Alastair Hanton (1926 - 2021) - Social entrepreneur and banking innovator    Alastair Hanton introduced Direct Debit to the UK, started National Girobank, founded the Fair Trade Foundation, and through his transport campaigning saved countless lives. He achieved a remarkable amount of change over a long life of persistent enterprise and collaboration.    At Cambridge Alastair read mathematics and economics but seems also to have studied kindness: all three subjects were to guide the following 75 years.     In 1948 he joined the Government’s CDC (the Commonwealth Development Corporation) which planned the building of hospitals and roads in the poorest countries.     One of these was Malawi, in East Africa, where Alastair was sent in 1950, travelling by ship and train, and stopping off in South Africa where he was horrified to see the beginnings of apartheid - against which he later fought.     After several years he moved back to Britain,...

  Statement from Dulwich and Herne Hill Safe Routes to School (SRS) -  Feb 2021   Safe Routes to School Dulwich & Herne Hill (SRS) is comprised of representatives from all the schools in this area. Its members are staff and/or parents at the schools.   The group was formed over a decade ago with a specific goal: to support and engage with all relevant parties to enable children to travel to school safely, actively and healthily and, where appropriate, independently. We support measures which enable safe walking and cycling, as well as those to reduce traffic, which will in turn reduce road danger and improve air quality.    School representatives of SRS promote activities within the schools, share best practice and views from the schools and seek to provide support to the schools in the execution of their Travel Plans, most of which have Gold Accreditation.   SRS seeks to engage responsibly in local consultations on traffic and travel measures. As ...

  SRS response to Southwark Streetspace Phase 1: 16 December 2020   TMO2021-EXP02_LSP   We write to express our continued support for the permeable filters in Dulwich Village and Melbourne Grove South which have now reached their six month review.   As well as achieving immediate road safety gains, we are seeing modal shift in Dulwich.   The gains:   ·        Safe crossings, where previously they were dangerous, at Court Lane / Dulwich Village and Calton Avenue / Dulwich Village ·        Improved safety, as a result of a reduction in motor traffic, at Court Lane and Dulwich Park ·        Improved safety, as a result of a reduction in motor traffic, at Calton Avenue and Townley Road ·        Improved safety, as a result of a reduction in motor traffic, at Melbourne Grove south side and East Dulwich Gr...