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WoW Mums are taking part in organising the Big Local SW11 Pathfinders event in York Gardens Library on 18th July. WoW Mums will present our ideas on how we would spend the £1million in Battersea to improve it. Our aim is to improve the education levels and have suggested to provide our children with free GCSE tutoring and also free SATs tutoring to improve our children’s grades and possibilities for further education. We would like to see free University education in England and opportunity for all young people to study.

In addition to this, WoW Mums would invest in Enterprise Clubs and help single parents start their own enterprises to bypass the problems with expensive childcare and full time employment.

We would also like to see the Organic Houses built, where people would live in one house all of their life and just have the partition walls moved to adjust to the number of people living in the house and their needs. The properties would have to be sold by square meter as a value of habitable space, not by number of bedrooms, which are shrinking.

WoW Enterprise Club is on Friday, 12th July 2013 from 11am – 1pm in 200 Pennethorne House, SW11 2SH. Special guest speaker is Mrs. Sharon Mclean, Entrepreneur, who will deliver a workshop on how to make  a Business Plan for a Social Enterprise.

WoW  Enterprise Club is sponsored by Job Centre Plus and Big Local SW11 project.

Children’s Disco Party for Taewkwondo and Karate  graduates  is on Saturday, 20th July 2013 from 7pm  in KLS. All welcome.

Researcher Mr. Jonathan Schiffer, funded by ASDA,  is visiting our WoW Parent Forum on Monday, 8th July 2013 from 1.45pm – 3pm in KLS meeting room to discuss the services in  Clapham Junction area. All welcome. Refreshments provided.

WoW Mums have organised an educational and social  trip to East Shallowford Farm in national park Dartrmoor as part of our Urban Children project. We aim to rehabilitate children who live in inner city environment with high air pollution, who do not have access to a garden or funds for out of London holiday. Please contact us if you have children suffering from respiratory problems and would like to visit Devon.

WoW Mums attended a Reception at the Jubilee Room at the  House of Commons, organised by Jane Ellison MP to mark the  work of those charities and voluntary community  organisations who contribute so much to the life of Battersea. It is encouraging to hear that the number of volunteers has rocketed in the past few years and is still on the increase. This is adding tremendous social and economic value to the local services.

WoW Mums have organised a BBQ for the elderly residents of Haven Lodge, Doris Emmerton Court, Homleigh Court and for the Mayor. We will cook burgers and salads from our new cookbook published with WBC Housing Dept. BBQ is on Wednesday, 3rd July 2013 from 11am – 1pm in Haven Lodge garden.