ROS WATCH

12.21.00pm BST (GMT +0100) Fri 4th Jun 2010

Friends of Weymouth Refuge receiving a cheque for £500 towards the Freedom Programme

In the last 2 weeks Ros has:

• attended a public meeting about creating a secondary school in Swanage

-Spoken at the Lib Dem regional conference about Fair Votes for Dorset

• Worked to organise a delegation with Graham Watson MEP to meet Vince Cable in order to secure support for the role of

the South West Regional Development Agency in continuing to support Dorset's economy

• submitted a protest to DCC cabinet against the Purbeck schools Review

• met with protesters against the Portland Academy

• chaired a packed public meeting about the academy

• posted on her blog about the academies legislation, political reform & reform of the Labour party

• attended meetings of the Weymouth Domestic Violence Forum & Friends of Weymouth Refuge fundraising group

• received a cheque from marathon runner Lisa Hughes towards funds for the Freedom Programme

for victims of domestic violence in South Dorset;

• attended the West Dorset Domestic violence forum to discuss trafficking of women in the Olympics & been interviewed on

Wessex FM about trafficking fears;

• attended an affordable housing steering group looking at ways of ensuring shared equity homes in the Flaxhayes

development are offered first to local people;

• expressed concerns about setting relevant affordable housing targets at West Dorset's Policy Scrutiny Committee

• Spoken at a Fair Votes for Dorset public meeting on the case for electoral reform

• taken up several cases of housing & crime casework