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Magma Fincorp Limited (MFL) established in 1989, is a non-banking company and registered (as an Asset Finance Company), with the Reserve Bank of India. It is Kolkata based and operates in 21 states and a union territory. It has more than 235 branches and retains a strong presence in semi-rural and rural India. Its home loan scheme offers loan for both commercial and residential purposes, with quantum loan starting as low as Rs. 3 lakhs.
Magma Fincorp Home Loan Details
- The Current FRR for Magma Housing Finance stands at 18.75%.
- The minimum and maximum tenure for the MFL home loan is 1 year and 20 years, respectively.
- The applicant should be at least 21 years of age, and maximum age limit is 60 years to the tenure completion.
- The interest rate (between 14% and 16%), varies based on client's portfolio, credit evaluation and market interest rates.
Magma Housing Loan Fees and Charges
|Foreclosure Charges
|Statement of Account
|Rs 200/-
|Processing Fee
|Upto 2.0%
|Special NOC
|Per request Rs. 500/-
|Re-booking/Loan cancellation charges
|Rs. 3,000/-
|Refinance cases/Home Equity/ Valuation charges for BT
|Rs. 1,500/-
|Cheque swapping charges
|Rs. 500/-
|Pre-Closure Charges
|Duplicate No due certificate
|Rs. 500/-
|Part Payment Charges
Purpose of Magma Fincorp Home Loan
MFL housing loans are offered for the following purposes:
- Home Improvement Loans: The loan is for home improvement, extension or renovation of the applicant's house.
- Land Purchase Loans: The funding is for purchasing a new plot of constructing a house or investment purpose.
- Ready Property Purchase Loans: The funding is for a purchase of a new house.
- Home Construction Loans: Construction of house in case the applicant wishes to build a house on an already owned land.
- NRI Home Loans: Maximum tenure for such loan is 15 years but the rate of interest is a little more than existing rates. For paperwork, details contact MFL.
- Balance Transfer or Top-up Loans: This loan is to transfer a home loan of another bank to MFL. The customer can also opt for top up loan on their existing home loan. No prepayment penalty is needed on foreclosure of the loan.
Magma Fincorp Limited Housing Finance Eligibility
The housing loan by Magma Fincorp is granted to following individuals:
- Salaried and/or self-employed individuals who are:
- Manufacturers
- Service providers
- Entrepreneurs
- Traders & Retailers
- Proprietor, Individuals, Partner, Partnership Entity, and Corporate-entity can apply for home loans from Magma.
- Developers who have undertaken Townships or Residential projects can apply for housing finance.
|Legal Opinion Valuation Charges
|Duplicate Statement Charges
|Validity Of Sanction
|Inspection Charges
|E M I Bounce Charges
|2.5% Per Month
|Insurance Cover
|Cheque Swapping Charges
|Bounce Cheque Charges
|Issue Duplicate Interest Certificate
|Issue Duplicate Provisional Interest Certificate
|Issue Amortization Schedule Duplicate
|Duplicate Balance Certificate
|Switch Fixed To Variable Interest Rate
|Switch Variable To Interest Fixed Rate
|Photocopy Documents
|Rs 500 /- for two-four documents, Rs 250 for one Document, and Rs 750 for more than 4 documents
Documents Needed for Magma Fincorp Home Loan
1. For Salaried Applicants:
- Copy of share certificate
- Approved-building plan
- Occupancy certificate
- Current draft/sale agreement to sell
- Identity and Age Proof in form of Aadhar card, PAN Card, Signature Proof or Passport, signature Proof
- Nil Encumbrance certificate (if applicable)
- Past 13 years chain of deeds
2. For Self-employed Applicants:
- Last 3 years of IT tax returns, profit and loss account, balance sheet that is duly audited by CA
- Proof of Business – Vat Registration Certificate/ Shop and Establishment Certificate/ Service Tax Certificate
- Identity and Age Proof in form of Aadhar card, PAN Card, Signature Proof or Passport, signature Proof
- Business profile presented on the company's letterhead
- Sanction letter of existing loans (if any) that has repayment track
- Cheque of Processing Fee
- Residence Proof in form of Utility bills, Passport or Bank Statements
3. For Partnership Firm:
- PAN Card of the company
- Proof of Business in form of Shop and Establishment Certificate/ Service Tax certificate/Vat Registration Certificate
- Latest 12 months bank statement of the Partners' Savings Bank Account and of the company
- Processing fee cheque
- Residence Proof in form of Passport, Utility bills or Bank Statements
- Age proof of all the partners in the form of Passport, PAN Card or Aadhar Card
- Last 3 years of IT tax returns, profit and loss account, balance sheet that is duly audited by CA
- Sanction letter of existing loans (if any) that has repayment track
- Residence proof of all the partners in form of Passport, Utility Bills, Bank statement or Registered rent agreement
- Business profile presented on the company's letterhead
- Identity and Age Proof in form of Aadhar card, PAN Card, Signature Proof or Passport, signature Proof
4. For Private Ltd Co:
- MOA, List Of Directors, Share Holding Pattern of the Company, AOA
- Application form filled along with the photographs of directors
- PAN Card of Company
- Proof of Business in form of Vat Registration Certificate/ Shop and Establishment Certificate/Service Tax Certificate
- Age Proof of Directors in form of Aadhar Card, Passport or PAN Card
- Latest 12 months bank statement of Company of all current accounts. The same is required for Director's Savings Bank Account
- Business Profile on the Letter Head of the Company
- Cheque of Processing Fee
- Last 3 years of IT tax returns, profit and loss account, balance sheet that is duly audited by CA
- A professional educational qualification certificate of Doctors, Architects, CA
- Identity and Age Proof in form of Aadhar card, PAN Card, Signature Proof or Passport, signature Proof
- Residence Proof of Directors in form of Utility Bills, Passport, Bank statement or Registered rent agreement.
