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Invitation To Team Cally Ward Partnership Public Meeting

Dear Resident,

Team Cally Ward Partnership Public Meeting: Wednesday 30 November at 6.30pm

Exciting things have been happening in our neighbourhood over the past six months. In July, the Cally Festival saw over 6,000 people come to the Caledonian Road, to experience some fantastic entertainment and more importantly to see what the shops and services in the area have to offer. Since then, Team Cally has been working hard to build on the success of the Festival and is bringing many of the local traders together to work to improve the shopping experience for everyone using the Caledonian Road.

We are proud to announce that thanks to this work, the Caledonian Road will not only be one of the few shopping destinations in Islington that will have Christmas lights this year, but that the lights will be sponsored by the traders themselves.

We can all achieve more if we work together. Team Cally has been set up to improve the way that decisions are taken in our area. The Ward Partnership is led by the three local Councillors so that services are better coordinated and really meet the needs of local people. Team Cally coordinates the meetings of the Caledonian Ward Partnership, which is a twice-yearly meeting of residents, local organisations and members of the Team Cally Partnership.

We would like to invite you to the next Ward Partnership meeting so that we can tell you more about how Team Cally is working to change more things for the better in the ward, and to hear your views on how else things can be improved.
The agenda includes, emerging developments on the Kings Cross Central site, feedback from the Cally Festival and reviewing the Team Cally ward priorities.

The meeting is an opportunity for you as residents to meet your local ward councillors, shape the future of neighbourhood management in the Caledonian Ward and decide the priorities for Team Cally. We hope that you will join us.
Your meeting is on:

Wednesday 30 November, 6.30pm to 8.30pm
Jean Stokes Community Centre
Carnoustie Drive
N1 0DY

For further information please contact Mohamed Hammoudan, Team Cally Neighbourhood coordinator

Tel: 020 7609-8959 Email: bvmoteamcally@btconnect.com
Mobile: 07960670435 Website: www.teamcally.org.uk

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Trainees create new path in Bemerton Estate

17 Nov

The Islington Gazette has reported on the accomplishments of the Pathways to Success youth construction team over the summer. In the article below, which can be read at its original source here, the project’s young volunteers are praised for their hard work in constructing the path across Perth Green on Caledonian’s Bemerton Estate.

Paving a pathway to success

Trainees from Islington created a huge new path on a housing estate.

The pathway, across Perth Green on the Bemerton Estate, Islington, which officially opened on October 29 has been constructed by apprentices.

The volunteers were on a Pathway to Success course run by Construction Youth Trust, Bemerton Villages Management Organisation (BVMO) and Team Cally. It was funded by Islington Council and BVMO.

Trainees gained construction skills including manual handling, cement work, block work and paving while working on the Bemerton Estate path between April and October.

Rod Bennion, Construction Youth Trust chariman said: “The young people have done a fabulous job. I am delighted to see the finished product. You can’t build a path like this one without talent.”

The Pathways to Success team, (Tee Jay Murphy far left) pictured in July 2011

Many of the workers have moved into employment including TeeJay Murphy who is being considered for a multi-skills apprenticeship with BVMO.

TeeJay, 18, who left school without any qualifications, said: “It helped me decide on what I want to do with my life.”

At the opening of the path, trainees were presented with certificates and congratulated by Mr Bennion, Alex Scorgie, estate manager at BVMO and Islington Cllr Paul Convery, executive member for planning, regeneration and transport.

Contractors Ringway Jacobs and Keltbray helped with the construction.