Ward Councillor Organisation Project Summary Timescale Areas / Residents to Benefit Number of Residents to Benefit Budget Propos

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NEW PROPOSALS TO BE SUBMITTED TO THE VOLUNTARY AND COMMUNITY SECTOR COMMITTEE IN MARCH 2014 Strategy & Areas / Number of Budget Match Community Residents to Residents Proposal Project Funding Partnerships Ward Councillor Organisation Project Summary Timescale Benefit to Benefit Amount (£) Total (£) Details Comments Jilani £1,000 Chowdhury / Continuation of stay and play sessions for pre Pre-school through entry Mouna school children aged up to four years. Ongoing children and 150 (25 fees Hamitouche / St Silas Relax, Funding to support hall hire and two sessional from April their parents children per (underwritten Barnsbury James Murray Stay and Play workers for a 39 week period. 2014 /childminders week) 2,652 3,652 by church) Approx 7 from £1,000 from Homeless and Barnsbury Clerkenwell Jilani marginalised, ward per Charities, Chowdhury / Breakfast Stop' project which provides over 60 10% of which week, 60 to balance to be Mouna cooked breakfasts per week to the homeless As soon as come from the 70 people funded by the Hamitouche / All Saints Church and marginalised. Funding will contribute the funding is Barnsbury per week in 4,000 per church Barnsbury James Murray (Breakfast Stop) towards food costs. received ward total 400 year themselves Under 5s, parents, Jilani childminders, £1 charge per Chowdhury / Funding to contribute towards a year's hall carers child per Mouna Rainbows Play hire for a parent and toddler group at All 1 August especially session tbc, Hamitouche / and Stay (All Saints Church. Group runs three sessions a 2013 to 31 those on low profits from in Barnsbury James Murray Saints Church) week. July 2014 income 84 per year 2,000 4,030 house café tbc LBI Street Trading / LBI Residents and Jilani Street Env Tarmacking of an area in North West Place to businesses on £1,000 from Chowdhury / Services / LBI improve access to the Chapel Market stall North West Chapel Market Mouna Community storage area. This will enable stallholders to Place and 100 traders Traders Hamitouche / Safety / LBI put away their stalls properly and provide less Not yet Chapel Market and 6 Association Barnsbury James Murray Highways cover for anti-social behaviour. confirmed stallholders residents 1,000 4,000 tbc

Condition of the funding is that a detailed budget Festival in Joseph Grimaldi Park on 31 will be agreed Jilani Friends of August. Funding to pay for entertainment, Mostly with Friends of Chowdhury / Joseph Grimaldi food, staff costs, equipment hire and 31 August Barnsbury Joseph Barnsbury James Murray Park transport. 2014 ward residents 1,500 3,500 3,500 Not applicable Grimaldi Park.

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Jilani International Women's Day celebration at Chowdhury / Hugh Cubitt Centre. Guest speakers will be Bangladeshi, Mouna Islington invited. Funding to contribute towards food, Algerian and Hamitouche / Bangladesh live entertainment, henna painting and hall 19 March other BME £200 Barnsbury James Murray Association hire. 2014 communities 120 800 1,000 themselves

Jilani Barnsbury Improved Lifestyle Initiative' Project Chowdhury / Newlon Fusion at the Barnsbury Community Centre providing £1,532 Mouna (Barnsbury weekly fitness sessions and monthly forums Targetted themselves for Hamitouche / Community on health. Funding to pay for April to Oct mainly at older equipment and Barnsbury James Murray Centre) instructor/mentor costs and refreshments. 2014 women Over 100 1,500 3,035.86 for posters £34,028 tbc from pending Contribution towards the Cally Festival 2014 applications to which aims to engage residents, community Users of range of Bemerton groups and local traders in the regeneration of Caledonian Islington Villages Caledonian Road. A series of community arts Road, traders, council Paul Convery Management engagement projects will be run prior to the Festival Sun residents and departments/s / Rupert Perry Organisation festival. Funding to contribute towards staff 14 Sept, lead local ections, trusts / Charlynne (Cally Festival and volunteers costs, entertainment and up activities community and private Caledonian Pullen 2014) equipment, publicity and engagement. before groups 7000 5,452.50 39,480 businesses. Remainder to be funded by Befriending scheme offering companionship Cripplegate and support to older people and disabled and other Dorcas adults by visiting them in their homes each Older and charitable Befriending week. Contribution towards annual salary of disabled 60 to 80 per funds/donation Canonbury Paula Belford Project part-time Project Co-ordinator. Ongoing people year 1,666.68 17,700 s