- Sanction letter of existing loans (if any) that has repayment track of company and individual Directors
- Residence Proof in form of Passport, Utility Bills, Bank Statements.
How Does a Borrower Close Magma Fincorp Home Loan through Creditseva?
A home loan when settled or closed frees the borrower from this existing debt. He/she also receives a proof or testament from the lender that the property now belongs to the borrower and the lender has no control over it. Closing Magma Fincorp Limited housing loan must be done carefully by following the mentioned steps from expert financial advisors of Creditseva, which offers hassle-free method of closing home loan.
- The borrower must sign in to his/her Creditseva user account
- He/she should follow the guidelines as stated by our experts.
There are four ways to carry out the home loan closure:
- Closure through prepayment of Loan
- Closure through completion of loan tenure
- Closure on account of bad loan
- Closure through the settlement of the loan.
Closure by Pre-Payment of Magma Fincorp Home Loan
The prepayment of housing loan can be completed by the borrower in following ways:
Step 1: Personal visit
- Borrowers should visit the MFL home loan branch of their choice.
- It is not mandatory to visit the branch where the loan was issued from.
- Loan closure related visits must be done on a weekday and MFL might not handle prepayments on weekends.
Step 2: Reach representative
- Closing housing loan requires the borrower to deal with few formalities and mandatory checks, and the process may consume some time.
- The borrower must discuss all the necessary with the bank representative.
Step 3: Disclosure form
- The MFL representative will ask the borrower to fill a disclosure form.
- The borrower has to state all sources of income through for full/partial prepayment shall be done.
- Exact amounts may not be disclosed but approximates could be stated.
Step 4: Cheque for prepayment
- The borrower has to calculate loan prepayment amount.
- The cheque for prepayment must be submitted in favor of 'Magma Fincorp Limited'.
Step 5: Receipt of prepayment
- The receipt of home loan prepayment done via cheque is handed over to the borrower.
- It means that the home loan taken by him/her is successfully paid off.
Step 6: Amortization sheet
- The borrower has to request the MFL representative for an amortization sheet.
- This sheet provides details of EMIs paid until date.
- MFL branch can be requested to send the amortization sheet by email to the borrower.
- It can be downloaded from the MFL website through its home loan login portal.
Step 7: Collection of property deed
- Subject to home loan prepayment and its release, the property deed file is couriered to the Magma Fincorp Limited by the registrar.
- This procedure usually takes 10-15 days.
- The borrower can collect the property deed file than having it couriered to MFL.
- By doing so, there is lesser risk of the property deed being damaged or torn in transit.
Closure by Magma Fincorp Home Loan Tenure Completion
Following the payment of the last home loan EMI, the borrower can initiate closure of this loan.
- The borrower has to post a written loan closure application to the nearest MFL loan branch.
- He/she must attach poof of last EMI payment on the loan.
Magma Fincorp Home Loan Closure because of Bad Loan
When the housing loan customer goes bankrupt, then he/she may not be able to pay off the outstanding loan amount. In such situation, MFL loan account for the borrower is marked as 'Default' until the loan is not written off, and once it is written off, it is termed as 'bad loan'.
- The borrower must post a written loan closure application to the nearest MFL home loan branch.
- He/she should visit the nearest branch of this NBFC and submit this application.
These following steps take place:
1. The borrower's home loan status has to be switched from 'Default' to 'Settled'.
2. SOA (Statement of Account) update: This comes in the form of a passbook or a statement print out and depicts all transactions of the borrower's banks account. The SOA also shows all withdrawals, balances and deposits. The bad home loan settlement is reflected here as written off.
3. CIBIL Score Update: The CIBIL score of the borrower is impacted after a closure of home loan this way. It generally results in weakening of credit score. However, analysis of timely repayments or instalments done by the borrower maybe accounted for and the credit score can improve.
Closure through Settlement of Magma Fincorp Home Loan
Settlement of loan is done when outstanding dues are left.
- The bank generally gives the borrower 3-months' time wherein his/her repayment recoverability is assessed.
- In case dues are still irrecoverable, then the home loan account is recorded as a non-performing asset or NPA.
- The borrower becomes 'defaulter' until the housing loan is not settled.
- The housing loan settlement negatively affects CIBIL score in the short term.
- Reflection of timely repayments of the EMIs shall eventually help to build the credit score.
- The borrower can initiate MFL home loan closure. He/she has to send a written loan closure application followed by a visit to the MFL home loan branch.
