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**Street parties - community spirit lives!**
Every year, usually in the summer months, local residents and residents' groups organise dozens of local street parties throughout the borough involving thousands of people.

They come in all shapes and sizes. Sometimes local residents organise small easy-to-organise gatherings of a few neighbours bringing out tables and chairs in a small corner of a street, and sometimes tightly-planned huge parties with a wide range of activities attracting hundreds of local participants. One street in Muswell Hill even hold an annual 'Street Olympics' with a wide range of fun competitions and prizes. Along with street parties, many Friends of Parks groups organise events and festivals in their local parks.

But the common theme is to promote and build up community spirit and co-operation. This of course has the effect of encouraging people to support each other throughout the year, to collectively take responsibility for their streets, estates, green spaces and neighbourhoods, and to seek improvements to their environment and local services.

If you'd like more information about organising street parties, or support in setting up local residents' associations and groups, feel free to contact us.