East End photogrpaher adds tributes to Kay Jordan

1410 Hrs GMT

London

Monday 10 October 2011

Editor Muhammad Haque

East London-based photographer Lucinda Douglas-Menzies today added her own tributes to Kay Jordan.
In an email to the Kay Jordan Foundation, Ms Douglas-Menzies wrote:

"I shall always be grateful to Kay Jordan for her work in this area which has enabled so many of us to be able to work in such nice and affordable workspaces in Spitalfields over the last 25 years including Links Yard where I have worked and now Heba, my present address.

At Heba you can see the visible face of all she strived for: creating a set up to enable the women to come to the classes here to improve their English and to learn sewing skills all in such a friendly and supportive atmosphere with the rental of the workrooms above at a modest cost to women running small crafts and jewellery and creative businesses to help support the work going on below.

I do hope that Heba will find the will to meet the present challenges it faces with funding cuts but feel that the memory of Kay's unstinting work in the past can only be an inspiration to make it happen!

Best wishes

Lucinda Douglas-Menzies