These following steps take place:
1. SOA update: The housing loan settlement will reflect in SOA until repayment is not completed. The below-mentioned repayment options are available to the borrower:
- Restructuring of loan
- Prepayment of rest of loan
- Reimbursement of the investment
2. Offer letter: When the MFL home loan is settled, it will reflect as 'settled' in the bank account.
3. CIBIL score update: Settlement of housing loans is a full closure of the loan. It will negatively affect the borrower's credit score. With time on receipt of a credit report, the CIBIL score will normalize.
Sample Letter for Closure of Magma Fincorp Home Loan
The Bank Manager
Magma Fincorp Limited
[Address of the branch where loan closure was done]
Subject: Home loan closure request
I, [Your name] had MFL home loan issued under my account number – […………………] which is now successfully repaid and no dues are left. I have attached the proof of last EMI payment. I thus, request you to further initiate the home loan closure and provide me with the letter of acknowledgement that states that the loan was successfully closed. The following documents will be due for collection after loan closure's acknowledgement:
- Original Property Documents
- Loan closure Certificate or NOC/NDC
- CIBIL score update
Thanking you for your help,
[Your name]
[Your signature].
Important Documents that Borrower Has to Collect on MFL Home Loan Closure
The borrower should collect the following documents after submitting the written application/letter to Magma Fincorp Limited for housing loan closure:
1. Property Deed
- The property deed has payment receipts, POA, original sale deed, possession letter, cancelled cheques, and more documents.
- The borrower has to collect the original form of all documents and not copies.
- These documents are most important for loan against the same property for which the loan was taken, and subsequent sale of this property.
2. Loan Closure Certificate (LOC) or No Dues Certificate (NDC) No Objection Certificate (NOC)
- The MFL's NOC letter must mention that property is no more under debt obligation.
- It should also say that the loan was completely paid off with principal amount and the interest.
3. CIBIL Score
- Every 28th of all months, the CIBIL score is updated as per the candidate's credit history or repayments and bill payments.
- Thus, the housing loan related repayments and its details are also shared by MFL with CIBIL.
- Thus, MFL home loan closure can influence CIBIL score of borrower either negatively or positively depending on the method of closure.
- In case the loan was written off or settled and the dues had to be recovered in another way than simple closure by loan tenure, then it will reduce creditworthiness of borrower and for next 6 months, it could be difficult for him/her to receive a new loan.
- Through adequate financial planning, regular loan repayments and bill payments, the credit score can be improved.
4. Memorandum of Deposit
- The MOD exists with MFL home loan customer already, and this document is provided at the beginning of the housing loan.
5. Promissory Note & thank you note.
Important Things the Borrower Must Do After MFL Home Loan Closure
After clearance and closure of housing loan with Magma Fincorp Limited in totality, the borrower must perform the following actions:
1. Original Documents
Borrowers should collect the following documents in their original form from Magma Fincorp Limited:
- Original property tax paid receipts or copies if possible.
- Original title and deed document
- Approved layout and map issued by governmental authority or similar
- Original or certified copy of title deed of previous owner
- Statement of loan account reflecting all details of loan and interest repayments
- Legal Scrutiny Report that all dues have been cleared
2. Removal of Lien
- A lien is a transaction that is registered with registrar of properties against the property for which the loan was taken from Magma Fincorp Limited.
- The borrower cannot sell this property if lien exists on it, and for this very security reason (until repayment), the bank attaches lien to the said property.
- On speaking to MFL representative, the borrower must make sure the lien is removed from the property after home loan closure.
3. Encumbrance Certificate (EC)
- The local registrar's office is where the borrower can get the EC by writing letter/application for it to MFL.
- The registrar who in turn after home loan closure, certifies that the lien is removed from the property and also is the one that issues it.
- The Encumbrance certificate contains details of all transactions done in the property's name.
4. Lawyer Clearance Certificate
- By taking lawyer's clearance certificate, the borrower assures a second opinion for the property in question.
- This certificate is useful at time of property sale and loan against it, as the same verifies that the property is lien and debt free.
Magma Fincorp Home Loan Closure FAQs:
1. When should borrower visit MFL branch to initiate home loan closure?
Weekdays are the days the borrower must visit MFL on to close the home loan.
2. Does the prepayment of the housing loan cause the borrower to pay any charge or penalty?
Yes, prepayment of MFL home loan may apply prepayment charges or penalties.
3. Which documents/subjects borrower (for closing housing loans), must carefully study?
- Principal and interest statement
- Home loan EMI statement
- Final home loan closing statement
4. Can home loan repayment be completed by any other way with Magma Fincorp Limited?
MFL may provide an accelerated way of closing home loan by Accelerated Repayment Scheme or other options.
5. How long does it take Magma Fincorp home loan closure to affect the borrower's CIBIL score?
The closure of MFL housing loan takes 3 months from the date of closure to affect the credit score of the borrower.
6. After how much time will Magma Fincorp Limited shares the CIBIL score update with the borrowers?
MFL will share the update on credit score after a month from closure date, with the borrower.
7. When can the amortization sheet be downloaded from the Magma Fincorp Limited website?
The amortization sheet can be downloaded from the housing loan closure portal of MFL after the expiry of a month from the loan closure's date.
