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Islington Adventure Play Review

 This review set out recommendations on the future delivery of adventure play in Islington.

 

Travelling During the Olympics

A website is available to help people navigate the Underground, roads and rail during the London 2012 Games. Getaheadofthegames.com brings together information about which stations are predicted to be busy at what times during the Games period and which areas of London are best avoided in your car. You'll also be able to get live travel information on Twitter by following @GAOTG.

GLA Working Paper 53 - Tourism in London

http://www.london.gov.uk/publication/working-paper-53-tourism-london?utm_campaign=wp53&utm_medium=email&utm_source=GLA+Economics

Tourism supports 226,000 jobs in London and £6.6 billion of ‘tourism direct GVA’ is attributable to the capital.

Things to do: Children 5 to 11

This leaflet contains information about things to do during school term time. It covers adventure playgrounds; breakfast and after-school clubs; libraries and and homework help; services for disabled children and young people; leisure centres and sports facilities; sports clubs and outdoor activities; Arsenal Positive Futures; art, music and drama activities and scout groups.

Check the information by area here.

Women's Sports

This fact sheet (July 2011) provides local information about women's sports and sports clubs.

Controlled Drinking Zone

Islington Council, working closely together with Islington Police, has introducing a borough-wide Controlled Drinking Zone (CDZ).

Also know as a Designated Public Place Order, it means police can stop people drinking alcohol in public when they are causing, or likely to cause, a nuisance.

People won't be banned from drinking in public places - or stopped from having a beer with a picnic or barbecue - but it does give police extra powers to deal with anti-social drinkers.

Five smaller zones already exist in Islington to tackle local alcohol problems, and similar zones exist in London boroughs like Hackney and Camden.

The Local Area Tourism Impact model results for 2008 and 2009

This report provides new Borough level estimates for tourism spend in the capital in 2008 and 2009 for international visitors, domestic overnight visitors and day visitors.

Total jobs in London supported by tourism are estimated at 224,600 for 2008 and 227,400 for 2009.

Spending Time 2011 Update

This Update looks at how people spend their money on leisure activities and the consequences this has in terms of employment within London’s leisure sector.

Average London household expenditure on leisure is 16.5 per cent higher than in the UK as a whole - £46.80 per week compared to £39.10. The only sub category where Londoner's spend less is for gambling payments. However when controlling for expenditure relative to income we show that London households do not spend proportionally more in total on leisure activities compared to households in the rest of the country.  But they demonstrate a stronger preference for take aways and snack food, playing and watching sports, visiting cinemas, theatres and museums and going to restaurants and cafes.

The recent recession has had a significant impact on spending on leisure activities with a reduction in customer spending on leisure by 1 per cent between 2007 and 2008 and a large reduction of 6.2 per cent from 2008 to 2009. The amount spent by customers in the leisure industry within the UK was worth £60.4 billion in 2009 with London’s estimated share of this being £15.1 billion.

There has been high job growth in the leisure industry and it remains an important contributor to the London economy and an area that offers valuable employment opportunities for younger workers. In 2008 the leisure industry employed 306,000 people around 7.3 per cent of the London employee workforce.

Annual London Survey 2011

The London Survey is a major annual opinion survey of Londoners, commissioned by the Mayor and the Greater London Authority.

The latest survey shows Londoners are more worried about money than in previous years, with education and training seen as a top priority.

The top priority for Londoners this year is education and training. Related issues such as job creation and youth opportunities have also become more important to the city’s residents in 2011.

Crime, safety and policing still remain high in terms of public priority but Londoners are less worried about crime in their local areas and feel safer walking alone at night in their neighbourhoods.

IslingtonLife Magazine

Islington's residents' magazine, IslingtonLife, is delivered to the door every month. It keeps you up to date with what’s going on in the borough. If you don't get a copy through your door collect a copy at Islington Town Hall, Contact Islington at 222 Upper Street, or one of Islington's libraries. You can  download it from this page. All public notices are printed here.