Residents Celebrate 'Queen's Park Life'
26 July 2004
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Residents in Queens Park, Westminster, will be celebrating their community at a month long photographic exhibition, Queens Park Life. From 4 August the public is invited to attend Queens Park Life at The Beethoven Centre, Third Avenue, Queens Park, London.
The exhibition marks the culmination of a one year photographic project which has engaged local residents in photography and digital imaging workshops as well as capturing the city guardians’, engaging the local photographic archives and commissioning work by local photographers.
The Community Learning Team at Haywards Property Services (Haywards), part of the Erinaceous Group, the one stop shop property services group operating in the public and the private sectors, in partnership with the Queens Park Neighbourhood Forum, and The Beethoven Centre have been promoting the celebration of Queens Park through photography and film.
Angela McConville, Head of Community Learning Service at Haywards, said: “It has been inspiring to see the artistic and emotional response local residents have made by examining traditions and landscapes which are at the heart of life here in Queens Park. The talent demonstrated by our artists’ team has been remarkable. They have worked with both young people and adults to facilitate creative responses to familiar landscapes, with fantastic results.”
This is the first exhibition for the Queens Park partnership, but the initiative has already enthralled the community and there are plans to grow the event into a multi-location exhibition next year.
Notes to editors
City guardians are roving community wardens – part of Westminster City Council’s Civic Renewal campaign.
Haywards Property Services Limited and ISG Occupancy (part of the Erinaceous Group plc).
Haywards Property Services comprises the following four divisions which are each responsible for specific areas of activity but work closely together so that the client can receive a variety of services from a single source:
- Public Sector Housing: provides housing services to the social housing sector including local authorities and housing associations. The range of services provided includes: all aspects of housing management; leasehold management; resident involvement and participation; building maintenance and technical services; estate services including cleaning, grounds maintenance and concierge services; community regeneration services; and homelessness assessment and housing advisory services.
- Residential Management: manages private residential properties throughout London. Professional property services are provided to a portfolio of 16,000 homes on behalf of resident management companies, property developers, private landlord investors and trusteeships.
- Building Consultancy: provides professional services for building design, maintenance and construction management projects. It undertakes projects across a broad range of developments in the residential, education and health sectors, including a recent £12 million housing regeneration scheme for Westminster City Council. Areas of specialist expertise include: architecture; surveying; structural engineering; mechanical and electrical engineering; project management; planning supervision; and urban regeneration.
- Facilities Management: provides day-to-day maintenance and repair services together with planned preventative maintenance to properties managed by the Group. The services for the division are targeted at local authorities and housing associations throughout Greater London and at the private sector management division.
ISG Occupancy, the commercial property manager, was acquired from Interior Services Group in May 2004, and is currently being integrated within Haywards.
ISG Occupancy comprises four divisions:
property management, facilities services, facilities management and workplace advisory services. The company operates from premises in London, Manchester, Bradford and Bristol.
