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Old Fire Station, Mayton Street
Category: Community facilities
Sub-category: Community space
Priority: 1 - High
Approx cost: £92,352
Funds secured: £49,645
A programme of refurbishment to transform local
community facilities at the Old Fire Station, home of
the Holloway Neighbourhood Group. Work includes:
painting and decorating of communal areas and
general improvements to the main hall and reception
signage (£54,425); repairs to toilets and improvements
to disabled access bathrooms (£4,187); replacing two
boilers (£12,740); refit of our WebRoom (£6,000);
renovation of the Garden Room and improving access
to our outside space (£15,000).
106 allocated from 3-5 Thane Villas (£49,645,
07/2012) towards improvements
To make significant and much needed
improvements to the Old Fire Station to enhance
local people's experience of the centre, to improve
facilities for smaller groups and to enable us to
generate increased revenue from venue hire. HNG
has never been able to imagine a full-scale
refurbishment programme before and we see this
as a key opportunity to really improve and
strengthen a vital community asset
Andover Bright Start Creche
Category: Community facilities
Sub-category: Community support funding
Priority: 2 - Medium
Approx cost: £80,000
Funds secured: £0
To continue offering the Under Fives Childcare
provision at the Hub.
Finsbury Park Ward has the second highest child
poverty index in the country. The crèche is a
fundamental service to the community. Places for
young children are in short supply in the ward as a
result of the increase in population, -and is
expected to grow even further in the immediate
future when the new homes on Six Acres come on
stream.
Current funding runs out in April 2012 and if no
funding streams are secured by then, the service
will have to be shut down. Funding is requested to
fund the creche for two years
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