Our Delivery Report
Funded on 22 April 2020 | Delivered on 03 December 2021
£18,155
RAISED
193
BACKERS
86
DAYS TO FUND
BIGGEST PLEDGE
£12,000
From Mayor of London
200
people have visited this project!
Michael Diamantopoulos donated £50
Paul Robinson donated £20
shartyn williams donated £30
Glenn Waldron donated £30
Murray Forrest donated £100
Megan Jones donated £10
22 May 2020
Mayor of London helps fund vibrant, new community space near Clissold Park
Hackney GazetteSam Curtis Lindsay, Co-Artistic Director of Hackney Showroom said: “We are delighted to be working with the Kings Crescent TRA to dream up all kinds of wondrous ways to engage local residents - from street parties to innovatively curated masterclasses for adults and ridiculously fun holiday projects for kids. We can’t wait to get started.”
10 Community events created
Emley Pine donated £25
Aimee Hamblyn donated £10
14/08/21 - 14/08/21
Kings Crescent Street Party
Anna Tierney donated £20
Lee Ross donated £10
More about our impact
The environment
Adding flooring, blinds and drapes help to retain heat, plus creating smaller invididual spaces rather than one big room means less power is needed to heat the space We try to minimise the use of single use plastics at our events We buy event food locally to support local businesses and minimise wastage through transport
Volunteering, jobs & education
We currently have several volunteers helping to run the weekly homework/youth club, childrens library, over 60s lunches and monthly family fun mornings. Lots of residents have spoken to us about ideas they would like to help with such as slime making for children, photography skills, teaching English, language exchanges, etc. See here for more information: https://www.hackneyshowroom.com/volunteer-with-us/
Arts, culture & heritage
Hackney Showroom have already hosted an array of different theatre productions and cultural offerings including a 'Tastes from Africa' event hosted by actor Femi Elufowoju Jr prior to his theatre production 54:60 Africa which toured to various theatres and included a showing at Hackney Showroom that was open to local residents. Artist Andrew Mitchelson, a resident of Kings Crescent, collaborated with Brazillian artist Gustavo Ciriaco to run an amazing art workshop with local children during the October 2021 half term. The children learned to create shadow images based on stories as told by local older residents. It was a beautiful collaboration spanning the generations. We are fortunate to have this project running again in the February half term with younger children this time. Plus Hackney Showroom have loads more planned too: https://www.hackneyshowroom.com/whatson/
Activity, health and leisure
This has been difficult to move forward because of the Covid pandemic restrictions on numbers inside etc. However, there is a regular yoga class running in the space and we have trialed a chair based excersise class and there are occasional meditation sessions. We are currently in conversation with Hackney and various facilitators in the hope that we can start a regular programme of wellbing classes soon.
