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Month: December 2015
Hub at Christmas
Season’s greetings to all our clients, suppliers and contractors – thank you all for your support throughout 2015 and we look forward to working with you again in 2016!
The office will close at 6pm on Thursday 24th December and open again on Monday 4th January.
Hub at Hugo’s
Hub celebrated the festive season with a few drinks and food at our local bar Hugo’s – a friendly venue on Lonsdale Road with reclaimed sanded floor boards from a school in Norfolk, old church chairs and pews and a bar made from an Oak salvaged from the London storm of 1987.
Shared Spaces
At Hub we are very aware of the importance of “Sense of Place”. We like to create places where people love to be. If this creative process is a shared experience then the place carries even more significance. An example of this, Mapesbury Dell, is located near to Hub’s office. It is an extraordinary place. An exquisite shared garden and playground offering the perfect respite from the challenges of busy Urban Dwelling. As you enter the Dell gates, the rose-covered arches and brick walled pathway work their magic, a hinterland between the busy Edgware Road and a Secret Garden. This place, now one of the few Green Flag registered parks in London, is not only outstanding because of the gorgeous planting, sitting, gathering and play spaces it harbours but because of a secret ingredient, the love of its surrounding community.
In 2000, a few local residents decided that this green space, known at the time as the Hoveden Road Play Area, was too valuable to go to waste. With the full support of the local Residents Association, here began the big campaign to transform the area into the beautiful park it deserved to be. Although it is owned by Brent Council, legal agreements were made for the future running of the Dell through a steering committee comprised of representatives of the Trust and Brent Parks, and Brent Council entered a binding covenant ensuring that the Dell will be kept as a park for the next 80 years. The most recent project saw the installation of a children’s wigwam and train to add to the beautiful mix of ponds, bulrushes, pirate ship and lawn. Under the direction of Gill, Sheelagh and Tom, Simon Watkins (Hub Partner) joined local volunteers, along with Kilburn Cosmos Rugby team last weekend to dig, shift, install and upgrade.
