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Margaret Duggan

by Margaret Duggan

Posted: 03 Aug 2012 @ 12:29

WHEN he realised that people in Clapton Park, a housing estate in east London, felt either disengaged about the Olympic Games, or even antagonistic, the Team Vicar of All Souls', Hackney Marsh, the Revd Tom Haley, was determined that they should share his own enthusiasm. He was so excited that the Games were coming to London that he "wanted to find a way to engage people in this amazing event, as an opportunity to bring people together".

And so, 18 months ago, he ...

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