8. Will Magma Fincorp Limited take responsibility of any mutilation to the home property deed file during courier?
The MFL shall take no responsibility for loss/damage/mutilation to property deed of home during transit and courier. Thus, the borrower should collect it himself/herself as a precaution, then having it couriered.
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Directed by Hans SteinhoffRun Time - 75 min. | Countries - Germany |
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Eine Frau Ohne Bedeutung was adapted by Thea von Harbou from the 1893 Oscar Wilde comedy A Woman of No Importance. Though updated to the 1930s, the story, concerning a reconciliation between an estranged father and son as orchestrated by an "unimportant" woman, remains the same. Perhaps Wilde had not intended his third act to be quite so melodramatic, but it must be remembered that von Harbou previously worked on such films as Dr. Mabuse and Metropolis. Without a thorough knowledge of German, one is hard-pressed to determine whether or not Wilde's epigrammatic dialogue survived intact. Still, audiences in 1936 were satisfied, as were the producers when Eine Frau Ohne Bedeutung turned out to be a success.
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This article is extracted from Smith & Williamson (updated September 2016)
|Current Position
|Future Downgrade Membership to one of the EEA and not full EU Membership
|Exit EU Altogether
|Supremacy of EU/EEA law over UK law
EU law takes precedenceover UK law. Any UK law which introduces EU law must be interpreted in the light of the wording of EU law.
EEA agreement only provides for a system that promotes the implementation of EU law into EEA law. While there is no direct permission to rely on EEA law when national law conflicts with it, EEA members are obliged to consider EEA law (whether implemented in national law or not) when interpreting national law. However, the UK could still be liable if it had not fully implemented EEA law.
Recourse would be available to the EFTA Court to challenge the application of national law by other EEA member states.
|The UK would not be subject to the constraints of EU/EEA law, though such law may be taken into account. EU law would probably still be relevant for disputes relating to the periods prior to the UK's exit.
There would be no recourse to EU/EFTA courts should the UK find that other EEA country rules had an adverse impact on the UK in an unfair manner.
|Impact of EU/EEA Law on Direct Tax
|Four fundamental freedoms have influence on direct tax: free movement of goods, services, persons and capital. Most relevant provisions are:
Freedom of establishment, free movement of capital, non-discrimination and restriction on state aid.
|Similar principles to those applicable for EU law apply to EEA law.
|There would be no requirement to comply with EU law. However the UK would probably be required to comply with World Trade Organisation rules (see below).
There may be some scope for the UK to widen its tax incentives to SMEs without the constraints imposed by State Aid Rules.
|EU Directives:
|Seeks to ensure cross border intra-EU company reorganisations within scope are tax neutral. Company needs to have:
There are other requirements. Exit taxes are not prohibited by the mergers directive, but a choice of immediate or deferred payment must be offered.
|It may be possible for the UK to achieve the advantages of the merger directive as a member of the EEA (or EFTA) provided the other state has tax neutral re-organisation provisions for purely domestic exchanges of shares, and that this does not give rise to taxation of unrealised capital gains and tax-free reserves.
Regarding exit taxes, it is likely that a choice of immediate or deferred payment would be required to be offered to comply with the EEA agreement, subject to the local law of the relevant jurisdiction.
|The EU/EEA requirements of the mergers directive and principles on exit taxes would no longer be mandatory.
The UK may wish to keep some or all of these principles in effect to continue to make location in the UK attractive to business, though application is likely to depend on double tax treaties.
|EU Directives:
|Where conditions are met, the directive eliminates withholding taxes on cross border intra-EU interest and royalty transactions
All cross border intra EEA payments of interest and royalties would be outside the scope of the directive, and would not be protected by fundamental freedoms of the EEA agreement.
In the absence of specific post-Brexit arrangements, any EU Member State could reintroduce withholding tax for interest payments by its own resident companies to group companies resident in the UK. In such case, the only way for the UK to maintain (from the viewpoint of group companies) the attractiveness of exclusive taxation would be to grant a unilateral exemption for incoming foreign interest payments.
|The interest and royalties directive would not apply. Obligations on withholding tax would depend on double tax treaties.
|EU Directives:
|Where conditions are met, this prevents EU member states charging indirect tax on companies raising capital.
As a result of this directive HMRC no longer seeks to impose the 1.5% SDRT on issues of shares and securities to depository receipt issuers and clearance services in certain circumstances.
|The capital duties directive would not apply.
Subject to complying with the principle of freedom of movement of capital the UK could re-impose the 1.5% SDRT that it currently does not impose.
|The capital duties directive would not apply.
Subject to complying with WTO principles the UK could re-impose the 1.5% SDRT that it currently does not impose.
|Social Security Agreements
|The EU is a signatory to the EU social security agreements which means workers who move within the EU are only subject to social security of onecurrent position.
|EU social security agreements apply to EEA member states.
|Other non-EU countries have signed the EU social security agreement as a non-member (Switzerland has done this), so the UK may wish to apply for this should it leave the EU altogether.
i. Most Favoured Nation (MFN) treatment - so that there is no discrimination between trading partners' goods; and
ii. National Treatment (NT) so that domestic taxes and charges should not be applied so as to afford protection to domestic production


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Sunday June 4th, 2017
The exercise:
Write something that has to do with: no, you do it.
