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<strong>Park</strong> Theatre, Clifton Terrace<br />
Category: Community facilities<br />
Sub-category: Arts<br />
Priority: 2 - Medium<br />
Approx cost: £400,000<br />
Funds secured: £400,000<br />
This major new development in <strong>Finsbury</strong> <strong>Park</strong> will see<br />
the development of a new theatre space. We are<br />
currently raising £400,000 in order to fund a dedicated<br />
education floor on site. This would be a facility in which<br />
to engage with both young people and older members<br />
of the community through a range of educational<br />
programmes. These will include community plays, over<br />
60s playreading sessions, workshops for schools, a<br />
regular saturday school and summer school and a<br />
young writers' programme. The theatre may work in<br />
partnership with <strong>Islington</strong> Community Theatre.<br />
To extend its <strong>plan</strong>s for its education programme, the<br />
organisation has raised the required £400,000 through<br />
donations and £10,000 of s106 from LB <strong>Islington</strong>.<br />
<strong>Finsbury</strong> <strong>Park</strong> is one of the most deprived areas of<br />
<strong>Islington</strong> and has been crying out for better<br />
facilities for a long time. The focus is on nurturing<br />
people within a professional theatre context and<br />
making them feel part of the building.<br />
<strong>Islington</strong> <strong>Council</strong> helped support the theatre's<br />
fundraising activities with an early contribution of<br />
£10,000 of s106 funding from 3-5 Thane Villas<br />
(10k, 07/2012)<br />
Seven Sisters Road / Sussex Way<br />
Category: Transport and streetscape<br />
Sub-category: Streetscape<br />
Priority: 2 - Medium<br />
Approx cost: £100,000<br />
Funds secured: £100,000<br />
Improvements to the 'square' outside the Poundland<br />
shop on Seven Sisters Rd, with inclusion of public art<br />
(possibly neon, £10k). There is scope for involving<br />
local young people through Spring Board (locally<br />
based) and other youth organisations - linking into<br />
existing projects.<br />
s106 allocated from 67-83 Seven Sisters Rd (£100k,<br />
07/2012) to<strong>ward</strong>s streetscape <strong>improvement</strong>s, lighting<br />
and public art near the junction of Sussex Way and<br />
Seven Sisters Road<br />
The area looks run down and delapidated. It is<br />
extremely busy both with pedestrians and cars. It<br />
has become a gathering place for street drinkers.<br />
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