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Firs Farm Wetlands has won a Living Waterways Awards in the 2017 competition, which is run by the Canal & River Trust, the national charity which has the task of protecting more than 2000 miles of waterways in England and Wales.
Firs Farm, located on the borders of Palmers Green, Winchmore Hill and Edmonton, was winner of the Contribution to the Natural Environment category. The judges commented that "The highly integrated nature of this scheme, involving very active partners and.......
Give an hour's salary to help build Noah's Ark Children's Hospice - the first such hospice in North London.
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Noah’s Ark currently supports over 160 children who are seriously unwell, 230 of their siblings and 350 of their parents / guardians. Our dedicated team do this by providing holistic, bespoke care.
We need to provide more care for more children and their families.
We need to construct The Ark, a specialist children’s hospice building........
Talkies volunteer Kate Braithwaite will be among the friendly faces welcoming you to the Little Shed of HorrorsWondering what to do with your little horrors at Halloween to keep them away from trick and treat mischief? If they're 11 or older you can treat them to a trip to a Little Shed of Horrors where they (and you) can hear some live (well, undead) music, focus on some fright-inducing faces and marvel at a monstrous movie.
This horrid invitation is extended by Talkies.......
The second Quieter Neighbourhoods scheme to be consulted on is for the "Connaught Gardens" QN - the triangular area bounded by Hedge Lane, the North Circular and Green Lanes. The deadline for responses is 22nd October.
I was hoping that Enfield Council's traffic planners would have studied how tremendously effective the "villages" in Walthamstow have proved, dramatically improving the liveability of residential streets by making it awkward, but not impossible, for cars to drive through.......
The start of the letter sent to the head of NHS England. The full text is at the end of this article.Leaders of five North London boroughs have requested a meeting with the head of the NHS in England to discuss their very serious concerns about evolving plans to transform the delivery of health services in their area. The council leaders complain that, despite the stated aim of working in collaboration with councils to improve services and health outcomes, they are in practice being.......
Enfield Council has relaunched its Quieter Neighbourhoods project (by my count, for the second time) by publishing its proposals for the "Wolves Lane Quieter Neighbourhood". Curiously, however, Wolves Lane itself doesn't even appear on the map on the consultation leaflet - it shows only Melville Gardens and streets to the east - and the suggested changes would only affect a small area around Oakthorpe School and certainly not create a "quieter neighbourhood".
Only three changes are.......
Park Lodge Medical Centre in Old Park Road will close at 1pm on Friday 29th September (not at 6.30pm as stated by Healthwatch Enfield). Park Lodge patients requiring appointments on Friday afternoon will be able to book appointments at the Winchmore Hill Practice.
The partners at Winchmore Hill Practice have provided PGC with the text of a letter that will be sent to all Park Lodge patients (see below). If you think that a friend of neighbour may not be aware of the.......
All patients at Park Lodge Medical Centre are being advised that they will be relocated to Winchmore Hill Practice at Green Lanes Surgery, 808 Green Lanes, Winchmore Hill, London N21 2SA but this is not your only option as everyone has a right to choose their preferred GP practice. This means YOU can choose to move to a different surgery.
If you’re planning to refurnish a room the right piece might just be there waiting for you at the Barnet Furniture Centre. This valuable local asset is at the top of Colney Hatch Lane in Friern Barnet (4 Queens Parade Close, N11 3FY – tel 020 8361 6802) and should be much better known.
The governing body of Enfield Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is set to approve stricter criteria for access to specified surgical procedures at its meeting tomorrow (20th September). The meeting at Holbrook House, Cockfosters, is open to the public and starts at 12:30pm. Campaigners are planning to congregate outside the building from 11:30am to show their disgust at reductions the availability of NHS services masquerading as "clinically evidenced" changes.
The poster used to.......
Enfield joins a global push towards a car-free day
World Car Free Day takes place on 22 September
Enfield schools, students and staff commit to leaving cars at home
TfL’s STARS project is also supporting the initiative across London
Families across Enfield are being asked to leave their cars at home and find alternative ways of getting into school in celebration of World Car Free Day (22 September).
World Car Free Day also coincides with Transport for London’s.......
Catherine Lee-Smith is involved in the launch of a new oral history project: Living Memories of Forty Hall. Click here to send an email to Catherine.
Photo by Pterre reproduced under Creative Commons by 3.0 licence
My name is Catherine and I am assisting Verity Roberts in setting up a Forty Hall Oral History Group.
OUR AIMS & OBJECTIVES:
To discover and capture local peoples’ experience of Forty Hall and the impact that this place has had on their lives.
To record this.......