Kat and I went out for brunch this morning, our first date since... probably my birthday. The boys hung out with Grandma and Papa on the farm and had a great time.
Shall try to do this a little more often, me thinks.
Here's a couple shots from the car show, as I managed to get the pictures off my phone already and I figured I'd better run with the momentum:
That one inspired a series of shots of only car engines, as Max thought taking pictures of the cars that had their hoods up was suddenly a great idea.
I think that was my favorite one, as I thought the old school luggage up top was a nice touch.
All right. Back to work with me tomorrow, so I should get this done.
With Kat's parents planting another section of strawberries (without consulting us beforehand) - which basically doubled our production from last year - we always knew picking them all was going to be a challenge. Then I got my four days on, four days off job and one of the two weekly picks became more or less impossible.
The hope at first was that my schedule would allow me to attend the Penticton farmers market when the berries came ready. But then the cold spring delayed the plants and now even that much is out of the question.
Talks of doing a U-Pick started around Christmas, with Kat's mom surprisingly on board (she likes her privacy and quiet). It was pretty much the only choice though as we don't have the manpower or cooler/fridge space to pick and store all those berries whenever they peak. I mean, we just got around 25 pounds and there are hardly any ripe out there.
So we're doing it. Our very first day will likely be this coming Saturday. And we've already got plenty of interest. It'll be a learning experience for sure, but I'm hopeful that it'll work for everyone.
Customers get their berries and we get our berries picked. We'll have to do some picking ourselves, for trades and friends and whatever, and I expect there will be days when not enough people show up to pick the whole crop.
But for the most part? We're basically telling people: "Us? No, you pick the strawberries."


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I've heard from a few readers lately who've said they miss being able to comment. I miss having them, too, for the most part. I think my reason for stopping them was rising frustration over the political scene during the campaign, and a feeling of not needing any more aggravation. Most legitimate (to use a word having recent political implications) comments are not, in fact, aggravating. Having gotten rid of word verification, though, I got tons of spam; and whereas it's only a click to get rid of it, it's really annoying. Plus, once in a while Blogger fails to email me about a new comment, and sometimes I forget to check the pending page, so some people end up thinking I've shit-canned them when I haven't.
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Anyhow, let's go at it again. Comments will resume, sparse as they may have been and will be. And since I've also heard from people who thought the kibosh was the right move, I'll be a little more scrupulous in managing what gets through and what doesn't.
Ironically, this comes at a time when my vim vigor and verve are vanishing.
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What do Senators Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), Mark Warner (D-Va.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), and Chris Coons (D-Del.) have in common?
Not much when it comes to their voting records. But today these Republican and Democratic Senators did something we haven't seen in long time — they showed uncommon bipartisan leadership by introducing the Startup Act 2.0, legislation designed to boost the American economy by creating incentives for entrepreneurs to start new business.
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Kristie Ward and her husband, Danny started the Naomi's Heart Mission in 2006 to help people in dire need on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines. This is the first of many short films about Kristie, Danny and the mission work they do. This film is being submitted to CNN's "Heroes" project as well as other places of interest that will draw attention to the great work of these two amazing people. Filmed on the BlackMagic Cinema Camera and Panasonic GH4. Edited with Adobe Premiere CC.
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Here you will find an archive of our press releases and the articles published online for CommUNITY Barnet, Healthwatch Barnet (previously known as Barnet LINk) and Barnet CSEG.
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- This is Local London - Tuesday 29 April 2014
CommUNITY Barnet to hold talk on ways of tackling poverty
Ways of tackling poverty will be up for discussion at a free event on Thursday.
- This is Local London - Sunday 23 March 2014
Young volunteers help clear out community centre and gardens
Members of a youth club took part in a community clear-up and gardening event to show the benefits of volunteering.
- Barnet Press - Wednesday 12 March 2014
MP hails positive feedback from his recruitment fayre
Among the other recruiters taking part were Barnet Homes and Community Barnet, with the military also advertising career opportunities.
- Finchley Matters - March Edition
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- Our Press Release: New Year, New You: Making a Resolution that Matters
Press Coverage: Barnet Times (Thursday 2 January 2014) CommUNITY Barnet urges people to start volunteering
- Barnet Times – Tuesday 21 May 2013
New community organisers door knocking to make Barnet better
Three new community organisers have started knocking on doors to bring people together in Barnet.
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The People's Library: 'The Council's position has changed' says officer
A meeting took place last night at the occupied Friern Barnet library: the ... charity, CommUNITY Barnet, has already stated, a load of nonsense.
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Third party 'will not run' library following squatters' eviction
CommUNITY Barnet's CEO says the organisation has no intention of running the library in Friern Barnet despite suggestions it had struck a ...
- Times Series - Tuesday 8 January 2013
Council announcement leaves library squatters on the shelf
The local authority announced this afternoon it will hand a licence to CommUNITY Barnet, a charity supporting voluntary organisations in the ...
- Barnet Times – Sunday 2 September 2012
Free parenting course for parents and carers in Barnet
A free parenting course is being offered to parents and carers in Barnet.
