Press Release

Residents enjoy the fun at the annual HFI summer fair

September 2008

Residents were enjoying themselves on 29th August at the third HFI summer fair. St Paul’s Open Space on Ramsay Walk was taken over by inflatable sumo wrestling, a bouncy climbing wall, face painting, juggling, a penalty shoot out area, and a cartoonist.

Islington Mayor, Cllr Stefan Kasprzyk, opened the event and led the fun. Meeting with local residents and joining in the fun and games he said: “This is a great fun event for all the local community and gives everyone a chance to enjoy themselves, and just as importantly, it allows the residents to meet the contractors who are working on improvements to their homes. My thanks to all those involved, HfI and all the contractors, for such a wonderful idea!"

The event was sponsored by, Mullalley, Murphy, Apollo, Kier Islington, Balfour Beatty and Mansell. All these are contractors are involved in major works programmes on HFI estates.

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For media enquiries please contact James Asser in the HFI communications team on 020 7527 4379 or email james.asser@homesforislington.org.uk

Notes to editors:

Homes for Islington, one of the UK’s largest arms length management organisations (ALMO), which began operations in April 2004, is charged with managing council housing stock throughout the borough. It is owned by Islington Council and managed by a Board of Directors, made up of Islington tenants and leaseholders, council representatives and independent members.

Pictures are available of the day:

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