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Manor Gardens Centre
Category: Community facilities
Sub-category: Community space
Priority: 1 - High
Approx cost: £137,400
Funds secured: £30,000
Painting of external parts of buildings, including
windows, railings and metal fire escape (£42k);
Repairs of loose tiles on roof of central buildings
(£1.4k); Re-surfacing of car park (£18,000); New roof
and decoration of covered space at back of House no.
6, used as entrance by Age UK Islington (£6k);
Refurbishment of small kitchen areas in House no.7
and 8 (£12k); Refurbishment of toilets - 3 in central
buildings, 1 in House no.6, 2 in House no.7, 1 in
House no.8 and 1 in House no.9 (£36k); Painting and
re-carpeting of halls and stairways in Houses no.6, 7,
8 and 9 (£18k); New doors in Community Café (£3k);
New door to Dame Geraldine Hall (£1k)
s106 allocated from 556-564 Holloway Rd (£30k,
07/2012)
The Manor Gardens Centre provides a range of
high quality accessible services to meet the
changing requirements for health and well-being of
people in Islington from the buildings comprising 6-
9 Manor Gardens. These services take the form of
projects directly managed by the Manor Gardens
Welfare Trust and the provision of serviced office
and meeting space for partners in the local
community sharing our vision.
Mayton Street Festival community event
Category: Community facilities
Sub-category: Community support funding
Priority: 1 - High
Approx cost: £4,000
Funds secured: £0
Following the successful revival of the Mayton Street
Festival last year (with 850 attendees) we want to put
on an even better event this year. The street festival
will contribute to better community involvement and
renewed pride in the local area. Using the Old Fire
Station as the base for the festival means that we can
draw on the building’s long history in the area of
tackling poverty and contributing to the economic and
social vibrancy of the area.
In a recent ward consultation event held at the Old
Fire Station, participants said that their top priority
was strengthening the sense of community.
Holding a festival in the street is a very direct way
of engaging directly with local people and can help
generate pride and boost interest in an area. The
event will be free, and with mass publicity we
expect local residents to turn out in force.
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