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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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Locally based history walks guide Joe Studman will be running his course on the history of Enfield, Southgate and Edmonton for the third time, starting in September. Details are given below, or you can visit the Jaywalks website for further information about Joe's walks and courses.
An Introduction to the history of Enfield, Southgate & Edmonton This six-week course will introduce the student to the history of the London Borough of Enfield.
No previous knowledge required.
Each.......
With less than a fortnight to go before Palmers Green Library closes its doors until autumn 2015, the public will have a chance to find out what the Library will look like and what services will be available after its refurbishment.
Enfield Library and Museum Service are inviting anyone interested in the future of the library to come along to drop-in question and answer sessions on Saturday 12 July 2014 between 2.30 and 4pm and on Tuesday 22 July between 5.30 and 7pm. At the session on.......
This Sunday's Super Summer Sunday at Woodcroft Wildspace will feature a huge range of events and stalls to suit all tastes and ages.
In the Entertainment Arena:
Signature Sounds Daytime Disco
Musical Mummies
Chasamba Dance Exercise
Maria Evangelou
Woodcroft Quartet
That Blue Patch
That Swing Singer
Photo Booth Fun
Eco Gym Demo
Organic Gardening Question Time
In the Kids' Corner:
Tatty Bumpkin (yoga)
Music Bugs
Kids' Orienteering
Little Treasures Workshop
Plus Food, Craft.......
Over the past month thieves have stolen original Edwardian tiles from the front garden paths of four houses in Osborne Road in Palmers Green. All the thefts occurred overnight.
Tina Babbs, Coordinator of the Osborne Road Residents Association, is asking anyone seeing or hearing anything which might help find the thieves or prevent further thefts to inform the police by phoning 101 and quoting reference CAD 5215 5/7........
Singers from the Bowes Park Folk Club are due to perform on the bandstand in Broomfield Park on Sunday 27th July from 2 to 4pm, as part of a Summer Picnic.
Enfield Council's rules are that we should have two qualified first aiders on hand, but as we are a shoestring operation, we can't afford to pay for them. Can anyone help? You will get an entertaining afternoon, an ice cream, and our eternal thanks.
Please email us, or call 07769 941161 or 07947 321182. Catherine Perry, Bowes Park.......
The Restoring Broomfield House website has published reports about the progress of the project to restore the house at the centre of Broomfield Park, which was seriously damaged by fires during the 1980s.
In May the Broomfield House Trust met English Heritage representatives, who recommended that a conservation management plan should be developed covering the entire park, followed by an options study that would investigate all possible ways forward, including having some degree of commercial.......
Following their major victories last year, when the North London Waste Authority (NLWA) was told to re-start the process of creating the North London Waste Plan (NLWP) and the Authority formally abandoned an extremely expensive procurement, the Pinkham Way Alliance is warning its supporters to stay alert, as they are convinced that, having bought the Pinkham Wood site, the Authority still wish to construct a large industrial plant there. A further threat is posed by Barnet Council, who.......
Enfield Council has announced that in order to address the shortfall of primary school places in the south west of the Borough it will be adding a new reception class from September. The new class will be a "partner school" managed by Bowes Primary School, which recently received an Outstanding assessment from Ofsted, but initially will be located on the premises of Broomfield School in Wilmer Way. At some future date it will relocate to a permanent home - possibly at the site.......
Further information about how the Cycle Enfield project (formerly "Mini-Holland") will be implemented has been provided by Liam Mulrooney, the council officer who heads the Traffic, Road Safety and Parking Group in Enfield Council's Regeneration and Environment Department. This confirms and supplements the information contained in a recent letter from Mr Mulrooney regarding implementation of Cycle Enfield in Palmers Green.
On Thursday Mr Mulrooney told a meeting of the Enfield.......
Enfield Council has scrapped the system of publicly accessible area forums that was in operation prior to the recent council elections.
Area forums were centrally organised and advertised and brought together councillors and residents from groups of three neighbouring wards.
Instead of area forums there will be Ward Forums, organised by the councillors for each ward. In a letter announcing the change, the Head of Corporate Scrutiny and Community Outreach claims that as a result the.......
Enfield Council have provided a written statement outlining their plans for consultation about implementing the "Mini-Holland" cycle scheme (now rechristened "Cycle Enfield") along Green Lanes and carrying out "urban realm improvements" in Palmers Green town centre. The letter clearly states that it is not the intention of the Council to "remove the Palmers Green Triangle".
As expected, the urban realm improvements will be funded using Cycle Enfield money provided by the Mayor of.......