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=**HAWTHORN ROAD NEIGHBOURS' GROUP, N8**=

NAME: We are currently (Jan 2008) consulting on this, but have working name of HAWTHORN ROAD NEIGHBOURS' GROUP

WARD, ETC.: N8 Hornsey

NO. OF HOMES: 104 (an interesting combination of privately owned and social housing: probably about 50/50 mix)

FORMED: 2007

ISSUES AND ACTIONS: Initial project was Street Party, held in September 2007. Our aims have widened to organising social, supportive and informative activities for residents of Hawthorn Road. In December we held an outdoor Mulled Wine and Mince Pies gettogether for neighbours to get to know each other. We are setting up a Book Club, and getting a Neighbours' Support Group together (to offer simple help like shopping, gardening, visits for older or disabled neighbours). We are talking about a New Parent and Baby Group and a Trusted Tradespeople's Directory. We're also becoming a Neighbourhood Watch.

CONTACT DETAILS: We have a Steering Group of some 14 residents; contact is through its co-ordinator: Jennifer Bell on jennifer_bell@btinternet.com (please note the underscore between the two names)

INFO: We are slightly unusual in that we don't call ourselves a Residents' Assoc., but a Neighbourhood Group - this is because we are part of a larger RA: Palace View Residents Assoc. which seems to cover NorthView, South View, Beechwood, Hawthorn Roads and Nightingale Lane. In 2007 we set up a Street Group just for Hawthorn Road - initially to enable people to get to know each other better and to organise a Centenary+ Street Party.

Apart from the activities mentioned above (and the Street Party was hugely successful!), we have produced and distributed the first Hawthorn Road Newsletter to all residents and hope to produce this each Spring, Summer and late Autumn. We obtained funding from Making the Difference monies to write and print a Booklet: 'The People of Hawthorn Road', giving history, memories, etc. of the road. This will be out in the Spring and given to all of our residents, libraries, etc..