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In combination with their donors and partners, Cooking Champions can turn your £20 a month donation into food worth £150.40.

The Fox is shuttered yet again, but starting next Monday we are promised 'something exciting'. Third time lucky?

Are you a member of a local community group or a locally based creative? Interested in putting on an outdoor event that would be one of a series celebrating Southgate? Southgate District Civic Voice have some funds to pay for events between now and June.

Help Friends of Firs Farm prepare for the Firs Farm Wetlands Spooky Walk by carving a pumpkin and providing frightening decorations.

Lesley Jordan, until recently chair of Enfield Choral Society, invites people to an upcoming concert which will see the choir returning to its roots to celebrate the 150th anniversary of one of Enfield's notable buildings, Christ Church Chase Side.

Local and regional representatives of the United Nations Association were joined by local politicians and citizens at a ceremony in Broomfield Park on 17th October to mark the 80th anniversary of the establishment of the UN. The ceremony included the unveiling of a restored birdbath that was presented to the citizens of Southgate in 1927 by the League of Nations Union.

PGC reader Shirley recently became a volunteer with the Felix Project, based at their depot in Enfield. She asked for this advert to go on the website, adding 'They are a really great organisation to volunteer with'.

Palmers Green Action team have encountered a setback to their efforts to tempt a cinema operator to set up in PG, but are 'not giving up'.

A coroner has concluded that a driver turning into Compton Road from Green Lanes could not have avoided hitting a boy who ran into the road. The boy died from a brain injury. But was it the size of the vehicle - a Land Rover - that made a low-speed collision fatal?

British Red Cross are recruiting a manager for their bookshop in Palmers Green.

Colin Younger, chair of of the Broomfield House Trust, explains the background to the recent decision to close the Trust and urges readers to take the opportunity on 25th October to comment on the draft concept for memorialising the House.

Phase 2 of the planned public realm improvements to Enfield Town has been broken up into subphases. Funding has been found for the first of them and work to implement the changes, benefiting primarily pedestrians, is due to start on 20th October and last around three months.