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.
For us to continue to thrive and grow, and keep supporting as many people as possible, we are asking you to become a Friend of Cooking Champions. Even a donation of just £5-10 per month can make a HUGE impact on the lives of those who come through our doors.
Pop to our People's Fundraising page to donate, and we promise to keep you updated with how your support is making a difference. Thank you, we appreciate you! Team Cooking Champions
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Riffat Harris runs the Palmers Green Business Network, the latest addition to the PGC Business Directory
It’s a given that anyone who wants to grow their business needs to network with others. Developing an online presence and making connections via LinkedIn, Facebook or Twitter is important. Meeting face to face can be even more powerful, it’s a great way of building long lasting connections.
Local Networks
One of the best ways to expand your brand and contacts beyond.......
The Department for Transport (DfT) has today announced a competition seeking proposals that would encourage more people to make journeys by bicycle and/or on foot.
The text below is an abridged version of the announcement extracted from the www.gov.uk website. To read the complete announcement visit
www.gov.uk/government/publications/funding-competition-innovation-in-cycling-and-walking/competition-brief-innovation-in-cycling-and-walking
This competition seeks proposals for.......
This article has been republished with permission. It originally appeared on the Greener Journeys website on 22nd April. In view of yesterday's announcement, the first sentence presumably no longer holds true.
DEFRA is due this month to publish its new Air Quality Plan. Government has already lost two court cases on this issue, so the pressure is on.
Concern over air quality is no longer just the preserve of environmental groups and it is widely recognized that we are facing a.......
The future of a historic well in Barnet, with a Samuel Pepys association, is looking more assured thanks to a collaborative project between Barnet Museum, Historic England and the Heritage of London Trust.
Barnet Physic Well, situated near Barnet Hospital on land that was once Barnet Common, was dug in the 17th century to provide a source of chalybeate spring water, which supposedly had healing properties. The mock tudor wellhouse, which dates from 1937, is a Grade II listed building but.......
In an emergency, always dial 999.
For non-emergencies you can:
call 101 and report by phone
attend a police station and report at the station office
report online at the new website www.met.police.uk.
How to report a crime online
Go to www.met.police.uk and click on Report
Click on one of the options that appears
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Below is a brief description of the progress of work in each of the area we are currently working. It is not an exhaustive list and may be subject to change due to adverse weather conditions.
A105 Scheme
Green Dragon Lane to York Road –The zebra crossing is now complete and has been reopened.
Borden Avenue to Walnut Grove – We will continue to install cycle segregation units until early April. Line marking will continue this week. The bus shelter outside the church will be.......
Living Streets, the "UK Charity for Everyday Walking", has published a Blueprint for Change, designed as a guide for city leaders to help them create Walking Cities:
"safe and inviting to people of all ages, where every child can walk safely to school, and communities have quality spaces to thrive. Walking cities mean better cities for everyone."
Living Streets' Chief Executive, Joe Irvin, sets out the charity's rationale:
Our streets deserve to be so much more than corridors for.......
The Lamb Festival: An Arts Festival at All Saints, Edmonton, to celebrate the lives and legacies of Charles and Mary Lamb.
This year's Lamb Festival will take place from 17th to 23rd June at All Saints Church in Edmonton. As before, there will be a photographic competition, but this year instead of an essay competition there will be prizes for the best poems
There will be separate categories for schoolchildren (who must be at an Enfield school) and an open category (open to residents of.......
Gabriela Schutz is restarting her art classes for adults in Bounds Green this month, on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings plus Wednesday mornings.
Click here for details.
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Part of Andrea Aste's Myddleton Road mural inside the TaproomLast Friday saw a further notable development in the continuing revival of Bowes Park's Myddleton Road - the opening of the nearby Bohem Brewery's own Taproom, serving beer from the UK's only Czech brewery.
While both taproom and brewery are in the N22 postal district, the stretch of Whittington Road that the brewery is located in is actually on the Enfield side of the boundary with Haringey borough, so arguably part of Palmers.......
The organisers of the Fairer Funding for Enfield petition are looking for volunteers to spend a couple of hours collecting signatures at local shopping centres.
The consortium that is taking over the running of the Wolves Lane Centre has issued some information about future activities at the Centre. Its vision for the site is "a thriving centre for food growing, healthy food skills education and a space for groups and social enterprises to run activities that benefit the community". The consortium will be inviting the local community to be part of a "series of conversations" about the future of the Centre. The Centre was previously run by Haringey.......