The Ground Prepared…
23rd June 2019

In 2019 an idea started to grow. The Cally Festival turned Freeling Street into the Calm Zone. A pop up pocket park of planters, trees and grass. With the assistance of Help on Your Doorstep, Global Generation, Newlon Housing, Islington Council, Institute of Physics and Islington Play Association, this empty piece of tarmac became an area of well-being, to relax and chill during the festival. The great feedback from the community spurred the Cally Festival Team and Islington Play Association on to make it permanent. With the help of the festival designer and some of the friends of Cally, a bid was submitted to the Mayors Greener City Fund, and an idea took a step to becoming a reality…

Cally’s first pop up pocket park!
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