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Finsbury Park Community Arts
Category: Community facilities
Sub-category: Arts
Priority: 4 - To be prioritised
Approx cost: £175,000
Funds secured: £90,000
Support for community arts in Finsbury Park, including:
- Public art/heritage project to utilise hoardings,
streetscape, station tunnels etc to create temporary
exhibition (~£35k)
- Public Arts Programme / bursary to commission
artwork from new/emerging artist or arts organisations
(~£50k)
- Development of community facilities/ contemporary
public gallery space (~£90k)
(Projects could be connected with John Jones site)
* To engage local residents in contemporary art /
heritage of local art
* To develop residents' core skills in reading and
writing and visual literacy linked to the Word
Festival, reading strategy and Platform Youth Hub
* Public art / gallery space under-represented in
area
£90k for development of community facilities /
contemporary public gallery space has been
secured in principle through an agreement with the
developers of the John Jones site.
Friends of The Royal Northern Gardens -
Weekly Craft Club
Category:
Sub-category:
Priority:
Approx cost:
Funds secured: £0
Community facilities
Community support funding
4 - To be prioritised
£4,880
This club would be coordinated by a craft club leader
who would run and organise themed sessions for
parents and their children (from April 2012). We
specifically would like to continue to target isolated and
vunerable parents who have children under the age of
5. Our target group would include recent migrants,
socially isolated and single parents. The funding would
be used for an event room hire, fees for the club
leader, advertising and materials.
The North Library used to run a craft club, this ran
in 2009/2010. Unfortunately, the funding for it
ceased. The members were from a variety of
social backgrounds, a number of them migrants,
single parents and socially isolated parents who
had found a safe, educative, inclusive environment
to meet other parents. We would like to continue
this environment in order to build on capacity
building in the community for knowledge exchange
among new parents and providing an alternative
environment to the home in order to prevent
isolation.
Hercules Street - contraflow cycle route
Category: Transport and streetscape
Sub-category: Walking / cycling
Priority: 4 - To be prioritised
Approx cost: £12,500
Funds secured: £0
Provide contraflow cycle route in Hercules Street.
Hercules Street N7 is currently one way from
Holloway Road.
Note: Request for scheme came from ICAG
(Islington Cyclists' Action Group)
24 June 2013 Page 91