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
Adding to what’s it’s so well known for – fun & free– the Palmers Green Festival has taken health and wellbeing as its 2018 theme. Its fare of world champion dancing, a fun-fair, two music stages, waggiest tail and other dog competitions, over 100 stalls to browse and lots more, will be augmented by a focus on building a stronger, healthier community and promoting healthier lifestyles.
Ann and Hugh Humphrey have announced that there will be no more N21 Festival events but that there will be another Fancy Fair this year.
The 2017 Fancy Fair on Winchmore Hill Green was the most recent N21 Festival event. The first event was held in 2012, again on the Green, and there have been two winter events - the St Nicholas Fair.
These have all been very successful events designed to interest and entertain people with many different tastes. But they have required a huge input.......
The 2018 Palmers Green Festival date has been announced: Sunday 2nd September from 12 noon to 7pm in Broomfield Park.
The theme for this year's Festival will be Health and Wellbeing and all stalls will be encouraged to offer an element of healthy living and community wellbeing.
Anyone interested in running a stall at the Festival should send an expression of interest email to to include an explanation of how they would meet the Health and Wellbeing.......
There'll be so many things going on at the Palmers Green Festival on 3rd September that you might miss some of them, so over the next couple of weeks we'll be highlighting a few that you might enjoy, This time we look at the 2nd Palmers Green Art Festival.
A new feature at last year's PG Festival was the Art Festival, run by Starfish & Coffee. More than 35 artists exhibited their work along Aldermans Hill.
The Art Festival will be back this year in the same place. Aykut Hilmi.......
There'll be so many things going on at the Palmers Green Festival on 3rd September that you might miss some of them, so over the next couple of weeks we'll be highlighting a few that you might enjoy, starting with Try-a-Bike.
Think you can't cycle? Think again!
You don't have to be young, fit or even able-bodied to ride a bike. And lots of bikes are great for carrying kids and/or shopping.
Come and try some out for free at Palmers Green Festival! We have cargo bikes to carry kids or.......
Two weeks to go before the Palmers Green Festival!
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What can we expect at this year's 10th PG Festival? Well, pretty much the same eclectic mix as before, something for all ages and tastes. Music, dance, a funfair, food, drink, art and craft stalls, local history, conservation groups, community groups, charities, political parties (do they count as fun?), a dog show (prizes include Prettiest Bitch and Dog with the Waggiest Tail) and more. Check.......
This year the Palmers Green Festival organisers are planning to use the former bowling green in Broomfield Park to stage "Classics on the Green" - an afternoon of local musicians playing classical music.
This innovation will depend on finding a local volunteer who would put together a line-up of locally based musicians. They would be supported by the Festival Team, but would be responsible for administering and stage managing on the day.
If you are local, have a few hours a month and are.......
Four months to go before the biggest event in the PG calendar - the Palmers Green Festival. This year the Festival will be back in Broomfield Park on 3rd September.
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The 2017 Festival will look, feel and sound very similar to last year and the year before, but in its tenth year there will need to be some changes behind the scenes. The Festival is now so popular that the volunteer-run approach that has worked so well needs more professional - ie paid for -.......
The Palmers Green Festival has developed a website tool to support other local event organisers and local home start-up entrepreneurs.
We need help to develop the website a little further. We are looking for someone local with knowledge of Word Press with a few hours spare.
A very small budget is available to pay expenses.
Please contact Phillip on .
PhillipPalmers Green Festivalwww.palmersgreenfestival.org.uk Palmers Green CIC
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Exactly one month to go until Palmers Green Festival 2016. Expect the same mix as before of fun and games, food and drink, music and dancing, things to buy, people to talk to...
However, behind the scenes there will be some changes in the way the PG Festival is run this year. The chief organiser behind all the Festivals to date, and this year's too, is Phillip Chard, who explains how the Festival's phenomenal success makes it necessary to do things a bit differently this.......
Change to Programme: Saturday 18th June, 7.30pm. This evening the Mary Lamb Lecture was to have been given by our MP, Kate Osamor.Kate was a friend of the MP Jo Cox who was murdered on Thursday, and quite understandably is unable to join us this evening. In place of the lecture, a local actor will be giving a reading of the essay which inspired our annual lecture, Mary Lamb's 'On Needlework'. You can read an excellent article about the importance of the essay here: .......