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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News, comment and features
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The Mayor of London has launched the second phase of his consultation on proposed measures to improve air quality in the Capital.
The consultation phase, which runs until 18 December, invites the public to comment on detailed proposals for an Emission Surcharge payable by drivers whose vehicles do not meet stipulated conditions when driving in the Congestion Zone. It also asks for feedback on the possible earlier introduction of an Ultra Low Emissions Zone and its possible enlargement to.......
Campaigners have launched an online petition aimed at persuading Haringey Council to rethink their decision to sell the former Hornsey Town Hall to an overseas company who plan to convert it into a "boutique hotel" and build housing on part of the site.
The 1930s building, situated in Crouch End, near the clocktower, is a Grade II* listed building, but has been neglected and is on Historic England's At Risk Register.
The petition set out by the Hornsey Town Hall Appreciation Society.......
Enfield Clinical Commissioning Group is proposing to close the paediatric assessment unit at Chase Farm Hospital and instead introduce a "new model of care". Members of the public can give their views - the deadline for responses is 15 January 2017.
Paediatric assessment unit consultation
We want to hear your views about our proposed changes to the Paediatric Assessment Unit at Chase Farm Hospital
The Paediatric Assessment Unit (PAU) at Chase Farm Hospital is open from 9am-9pm, every.......
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.......
SDCT members show off their Civic Day Award. L-to-R: Chris Horner (coordinator of Civic Week), Elaine Tyler, Graham Davis, Jane Maggs (SDCT Secretary)
Southgate District Civic Trust has won the 2016 Civic Day Award, awarded by the national charity Civic Voice for its "outstanding effort for Civic Day".
Civic Day has been held every summer since 2011 and so far has involved more than 1000 community events countrywide. But Southgate District Civic Trust weren't satisfied with one day -.......
Voting for this year's Aviva Community Fund has now begun. You can register with the website and cast ten votes - either for a single project, or divided between two or more.
Here are some projects that are well deserving and local to us.
Ruth Winston Centre
Nominated by Coversure - Palmers Green
Yvonne Quigley writes: "As an independent charity we see the needs of the older population increasing and we want to help reduce isolation, improve health and mobility, raise.......
In defiance of instructions not to do so, two North London councils have published draft proposals for cost-cutting changes to NHS services in the five "North Central London" boroughs - Camden, Islington, Haringey, Enfield and Barnet.
"Lack of public, patient and political involvement"
Councillor Sarah Hayward, leader of Camden Council, took this step because of her "serious reservations" about the process used to draw up the proposals. In a statement published on her council's website.......
For the 23rd year in succession, Palmers Green United Reformed Church will play host to a multi-charity Christmas card shop. And the shop's manager is on the lookout for a suitable photograph of a local scene to make into a Christmas card.
The Cards for Good Causes shop launches this Saturday (29th October) and will be open between 10am and 4pm every day except Sundays until 10th December. At 10.30am on 29th October there will be a grand opening ceremony by the Reverend Ray Adams -.......
Vehicle Idling Action are recruiting volunteers to become Clean Air Champions in twelve London boroughs - including Enfield.
Join our Vehicle Idling Action campaign and be part of a movement to bring much needed positive environmental changes to our communities. Together we can spread awareness about the negative impacts of engine idling, creating long-term behavioural changes in drivers to immediately reduce localised air pollution.
We are establishing a team of enthusiastic, willing,.......
Palmers Green is to be the trailblazer for a project which will return to children some of the independence that has been taken away from them in recent years.
London's first Play Quarter will build on the existing Play Street schemes in and around Palmers Green - in Devonshire Road, Old Park Road, New River Crescent, Riverside, The Mall and Orpington Road. Those streets are now not only home to more active, happy children with new friends next door, but they have also become friendlier,.......
A newly formed group of concerned Enfield residents is monitoring changes to NHS services in the borough and plans to form a focus for resistance to further cuts and privatisation.
Members of "Defend Enfield NHS" are particularly concerned about the severe cost-cutting measures that are being forced upon the organisation that purchases all health services in the borough - the Enfield Clinical Commissioning Group (Enfield CCG).
"More difficult to qualify for treatment"
In response to demands.......
This week's meeting of Enfield's Cabinet will be asked to approve proposals for changes to the procedures for processing applications for land or buildings to be registered as Assets of Community Value.
The concepts of "Asset of Community Value" and "Community Right to Bid" were introduced by the Localism Act 2011. While the main principles are set out in the Act, local authorities have been left to devise their own procedures for assessing nominations. External consultants.......