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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Even more people soaking up the sun and music than last week, with an overflow on the surrounding lawns. The sun led to a display of hats and near hats…
Photographs: Colin.......
Enfield Veg. Co. have added two new pick-up points - at Millfield House (Silver Street, not far from the Cambridge Roundabout) and at Building Bloqs in Edmonton.
Enfield Veg Co.- Enfield's very own veg bag scheme
Enfield Veg Co. is a social enterprise based at Capel Manor's Forty Hall Farm. We run a vegetable bag scheme which delivers weekly bags of organic vegetables - much of them grown on Forty Hall Farm in Enfield. We offer three different sized bags:
small (£28 per month).......
A petition has been launched in support of a cross-party campaign demanding "Fairer Funding for Enfield".
The petition has been organised by the Enfield Over 50s Forum and has the strong support of both political parties represented on Enfield Council. Enfield residents of all ages are invited to sign - the effects of underfunding are felt across the generations.
FAIRER FUNDING FOR ENFIELD
A cross-political party Petition addressed to the Secretary of State, Department of.......
Enfield Clinical Commissioning Group is carrying out an online survey of residents' experience of local Paediatric Assessment Units.
There will be a focus group meeting on 23rd August.
Please tell us your experience of local Paediatric Assessment Units (PAUs)
Paediatric Assessment Units (PAU) provide specialist urgent care services to children aged 0-18. To access care at a PAU, children need to be referred by a health professional.
We would like to hear about your experiences of local.......
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.......
A Talkies' short film commission needs your vote!
Platform 1 - JESSICA BISHOPP
Through the hatch of Annita's café kiosk on platform 1 of Palmers Green station the film unearths the treasures of the everyday. People who make the early morning daily commute, half asleep and pensive, reveal personal stories, hopes and fears.
Your vote will help Jess get more exposure as a filmmaker - and of course spread the word about Talkies' film commissions.
VOTE HERE TODAY.......
The campaign to create a museum in part of the Trent Park mansion is continuing. So far more than 3800 people have signed an online petition which has the goal of persuading the Berkeley Group to set aside a sufficiently large area within the building for a museum that would truly do justice to the important subject of the mansion's World War II intelligence gathering role.
If you missed the TV programme broadcast earlier this week on More 4, it's also available on youTube (see.......
A public consultation about National Lottery money is distributed across England and the UK was launched in May and runs until 12th August.
To take part, visit this page on www.gov.uk.
About the Big Lottery Fund
the Big Lottery Fund distributes 40% of the money raised by the National Lottery for good causes
since June 2004, the Big Lottery Fund has awarded over £9 billion to projects supporting health, education, environment and charitable purposes
funding supports people who want to.......
The Friends of Broomfield Park with The Vintage Blues Music Association present
Broomfield Blues
Sunday 7th, 14th, 21st & 28th August 2015 1.30pm - 5pmThe Bandstand, Broomfield Park, Aldermans Hill, Palmers Green, London N13 4RB
FREE EVENTS
The best Blues Music brought to you every Sunday afternoon in August on the Bandstand. The Friends of Broomfield Park have teamed up with The Vintage Blues Music Association, who run the highly acclaimed St Harmonica's Blues Club in.......
The Stage 1 Road Safety Audit for the A105 cycle lanes scheme has now been published. The auditors, from Transport for London (TfL), have indicated that they are satisfied with the responses to all the safety issues that they raised. Unfortunately, the auditors did not comment on hazards for pedestrians crossing roads at the Green Lanes/Hedge Lane/Bourne Hill junction, presumably because their terms of reference state that "Safety Audit is not intended to identify pre-existing.......
The following urgent message was sent by Jennifer Arkwright, the PCSO for Palmers Green Ward.
Dear Ward Member,
Enfield is experiencing high levels of rogue traders at present predominantly pretending to be roofers and performing work on your properties that you do not need and did not ask for while robbing your bank accounts all.......
The Mayor of London's public consultation on measures to resolve the capital's air quality crisis finishes on Friday 29th July. Recently published reports question the adequacy of Sadiq Khan's proposals and suggest much tougher controls, especially in relation to diesel cars.
See this earlier article for information about the consultation.
Call to completely remove diesel cars
A report by the Institute for Public Policy Research, drawing on analysis by Kings College London, calls.......