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