Friday, 26 October 2007

I arrived early at the office and tidied up some final points on the newsletter, dealt with some correspondence, and then had a meeting with the senior management team of the newly formed Watford Community Housing Trust. Now I know that the WCHT is based 200 yards away at the Town Hall and I know that they are looking to relocate soon.

Had I trusted to my own knowledge, everything would have been fine. But a little doubt is a dangerous thing. Before leaving I thought I’d just double-check the meeting’s location. I could only get answerphones at WCHT so I popped the WCHT postcode into www.multimap.com which directed me over to Hagden Lane in West Watford, so off I went stupidly trusting to technology. When I eventually arrived at the WCHT offices at the Town Hall I was half an hour late. The senior management team were clearly bemused at how it could take me so long to travel 200 yards and I don’t think they found my explanation convincing. I barely believed it myself.

In the time left available to us we had an extremely helpful discussion and identified many areas of possible future collaboration. This is only the second community gateway trust in the country (after Preston) and it has a marvellous opportunity to help transform Watford for the better. The team seem very capable and very committed to doing just this.

Later, I focused on trying to complete some of the various projects I have on the go. I didn’t actually manage to tick anything off as completed, but I am getting close.