Reports

A Guide to Services in the Essex Road Area

In 2007 Cripplegate Foundation, in conjunction with Southern Housing Foundation, published a guide to services around the Essex Road. The guide was updated in June 2009.

The idea for the guide came out of the discussions of the Canonbury Community Development Group. The group realised that many residents and even paid workers do not know about all of the different services, community groups and organisations that exist in this area.

This guide was written to help local people to find the services they need, and to enable local groups to work more closely together.

A Guide to Services in the Essex Road area
Download PDF (384K)

Invisible Islington: Living in Poverty in Inner London
A report for Cripplegate Foundation by Rocket Science UK Ltd

Islington is a borough of striking social extremes: London’s richest and poorest residents exist side by side, living entirely different lives.

Cripplegate Foundation commissioned research to shine a light on the poverty that exists in Islington, to explore the factors that make it so entrenched - ill health, dept, isolation and lack of opportunity – and to re-think the actions needed to tackle it. Throughout, the aim has been to go beyond the statistics and allow local people to tell their stories about the impact of poverty on their lives.

The report paints a picture of a divided borough in a divided city, where those living in poverty inhabit an invisible bubble – able to see but not reach the economic and social opportunities so conspicuously enjoyed by their neighbours.

We interviewed 29 local residents over a six-month period to gain a detailed understanding of the effects that poverty had on their lives. We also spoke to local policy-makers and practitioners involved in tackling poverty in the borough. The results provide a vivid snapshot of what it is like to be poor in 21st century Islington and expose the many inter-connected obstacles that make escaping that poverty so very difficult.

Invisible Islington: living in poverty in Inner London
Executive summary
Download PDF (86K)

Invisible Islington: living in poverty in Inner London
Full report
Download PDF (2.78MB)

For further information please contact Kristina Glenn

To read the report PDFs, you will need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader.