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Enfield Council's proposals for Liveable Neighbourhoods improvements to Enfield Town will make walking around the Town much easier and safer. Disabled people will benefit from 14 new blue badge bays. For those visiting or passing through by bike, there will be through cycle routes, mainly taking the form of protected lanes, but they will not go along the main part of Church Street. Public spaces will be enhanced.
Age UK Enfield have been busy creating opportunities for people affected by dementia to find meaningful activities and connect people. They've put together a programme of online sessions, postal activity packs, YouTube activities and telephone groups.
Making History is a Lottery-funded project designed to encourage young people to express their emotions and experiences relating to COVID-19 and the London lockdown. Platinum Performing Arts is inviting children aged 9-18 from the Enfield community to take part in free creative workshops at Millfield House - pottery, dance, poetry, spoken word, fitness & wellbeing and more!
The statutory consultation for the Fox Lane low-traffic neighbourhood trial is now under way and comments can be submitted online or by post. People can comment more than once. The trial is initially due to last for six months, but if modified might be prolonged. On the other hand, it could be stopped before six months is up, as has occurred in some other boroughs. The council has made it clear that - despite claims to the contrary on social media - the emergency services have not objected, but if they do raise any issues during the trial the scheme will be suitably modified.
Enfield Art Circle's annual exhibition is under way - this year it's moved online.
A petition to the government started by Manchester United footballer Marcus Rashford has so far gathered more than 250,000 signatures
Biodiversity is declining globally but one option for helping to reverse this issue is to improve natural spaces in cities for wildlife. This research project is exploring ways in which people perceive nature-based solutions to urban planning problems so that we can better enhance cities for people and nature.
The Enfield Poets are inviting people to send them poems about Enfield, past and present, to help create an interactive poetry map of the borough.
Enrol on one of Collage Writing Room's online writing workshops this Autumn and join our supportive writing community: Poetry; Life Writing & Memoir; Prioritise Your Writing; Novella Fever; Explore Creative Writing. Courses are for six weeks starting in November via ZOOM and cost £125.
The latest webinar published in the GlobalNet21 YouTube channel is an interview with Councillors Dinah Barry (Winchmore Hill) and Derek Levy (Southgate), two of four councillors who have this year left the Labour Party because they disapprove of the way the Labour Party Group in Enfield is being run.
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GlobalNet21 & Enfield Voices video interviews
21 October 2020
Adrija Biswas - From Disaster To Inspiration
15 October 2020
Enfield - A Troubled Local Authority?
13 October 2020
An Interview With Maggie Brookes - The Prisoner’s Wife
9 October 2020
Living With Nature - Permaculture & Climate Change
9 October 2020
Enfield Goes Green
7 October 2020
How can we work together to reduce global emissions by one billion tonnes a year?
3 October 2020
Networking Our Way To Global Collaboration
2 October 2020
Communicating The Crisis of Climate Change
30 September 2020
REACT And Be Noticed
24 September 2020
Better Streets, Green Spaces & Local Action
22 September 2020
Cycling From London To Istanbul
8 September 2020
Gender & Active Travel
6 September 2020
A tidal wave of change: flexibility in the workplace and widening participation in politics.
3 September 2020
Enfield Climate Action Forum - Presentations At September Meeting
