PGC Weekly Newsletter
10 July 2025
Also this week...
Yet more shocking driving in PG - forum comments
Reported elsewhere...
How London's bus drivers got the city home on 7/7
Reduced sick leave among the benefits of London’s ULEZ – AirQualityNews
More pedestrianisation plans for London's West End
Major pedestrianisation scheme for Piccadilly Circus to St James’s Park
London’s low-traffic zones ‘cut deaths and injuries by more than a third’
Can the NHS shift from treatment to prevention? What healthcare bosses think
Why renationalising the UK’s Critical National Infrastructure is vital
One year on from the General Election, the case for fair votes is stronger than ever
London to get up to £11.7bn Social and Affordable Homes Programme funding
London gets ‘up to 30%’ of fund for affordable homes. Does it have the workforce to build them?
Cycling campaign group unveils dream of a low traffic West End
The public wants a fair voting system. Keir Starmer must listen
The latest data on London borough-level poverty (updated 2025)
Caught in a trap? Low wellbeing in the UK 2025
Heatwave likely killed 263 people in London, study estimates
Latest from Enfield Dispatch
Proposed car parking charges at Forty Hall cause concern
Crews Hill businesses face ‘compulsory purchase’ by council amid plans for 5,500 homes
Seven Enfield libraries to close permanently from next week
Ground improvements at Enfield Town ‘huge step forward’
The exercise group with a kind heart
Councillors reject calls from pro-Palestine groups to divest pension fund from Israeli-linked firms
Man charged over kidnap and attempted rape of girl in Palmers Green
Two arrests made in Enfield as part of people smuggling probe
Enfield charities presented with donations by Rotary club
Dugdale to showcase hit international films during July
Enfield design student’s new back pain solution recognised at national awards
Former Enfield mayor suspended by Labour amid conduct probe
New neighbourhood platform launched by Met Police
Enfield Lock man jailed for violent watch robberies
Enfield entrepreneur invited to parliament for celebration of successful small businesses
Dangerous drivers fined £10,000 in first court action taken since council injunction
New special needs school proposed in Clay Hill
Enfield Lock warehouse destroyed by fire
Edmonton Skatepark relocation plan criticised
Plans for new homes on Green Belt site to be submitted ‘next year’
Concerns over HMO licence for former police station
Friends of parks groups told by council to pay for their own insurance
New Piccadilly Line trains delayed until ‘second half of 2026’
Music festival going ahead after hitting sales target
Fears over Forty Hall car park being used for ‘car meets’
Average speed cameras on A10 through Edmonton arriving ‘in coming months’
Consultations and surveys
Dates shown are deadlines for responding
Enfield Town Liveable Neighbourhood scheme Phase2 (Enfield Council 13/7/2025)
Statutory consultation: Introduction of charges for parking cars at Forty Hall (Enfield Council 20/7/2025)
Congestion charge changes (Mayor of London 4/8/2025)
Proposal to close the Capital Call assisted transport service (Transport for London 6/8/2025)
Future of Regent Street, Haymarket and Piccadilly Circus (City of Westminster 10/8/2025)
Enfield Pharmacy Needs Assessment (Enfield Council 15/8/2025)
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Recycling informationNorth Enfield Food Bank: Urgently needed itemsTinned tomatoes and pasta sauce Toiletries (soap, shower gel, shampoo, conditioner, toothpaste, deodorant, toilet roll etc) Notices and appeals
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Local groups and societies
What's On: All upcoming events
Exhibitions and longer runs
17 April until 1 November
Museum of Homelessness: Visit us this season
1 May until 29 November
Exhibition: The Things We Keep
1 June until 31 August
Community art exhibition: Art Is
7 June until 20 July
Devonshire Square Launch Programme
3 July until 31 July
July music at Karamel Wood Green
9 August until 23 August
North London Stitch & Textiles Exhibition - Found at Forty Hall
Tuesday 17 June until Thursday 14 August
9.30amExamination in Public of Enfield Local Plan: Stage 2 hearings (not every day)
Saturday 12 July
Flower Power flower arranging class
Southgate Children's Literature Festival
10.00am - 5.00pmPalmers Greenery Community Café open*
11.00am - 4.00pmElsyng Palace Family Day 2025
12.00pm - 6.00pmDevonshire Square Launch Programme: Octave Street Party
12.30pm - 1.30pmFree inclusive tennis for teens and adults*
6.00pmRumours of Spring film festival: Hayaletler (Ghosts)
7.00pmHarringay Hot Nights: Grupo Lokito - Congolese and Cuban music (free entry)
7.30pmBroomfield Summer Festival: Park Live present California Screamin'
7.30pmRowantree Choir: Here Comes Summer!