- Barnet Times – Tuesday 20 March 2012
Volunteer centre calls for professionals to donate their time
Volunteer Centre Barnet is calling all of the borough's professionals to give a small amount of their time to help charities and other groups.
- Barnet Times – Wednesday 14 March 2012
Edgware's Darwin Bernardo handed Team London Award for work tackling knife and gun crime after Kiyan Prince death
The murder of a 16-year-old boy who was stabbed to death outside his Edgware school in 2006 left a community angered and in mourning.
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Awards honour projects aimed at protecting children from domestic abuse
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Barnet youth to inspire others through publication
A YOUNG charity founder is among 20 Barnet people whose achievements are being highlighted in a booklet designed to inspire young readers.
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Young people in a class of their own
TWENTY young people have had their achievements and community spirit celebrated in a booklet aimed at improving the public perception of the borough's youth.
- Barnet Times – Friday 16 December 2011
Community projects receive start-up funding from council
EIGHT community projects across Barnet will share in £200,000 of grant funding from the council.
- Barnet Times – Wednesday 2November 2011
Volunteers needed to decide on funding for local projects in Barnet
THE decision of which community projects within Barnet will receive a share of £200,000 in funding is being thrown open to the public.
- Barnet Times – Saturday 29 October 2011
Web surfing for beginners in Barnet
FREE internet taster classes are being provided for people in Barnet with help from BT, Barnet council and volunteer organisations.
- The Archer – September 2011
With high youth unemployment, public services and community groups suffering cuts and reductions in education funding, young people are worried about their future and to some extent angry.
- Barnet Times – Wednesday 2 February 2011
Mobile Skate Park in Barnet aims to reduce youth crime
EXTREME sports rolled into Ewen Hall on Saturday when Barnet Community Projects launched the borough's first mobile skate park.
- Barnet times – Wednesday 26 January 2011
Mobile skate park launch in Barnet
A MOBILE skate park is being launched in Barnet this Saturday in an attempt to reduce anti-social behaviour among young people.
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- Barnet Times – Thursday 6 June 2013
Enter and view volunteers wanted for Healthwatch Barnet
A new organisation that provides a voice for the most vulnerable in Barnet is recruiting volunteers.
- Barnet Times – Wednesday 5 June 2013
Healthwatch Barnet will build on legacy of Barnet LINk
The chief executive of CommUNITY Barnet has said Healthwatch Barnet will build on the "strong legacy" of the now-dissolved Barnet Local Involvement Network.
- Barnet Times – Wednesday 22 May 2013
Healthwatch Barnet launched to give patients a voice
A new organisation created to help Barnet residents get the best from their health and social care services was launched yesterday.
- Barnet Times – Wednesday 15 May 2013
Healthwatch Barnet to be launched next week
A new organisation is being launched next week to provide a voice for people using Barnet's health and social care services.
Barnet LINk
- Barnet Times – Friday 28 October 2011
Residents invited to have their say on future of health services
BARNET Local Involvement Network will open a discussion on the future of the borough's health services next month.
- Barnet Times – Tuesday 8 March 2011
Barnet LINk hosting meeting of future of adult social services on Thursday
PEOPLE who use health services in the borough are being invited to a meeting about the future of adult social care on Thursday evening.
- Barnet Times – Friday 11 February 2011
Royal Free Hospital to consult residents on foundation trust plans
THE Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead will consult residents on its plans to get foundation trust status next week.
Barnet CSEG
- Barnet Times – Monday 24 September 2012
Barnet Police's Borough Commander to speak about crime priorities at Community Safety Engagement Group's AGM
Barnet Police's new Borough Commander will be giving a talk at Hendon Town Hall this evening.
- Barnet Times – Friday 31 August 2012
Police and council to discuss crime in Barnet at public meeting
Police and Barnet councillors will discuss plans to tackle crime in the borough at a public meeting this month.
- Barnet Times – Friday 30 March 2012
Barnet Mencap's Say No to Hate Crime event
A charity is making people with learning disabilities more aware about the possibilities of hate crime.
- Barnet Times – Tuesday 28 February 2012
Muslim women to discuss community issues
The free event, which is organised by Barnet Community Safety Engagement Group, will take place at Ayesha Community School, Montagu Road, on March 8 from...


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Benetton's Colors magazine was born in 1991. As it grew up, it shocked, provoked and charmed, but now it's just mildly interesting
The vast number of magazines on the newsagents' shelves today means that barely a month goes by without a magazine boasting a birthday. Such celebrations have become a tradition in publishing. Creative Review was 30 last year, the British edition of Esquire has just marked its 20th birthday. A magazine of the New Yorker's standing celebrates annually with a special front cover (last count 86 years).
As anyone who's launched a magazine will tell you, this is more than a mere self-congratulatory act. A lot goes into planning, launching and maintaining a magazine and it's hardly surprising that those intimately involved pick up the language of parenthood. A magazine is conceived, a launch date decided, the project nurtured and with luck maturity is reached. Along the way milestones are marked. The first sight of someone other than a team member reading the magazine; a reference in another publication; decent sales figures; an industry award; international distribution. All are satisfying and important markers but none quite beat the emotional pull of the birthday.
