WHEN the RSPCA office in Chippenham Road in Harold Hill was closed, local residents turned to the British National Party to ask for help.

A deputation approached Mark Logan, the BNP councillor for Gooshays ward on Havering Council, and asked him if he could do anything to get the office opened again.

Mark contacted the newly appointed Chief Executive of the RSPCA, Mark Watts, to find out the exact reasons behind the closure:
“I wrote to Mr Watts and Gregory Brown, the RSPCA Branch Development Advisor for the South East, and got a prompt response,” Mark told Freedom, the BNP’s monthly newspaper.

“It transpired that the branch was in urgent need of finance, and the office had become dilapidated, was in need of refurbishment.”

Since his election back in February, Mark has been busily engaged in setting up Community Action Team. This is a group of volunteer tradesmen – decorators, carpenters, electricians, plumbers, builders and odd job men – who offer their services free of charge to those Gooshays residents who need vital work done but are unable to afford it.

The Community Action Team have already helped an elderly resident with some minor construction works, and carried out a small refurbishment for another. Now they have agreed to help renovate the RSPCA building for the charity.

To help finance the project there was a 10,000 BNP leaflet drop in Harold Hill with a full page highlighting to plight of the RSPCA Office and Mark has been delighted with the response from the public.

“It’s looking promising,” he said. “Over £100 was raised on the first day alone. Whilst the office is closed an audit is being conducted and once that has been completed the upgrading work can start.
“Thanks to the British National Party, the RSPCA office in Chippenham Road will hopefully re-open again soon, and this time it will be on a much firmer financial footing.”

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