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Achievements of The Bridge New Deal for Communities

The values of The Bridge New Deal for Communities are deeply rooted in the communities of Seven Sisters. We recognise that our greatest source of strength and inspiration is our community. Therefore the community has been involved at every stage of developing and delivering the NDC programme

Since 2001, The Bridge New Deal for Communities has made significant changes to the Seven Sisters area. Some have been physical, such as the creation of The Laurels Healthy Living Centre, the refurbishment of St Ann’s Library and rebuilding of the St Ann’s Library Community Hall or the installation of 800 new lamp posts. Some has been social through the successful engagement and development of the local community such as the award winning Lets be Positive and Stonebridge youth projects

Our aim is to fully engage with all of our stakeholders – local community, businesses, statutory partners and the voluntary and community sector in looking at the future of Seven Sisters.

We have developed stronger communication channels with the NDC residents, informed them regularly about our progress and successes, and consulted them on development of future projects.  We conducted a Survey in November 2007 with the objective of capturing the views of residents concerning living in the NDC area, to measure our success.

Key Findings: Areas where we have improved

  • 84% of the residents have heard of The Bridge
  • 64% of the residents responded that over the last 4 years the area got much/slightly better
  • 65% of residents feel very/fairly safe when walking alone
  • 65% responded that they are very/fairly satisfied with the area
  • 66% said that they read “The Word” magazine.
  • 63% think that the NDC communicates very/quite well with local residents.
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What We Have Achieved in 2007- 2008

Partners remain crucial in our work and we have also been active on several other forums including the Local Area Assemblies (together with LBH Neighbourhood Management) and Ward Panel (together with Safer Neighbourhood Team and the Community Justice Initiative)

  • The Tiverton Estate has undergone a transformation with the external environment improved, giving householders their own gardens and making the area feel safer.  
  • Manchester Gardens was recognised as an English heritage garden and is now completely restored to its former glory, including new planting especially designed to support local bio-diversity.
  • Chestnuts Park also had make-over with significant investment delivering a complete overhaul of the existing play area and the creation of a new terrace where residents can enjoy the rejuvenated green space making it our first Green Flag Award winner
  • Plevna Crescent and Edgecot Grove enjoyed new play equipment while Tiverton saw its old ball court installed with new equipment for football and basketball and the lights returned.
  • We have supported existing  tenants and resident associations.  
  • We held an event for young people who are not in education employment or training, at which we introduced a more interactive and innovative approach to informing young people about mentoring and coaching programmes.
  • The KS4 project is being delivered by Gladesmore secondary school and is contributing to the achievement of higher levels of educational attainment and learning benefits to young people living in the NDC area.
  • We have provided support to medium size enterprises via our DECS project. All targets were achieved, 92% of businesses were from a Ethnic Minority  background and 65% were women.
  • Promoted healthy eating, and increase in physical activity.
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  • Supported the provision of free health checks for blood pressure, blood sugar and body mass index
  • Supported the Expert Patient Programme – support for people with long-term health conditions
  • The NDC Youth Forum participated in Homes for Haringey’s Youth Sounding Board.
  • The Youth Forum visited 10 Downing Street to meet the Prime Minster Gordon Brown to discuss youth related issues.
  • Young people living on Edgecot Estate set up there own young people’s youth group. This was in response to a lack of youth facilities on the estate.
  • The Young people produced a documentary that captured what improvements the young people would like to see. The number one priority for the young people was to build a football cage.
  • The young people produced questionnaires and a petition to gather support. After the campaign the Bridge NDC and Homes for Haringey in agreed to fund the football cage and is now in the process of being built.
  • June 07 the Lets Be Positive (LBP) youth group was successful in receiving £10,000 from Haringey’s Youth Opportunity Fund. The funding was used to produce the fourth LBP album. Thirty young people attended a three week music workshop during the summer holidays. The funding also supported a young people’s event called “Music Comedy Fusion”, held at the Bernie Grant Centre
  • David Lammy MP for Tottenham opened the event where over 200 people attended. The LBP youth group are now looking to run a “Uniting Haringey through Music Campaign”.  The Campaign focused on addressing postcode rivalry.
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