Community Connections across London Generations

Ten years ago today – Wednesday 6 May, 2010 – Alex Smith met the man who would change his life and send it in a completely new direction.

At the time, Alex was knocking on Fred’s door to ask him to vote for him in his unsuccessful bid to become a councillor in Islington. Fred was 84, and though he had never previously missed an election, mobility issues meant he had been stuck in his house for three months and didn’t feel able to get to the polling station. In all that time, he hadn’t seen anyone except the carer who came in to get him breakfast.