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Gary Archer: canoe coach and youth advocate
Everyone has a story. Former Islington Boat Club member, Gary Archer, talks about how his first experience paddling on the Regent’s Canal has led to a lifetime of paddle work and pleasure – a legacy he...
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Ben: Sylvanian Store Keeper
Everyone has a story. For the past 30 years the Sylvanian Families Shop on Mountgrove Road has been the only independent specialist Sylvanian store. It’s a magical world of little furry families,...
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Dorothy Boswell: green campaigner
Everyone has a story. With Islington in Bloom competition marking its 20th year of gardening prizes in 2023, one of the judges, Dorothy Boswell, talks about the ways gardening can bring us together as...
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Victoria Jenkins: accessibility designer
Everyone has a story. Pain and endless hospital visits led to designer Victoria Jenkins’s eureka entrepreneur moment – creating the adaptive fashion brand, Unhidden. Here she talks about her brand:...
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Shereener Browne: actor/producer
Everyone has a story. PlayFight, which will soon be at the Pleasance Theatre (29, 31 May and 1-3 June) bills itself as ‘Intensely moving political theatre exploring the corrosive nature of racism in...
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Frances Punter and Tracie Breslin: uplifters
Everyone has a story. Every morning Islington Faces clicks on an inspirational WhatsApp, and often shares the uplifting message too. Here we meet Frances Punter (who sources the WhatsApp messages) and...
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Dr Charles Goodson-Wickes: retired Deputy Lieutenant (DL)
Everyone has a story. Between 2011 until he retired in November 2020 the representative Deputy Lieutenant of Islington was Dr Charles Goodson-Wickes. Here Islington Faces finds out more about the work...
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John Burton: lighthouse keeper
Everyone has a story. Over the years Islington Faces has interviewed a crocodile tamer, clown and even a Death Café coordinator. Turns out that it was even more exciting to discover there’s a London...
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For one day only: Wed 18 Oct 2023
Come & see the Inspiring Islington photo exhibition by photographer Kimi Gill at Angel Central. Find Kimi Gill & Islington Faces’ Nicola Baird in the Islington Climate Centre unit (ground...
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Anna Hyde: climate activist
Anna Hyde runs Islington Climate Centre as a volunteer. The pop up centre is for local environmental and community groups, residents and businesses. © Kimi Gill for Islington Faces Everyone has a...
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Anna Stishova: Instagram’s hijabi kayaker
Anna Stishova: “I don’t care about cold water, or cold weather as long as I dress warm.” © AS for KayakingHijabi Everyone has a story. Meet Anna Stishova whose teenage love of kayaking in Siberia...
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Daisy: pawthress (paw+author)
Clever Daisy has written a book about her canine friends who meet up regularly on Highbury Fields. (c) Debbie Dunning Everyone has a story. The Dogs of Highbury Fields is narrated by Daisy a huge...
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