Covering central and northern
Beckenham, The Copers Cope Area Residents
Association was founded in 1936 to protect and
promote the interests of residents on matters of
local concern.
The CCARA is non party-political.
We have two or three open meetings
a year, with a Newsletter and a regularly updated
website at www.coperscope.org.uk
Over the last few years the
Association has been going through a number of
changes, some good and some not so good. From
March 2008 until October 2009 due to illness and
other difficulties, it was not possible for us to
circulate our newsletter. We lost a number of our
committee and a few of us had to multi-task, to
try and deal with a number of problems.
Then in December 2009 our Chairman
Mr Maurice Hudson, sadly passed away.
Now with a number of new committee
members and many new members joining us, we can
continue to go forward into the future.
However, people to represent the
interests of Beckenham residents on traffic,
transport, parking, health, town centre
development and other issues are still keenly
sought.
The Executive Committee’s
report to its Annual General Meeting on March
3rd. 2010 noted its come-back from fears of
disbandment only a year ago, with the recruitment
of new helpers, the establishment of an active
news website and circulation of a self-financing
32 page newsletter.
However, it said, changes in
planning rules and alcohol laws had made it even
harder to block anti-social building development
and late-night alcohol-inspired incidents, while
they had had too few workers to campaign
effectively on local issues.
Recently at our Annual General
Meeting on the 30th of March 2011 the election of
officers and committee were as follows.
Chairman –
David Vevers
Executive committee - Marsha
Berg, Louise Cooper, Peter Dow, Myra Heffernan,
Malcolm Llewellyn, Stephen Parkin, Chloe Ross.
Non-Executive Members and Advisers
- Peter Duncan (Road Safety), Shirley Hindin
(Contact Secretary), Roger Leach (Acting
Treasurer), Terry Guntrip (Webmaster and
Technical Advisor), Julie North (Planning
Liaison).
Honorary officers - President:
Colin Watts; vice-President: Nick Carter;
Auditor: Andy Mack (ACA).
Contact us
You can contact us via e-mail:
and to join the Association
e-mail: membership@coperscope.org.uk
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