7.30pmWinchmore Folk Dance Club: Saturday Evening Dance
7.30pmWinchmore String Orchestra Concert in aid of the New Bridge Foundation
Sunday 13 July
10.00am - 3.00pmForty Hall Farmers' Market
10.00am - 3.00pmLove Your N21 Sunday Market
10.00am - 5.00pmPalmers Greenery Community Café open*
1.00pm - 3.00pmDevonshire Square Launch Programme: DIRT! A Circus Adventure Underground
1.00pm - 5.00pmBroomfield Community Orchard summer picnic
2.00pm - 4.00pmBroomfield Community Orchard open*
2.30pm - 4.30pmBroomfield Conservatory open*
Monday 14 July
10.00am - 3.00pmAll-ability cycling hub for adults*
6.30pm - 9.30pmCooking Champions: Deep South BBQ Supper Club
Tuesday 15 July
10.00am - 12.00pmWeekly Knit & Natter*
10.00am - 12.00pmWinchmore Folk Dance Club*
11.00am - 3.00pmPalmers Greenery Community Café open*
Wednesday 16 July until Saturday 19 July
7.30pmRoom One Theatre Company presents Infernal: A Brontë Story
Wednesday 16 July
10.00am - 5.00pmPalmers Greenery Community Café open*
10.45am - 11.45amActive Enfield free weekly walk in Broomfield Park*
2.30pm - 4.30pmBroomfield Conservatory open*
6.00pm - 7.00pm, 7.00pm - 8.00pmSoft Yoga*
6.00pm - 7.30pmHerbal remedies: calendula salve workshop at Meridian One Community Garden
7.00pm - 8.00pmSalsa Wednesdays in Bounds Green*
7.00pm - 9.00pmWeekly stitch and knit social*
7.00pmPalmers Green and Highfield wards: Joint ward forum
Thursday 17 July until Sunday 20 July
Haringey Arts Festival 2025
Thursday 17 July
9.30am - 12.30pmMental Health Drop In at Enfield Town Library
11.00am - 3.00pmPalmers Greenery Community Café open*
1.30pm - 3.30pmBreastfeeding peer group drop-in at Bohun Primary School*
4.00pm - 6.00pmComputer Buddy at Palmers Green Library*
Friday 18 July
9.30amStretch and flexibility class*
11.30am - 12.30pmMonthly art lecture at Southgate Beaumont Care Community
2.00pm - 4.00pmComputer Buddy at Palmers Green Library*
7.00pmEnfield Black Film Club: Malcolm X
8.30pmSt Harmonica's Blues Club*
Saturday 19 July
Livestock Music Festival
10.00am - 5.00pmPalmers Greenery Community Café open*
11.00am - 4.00pmDevonshire Square Launch Programme: Virtual Reality Event
12.30pm - 1.30pmFree inclusive tennis for teens and adults*
1.30pm - 6.00pmConway Tennis Club Centenary Community Festival
4.00pmBroomfield Summer Festival: The Big Bad Wolf rock'n'roll musical
4.00pmRumours of Spring film festival: Trans Kashmir
Sunday 20 July
12.00pm - 1.30pmDevonshire Square Launch Programme: Introduction to Beatboxing Basics
2.00pm - 4.00pmUnlocking Broomfield: Deep listening/drawing sounds workshop
2.00pmForty Hill walk: A Time of Change
2.30pm - 4.30pmLive music in Broomfield Conservatory: Nickie Hart
Monday 21 July
11.00am - 12.00pmFamily storytelling: Macbeth - Shakespeare's Globe at Forty Hall