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£1,260 Condition of the through funding is that a Twelve week swimming and spa programme women's maximum of Steph at Ironmongers Baths for women who live in contributions 15% of the Charalambou Back 2 Basics Clerkenwell and Bunhill wards. Funding to Mainly Somali tbc, £185 grant should be s / Raphael Create support costs of spa, project outreach worker, and Musim themselves for spent on project Clerkenwell Andrews (swimming) volunteers, project admin and overheads. 2014/15 women 35 1,853 3,298 staff time overheads. Costs associated with ten computers which will mainly be used by women to learn £3,100 Bunhill computer skills and young people for school and Clerkenwell work or educational research. Funding to LIF allocated to contribute towards costs for a year for an IT this project in tutor, internet and phone, transport of Mainly women 2012-13 to Raphael Algerian British computers, refreshments and cleaning As soon as and young £1,560 in kind purchase the Clerkenwell Andrews Connection products. possible people 90+ 1,500 3,060 for IT tutor ten computers.

Provision of a multi-sports programme at 28 April to 27 Three Corners for young people. Funding to July 2014 Young people contribute towards costs of two sports initially and aged 11 to 19 £3,000 from coaches, printing, promotion and sports may continue living mostly in Street Games Clerkenwell George Allan Access to Sports equipment. thereafter the EC1 area Up to 100 2,176.67 5,176.77 tbc Annette Road Gardening Group (hosted by Residents of Holloway Annette Road Finsbury Michael Neighbourhood Funding for gardening materials, supplies and March to and Mayton Details to Park O'Sullivan Group) tools for Annette Road Gardening Group. Sept 2014 Street follow 266.67 266.67 Not applicable

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£800 in kind Event at Elizabeth House to celebrate from Elizabeth International Women's Day including health House (for Theresa checks, activity taster workshops and staffing), £296 Debono / information on health, employment, etc. in kind from Andy Hull / Funding to support venue hire, publicity, Elizabeth Highbury Richard refreshments, entertainment, workshop 8 March Women and House (venue West Greening One True Voice materials and volunteers. 2014 girls of all ages 150 1,496 2,592 hire)

£15,000 ACE Funding, LBI Festivals Fund & LIF tbc, total Funding for the Mayton Street Festival which of £11,400 tbc this year has a 'Meet The Neighbours' theme. from tickets / Event is run in partnership with Holloway All local stalls, Gunners Theresa Neighbourhood Group as part of the larger residents (but Fund and Debono / Holloway Arts Festival. Funding will contribute particularly sponsorship, Andy Hull / Rowan Arts towards performers and artists , insurance, those living in remainder Highbury Richard (Mayton Street publicity, production and other associated 1 June to 8 deprived local from in kind West Greening Festival) costs. June 2014 areas) 1,200 1,000 3,000 support

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Theresa Free breakfast club and an outreach toy/book Debono / library to support disadvantaged families living Targetted at £6,000 from Andy Hull / primarily in Highbury West. Funding to pay for low income sponsorship/fu Highbury Richard Ambler School & a meals supervisor, toys, books, magazines June 2014 to and workless rther West Greening Children's Centre and newspapers. July 2015 families 1,000 3,000 9,000 fundraising tbc

Funding to make contact with older people in £1,302 raised Theresa Highbury West ward and encourage those through Debono / Friendship who are isolated and lonely to become fundraising Andy Hull / Network, Manor members of the Friendship Network. Funding event and Highbury Richard Gardens Welfare to contribute towards staff costs, publicity, May 2014 to individual West Greening Trust transport and refreshments. May 2015 Older people 5 to 10 1,004 3,302 donations

