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
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.......
The budget approved by the full meeting of Enfield Council on 24th February includes an increase in Council Tax of 1.99 per cent. However, because of a reduction in the contribution to the Greater London Authority the effective increase will be smaller - 1.78 per cent.
The paperwork for the budget debate is available at this link. This describes the background to the budget and medium-term financial plan and the cuts which will be made to various council services. To access.......
Date: 24 Feb 2016 -
10:00 to 12:00
Location: Main Hall, Park Avenue Disability Resource Centre, 65C Park Avenue, Enfield, EN1 2HL
Enfield Council are currently developing their Health & Adult Social Care Market Position Statement.
The production of a Market Position Statement (MPS) is a requirement of the Care Act.
The purpose of the MPS is to:
set out the Council’s direction of travel in relation to Health & Adult Social Care Services including strategic and legislative.......
In response to cuts resulting from the government's austerity programme, Enfield Council has begun implementing its Libraries Strategy: bringing in volunteer librarians in place of professional information specialists; creating four "flagship" libraries while downsizing and leasing out the remainder as "community libraries"; and setting up a volunteer-run home delivery service to replace mobile libraries.
Volunteer librarians required
Recruitment and training of volunteer.......
The Care Act introduces the most significant changes over the last 60 years. If you are a carer, receiving attendance allowance, disability allowance, personal payments then you really need to come along to the Ruth Winston Centre and listen to Michael Sprosson, Health Housing and Adult Social Care Team at Enfield Council to find out how it affects you. There will be a Q&A session after his talk.
The talk starts at 11am at the Ruth Winston Centre in the Davies Room on Friday.......