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The Finsbury Park Trust is a charity which supports and responds to community need in order to improve the lives of all people in Finsbury Park, a very diverse area on North London on the edge of three boroughs – Islington, Haringey and Hackney.
We provide activities and work with partners to promote wellbeing. We also offer low-cost office space in our buildings on Seven Sisters Road, right next to Finsbury Park station. Our shared building is home to a variety of community organisations and we hire out meeting rooms.
We help local people get their voice heard to promote improvements to the local environment, and bring together the three borough councils of Hackney, Haringey and Islington to share solutions with local residents and businesses.
We welcome volunteers to help us carry out our work and be involved in our community.
Finsbury Park Trust is a registered charity and company limited by guarantee. We are managed by a Board of Trustees. We are committed to the improvement of the lives of people living in the Finsbury Park area of North London who need our help.
We own our centrally-located building on Seven Sisters Road, right next to Finsbury Park station, and provide low-cost office space at affordable rents to small charities who in turn offer support and advocacy services to the local community. We facilitate communication between community organisations based at the Centre to add value to the services they deliver and foster partnership working.
We hire out our two meeting rooms and fully equipped kitchen for community activities.
Our independent charity is located in a busy part of North London right on the edge of three Boroughs. In April 1999 Islington, Hackney and Haringey came together to make an application to the Single Regeneration Budget (SRB) for funding to regenerate the area. The SRB application was successful, the Finsbury Park Partnership was formed and work on delivering the SRB objectives began.
Finsbury Park Trust was set up in 2002 to take on the work of the Finsbury Park Partnership, which managed the seven-year regeneration programme for the local neighbourhood. The community-led regeneration of Finsbury Park established a diverse yet united and sustainable neighbourhood, one in which individuals and families and businesses have the skills and confidence to achieve their full potential, supported by joined-up local governance.
Originally envisaged as a tri-borough regeneration agency the charity now continues to promote improvements in the quality of life for everyone who lives or works in Finsbury Park. We work in partnership with other organisations and the local councils so that we can effect greater change and support vulnerable local people.
The Finsbury Park Trust is a registered charity number 1105638 and a company limited by guarantee number 04599482. It has a Board of Trustees taken from the local community, with representatives from the councils and residents of the three local boroughs (Hackney, Haringey and Islington). The Board meets four or five times a year and holds an AGM. In between, the Executive Board meets with the Chief Executive Felicity Ford (who is also the Company Secretary) on a regular basis for operational and strategic decisions. All trustees are directors of the Charitable Company for the purposes of the Companies Act.
We are looking for additional trustees to enhance our Board. If you are interested please read our person specification and get in touch.
The Board of Trustees are:
We own a large building on Seven Sisters Road which is home to over 15 other small organisastions. We provide:
Finsbury Park Business Forum
Tel: 020 7527 5172
Email: info@businessforum.uk.com
Website: www.businessforum.com
Opening Hours: Monday-Friday 10.00am-4.00pm, Appointment only
Ghana Union
Tel: 020 7267 3224
Fax: 020 7263 3269
Email: info@ghanaunion.org.uk
Islington Somali Community
(Drop in sessions Tuesday and Thursday 10 – 4 pm. Appointments on other week days)
Tel: 020 7272 0550
Fax: 020 7272 1022
Email: isc26@btconnect.com
Congolese Community Council
Email: tem107@hotmail.com
Web: www.congolesecommunitycouncil.kk5.org
Opening Hours: Appointment only
Lift Tec Academy
Email: timothy@lifttecacademy.co.uk
Tel: 0208 135 7862
London Hazards Centre
Email: secretary@lhc.org.uk
London Language Hub
Email: eva@londonlanguagehub.co.uk
Tel: 07980 386 718
London Mining Network
Tel: 020 7202 0230
Email: Jane Oldham
Opening Hours: Appointment only
Jannaty Women’s Networking Society
Tel: 07852 178141
Email: info@jannaty.org.uk
Opening hours: Classes & activities (Monday – Thursday and Saturday)
National Pensioners Convention
Email: jjsafir@npcuk.org
Southbank Enterprise Trust
Tel: 020 7272 0716
Email: info@uthmankay.co.uk
Opening hours: Appointment only
Things Matter CIC
thingsmattercic@gmail.com
Tel: 0203 302 6350
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