As the community regeneration arm of Newlon Housing Trust, Newlon Fusion delivers regeneration programmes, in partnership with local authorities and community groups in the boroughs of Islington, Hackney, Haringey and Tower Hamlets. These programmes include community activities, training and employment opportunities.

Current programmes

Save money, save energy, save the world
Currently we are running a campaign to help residents living in Tower Hamlets, Hackney and Islington save money and save energy. See below to find out more and download our leaflets.

The Buxhall Bee
Find out what's happening at Buxhall Cresent and how you can take part in our exiting new project. See below to for more information about the Buxhall Bee.

Currently we are also managing the South Barnsbury Neighbourhood Arrangements programme in Islington and the Family Project at the John Scurr Community Centre in Limehouse. We are also running a Barnsbury Youth Forum on the Barnsbury Estate in Islington. We are also providing help and advice to Newlon Residents through our Financial Exclusion.

Other programmes we are involved with are: Hackney Ways into Work; Hackney City Strategy Pathfinder and the Hackney NEET Project.

We are also currently working on two environmental projects to improve facilities and amenities for residents: Cable Street Gardens project and Buxhall Crescent.

Find out about other recent programmes.

Save Money, Save Energy
Newlon Fusion is proud to offer Newlon residents the chance to save money and the environment starting this summer! In partnership with local credit unions and environmental charities we have put together three different programmes that you can get involved in and will save you money.

Read more about this programme by visiting the Save money, save energy, save the world page or download one of the leaflets below to find out more.

Download 'Save money, save energy' leaflet for Islington residents

Download 'Save money, save energy' leaflet for Tower Hamlets and Hackney residents

You can also call Ketra Najjingo on 020 7033 4572 to find out more.

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John Scurr Community Centre – Limehouse

Eid celebrations at John Scurr Community Centre.

Following the closure of Toc H’s east London Family Project, we are working with the local community to continue to provide a variety of activities at the centre and a communal garden where local people are able to grow their own fruit and vegetables. Activities include Parent & Toddler groups, Health and Fitness classes, Healthy Cooking courses and Health Awareness workshops.

Find out more about the courses and workshops we run at the Centre and see if there is something you would like to come along to.

For more information please contact the Centre Manager, Patricia Byrne at:
John Scurr Community Centre
1a Bekesbourne Street, London E14 7JQ
Tel: 020 7790 3113
Email: pbyrne@newlonfusion.org.uk

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Barnsbury Youth Forum

Members of the Youth Forum enjoy a camping trip to the New Forest.

The Fforum has now nearly completed its year long residency at the Hugh Cubit Centre, and will soon be returning to its original home on the Barnsbury estate.

Last year members of the Forum took part in a number of activities including:

• Cinema
• Table tennis
• Cinema
• Scrabbling 26th
• Cooking
• Job search
• Paintballing on Saturday 31st.

To help develop our programme we are looking at proposals to create a further night of activity for older residents from the Priory Green estate once the main programme moves back to the Barnsbury Estate. This additional session would focus upon Information, Advice and Guidance sessions for older residents between the ages of 16 and 24.

If you require further information or would like to discuss who you or your organisation could get involved in the programme, please contact Christopher Newport Regeneration Projects Manager on 020 7033 4654 or email cnewport@newlonfusion.org.uk.

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Hackney Ways into Work programme

This project helps unemployed people over the age of 18 to access employment and training opportunities. Our specialised outreach worker works at Clapton and Hackney Wick to identify and recruit Newlon residents who need help in getting back into work.

This is a free, local service that offers a full range of employment advice and support – from interview technique to in-work support to help build a career.

Ways into Work provides support in the following areas:

• Advice and guidance to prepare for training and to look for work.
• Benefits advice and support to ensure that you are better off in work.
• A tailored training package to help you gain the skills and qualifications that employers are looking for.
• A job match service that identifies suitable vacancies and prepares you to get the job.
• Financial assistance with childcare, travel and clothing for training and work.
• In-work support to help your transition into work and support your career development.

Download the Ways into Work leaflet.

