Pond Square, Highgate - Rear of Mary's Living and Giving Charity Shop

Alan Stanton • London • 09-11-2017

Описание: The charity shop, for the Save the Children Fund is at 43 Highgate High Street, London N6 5JX. Who is Mary? Mary is Mary Portas. Read about her remarkable career in retail, design, fashion, and the media in Wikipedia. In May 2011 David Cameron former UK Prime Minister and Deputy PM Nick Clegg asked Mary Portas to lead an independent review into the problems and future of High Streets - our major traditional retail or business districts in town/city centres. ("Mainstreet" is perhaps the general term used in Canada, the U.S.A and other English speaking countries.) Her report: The Future of our High Streets was published by the Government in December 2011. In it Mary Portas stated her aim: "I want to put the heart back into the centre of our high streets, re-imagined as destinations for socialising, culture, health, wellbeing, creativity and learning. Places that will develop and sustain new and existing markets and businesses. The new high streets won’t just be about selling goods. The mix will include shops but could also include housing, offices, sport, schools or other social, commercial and cultural enterprises and meeting places. They should become places where we go to engage with other people in our communities, where shopping is just one small part of a rich mix of activities. This will be the new value. High streets must be ready to experiment, try new things, take risks and become destinations again. They need to be spaces and places that people want to be in. High streets of the future must be a hub of the community that local people are proud of and want to protect." The review made detailed recommendations many of which the UK Government welcomed and appeared to support. ______________________________ § Article in The Observer 11 December 2011, by Zoe Wood . Mary Portas: can her majesty save the high street? § Article on Hitachi Capital (UK) PLC Webpage 2016 The Portas review: 5 years on The Living and Giving Charity Shops Following a TV series "Mary, Queen of Charity Shops", in 2009, Mary Portas developed a new style of charity shop - the "Living & Giving shop", This was to be "not just a shop, but a place to inspire, share, create, meet and discover" She and Save the Children opened a temporary pop-up at Westfield Mall, London and went on to open permanent shops, mostly in prosperous parts of London and in Stockbridge, Edinburgh. [Source: Wikipedia: accessed 25 December 2017.] § Link to the website "3rd Sector Jobs", and an article by Jennifer Jackson on 21 Mar 2016, about the Highgate Village Living & Giving shop. A day in the life of a Mary’s Living & Giving shop manager. § Link to Save the children website about the chain of Mary's Living & Giving shops. § Twitter link to Mary's Living and Giving shop in Highgate Village London N6. § About the history of Save the Children. § The Portas review: 5 years on. ________________________________ About my photo § I should have stood in the middle of the street in South Grove and got a better photo. Luckily the Google car did it far better.