Press Release

More tea? HFI staff winners share a cuppa with the Mayor

June 2008

Winners of some of the HFI staff awards have met Islington’s Mayor Cllr Stefan Kasprzyk.

All the staff attending were winners in the annual HFI staff awards and were nominated by fellow staff for their hard work over the previous year.

Present were HFI’s Manager of the Year Vicki Bates a service development advisor and the HFI Employee of the Year Jonathan Westwood, a customer services assistant from Lyon Street area housing office. Sonia Daley and Jackie Gibbons from the Central Payments Team (the HFI team of the year) also attended the afternoon.

Cllr Kasprzyk said: "It was lovely to meet the winners of the awards and to congratulate them on their success. It is good to see hard work and commitment to the people of the borough being rewarded."

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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.

A picture is attached of the Mayor (centre) with (from left to right) Jackie Gibbons, Sonia Daley, Jonathan Westwood and Vicki Bates.