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.
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Healthcare professional and keen photographer Cliff Docherty's prescription for improved wellbeing involves taking a walk with your camera or phone, engaging with and recording the things you encounter and finding some moments of mindfulness. You can find out more at Cliff's workshops in Palmers Green on 13th and 14th January.
Following the suspension of the Fox's entertainment licence because of complaints from neighbours, an online petition to Enfield Council in support of permitting live music has amassed more than a thousand signatures.
As autumn's last flourish of colour is replaced and the world around us desaturates, Palmers Green photographer Cliff Docherty is inviting us to celebrate this new monochrome environment, and at the same time help boost our physical and mental wellbeing, by contributing black and white photographs to his new exhibition at the Dugdale Arts Centre.
Southgate Symphony Orchestra are inviting musicians to a workshop and performance of the Symphonie fantastique, conducted by Berlioz authority Adrian Brown.
Arbeit Studios are inviting artists to celebrate Palmers Green's high street by applying for a free residency at their newest premises, situated just off Green Lanes.
Among the range of projects funded through the Untold Edmonton programme is the making of a film about Pymmes Park, the 'lungs of Edmonton'. Film maker João Giacchin describes what he aims to achieve.
The internationally renowned theatre company Complicité are coming to Palmers Green to run a series of theatrical storytelling workshops for women aged 65 or over, and are encouraging people with no previous experience in the performing arts to join. They're running a taster session at the Ruth Winston Centre on Tuesday 26th September ahead of the three workshops in October, also on Tuesday afternoons at Ruth Winston.
Enfield Poets have announced their 2023 Poetry Competition, with a first prize of £500. It will be judged by David Constantine, a winner of the Queen's Medal for Poetry.