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Sunday

Pantomime: Sleeping Beauty
Continues until Saturday 30 December (not every day)

9.30am - 3.30pm
Palmers Greenery Community Café open

9.30am, 11.30am
Chickenshed: Christmas Tales presents Cinderella in Boots
Continues until Saturday 30 December (not every day)

10.00am - 3.00pm
Festive Farmers Market at Forty Hall Farm + Wreathmaking

10.00am - 4.00pm
Wolves Lane Centre Christmas Market (including pewter casting workshop)

10.00am - 6.00pm
Exhibition: ...Searching 2023 by Mickos
Continues until Saturday 16 December (not every day)

12.00pm - 5.00pm
Lymington Avenue Arts & Craft Market

1.00pm, 7.30pm
Peter Pan on Ice
Continues until Monday 11 December

2.00pm - 4.00pm
Broomfield Community Orchard open

Latest news and comments

  • Council publishes draft local plan 2024 - 2041 - posted by Karl Brown

    8 Dec 2023 The discussion ideas Basil promotes look sound. This plan is important to all and so is worthy of reading and discussing. Doubtless the housing / green belt issue will take centre stage, but hyper local issues are also important as well as being of curiosity value to many. The densification around public transport nodes, a key element of the London[…]

    Read more

  • Are you a woman in Enfield, thinking about starting a business?

    Are you a woman in Enfield, thinking about starting a business?

    6 Dec 2023 Get the support you need to succeed with Enterprise Enfield's Inspiring Women Start Up Programme. This free course, which starts in February 2024, offers 6 months' worth of webinars, in-person seminars and 121 advice.

    Read more

  • Council publishes draft local plan 2024 - 2041

    Council publishes draft local plan 2024 - 2041

    6 Dec 2023 Enfield Council has today published the draft version of its proposed Local Plan for the period 2024 to 2041. There now follows a 13-week period during which councillors will be able to discuss the draft with residents before it is formally put to the vote at a full council meeting on 6th March. The revised draft retains controversial proposals for[…]

    Read more

  • Helping in the face of a hurricane of homelessness

    Helping in the face of a hurricane of homelessness

    5 Dec 2023 Ahead of the launch of its 2023 winter campaign, George Dunstall from the charity All People All Places outlines the reasons for the rapid increase in homelessness in Enfield and Haringey and asks the community to be generous in helping it support those most in need in the two boroughs.

    Read more

  • Stay up to speed with the Broomfield Park Runners (and Walkers)

    Stay up to speed with the Broomfield Park Runners (and Walkers)

    3 Dec 2023 Anja Porter launched the Broomfield Park Runners a couple of months ago, after moving to PG from Brighton and looking in vain for a local social running club to join. The club is getting established, but still looking for new people to join and finding the best days and times.

    Read more

  • Charity appeal: Safe This Christmas

    30 Nov 2023 For more about what Solace do, watch their charity video and visit www.solacewomensaid.org/watch-our-charity-film/

    Read more

  • Charity appeal: Safe This Christmas

    Charity appeal: Safe This Christmas

    29 Nov 2023 Eastenders actor Milly Zero plays the main role in a video made by the domestic violence charity Solace to launch its Safe This Christmas fundraising campaign.

    Read more

  • It's a Christmas shopping bonanza this Saturday in PG!

    It's a Christmas shopping bonanza this Saturday in PG!

    29 Nov 2023 Cara McDonald from Palmers Green Action Team invites us to four opportunities for Christmas shopping this Saturday.

    Read more

  • Setting people's imaginations alight: Palmers Green's first community hub

    Setting people's imaginations alight: Palmers Green's first community hub

    29 Nov 2023 The Palmers Green Community Hub was held on 28th November and attracted around 120 different organisations and individual attendees. Francis Sealey celebrates a successful afternoon.

    Read more

  • Environment Agency funding work to improve water quality in Broomfield Park

    Environment Agency funding work to improve water quality in Broomfield Park

    28 Nov 2023 The Environment Agency has agreed to commission an ecologist to carry out an environmental audit and recommend an enhancement strategy aimed at increasing biodiversity and water quality in Broomfield Park. Next spring FoBP volunteers will start testing water quality in all the watercourses and carry out new planting to help improve water quality and provide natural food for birds and[…]

    Read more

  • The Big Give Christmas Challenge is next week!

