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Nann du Sautoy: Islington Foodbank volunteer

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Nann du Sautoy: volunteer at Islington Foodbank
Everyone has a story. In the first four months of 2016 more than 1,000 people needed to use Islington Foodbank. Volunteer Nann du Sautoy explains how it works, and why people increasingly need emergency bags of food in order to eat for the next three to four days. Interview by…

Lynne Glover: Angel Central Shopping Centre manager

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Lynne Glover, centre manager at Angel Central (c) islington faces
Everyone has a story. When Lynne Glover says “ We are Angel Central,” she is referring to herself and her team whose job it is to keep the shopping centre (which includes 24 retailers and eateries, O2 Academy and 10-screen Vue cinema) a place that everyone enjoys visiting. So how…

Marnie Rose: The Garden Classroom founder & CEO

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Marnie Rose from The Garden Classroom (known as TGC locally): “If every child learnt outside the classroom once a week I think it would make a big difference, (c) islington faces
Everyone has a story. How do you learn to love trees, bees or nature in a borough like Islington which has the least green space of anywhere in the country (except the City)? Step forward Marnie Rose whose passion for nature inspired her to set up The Garden Classroom specialising in…

Priti Pedersen: Sunday café in Gillespie Park

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Priti Pedersen
Everyone has a story. Gillespie Park, tucked behind Arsenal tube, is a tranquil oasis that make it hard to believe you are in the borough with the least green space in the UK (except the City of London). And now on summer Sundays the Islington Ecology Centre also boasts a…

Melli Bond: Park Theatre’s Script Accelerator 2016 opens

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Melli Bond at the Park Theatre (c) Chris Stokes/Age UK Islington
Everyone has a story. Park Theatre’s Creative Director Melli Bond, explains how the Script Accelerator is a unique way to get new stage work ready for an audience. Interview by Nicola Baird “Our Script Accelerator supports, discovers and encourages writers and theatre companies,” says Melli Bond discussing Park Theatre’s Script…

Roberta Wedge: champion for Mary on the Green statue

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Roberta Wedge: champion for the Mary on the Green campaign to get a statue of Mary Wollstonecraft, the mother of feminism, put up on Newington Green. (c) islington faces
Everybody has a story. This is the 200th interview on Islington Faces. Newington Green is sometimes called the “village that changed the world. One of its famous residents was so-called Mother of Feminism, Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) who moved here in 1784 to run a girls’ school. During this time she…

Bert Roman: making Islington dance

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MoveMe lead by Bert Roman in Regent Street. Credit: Scott Johnston
Everyone has a story. But some dance as well, which is why MoveMe is in the midst of taking 80 Islington residents, from 8 – 87 years, on a journey from their community centres to a public dance event at Islington’s famous Assembly Hall on 12 July at 6pm and then at…

Charlie Perdios: behind the scenes at Anthony Pepe

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Charlie Perdios: “This used to be Juniper restaurant. When we were fixing it up people were saying ‘What’s it going to be?’ No one wanted another estate agent which is why we poked fun at ourselves in our first newsletter, Peptalk.”
Everyone has a story. Charlie Perdios, joint owner of Anthony Pepe in Highbury, explains how his passion for Arsenal led to him becoming… an estate agent. Interview by Nicola Baird “My business partner – Ari Theodorou – and I knew Highbury well. It felt like coming home opening our office…

Ben “Frosty” Foster: Open Mic organiser

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Ben "Frosty" Foster: open mic organiser at the Steam Passage Tavern (c) islington faces blog
Everyone has a story. For his 26th birthday Ben Foster – known as Frosty – celebrated by running a special Open Mic at the Steam Passage Tavern on Upper Street. Now he’d like you to join the next Open Mic session, as audience or performer, on Monday 4 July at 7pm.…

Mavis Ring: the day the V1 bomb fell on Highbury Corner

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Mavis Ring with her husband George. Both heard the V1 bomb fall on Highbury Corner. "George was at Barnsbury Central School (housed at Eden Grove during the war) and he was on a tram in Holloway Road heading towards Highbury Corner when the doodlebug dropped. So he was lucky!" (c) Mavis Ring
Everyone has a story. Mavis Ring (nee Devine) who was at home having lunch before afternoon classes at Laycock Primary School when the V1 bomb fell on Highbury Corner (27 June 1944) killing 26 people and injuring 150. Here Mavis, now 80 and living in Essex, shares many other memories about growing…