

15.   The Executive Committee shall have the power to discuss and act upon any matter consistent with Rules 2 and 3. 

16.   The Executive Committee shall have the power to appoint sub-committees as may be deemed advisable for special purposes, and if considered necessary may co-opt on such sub-committees any member or members of the Association.  The Chairman and Secretary of the Association shall be ex-officio members of all sub-committees. 

17.   Decisions at General or Committee Meetings, except where otherwise provided for in these Rules, shall be taken by a simple majority vote of members present and voting.  Voting shall be by show of hands unless a ballot is demanded by at least a third of the members present.

Addition to paragraph 6 (9 June 1993)

“The normal period in office for the Chairman and Vice-Chairman shall not be more than three consecutive years with the proviso that should the majority of the Executive Committee so recommend, this term can be extended by not more than a further year, in each case subject to the officer being nominated and re-elected at the Annual General Meeting.  On the conclusion of the period in office, neither the Chairman nor the Vice-Chairman shall be re-elected to that same office within one year.”

Note : It was agreed at the June  2009 AGM to remove this paragraph in 2010