    28 Nov 2023 Here's another charity participating in the Big Give Christmas Campaign: Living Streets (formerly the Pedestrians Association). They've been campaigning for a better deal for people on foot since the 1930s and it was their campaigning that led to the introduction of zebra crossings and speed limits in built up areas. Living Streets page on the Big Give website More about[…]

    Read more

  • How to report crime

    How to report crime

    27 Nov 2023 Karl Brown, chair of the Palmers Green Ward Panel (CAPE), provides advice about ways of reporting crime.

    Read more

  • November 2023 meeting of the Palmers Green Ward Panel (CAPE)

    November 2023 meeting of the Palmers Green Ward Panel (CAPE)

    27 Nov 2023 'Report, report and report.' That was the key message for us all emerging from the latest PG CAPE, writes its chair, Karl Brown. Without information, crime statistics will be misleading, and with many more eyes and ears across our community than the police can muster, we are ideally placed to provide intel on potential and actual bad things.

    Read more

  • Palmers Green CAPE Meeting - posted by Karl Brown

    27 Nov 2023 Report, report and report. That was the key message for us all emerging from the latest PG CAPE. Without information crime statistics will be misleading and with many more eyes and ears across our community than the police can muster, we are ideally placed to provide intel on potential and actual bad things. We learnt, and well as seeing in[…]

    Read more

  • Palmers Green CAPE Meeting - posted by Karl Brown

    27 Nov 2023 Reporting and other helpful things to do. We can each have a role in protecting ourselves, our community and to help the police to do likewise. Here’s a list of things we can easily undertake. Reporting crime and also incidents such as crazy driving and suspected drug dealing at the end of your street [...] This forum post has been[…]

    Read more

  • Depriving the good folk of Enfield of common rights enjoyed since time immemorial? - posted by Basil Clarke

    25 Nov 2023 In the spirit of the Radio 4 programme The Long View, local historian Joe Studman in an Enfield Dispatch article draws our attention to the negative public reaction to the enclosure (ie the transfer of publicly accessible land to private owners) of a large part of Enfield Chase in the 17th Century. The "good folk of Enfield" were none too[…]

    Read more

  • Broomfield House - public consultation begins - posted by Colin Younger

    24 Nov 2023 Ah, if only! One of the sad things about the history of Broomfield House since the 1984 fire is just how many similar, positive, schemes, have been proposed. The fundamental issue has been the inability to find the necessary funds both to repair/restore/rebuild the house, but also to run and maintain it. However, the stableblock, though not in the commanding[…]

    Read more

  • The future of Broomfield House: Back on the agenda? - posted by Allan Curtis

    24 Nov 2023 Gentlemen, Re - Broomfield House, Broomfield Park, Palmers Green, London N13. Several public consultations since the 1980’s to determine a viable future for Broomfield House have proven unsuccessful, from which most, or all of the suggestions offered have proved inadequate to ensure its long- term commercial viability. It now appears that a fresh survey is being posted on behalf of[…]

    Read more

  • Saving an old school to help a new generation of young people flourish

    Saving an old school to help a new generation of young people flourish

    23 Nov 2023 There's a consultation event about this project on 2nd December at Green Towers, round the back of the Edmonton Green shopping centre. Find out about a new project for young people and the community being developed at the Charity School, Church Street, Edmonton. Come to find out more and tell us what you think: turning the historic building into a[…]

    Read more

  • Former Whitewebbs Golf Course - posted by Karl Brown

    23 Nov 2023 Almost 45 acres. I can't say if it's correct, I'm quoting Spurs' consultant's own figure - see consultation board #4 from link in earlier posting. Maybe they have it wrong? 

    Read more

  • Former Whitewebbs Golf Course - posted by Darren Edgar

    23 Nov 2023 "Over 40 acres of currently open, wilding land will be lost to public access" - that's not correct, is it? I didn't think half the golf course measured 40 acres.

    Read more

  • New owners not looking after the family silver - posted by Neil Littman

    23 Nov 2023 Hi, Thanks for the post.  A bit of trivia, I think that Enfield has more surviving Edward VIII postboxes than anywhere else in the UK. About seven or eight in total. There were only about 100 of them because he only reigned for a year and they could have replaced them but chose not to.

    Read more

  • Help shape community eye services in North Central London

    Help shape community eye services in North Central London

    22 Nov 2023 NHS North Central London Integrated Care Board would like your help to shape and influence how community eye services will be delivered across Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey and Islington. They are conducting a short questionnaire to gain insight into eye services.

    Read more

  • The Big Give Christmas Challenge is next week!

    The Big Give Christmas Challenge is next week!

    22 Nov 2023 The Big Give Christmas Challenge runs for a week from next Tuesday. A chance to see your donations doubled.

    Read more

  • What are your health and wellbeing priorities for 2024?

    What are your health and wellbeing priorities for 2024?

    22 Nov 2023 The borough's health services watchdog, Healthwatch Enfield, is conducting an online survey to determine what areas it should focus on during 2024.

    Read more

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What's happening?

