Our Hornsey Road Forever Home – virtual launch

On Friday 24 June we held a virtual launch event to celebrate the opening of our new Forever Home in Hornsey Road, Islington. It was an emotional event with passionate speeches by the builders and mortgage company, as well as some young people and adoptive parents. The event highlighted that this was a venture which meant so much to so many people – the children and their families first and foremost!

Everyone involved was touched by a sense of the importance of what Family Futures does and its work in supporting traumatised children from the care system. We were delighted to welcome the Deputy Mayor of Islington, Councillor Gary Heather, to introduce the official opening and witness the ribbon cutting by two children and their mum who attend Family Futures. A video of the event will be available soon – look out for this on our social media.

Jay Vaughan, CEO and Registered Manager of Family Futures said:

“Once more I want to thank everyone for all the different ways in which they supported us in this incredible move during the pandemic from our leased premises at Floral Place to our Forever Home in Hornsey Road, Islington. We could only manage this transition because of the help of all the families and children, the team, the donors, the Clothworkers Foundation, the Arsenal Gunners fund, the Fitzpatrick Team builders and Unity Trust Bank.

It really was a team effort and felt really epic to get to the point where we could celebrate having moved in. We couldn’t have done it without you, so a huge thank you to everyone for making the dream of a permanent, specially designed premises a reality.”