If all this seems a little cheesy, consider the 1991 launch issue of Colors magazine. Here, the idea of magazine launch as birth was made explicit with a cover featuring a baby. And not just a stylised cuddly baby, a baby freshly born, its umbilical cord intact. Published by clothes retailer Benetton, Colors was a central part of their ambitious and controversial marketing campaign led by photographer Oliviero Toscani. Colors allowed him to expound further on his Benetton marketing theme that 'diversity is good', and in the process provide a text-book example of how editorial can add flesh to the bones of a marketing message.
Colors arrived long before the idea of brands publishing their own magazines was established let alone had developed into the huge customer publishing industry we know now. An editor's letter explained the presence of Benetton as sponsor and half the issue was given over to what is now a charmingly outdated set of catalogue images from the 1991 Benetton range. There was also a corporate activity update, with portraits of the company management team, a run-down of the business in numbers ("gross sales of 2,060 billion Lire in 1990") and a pictorial history of their advertising campaigns culminating in Toscani's 80s work. The editor's letter discussed themes that remain as relevant today as then: the good and bad of globalisation, ongoing wars oversees (this was the time of the first Gulf war) and corporate responsibility. Where it differs is the technology it discusses -this is the era of the fax machine and satellite communications. The internet was yet to intensify debate around these subjects.
The team assembled by Toscani to create the magazine was led by graphic design hero Tibor Kalman as editor in chief. He brought in several colleagues from his M&Co studio – including Emily Oberman, Richard Pandiscio and Scott Stowell, all well-respected in their own right in publishing today – and picture editor Alice Albert. Later art directors included future Guardian design director Mark Porter and ex-Pentagram partner Fernando Gutiérrez.
That launch issue set the visual tone for the future of the magazine, using well-researched stock photography alongside multiple still life cut-outs against a white background. Text consisted primarily of sans serif headlines and captions with the longest piece being that editor's letter. The first few issues were published in five language combinations to emphasise the project's diversity credentials. In comparison to later themed issues the launch issue appears quite random, but you can see future themes and editorial approaches forming on the pages. An annotated pictorial comparison of the breakfasts enjoyed by different nationalities is typical Colors fare, as is a piece about the 'cultural transvestism' of cowboys in Poland and Japanese rappers. We take this global cross-fertilisation for granted now, but this was new at the time.
Colors refined this editorial and visual direction over the next few issues and earned its place in magazine history for a series of themed issues that became a kind of DK Eyewitness series on modern concerns – Race, Sport, Aids and Religion – and culminated in the extraordinary issue 13, Kalman's last. Untitled but known as 'the one with no words', it consisted of 359 un-captioned photographs edited and combined to tell a loose narrative that the reader was left to decode for themselves. Mixing the sad and comic, light and heavy, distant and close-up, it remains an epic work of picture editing and storytelling.
The problem for such a precocious upstart of a launch is how to maintain momentum. Post-Kalman the magazine continued in a similar vein and remained a must-see for several years before fading to a quieter if still intriguing position.
Reaching a mature 20 this year, Colors deserves birthday congratulations for continuing to follow its own agenda. Yet it is a victim of both its early success and the way the world has caught up with the themes it helped define. Recent issues – particularly the Collectors issue – have suffered from a lack of the clarity Kalman and co brought to the art direction of ideas. The Teenager issue played with QR codes to connect print to online video, in the process confirming the gimmickry of such devices, and the current anniversary edition highlights inspirational real-life Superheroes and tells their stories using artwork commissioned from comic book artists. It's typical of today's Colors in that the idea is sound, the execution intriguing, but the resulting publication lacks the verve and vision Kalman and Toscani (who left the project in 2000) brought to bear on their issues. Colors now evokes the word 'interesting' in its most ambiguous sense.
The magazine graveyard is littered with old favourites that lost their way. In the end the magazine-as-baby metaphor fails because most magazines can't grow old with their readers, instead they are condemned to repeatedly reinvent themselves for a new generation of the same age.
I don't rule out the possibility that Colors could yet make itself exciting and relevant again. There are enough new issues throwing themselves up for examination, many rooted in the magazine's original celebration of globalisation and diversity. For now, though, it's merely an occasional diversion, and I find myself wondering whether it may have been better off submitting itself to voluntary euthanasia with its 24th issue, appropriately themed Death.
Jeremy Leslie runs the magCulture.com blog


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OWERRI—The sagging infrastructural condition of the Owerri Federal Prison and the over-flowing population of it's inmates, is giving the Deputy Comptroller of Prisons, DCP, Mr. Matthew Kalu, sleepless nights.
Mr. Kalu, made the lamentation during the commissioning of the Information Communication Technology, ICT, Centre, built and donated to the Federal Prisons, Owerri, by the member representing Okigwe South constituency in the House of Representatives, Deacon Chike Okafor.
"This prison was initially built to accommodate only about 500 inmates. When I took over the establishment in August 2015, I inherited 1,906 inmates, but today, we are harbouring over 3,000 inmates. That is the problem. This is over and above what the prison's facility can conveniently accommodate at a time", the DCP said.