 

 
 

 

What's On

Next seven days

Sunday

Pantomime: Sleeping Beauty
Continues until Saturday 30 December (not every day)

9.30am - 3.30pm
Palmers Greenery Community Café open

9.30am, 11.30am
Chickenshed: Christmas Tales presents Cinderella in Boots
Continues until Saturday 30 December (not every day)

10.00am - 3.00pm
Festive Farmers Market at Forty Hall Farm + Wreathmaking

10.00am - 4.00pm
Wolves Lane Centre Christmas Market (including pewter casting workshop)

10.00am - 6.00pm
Exhibition: ...Searching 2023 by Mickos
Continues until Saturday 16 December (not every day)

12.00pm - 5.00pm
Lymington Avenue Arts & Craft Market

1.00pm, 7.30pm
Peter Pan on Ice
Continues until Monday 11 December

2.00pm - 4.00pm
Broomfield Community Orchard open

Latest news and comments

  • Council publishes draft local plan 2024 - 2041 - posted by Karl Brown

    8 Dec 2023 The discussion ideas Basil promotes look sound. This plan is important to all and so is worthy of reading and discussing. Doubtless the housing / green belt issue will take centre stage, but hyper local issues are also important as well as being of curiosity value to many. The densification around public transport nodes, a key element of the London[…]

    Read more

  • Are you a woman in Enfield, thinking about starting a business?

    Are you a woman in Enfield, thinking about starting a business?

    6 Dec 2023 Get the support you need to succeed with Enterprise Enfield's Inspiring Women Start Up Programme. This free course, which starts in February 2024, offers 6 months' worth of webinars, in-person seminars and 121 advice.

    Read more

  • Council publishes draft local plan 2024 - 2041

    Council publishes draft local plan 2024 - 2041

    6 Dec 2023 Enfield Council has today published the draft version of its proposed Local Plan for the period 2024 to 2041. There now follows a 13-week period during which councillors will be able to discuss the draft with residents before it is formally put to the vote at a full council meeting on 6th March. The revised draft retains controversial proposals for[…]

    Read more

  • Helping in the face of a hurricane of homelessness

    Helping in the face of a hurricane of homelessness

    5 Dec 2023 Ahead of the launch of its 2023 winter campaign, George Dunstall from the charity All People All Places outlines the reasons for the rapid increase in homelessness in Enfield and Haringey and asks the community to be generous in helping it support those most in need in the two boroughs.

    Read more

  • Stay up to speed with the Broomfield Park Runners (and Walkers)

    Stay up to speed with the Broomfield Park Runners (and Walkers)

    3 Dec 2023 Anja Porter launched the Broomfield Park Runners a couple of months ago, after moving to PG from Brighton and looking in vain for a local social running club to join. The club is getting established, but still looking for new people to join and finding the best days and times.

    Read more

  • Charity appeal: Safe This Christmas

    30 Nov 2023 For more about what Solace do, watch their charity video and visit www.solacewomensaid.org/watch-our-charity-film/

    Read more

  • Charity appeal: Safe This Christmas

    Charity appeal: Safe This Christmas

    29 Nov 2023 Eastenders actor Milly Zero plays the main role in a video made by the domestic violence charity Solace to launch its Safe This Christmas fundraising campaign.

    Read more

  • It's a Christmas shopping bonanza this Saturday in PG!

    It's a Christmas shopping bonanza this Saturday in PG!

    29 Nov 2023 Cara McDonald from Palmers Green Action Team invites us to four opportunities for Christmas shopping this Saturday.

    Read more

  • Setting people's imaginations alight: Palmers Green's first community hub

    Setting people's imaginations alight: Palmers Green's first community hub

    29 Nov 2023 The Palmers Green Community Hub was held on 28th November and attracted around 120 different organisations and individual attendees. Francis Sealey celebrates a successful afternoon.

    Read more

  • Environment Agency funding work to improve water quality in Broomfield Park

    Environment Agency funding work to improve water quality in Broomfield Park

    28 Nov 2023 The Environment Agency has agreed to commission an ecologist to carry out an environmental audit and recommend an enhancement strategy aimed at increasing biodiversity and water quality in Broomfield Park. Next spring FoBP volunteers will start testing water quality in all the watercourses and carry out new planting to help improve water quality and provide natural food for birds and[…]

    Read more

  • The Big Give Christmas Challenge is next week!

