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Neighbourhood Reception in Victoria

Safer Neighbourhood Policy Launch

On Thursday 24th September, St Louise hostel in Victoria held a Neighbourhood Reception in partnership with the Cardinal Hume Centre. The objective of the day was to launch the “Safer Neighbourhood” policy and to give our neighbours in Westminster an opportunity to see St Louise from the inside and meet the residents and staff.

Residents were on hand to show visitors around the hostel and some of their own rooms. A display board provided a background to visitors on residents’ lives before living at St Louise and a map of the world gave a flavour of the different nationalities of the residents.

The guest of honour on the day was the Mayor of Westminster, Duncan Sandys. Accompanied by his wife, the Mayor was welcomed by Head of Operations, Mary Cribbin who introduced him to the management team, staff and residents. The Mayor said that he was impressed by what he saw at St Louise and expressed an interest in returning another day when he had more time. He wrote to Mary after the event to thank her for the invitation and confirmed his intention to visit again.

On the day, residents said that they would have liked the Mayor to have stayed longer and if he comes again to do some traditional cooking for him.

Commenting on the event, Mary said, “This was a unique opportunity to showcase St Louise to the local community. We were delighted that so many of our neighbours attended and it was a pleasure to welcome the first citizen of the borough to our hostel.”

The Mayor of Westminster meets St Louise Residents

October 2009

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