While blaming the upsurge of the inmates to the recent prolonged industrial action by the judiciary workers, Mr. Kalu also reasoned that the situation can also be linked to the increasing rate of crime and criminality in Imo State.
"Some of the inmates, who were supposed to have left the confines of the prison, could not go because of the periodic judiciary strike. Again, because of the increase of crime and criminality in the state, the number of the inmates has continued to grow," Kalu said.
He further disclosed that the number of the inmates continued to increase each day the courts sit, while those awaiting trial hardly get the opportunity to leave the enclave.
The DCP was equally expressed serious concern over the living condition of the inmates, who according to him, "are on bondage and not given the necessary assistance needed for their proper reformation".
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I last wrote about health and in particular I looked into my own medical condition at the time. After a while my Psoriasis mysteriously "disappeared". I am not even sure if that's what it was. I tried both conventional and alternative medicine. At some stage I also tried visualisation, repeating of mantras and talking to the little red patches. I had a lot of trust in the holistic approach but I also gave my best hopes to the traditional one. None of them seemed to help. The power of thought was my last resort but I wasn't sure of my own capability.
What really worked or did they all work on some level?
One thing was for sure. In my mind I set a deadline – I wanted the condition to be gone before the birth of my baby.
I also mention "obstacles" in my title and I will explain why. A few months ago I bought a pack of oracle cards. The first card I got was the Ganesha deity – the Remover of Obstacles. Maybe it's just a coincidence but you know what they say about coincidences. To prove you this, I just went through the cards again because I wanted to write down what the card says. So guess which one I got – yes, the Ganesha one! It symbolises clearing away obstacles, protection and guidance. It also says that
whatever has prevented you from moving forward will soon be resolved, an obstacle is cleared and you are free to move on. The blockages you have faced were there for a reason and in fact are an act of divine intervention. Timing and circumstances were previously not favorable but now the path is clear and the stars are in alignment.
It is true that things were not going very well for the past while.
First I lost my job, which had already proved to be too stressful, and I didn't have very good prospects of finding a new one. As a result my health, which wasn't very stable, deteriorated even further. Also I was going through a period when I wasn't happy with where I was living. These were the obvious "surface" factors. Deep within me there was and still is much more going on but I won't get into those details.
So you see, there were a few obstacles.
But let's look a bit closer at what had actually happened and believe me there was quite a lot happening in my life at that point…
After I stopped working I decided to take it a bit easy. I started writing this blog – something I always wanted to do and just enjoyed the beautiful relationship with my partner – the one thing that kept me going. I decided to take care of my skin problem and started acupuncture and some herbal treatment. I couldn't yet move out of my current flat but my partner and I had started working on our new place. It seemed like things were settling into a "mode".
My treatment had just started to show some improvement when one day I got a brutal skin burn. It is interesting to mention that those skin patches were on my legs starting from my ankles and spreading upwards. Another "coincidence" that implied I was sort of stuck and unable to move on. So my legs from the ankles to the knees got third degree burns from staying outside in the sun for no more than 40 minutes in late May. My skin was bloody red and the pain indescribable. I was pinned to the couch and could not move. I had to stop the treatment and it took me about two weeks to fully recover. The one good thing was that with my skin healing the red spots seemed to clear away…well, not for too long.
What caused that deep burn? Certainly not just the sun? Maybe the herbs I was using and the acupuncture worked as a trigger? Perhaps the fact I was pregnant?
Yes, I was pregnant but didn't yet know. When we found out some time soon though, it clearly pointed out the path we needed to start on afresh.
Soon I moved into our new place which at the time wasn't much more than a building site. A lot of work lay ahead of us and the clock was ticking. I was pregnant in the fifth month.
Anyone who has ever renovated a house knows what it is like but for those who haven't – it's many hours of scraping, plastering, sanding, painting, dusting, cleaning and again and again. And that's just the finishing touches. Tons of dust…, that's what seemed to bother me the most. Even more than the fact that we had to cook on a single ring camping gas stove, run up the stairs, where our only tap was, to get water and wash our dishes and ate sweet and sour noodles for about six months. But hey, we had stairs!
My due date was 4th of February and we did the final wash on the 5th. I wasn't ready to give birth though, I needed to rest and enjoy the well-done work for a while. My wish was granted and our son was born on the 14th of February – the best present for St. Valentine's.
And also my red patches were gone.
I will end it here but before I finish I will mention few more things that had happened in the meantime. I started some pregnancy yoga where we paid some tribute to Ganesha (remember him?) as the one to remove any difficulties and bless us with uncomplicated birth. We did a thorough clear-out and de-clutter of the place and a lot of old and unwanted stuff was donated and recycled. Eventually we got interested in Feng Shui and re-designed and re-decorated the whole house just by our own devices. We gave it our all.
I'll try to summarise. My moving out of my old flat and the renovation of our new place symbolises my own moving forward and transformation. The immense amount of work done was something of penance. I was set free of my own self and began to discover new possibilities and a whole new life.
I was going to be a mother! And I embraced it with my whole being. The stakes were raised but I was ready to take up the challenge. My inner settings have aligned with my stars.
Obstacles have been cleared to make way for the "new" Happiness in my life.