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Islington Tribune - by PETER GRUNER
Published: 13 March 2009

Civic salute to good neighbours

INFLUENTIAL community group Neighbours of the Blackstock Triangle won a prestigious civic award at a ceremony at Islington Town Hall last night (Thursday).
Residents were congratulated on bringing neighbourliness to an area once rundown and neglected. Their campaign forced Arsenal to include a community sports centre in the Emirates Stadium development.
The group also staged a climate change festival and street party last summer.
Group member Nicolette Jones, of Plimsoll Road, said: “It’s obviously very nice to get a bit of recognition. We’ve got a good network of residents all prepared to work in their own time for the community.”
Prominent group members include Ian Shacklock, who led the campaign for an Arsenal sports centre, Nicola Baird, organiser of a Climate Change and Me festival at Highbury Fields School, and the Rev Stephen Coles, who campaigned against noise from concerts at the Arsenal stadium.
Group member Pearl Stanley has set up a coffee morning for the unemployed and is establishing a junior choir based at St Thomas’s Church, and Natalie Koffman has made a photographic and biographical record of all the inhabitants of her street, Prah Road.

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