Interview Date: 14th August, 2024
C: Clara Cheung, G: Gum Cheng, N: Nic Ralph
| I. | C: | But, yeah, but before you, you organised the Harcourt Road Watch, did some of you also, for example, contact the local police, to seek for help from other authorities, because that's really self helping, which is good, but, did… |
| N: | Well, mainly we were devoted to self help, yeah, um, I mean, but we did, no, we did liaison. I mean, I was particularly, I spent a lot of time going to meetings that the university organised with community representatives, where the police were also represented, and the church, perhaps, and I don't know, various other bits and pieces would all be at these meetings. And it's out of that. I mean, then when we, when we needed something that might cost money, like buying some planters and buying some compost, and so we’d talk to them, and with a bit of luck, somebody would say, yeah, we can probably give you some compost, and we, you know, then we'd be able to fill all these planters. And so sometimes I think we even got planters off them. I'm not, I can't remember the detail, to be honest. | |
| C: | Did the compost come from their kitchens? | |
| N: | No, it'd be garden compost from their estate. Yeah, yeah, no, it wouldn't be from the kitchen. So okay, so I mean, basically there was liaison with the housing associations and landlords - that was very important, because we were trying to influence what went on there. We were concerned sometimes that the landlords, in some cases, the housing associations, in particular, some of them were establishing properties, not for general lettings of families and things, but they some of them were, but some of them were also specialised lettings for people with mental health problems, ex offenders, various other projects that were going on which can give rise to tensions within the community, and indeed, active, active problems. You know, it does happen. And so liaison with them was quite important. And so that was quite important. But as I say, liaison with all these sort of bodies became a significant background to what was going on right through the period. |
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