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  Would you like to help HealthWatch Enfield improve local health and social care services? Can you help them reach out to local communities and find out about their experiences as patients, carers and service users? Do you have personal experience, skills and enthusiasm to offer? HealthWatch Enfield welcomes and values contributions from all sections of the community, including people of all ages from 16 upwards. They are currently looking for volunteers for the following roles:.......

Palmers Green Festival - entry in Palmers Green Community Directory

Enfield's Council's Everybody Active and Play Development teams have prepared a pretty comprehensive programme of summer events for all ages.  There's a 26-page brochure that you can download with details of the activities and how to book.  They include: Cycle training for adults and over-10s Athlefit Cardio Tennis Horse riding Golf Self-defence Trampolining Jogging Yoga 50+ Swimming Bowls Boxing Table tennis Archery ChaSamba Basketball Cricket Athletics Some of.......

Following last August's resoundingly successful revival, Broomfield Blues is returning this year with five servings of the very best Blues and music loosely derived from the Blues.  The concerts at the bandstand in Broomfield Park will be held every Sunday in August.  Each Sunday afternoon will see a different mix of music organised by the Vintage Music Association, the people behind the local St Harmonica's Blues Club (every Friday at St Monica's Club in Cannon Hill). Each concert.......

Enfield Council's Library Service has modified the planned extended opening hours at neighbouring libraries which are designed to compensate for the year-long closure of Palmers Green Library from 26 July. There will now be extended hours only at Southgate Circus, Winchmore Hill and Ridge Avenue libraries and not at Bowes Road.  The extended hours will not start until 11 August.   Southgate Circus Winchmore Hill Ridge Avenue Monday 9am-8pm 9am-8pm 9am-8pm.......

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.......

          Photographs:  Colin Younger.......