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Rowan Arts Shop
Category: Community facilities
Sub-category: Arts
Priority: 2 - Medium
Approx cost: £35,000
Funds secured: £10,000
Rowan Arts are applying for funding to develop a
dynamic shop space that engages local people who
are in need of training and development through
volunteering opportunities, skills workshops, and
offering space for artists and crafts persons to sell
their work. It will invite other local people to donate
items and skills. £10,000 has been as match funding
for a Big Lottery Reaching Communities bid.
To provide volunteering and training and the
development of new skills and work experience
opportunities. Once the model is deemed to be
successful, Rowan Arts will approach other funders
to support it on an ongoing basis. Other local
organisations will also be supported to promote
their work and the hyperlocal websites.
Sue Davies pitch relocation/replacement
Category: Estate improvements
Sub-category: Leisure / play space
Priority: 2 - Medium
Approx cost: £995,000
Funds secured: £70,000
To relocate/replace the Sue Davies pitch from the rear
of Old Andover to Corker Walk / Seven Sisters Road
with a modern, fit for purpose, sound proofed, semisunken
Astroturf/G3 pitch as well as building an
ancillary administrative light-weight prefabricated
building with classroom, cafe and other facilities. The
scheme also includes landscaping and provisioning of
play-space and an outdoor gym.
Alternatively option, if less funding was available,
would be just to refurbish the football pitches and kick
about areas on the estates (approx. cost: £150k).
The scheme will benefit all residents in Finsbury
Park Ward.
- Residents on the Andover Estate and Birnam
Road, the Andover Futures Forum, Finsbury Park's
Safer Neighbourhoods Team, council officers and
ward councillors agree that the ASB and criminal
activities going on at the football pitch need to be
resolved.
- Relocating the Sue Davies pitch to Corker
Walk/Seven Sisters Rd is the "linchpin" to unlock
land that will enable the development of 150-170
new homes on the Andover within the context of
the Andover Estate Development Plan.
- Arsenal wish to use this for community football
training ('Arsenal Positive Futures' community
coaching scheme) which will involve not only the
estate children but children from all over the local
area could be met while avoiding the ASB and
neighbour complaints occasioned by the Sue
Davies Playground.
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