While we admire and support the Christmas campaigns that we see pop up in December, we also know that help is urgently needed all year round, each and every year. As some people pack away after the festive break, we are still here.
Our support is not limited to a food package, but it leaps beyond - we form connections, we listen and respond to everyone who steps through our doors. We open up a warm, safe, environment which aims to feel like a home away from home.
For us to continue to thrive and grow, and keep supporting as many people as possible, we are asking you to become a Friend of Cooking Champions. Even a donation of just £5-10 per month can make a HUGE impact on the lives of those who come through our doors.
Pop to our People's Fundraising page to donate, and we promise to keep you updated with how your support is making a difference. Thank you, we appreciate you! Team Cooking Champions
The change from weekly to fortnightly collection of "green" (food and garden waste) recycling will occur in March. Ahead of the change households will be sent a calendar showing which weeks the green bins will be collected.
The following information is taken from the Council website:
Changes to your green bin service
In March 2017 your green bin service will become fortnightly. This will not affect the collection of your other bins or, in the vast majority of cases, the day of your.......
Enfield Council is still seeking volunteers to work in its libraries, most of which are now categorised as "community libraries".
The following is taken from the council website.
Library lovers sought to be Enfield Heroes
Library lovers are being sought to volunteer in Enfield Council's community libraries so that we can continue to offer a first rate service across the borough.
Enfield's 13 community libraries are run mainly by volunteers and Enfield Council has launched a recruitment.......
In this Love Your Doorstep video, Monty Meth explains why now more than ever, as the government looks into the systems of funding local authorities, it's important to sign the Fairer Funding for Enfield petition.
Links
Online petition
Background article.......
Topics on the agenda for the meeting of Southgate Ward Forum on 14th December include complaints about the recently relocated Southgate Library, the status of the proposal to build a new primary school adjacent to Grovelands Park and planting of flower beds around Southgate Station.
More information about the specific concerns about these three topics (and others) can be found in the draft minutes of the September ward forum meeting.
Southgate Ward Forum
Wednesday, 14th December, 2016 7.30.......
Winchmore Hill library will be reopening after refurbishment on Tuesday 1st November as a "community partnership library". There has been no announcement about the identity of the "partner" organisation, but presumably this will be occupying part of the accommodation previously used by the library.
Opening hours will be:
Monday: ClosedTuesday: 9am to 7pmWednesday: 9am to 6pmThursday: 9am to 6pmFriday: ClosedSaturday: 9am to.......
Following the public consultation on the future of "green bin" collections, Enfield Council's Cabinet will be presented with a paper recommending that collection of food and garden waste be reduced from once a week to once a fortnight.
A brief item about the proposed changes was posted on the council website yesterday. It states that 87 per cent of respondents to the survey preferred a free fortnightly collection rather than an optional paid for weekly green bin collection (£60 a.......
According to information on the Enfield Council website, opening hours at Palmers Green Library will be extended beginning in September this year.
Extended opening hours will be a feature of the "flagship libraries" that are being introduced as part of the council's libraries development concept. Unless previous plans have been revised - in view of continuing pressure for expenditure cuts, not out of the question - the flagship libraries will be opening seven days a week initially, .......
New opening hours at Bowes Road library from 4th July:
Monday: closedTuesday: 9am - 5.30pm (currently 2pm - 7pm)Wednesday: ClosedThursday: 9am - 5.30pm (currently 2pm - 7pm)Friday: 1pm - 5pm (currently closed all day)Saturday: 9am - 1pm (currently 9am - 5pm)
The changes introduce morning openings on Tuesdays and Thursdays and afternoon opening on Fridays, but do away with late afternoon/early evening openings and Saturday afternoon opening.
Southgate Circus library is moving.......
Enfield Council has found partners for two "community libraries" in the east of the borough. The builders are currently in at Ponders End Library, making room for the charity Age UK Enfield, which will be moving its headquarters to the library. Work is also under way at Enfield Highway Library, which will be sharing with a "public health services department".
Ponders End Library - and the new HQ of Age UK EnfieldTransforming the majority of the its libraries into community libraries.......
We reported a while back about the call from the Royal Voluntary Service (RVS - formerly the WRVS) for new volunteers to deliver library books to homes - a replacement for the mobile library service.
The RVS volunteers will deliver books and audio materials to older and disabled people who find it difficult to visit a library. Volunteers will need their own transport and will be required for approximately four hours a week. However, if you don't have your own car there will.......
The Friends of Broomfield Park have written to Enfield councillors to express serious concerns about the impact of budget cuts on the management and upkeep of parks in the borough and on Broomfield Park in particular - "one of the jewels in the borough's crown".
The letter from the Friends, sent ahead of last week's full meeting of the Council, listed some of the impacts which the proposed cuts would have: reductions in grass cutting in parks, use of volunteers to pick up litter after.......