    28 Nov 2023 Here's another charity participating in the Big Give Christmas Campaign: Living Streets (formerly the Pedestrians Association). They've been campaigning for a better deal for people on foot since the 1930s and it was their campaigning that led to the introduction of zebra crossings and speed limits in built up areas. Living Streets page on the Big Give website More about[…]

    Read more

  • How to report crime

    How to report crime

    27 Nov 2023 Karl Brown, chair of the Palmers Green Ward Panel (CAPE), provides advice about ways of reporting crime.

    Read more

  • November 2023 meeting of the Palmers Green Ward Panel (CAPE)

    November 2023 meeting of the Palmers Green Ward Panel (CAPE)

    27 Nov 2023 'Report, report and report.' That was the key message for us all emerging from the latest PG CAPE, writes its chair, Karl Brown. Without information, crime statistics will be misleading, and with many more eyes and ears across our community than the police can muster, we are ideally placed to provide intel on potential and actual bad things.

    Read more

  • Palmers Green CAPE Meeting - posted by Karl Brown

    27 Nov 2023 Report, report and report. That was the key message for us all emerging from the latest PG CAPE. Without information crime statistics will be misleading and with many more eyes and ears across our community than the police can muster, we are ideally placed to provide intel on potential and actual bad things. We learnt, and well as seeing in[…]

    Read more

  • Palmers Green CAPE Meeting - posted by Karl Brown

    27 Nov 2023 Reporting and other helpful things to do. We can each have a role in protecting ourselves, our community and to help the police to do likewise. Here’s a list of things we can easily undertake. Reporting crime and also incidents such as crazy driving and suspected drug dealing at the end of your street [...] This forum post has been[…]

    Read more

  • Depriving the good folk of Enfield of common rights enjoyed since time immemorial? - posted by Basil Clarke

    25 Nov 2023 In the spirit of the Radio 4 programme The Long View, local historian Joe Studman in an Enfield Dispatch article draws our attention to the negative public reaction to the enclosure (ie the transfer of publicly accessible land to private owners) of a large part of Enfield Chase in the 17th Century. The "good folk of Enfield" were none too[…]

    Read more

  • Broomfield House - public consultation begins - posted by Colin Younger

    24 Nov 2023 Ah, if only! One of the sad things about the history of Broomfield House since the 1984 fire is just how many similar, positive, schemes, have been proposed. The fundamental issue has been the inability to find the necessary funds both to repair/restore/rebuild the house, but also to run and maintain it. However, the stableblock, though not in the commanding[…]

    Read more

  • The future of Broomfield House: Back on the agenda? - posted by Allan Curtis

    24 Nov 2023 Gentlemen, Re - Broomfield House, Broomfield Park, Palmers Green, London N13. Several public consultations since the 1980’s to determine a viable future for Broomfield House have proven unsuccessful, from which most, or all of the suggestions offered have proved inadequate to ensure its long- term commercial viability. It now appears that a fresh survey is being posted on behalf of[…]

    Read more

  • Saving an old school to help a new generation of young people flourish

    Saving an old school to help a new generation of young people flourish

    23 Nov 2023 There's a consultation event about this project on 2nd December at Green Towers, round the back of the Edmonton Green shopping centre. Find out about a new project for young people and the community being developed at the Charity School, Church Street, Edmonton. Come to find out more and tell us what you think: turning the historic building into a[…]

    Read more

  • Former Whitewebbs Golf Course - posted by Karl Brown

    23 Nov 2023 Almost 45 acres. I can't say if it's correct, I'm quoting Spurs' consultant's own figure - see consultation board #4 from link in earlier posting. Maybe they have it wrong? 

    Read more

  • Former Whitewebbs Golf Course - posted by Darren Edgar

    23 Nov 2023 "Over 40 acres of currently open, wilding land will be lost to public access" - that's not correct, is it? I didn't think half the golf course measured 40 acres.

    Read more

  • New owners not looking after the family silver - posted by Neil Littman

    23 Nov 2023 Hi, Thanks for the post.  A bit of trivia, I think that Enfield has more surviving Edward VIII postboxes than anywhere else in the UK. About seven or eight in total. There were only about 100 of them because he only reigned for a year and they could have replaced them but chose not to.

    Read more

  • Help shape community eye services in North Central London

    Help shape community eye services in North Central London

    22 Nov 2023 NHS North Central London Integrated Care Board would like your help to shape and influence how community eye services will be delivered across Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey and Islington. They are conducting a short questionnaire to gain insight into eye services.

    Read more

  • The Big Give Christmas Challenge is next week!

    The Big Give Christmas Challenge is next week!

    22 Nov 2023 The Big Give Christmas Challenge runs for a week from next Tuesday. A chance to see your donations doubled.

    Read more

  • What are your health and wellbeing priorities for 2024?

    What are your health and wellbeing priorities for 2024?

    22 Nov 2023 The borough's health services watchdog, Healthwatch Enfield, is conducting an online survey to determine what areas it should focus on during 2024.

    Read more

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See more Forum posts

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