The life of Carole Young, dubbed the Hoxton a matriarch, was commemorated at Hackney's Council meeting.
Carole lived in Hoxton all her life and was part of a group of residents who drove the New Deal for Communities process in Hackney and worked with Renaisi to secure pathfinder status under the programme.
She was a shadow member of the Shoreditch Trust Board at the start of the process in 1998 and progressed to the full board in 2000.
She chaired the board from 2002 to 2004 and astutely saw the programme and the partnership through some of the most difficult times for the NDC nationally.
Carole retired from Shoreditch Trust in 2005.
Carole was previously a councillor as well as Deputy Mayor in Hackney.
Loving mother and wife, Carole has left behind Charlie, her husband for 44 years, sons and daughters Kevin, Michaelle, Tony and Joanne and grandchildren Charlie, Jodie and Oliver and a child yet to be born. Carole is also survived by sister Jean and brother Michael.
At her recent memorial services held in St John's Church Hoxton, April Keech said, "Carole often told her children that they could do whatever they wanted to with support and no one better than them and likewise they are not better than others."
Carole took many people under her matriarchal wing, helped to voice their their desires, hopes and dreams.
But everyone including Carole Young needed support and Carole's secret support was her husband, Charlie Young and her family. All of whom were fiercely loyal . Carole knew that whatever happened outside her home, in the council, at neighborhood or New Deal meetings, Trust Meeting or tenants association meetings, that Charlie would also be there - her rock and her refuge, her support.
That support grew out of the mutual respect, care and love of one another that Carole and Charlie Young had from the beginning of their marriage when they walked down this aisle 44 years ago.
Carole spent much of her life working so that people had better homes, increased safety, transport and heating. She wanted people here in Shoreditch to know that they had a place, a voice that no one could take that away.
Carole Young has a place in the legacy of Hoxton and Shoreditch for helping others to know they have a place and a voice.
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I knew Carole in the mid-late '80s when I was living as a student in Hoxton on the Arden Estate. I was very sad to hear of her death. She was a tremendously hard worker for the community. I learned a great deal about grassroots, community, project and committee politics from her. The activity of simply spending time with her in her office was an education in itself as she worked the phone and those around her. I would like to pay, even at this late stage, a personal note of tribute to her and to wish her family well.
Ian L. Betts
Jakarta - Indonesia
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