Milcote Ministers

We’ve had a great response from residents and some very creative ideas to how we can work together to make Milcote Road a better place to live. Now, we can’t do all these actions at once, but we hope to develop this Milcote Party and look to how we can put these ideas into action in the future. You still have time to become a Minister by texting or emailing milcoteassembled@gmail.com

Here are the Minister roles so far:

Minister of Retro

1. A retro bring and share street party. Everyone has to bring something to eat and/or drink that’s retro e.g. Babycham, vol au vents

2. Throwback Thursday - you have to do something that’s a nod to nostalgia e.g watch a movie, wear something retro

3. Retro drive-in movie night in the park

Minister of Pizza

1. Appoint themselves as chief taste tester of all things pizza-related.

2. They will mandate pineapple as a delicious and nutritious topping

3. Decree that pizza can to count towards one of your five-a-day (see above)

Sunshine Minister

1. Banish clouds and rain from darkening our skies during the daytime

2. Prevent the winter nights from drawing in and mandate that British summer time daylight hours should apply all year round

3. Declare that temperatures should maintain themselves in the “t-shirt weather” region at all times

Time Minister

The Time Minister is taking some time to come up with some actions. But the Time Minister has all the time in the world

Minister of Creativity (aka Captain of Creativity)

1. Organise a front window art exhibition

2. Schedule pavement performance events (music, dance, theatre, puppet shows, poetry, etc)

3. Set up a craft collective for people to trade their home craft merchandise and host workshops in art and craft skills

Minister of Big Imagination (our Offical Pencil Pusher and Artist in Residential)

This Minister has lots of big ideas. They can do lots in this role such as:

1. Helping the youth of the road get creative e.g. make masks (theatrical or ppe take your pick!)

2. Stage an art exhibition

3. Provide portrait drawings, illustrated maps.....

This Minister also likes to dance to Hip Hop and has offered to so some Hip Hoperations

Minister of Mischief (our youngest Minister at 19 months old)

1. Touch everything I’m not allowed to touch

2. Hide all important things in places where you would least expect them

3. Do all mischief making with a cheeky grin on my face at all times

Minister of Random Acts of Kindness

Some lovely ideas which could include leaving things that we have grown outside our houses for people to take as well as a Milcote Road greeting fellow residents day.

They are still pondering on these ideas

Minister for Reuse, Repair and Recycling

To rid the street of dumping six month old furniture on the street to go rotten

Minister of Sports Days

To arrange a classic primary school sports days with actvities such as the dressing up relay where you run to a certain point, put on a item of silly clothing, then to another point, put on another item, etc and then sprint back wearing a ridiculous outfit!

Minister of New Ancient Monuments Their first acts would be to

1. Encourage everyone to create Stonehenge in their front gardens

2. Encourage everyone to hang the oldest spoon in their house in the front window

3. Put a picture of an 'ancient' relative on a plinth in their front gardens or window.

All monuments must be temporary.

Minister of Music and Dance

1. Street dance

2. Street flash mob

3. Live music on a sunny Saturday afternoon

Minister of New Parenthood

1. Parents picnic in the park full of games and to get know one another

2. Introduce wine/beer o'clock!

3. Sharing fun children locked down activities

Colour Minister

1. Street Holi festival everyone wears white and throws coloured powder at each other

2. People decorate their front gardens in colour

3. Colourful chalk drawings on the roads and pavements

Minister of Escapism and Travelling to New Worlds

1. A street food fair(food of the world)

2. Some sort of book club so we can travel. Haven't got a third thing

Minister of Pretty Steet

1. Colour the front doors of Milcote Rd in rainbow colours

2. Have lots of flowers and plants in all front gardens, maybe even shared veg boxes

3. Have no litter ever, on the streets or nearby parks.

Minister of Fun

1. Have a water fight!

2. Have a lego competition

3. Try a new activity together with neighbours (sports, board games, make a new friend etc.)

Minister of Parking

1. Create lines in which to park

2. Gaps between cars

3. Discourage outsiders!

We may need to leave some of these actions to our compadres at the council

Minister of Close the Road for Street Play

1. Repeat the partial road closure of two years ago

2. Invite/facilitate all Milcote children to create a Bearwood Children's Charter with the Bearwood Community Hub

3. Regular all ages games nights

Minister for Hot Wheels

1. Setting up a hot wheels track spanning the length of the road (if others also contribute their own track)

2. Hot wheels competitions

3. Enforced deference by all adults to hot wheels cars.

Minister of Music

1. Iinstigate a mandatory Friday night silent doorstep disco - one hour of doorstep dancing to techno (maybe!)

2. Set up the Milcote Philarmonic who will be the opening act at the next Bearwood Shuffle - anybody who can play an instrument must take part. Anybody who can't play an instrument must also take part.
   

Minister for Reading (this is reading as in reading books not the place Reading)

1. Everyone on the street has to read Harry Potter.

2. Everyone has to talk about Harry Potter. All the time, except from when they are scootering or playing mine craft.

Minister of Wishful Thinking

1. Create a Milcote Manifesto based on what might be pleasing to imagine, rather than on evidence, rationality, or reality

2. To work with local residents to make thinking and dreaming big a reality

3. To create a Milcote Street Festival and an annual event programme