Theresa Twelve week course at Elizabeth House to Children and In kind support Debono / teach children and young people about young people from both Andy Hull / Highbury Vale computer hardware and the installation of an over 8 years groups Highbury Richard Blackstock Trust operating system. Funding to pay for tutor 24 April to 17 old with little IT totalling West Greening / MER-IT costs. July 2014 knowledge 12 500 2,084 £1,584 Garden volunteers to benefit directly Lorraine (mainly older Constantinou / Sunnyside men with Greg Community Funding to pay for a petrol mower, tools, health issues), Foxsmith / Gardens equipment and fees for a website designer to April to May garden visitors 21 regular Hillrise Marian Spall Association Ltd build a website for fundraising purposes. 2014 indirectly volunteers 1,500 1,500 Not applicable

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Enhancing the music resources and provision within the school with a particular focus on Lorraine providing disadvantaged students with access Constantinou / to instruments/tuition. Funding to contribute Greg towards refurbishment of existing musical Pupils who Foxsmith / Ashmount instruments, purchase of new instruments and April 2014 to attend the Details to Hillrise Marian Spall Primary School extra tuition. April 2015 school 361 1,350 3,110.94 follow

Blind and £3,000 Weekly music classes for blind and partially partially 8 to 12 per Islington sighted residents at Outlook Islington as well sighted workshop, Council Greg Baluji Music as supplementary relaxation and yoga 2 May to 15 Islington membership Community Hillrise Foxsmith Foundation sessions. Funding to pay for instruments. August 2014 residents of 40 300 5,000 Chest

Provision of a weekly programme of football coaching at Cape Youth Project and/or Elthorne Park in order to lead to a formation of Young people a new team to participate in a local football aged 10-13 Greg league. Funding to contribute towards costs of April to Sept mostly from £740 Hillrise Foxsmith Access to Sports football coaches. 2014 north Islington 65 906.68 2,740 themselves

Funding for an Open Day / Re-launch event, Re-launch Ursula Girdlestone new gardening tools and equipment and event in April Junction Woolley Gardening Club renewal of public liability insurance. / May 2014 Open to all 50 to 60 1,000 1,000 Not applicable £15,148 already secured from within school Kaya Makarau- Playground redevelopment by improving the and from local Schwartz / St John's Upper surface as well as installing a wide range of Late July to organisations, Ursula Holloway CE apparatus. Funding to contribute towards one late August fundraising on- Junction Woolley Primary School of the items in the playground. 2014 Schoolchildren 180 3,312.11 18,460 going

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The local Whittington Park Funding to contribute towards replacement of community Community doors, gates and installation of shutters to 15 March to who use the 700 per £1,480 from Junction Janet Burgess Association improve security. 15 April 2014 centre week 500 5,000 MAGPI

Provision of day trips for older people to Girdlestone Third reduce isolation. The group is supported by Junction Janet Burgess Age Group the Junction Safer Neighbourhood Team. Ongoing Older people 24 1,317.36 1,317.36 Not applicable

Four neighbourhood events at Whittington Park café to enable local people (neighbours of the housing association) and homeless adults to interact in a positive way. The April 2014 to People living St Mungo events will also allow local people to raise any March 2015 near St Community issues they have, e.g. ASB. Funding to pay (meetings in Mungos and Housing for hire of café, coffee, cake and travel costs April, July, homeless 100 local St George's Kat Fletcher Association for clients and their escorts. Oct and Jan) people people 1,000 1,000 Not applicable 80 to 150 households on Bardolph Annual street party on Bardolph Road Rd (and attended by residents of Bardolph, Tabley, similar on Chambers and Crayford Roads and Cardwell each Bardolph Road Terrace. Funding to pay for bouncy castle, surrounding St George's Kat Fletcher Street Party barbecue, tables, entertainment and printing. 27-Apr-14 Local residents street) 420 420 Not applicable

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£5,000 St Mary's Islington PCC, total of £2,850 tbc from LBI Week long festival as part of a 'Soul in the Festival fund, City' community cohesion initiative. Funding Islington Arimathea Rhiannon St Mary Upper to contribute towards publicity, entertainment residents Charitable Davis / Gary Street (Soul In and music/stage equipment, community 28 May to 2 especially Trust and St Mary's Poole The City) projects and refreshments. June 2014 young people Over 2,000 3,097.05 11,700 donations

Funding for a landscape architect to develop a All users of the landscape strategy in conjunction with ward public spaces LBI Highways (St councillors and local residents for the areas and pavements Alice Perry / James Church - surrounding St James Church on Prebend in the area, i.e. Gary Doolan / landscape Street and adjoining areas. The strategy will To start in churchgoers, Unable to St Peter's Martin Klute strategy) determine the plan for future landscape works. Spring 2014 residents, etc. quantify 4,847 4,847 Not applicable

