COVENTRY COMMUNITY FORUM

Monday 8th May 2017

Coventry Central Police Station

Little Park Street

Present

Janey Manton (JM) – Coventry Earth Spirit

Inspector Hasson Shigdar (HS) - WMP

Peter Sturgeon (PDS) – WMP

Jarnail Singh Dhaliwal (JSD) – Gurdwara GNP Coventry

Ghulam Vohra (GF) – Coventry Muslim Forum

Robert Bronikowski (RB) – Coventry Polish Community

Nickey Handley (NK) – Coventry Earth Spirit

Dorothy Senior (DS) - Caribbean Community

Martina Brewer (MB) – Coventry City Council

Hadassah Dwek (HD) – Coventry Peace House

Derek Jones (DJ) – Coventry Broadgate Spiritualist Church

Rita Jones (RJ) – Coventry Broadgate Spiritualist Church

Mehar Singh Kang (MSK) – Indian Community Centre

Hassan Fidow (HS) – Somali Cultural Resource Centre

Chloe Andrew (CA) – Grapevine

Gordon Lowe (GL) –Grapevine

Stefa Paszkowicz (SP) - Coventry Polish Community

1 Apologies

Sonia Johnson (SJ) - Barbadian Association

Caron McKenna (CM) – Coventry University Students Union

Balbir Singh Dhami (BD) – Coventry Multi Faith Forum

Mehru Fitter (MF) – Positive Images Festival

Deepak Naik (DN) – Together in Action

2 Introductions

At the start of meeting there were introductions from attendees around the table.

3 Matters Rising/Forum Tasking

There are no existing tasks and one new task from this meeting. PCSO Wayne Pamire conducted a short presentation on Faith Fusion event.

Date / Action / Owner / Update / Status
8/5/17 / Arrange for representative from Council with remit for parking to attend forum meeting / Peter Sturgeon
WMP / Paul Bowman Parking will be attending 5th May meeting. / On-going

4 Stop & Search

Stop and search information was presented by Inspector Shigdar by overhead projector, who also took questions following the input from attendees.

5 Community Tensions/Information Exchange

We went round the table and those with information to share did so.

6 Date and Venue of Next Meeting

The next meeting to take place on Monday 5th June 2017 at 5:30 pm in the Gavin Carlton Room at Coventry Central Police Station Little Park St, Coventry CV1 2JX.

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