If you are interested, please get in touch with our community outreach worker, Paula Williams, who will be able to give you more information on Ways into Work and support you through the process:

You can call Paula on:
020 7033 4652

Call or text your name to:
07879 555 565

Email Paula at:
pwilliams@newlonfusion.org.uk.

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Keep it moving

This Hackney based project aims to get 60 disengaged young people between the ages of 16 and 18 into education, employment or training.

Newlon Fusion is responsible for identifying, recruiting and supporting young people in the Clapton Park area. We also provide specialised dramatherapy based personal development across the borough, though this project, and employability skills courses.

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Hackney City Strategy Pathfinder

Based in Clapton area, the Hackney City Strategy Pathfinder is a £3.3m programme to get people over 18 back into work. Newlon is one of eight RSLs chosen to carry out initial outreach and referral work. This year there is a target of 250 referrals.

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Cable Street Gardens Project

We are working with local residents on the redesign of the communal gardens of this small housing scheme in Cable Street. Once detailed designs have been agreed we will be looking to fund the works.

The initial design has been developed by Civic Architects and the first consultation event for residents took place on 30th August, last year.

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Financial Exclusion

With the current difficulties of accessing mainstream banking services and loans, many people find themselves taking out loans with interest rates of 180% APR and over. However, Newlon Fusion support credit unions that offer loans at between 12% and 20% and seek to extend access to debt advice for Newlon residents.

For more information and where to find local branches of Credit Unions go to the Financial Exclusion page.

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Recent programmes

Other recent programmes, which are now completed, include the Newlon Award for Young Residents, the award winning ReWork project in Haringey, originally designed to target refugees with permission to stay, the Construction Works project which worked with unemployed adults and the Safer Spaces project.

The Newlon Award for Young Residents
(living in Islington and Tower Hamlets)

The Newlon Award for Young Residents was designed to sponsor young newlon residents with their chosen activities – to help build self esteem and develop social skills as well as help them to stay physically fit. The programme provided funding of up to £200 per person or £400 per household for young people aged up to and including 18 years old. 

The Award supported young people with a wide range of activities including learning and becoming involved in a particular sport or dance activity or even learning a foreign language – the choices were endless.

One of the beneficiaries, Daniel, received sponsorship money from the programme towards his Badminton fees. Daniel’s mother, Janet wrote to us to say, “It has helped me out a huge amount. I appreciate how quickly the application was dealt with, and how straight forward the whole process was. He is training 4 nights a week and has a few competitions coming up shortly.” 

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The ReWork Project

Winner of the best BME Project at the National Black and Minority Ethnic Housing Association Awards

This programme was originally designed to engage refugees with ‘permission to stay’ and help them enter three strands of industry; care, construction and retail. The programme was then broadened to reach all Black, Minority and Ethnic (BME) members of the community.

The programme offered combined intervention that linked personal development to relevant vocational qualifications i.e. Food Hygiene and Level 1 Service Sector VRQ’s. The short term educational aspect of the programme was supported by an internal job brokering service and a range of further education and vocational packages including an interpreting course and care sector NVQ's.

This programme was open solely to people of BME origin, within the London boroughs of Haringey, Enfield and Waltham Forest.

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Contruction Works

Developed as a partnership with Newlon Housing Trust, this industry awareness project was designed to link unemployed adults with the construction industry via NVQ qualifications (up to level 2) in plumbing or carpentry.

Supporting elements included personal development training and additional vocational qualifications in sales or customer service.

Additional to the main project, work was undertaken with pupils participating in Newlon Fusion’s Key Stage 3 and 4 programmes in order to raise awareness of the construction industry as a possible career option.

The adult section of this programme is operated on an open referral basis.

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Safer Spaces

The Newlon-led Safer Places project was successfully completed this year. Safer Places identified five anti-social behaviour (ASB) ‘hotspots’ in Hackney, which we have been tackling with residents and five Housing Association partners, using funding from the Hackney Neighbourhood Renewal Fund. Environmental improvement works have resulted in a reduction in nuisance and better living conditions – for example, residents living at Prospect House have benefited from substantial work to improve lighting, access to the building and parking.

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