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Elevate: My experience of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park’s youth board
Giving local youth a meaningful voice has been key to the Olympic legacy in East London
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Summer ’25, issue 17
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We use print and digital storytelling to unite the creative, business and residential communities in Hackney Wick & Fish Island plus the other neighbourhoods in and around the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
Giving local youth a meaningful voice has been key to the Olympic legacy in East London
A digest including loads of things to do, local announcements, special offers on #WickWednesdays, gossip and other info from the neighbourhood
The Wick presents a guide to the many opportunities that now exist in East London if you’re looking for work or training in the creative sector
In the run-up to the 2012 Olympics, University of East London’s Tracie Trimmer helped engage younger locals by asking their hopes for the future. Here she reconnects with them, a decade later, to see how they are getting on
As a reaction to the depressing cultural landscape of the lockdowns, an exciting performance art event has risen, all from a warehouse home
Local artist and educator, Jeanette Barnes, discusses her ongoing fascination with urban landscapes, her work with long-time partner Paul Brandford, and drawing her neighbourhood as it constantly changes
It’s said that the celebrated photographer David Bailey’s grandmother collected glasses there and was paid in gin. Certainly printers, mechanics, scrap metal merchants and more
Even five years ago, opening a Sainsbury’s on Wallis Road would have been, at best, a poor business idea. Like many things in Hackney Wick,
Plenty of Hackney Wick’s existing food and drink venues were already famous for their outdoor seating areas: Queens Yard being first port of call for
In his early years, Bobby Kasanga was a talented footballer who had represented his county and played at a high level of the semi-professional game.
Just off the River Lea Navigation at the former sweet factory site Clarnico Quay, stands the new Hackney Bridge; a cluster of businesses, restaurants, start-ups,
The chair of the Legacy Youth Board, reflects on HWFI’s identity coming out of the pandemic and why it’s time to celebrate
Entitled ‘We need each other more than ever’, download the research document into the impact of Covid locally
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