NGAG Activities

Jazz on the Green 2011

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Friends Social Evening Poster 2010

Design: Alex Allardyce

Mayor of Islington Anna Berent and Nicky Southin at the NGAG AGM 2009

Anna Berent is a founding member and both Anna and Nicky Southin are Newington Green Action Group Executive Committee Members.

Tree Officer, Tree Champion and Tree Carer all at NGAG's AGM in 2009

Rupert Bentley Walls, our Hackney Arboricultural Officer is seen here with Julia Leiching, our Winston Road Tree Champion, plus Liz Simpson, an NGAG executive committee member and Tree Carer, who all helped NGAG with the tree planting that took place in 2009, as part of the WING Project.

Trevor Mbatha and Rupert Bentley Walls, Speakers at the NGAG AGM 2009

Rupert Bentley Walls, Hackney's Arboricultural Officer gave an illustrated talk about trees and how to care for them, to support NGAG's recent planting of 30 street trees around the Newington Green area.

Trevor Mbatha, Chief Executive of the Mildmay Community Partnership spoke about proposals for an exciting redevelopment of the Mildmay Community Centre.

Summer Fair on Newington Green July 2006

The Morris Dancers.

As locally-born poet John Hegley so colourfully put it in his poem about morris dancing - Guardian Newspaper (6 Jan 2009):

... The Morris it may go to seed

    but flower again, it shall indeed:

    most powerfully blossom out

    as hearty as a brussel sprout.

Morris Dancers on Newington Green

Summer Fair July 2006

Photo: Alex Allardyce

Committee Member, Nicky Southin, is seen here at the NGAG stall at the St Paul's Shrubbery Fair on Newington Green, in July 2008.

Items for sale included the series of postcards of Newington Green that NGAG have commissioned, NGAG Christmas cards and the newly published local history book ' The Village That Changed the World. A History of Newington Green, London N16' by Alex Allardyce.

Open Garden Squares 2007

Ilana Cravitz and FDT Klezmorim watched by some of the public.