What can I do?

Spending Challenge – your chance to influence Government spending – will they listen?

The Treasury Spending Challenges Website has now closed for input, although the site is still open to see what has been suggested.

There are over 500 ideas relating to HS2 and 300 on high speed rail, so the suggestion is to focus on those that already have a high number of votes and scores.

http://spendingchallenge.hm-treasury.gov.uk

There is an interesting document below, which gives the parameters that the Government has set to justify spending choices, published by the National Council for Voluntary Organisations

NCVO Initial_spending_review_2010_briefing

Write to your MP, Government Ministers and others.

Please see this list of contact details & remember, we don’t need HS2, we can’t afford HS2 and it will not help carbon emissions.  HS2 Contact details 29-7-10

HS2 Factsheet and HS2AA ‘myths’

A factsheet has been pout together to summarise some of the key points that can be incorporated into your inputs to the Spending Challenge and letters.  This can be accessed here

HS2 Action Alliance Spending Choices Campaign

The HS2AA are running a campaign on their website to provide input to the government on spending choices.  This can be accessed by following the link below:

http://www.hs2actionalliance.org/spendingchoices.php

EHS Consultation

There is a separate page relating to this action which has now closed for input.

Get involved with the Chiltern Society

Visit their site and join their campaigns.  They are currently putting £5 (of £20) for single membership, and £10 (of £30) for family membership, into an HS2 fighting fund.

Facebook

Only applicable to those who are on facebook and for whom the novelty hasn’t worn off yet, there is a group that can be joined here.

If you are aware of any key activities that should be publicised, please let me know via mel.foster@speenbucks.org.uk