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
For the second year running the Lamb Festival is running literary and photographic competitions with unusual themes. There are three entry categories: primary schools, secondary schools and open (ie adults).
Charles and Mary LambThe festival itself, celebrating the lives and work of local literary figures Charles and Mary Lamb, will run from 6th to 12th June at All Saints Church in Edmonton. Last year's Lamb Festival comprised music, poetry, puppetry, talks and walks, and this.......
Since both Southgate College and Enfield College stopped running language courses for adults there has been a gap in the market for language learners who don't want to travel too far.
Since this January the gap has been plugged, as far as Italian is concerned, by a new language school based in Palmers Green. During its first term Parla Italiano courses attracted much interest and a new class for beginners is due to start on 15th April at the United Reformed Church in Burford Gardens, on.......
This year's spring production by FFBOS is a radical retelling of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, The Mikado. Retitled Hot Mikado, this musical story brings a modern twist to the popular tale about the wandering minstrel Nanki-Poo and his love for the fair maid Yum-Yum. Expect hot jazz solos, big swing numbers and sharp zoot suits, as FFBOS brings this fantastic show to life. This toe-tappingly fun show will be coming to the Intimate Theatre in Palmers Green, for one week only, so.......
This week the ever ambitious Talkies Community Cinema announces its latest venture. HERE proudly proclaims itself to be a "suburban film festival":
HERE FILM FESTIVAL is about the diversity of interests, people and places in the suburbs of London. HERE is not in the West End, Southbank or Shoreditch. HERE in the suburbs we aren't the swanky super-rich, the celebrity glitterati or bearded hipsters. HERE is where the cinema creatives of London produce their best output. HERE is where life.......
Starting in April, Chickenshed will be running acting workshops for adults on Thursday evenings and for children on Saturday mornings.
Adult Theatre Performance Workshop
Venue: Chickenshed Theatre
Dates: Thursday 23 April – Thursday 14 May and Thursday 11 June – Thursday 2 July
Times: 7pm - 9pm
Cost: £60 for series of 8 workshops
Age: 21+
Duration: 2hrs
Chickenshed's Performance Workshop is a series in which you will develop your performing skills and creative ideas using.......
Now in its fourth year, Emerging Writers’ Week continues to grow and diversify, driven by the wealth of new writing nurtured within the Chickenshed Writers’ Group. The week will showcase an array of new work as well as two longer pieces as cornerstones to the evening: Blackton Back in Action and The Devil's Music. Along with the programme in the Studio each night there will also be Offstage fringe events taking place in and around the building before and after the evening performance:.......
Maybe you used to play a brass instrument at school and would like to return to playing or have never played anything and would like to learn to play? Here's your opportunity!
London Metropolitan Brass set up a beginners band a year ago and since then have taught over 40 people to play, free-of-charge. We are very active within the local community, having played over recent weeks in East Finchley, Crouch End and Bounds Green Bowls Club.
If you'd like to come down and join in the fun, we.......
An urgent call to Enfield Gentlemen from Simon Gilbert!
The Enfield Community Singers, a rising star in the local choral firmament, urgently require male singers to augment our already splendid sound. Following another standing ovation at Mount Carmel and St George’s Church in December, the choir is already planning concerts well into the spring of 2015.
However, we are restricted for the more ambitious pieces of music without the strong male base that these pieces require.
So,.......
Talkies Community Cinema, the Palners Green-based pop-up cinema, has been going from strength to strength. Talkies has been able to keep ticket prices down to £5, but overheads have been rising steadily and Talkies has now set up a scheme called Friends of Talkies. By becoming a Friend, you will be able to help maintain the cheap tickets policy while taking advantage of special benefits, such as priority booking for popular shows.
Tricia Sharpe will be looking after Friends of Talkies. .......
Talkies Community Cinema rounds off its Autumn season on 10th December with Downhill, a humorous but touching look at men's mid-life crises, starring local actor Jeremy Swift.
Jeremy is well know to viewers of Downton Abbey, in which he plays Maggie Smith's butler, Spratt. And he is currently rehearsing for a major role in an amazing production of the Railway Children at King’s Cross Station (featuring a proper steam train!)
After the screening Jeremy will answer questions from members.......
24th January – 21st March (8 weeks not inc. Saturday 7th March)
Ages
5-8yrs 10am – 11am
9-12yrs 11.15am – 12.15pm
Cost:
Pay As You Go: £6 per session (Termly Membership: pre-register for all 8 workshops for a 25% discount).
Saturday Shed gives a great opportunity for young people to develop their performance skills using our proven teaching methods and unique performance style. Led by our highly experienced and energetic staff, each session will involve.......
Chickenshed Community Chorus - an ongoing series of vocal sessions at which you can develop your singing skills as part of an ensemble and learn a number of arrangements. Sessions are led by Jo Collins – Chickenshed’s Director of Music.
The next series of workshops starts on Wednesday 21st January and runs until Wednesday 25th February 2015 (fiveweeks not including Wednesday 4th February)
Time: 6.30-8.30pm
Cost: £7.50 each session
Age: 21+
Running Time: 2 hours.
The.......