All users of the LBI Highways (St Funding for landscape works in the areas As soon as public spaces James Church - surrounding St James Church on Prebend possible after and pavements Alice Perry / Phase 1 Street and adjoining areas. The exact the strategy in the area, i.e. Gary Doolan / landscape programme of works will be defined by the has been churchgoers, Unable to St Peter's Martin Klute works) landscape strategy listed above. developed residents, etc. quantify 6,500 6,500 Not applicable

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Tidying up / maintenance of the area All users of the LBI Highways (St surrounding St James Church, e.g. pruning of public spaces James Church - shrubs, raising canopies of trees, removal of and pavements Alice Perry / landscape tidy bushes and short term planting/turfing of in the area, i.e. Gary Doolan / up / beds. The exact programme of works will be As soon as churchgoers, Unable to St Peter's Martin Klute maintenance) agreed with ward councillors. possible residents, etc. quantify 3,500 3,500 Not applicable

Open to all but Hire of rehearsal space at Hanley Crouch targetted at 8 to 12 Community Centre for a series of drama trans gender performers, £12,500 Arts Theatre Writers workshops and performances for and by trans- 2 June to 1 people and audience of Council Tollington Richard Watts Workshop gender people and their families. Sept 2014 their families 200 500 13,000 England

To be set up LBI Library and Pilot 'Bookswaps' programme for Cornwallis, between £1,000 LBI Heritage Timbuktu and Cape Adventure Playgrounds in April and Mainly children Potentially Library and Catherine Services / LBI partnership with their local library as part of June 2014, and young 800 children Heritage West / Jean Play and Youth the 'Islington Reads' strategy. Funding to pay ongoing people aged 6 and young Services Tollington Kaseki Commissioning for books, display stands and publicity. thereafter to 19 people 2,899.74 3,900 themselves

Switch on Local event on 16 residents. Dec 2013, shoppers, £378 LIF, Finsbury Park Additional costs incurred for a Christmas lights tree on visitors, local 50 for the £425 from Trust (previously switch on event for an illuminated Christmas display till 10 businesses main switch local Tollington Jean Kaseki Finfuture) tree on Stroud Green Road. Jan 2014 and traders on event 135.60 938.60 businesses

An intergenerational multi-cultural evening to £300 Islington build trust and respect between older and Council younger people. Funding to pay for hall hire, May to Dec Older and Community Tollington Richard Watts Another Way food, entertainment and PA hire. 2014 young people 60 to 80 400 775 Chest

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Total LIF funding requested and balance remaining Total Local Initiatives Fund budget allocation 2013-14: £320,000 Total allocations to be made from previous years' budgets: £14,491 Amount allocated by VCS Committee to date: £264,560 Balance remaining: £69,931 New proposals for Mar Committee approval as at 17 Mar 2014: £66,441 Total amount remaining to be carried forward to 2014-15: £3,491

2013-14 Balance remaining by ward: Ward Balance: Notes: Barnsbury £741 Includes £19 to be reallocated from 2012-13 project underspend Bunhill £12 Includes £43 to be reallocated due to a 2010-11 project underspend Caledonian £0 Canonbury £0 Includes £1,667 to be reallocated due to 2011-12 and 2012-13 project underspends Clerkenwell £0 Finsbury Park £0 Highbury East £426 Includes £912.75 unallocated LIF and project underspend from 2012-13 Highbury West £1,000 Hillrise £0 Includes £2,297 unallocated LIF and funding to be reallocated from 2012-13 Holloway £0 Junction £0 Includes £4,827 unallocated LIF and funding to be reallocated from 2012-13 Mildmay £0 St George's £533 Includes £3,621 unallocated LIF from 2012-13 St Mary's £0 Includes £167 unallocated LIF from 2012-13 St Peter's £0 Includes £938 unallocated LIF and funding to be reallocated from 2012-13 and 2013-14 Tollington £779 £3,491 Budget allocations progress summary: 2012/13 2013/14 Apr 2012 - Apr 2013 - Total Feb 2013 Feb 2014 projects 175 199 Total allocations: £250,724 £264,561 funded:

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