7.30pmEnfield Society talk: Charles Lamb and Thomas Hood
Wednesday 23 July
10.00am - 3.00pmFree summer cycling fun for children in Pymmes Park
1.30pm - 2.30pmPostnatal wellbeing session at the Dugdale
Friday 25 July
11.00am - 12.00pmSilver Surfers Tech Hub
6.00pm - 10.00pmDAC After Hours presents A Bollywood State of Mind
Saturday 26 July until Sunday 10 August
Children's Summer Season at Chickenshed
Saturday 26 July
9.00am - 3.00pmThe Great Enfield Vintage & Collectibles Fair
10.00am - 1.00pmFriends of Arnos Park Community Volunteer Groundforce Day
2.00pm - 8.00pmArnos Park Summer Sizzler community BBQ
6.00pm - 7.35pmRumours of Spring film festival: Made in Bangladesh
Thursday 31 July
10.30am - 12.30pmUnlocking Broomfield: Deep listening/drawing sounds workshop
10.30amThe Arts Society Enfield: Catherine the Great, the World’s Greatest Collector
Sunday 3 August
10.00am - 3.00pmDr Bike in the Bowes LTN
11.00am - 4.00pmMyddleton Road Market
1.30pm - 5.30pmBroomfield Blues Week 1
2.00pm - 5.00pmBowes & Bounds Repair Café
Monday 4 August
10.00am - 12.00pmSip, chat, refill coffee morning at Meridian One Community Garden
1.00pm - 4.00pmMental health drop-in at Palmers Green Library
Tuesday 5 August
11.00amEnfield Society talk: Thompson and Bywater - Edwardian justice on trial
8.00pmOpen Mic Night with That Blue Patch
Saturday 9 August
Flower Power flower arranging class
7.30pmWinchmore Folk Dance Club: Saturday Evening Dance
7.30pmWinchmore Folk Dance Club: Saturday Evening Dance
Tuesday 19 August
2.00pm - 5.00pmNightingale Cancer Centre: Prostate cancer seminar with Errol McKellar
Friday 12 September
10.00am - 2.30pmEnfield Transport Bazaar
7.30pmEnfield Archaeological Society talk: Imperial Logistics in Early China, the First Emperor's Mausoleum and and the Making of the Terracotta Army (rescheduled)
Saturday 13 September
4.00pm - 6.30pmBroomfield Summer Festival: British Touring Shakespeare Company present Frankenstein
Sunday 21 September
1.00pm - 2.00pmFamily storytelling: The Winter’s Tale - Shakespeare’s Globe at Forty Hall
1.00pm - 4.00pmApple Day in Broomfield Community Orchard
Tuesday 14 October
8.00pmTalk: Wives of the Devil and his Brood - Eleanor of Acquitaine and her contemporary queens
Wednesday 7 January until Saturday 10 January 2026
T.E.O. Productions present Sleeping Beauty
Latest Enfield Climate Action Forum webinars
8 July 2025
The Heat Will Kill You First
4 July 2025
Engaging Young People Through Story Telling
4 July 2025
Engaging Young People Through Citizen Science
3 July 2025
Climate Change & Learning Styles
3 July 2025
Engaging Young People On Climate Change
2 July 2025
Enfield Climate Action Forum June 2025
1 July 2025
Air Pollution - Citizen Science & Schools
1 July 2025
Th Climate Emergency & Your Home
30 June 2025
Climate Action Plans For Schools
16 June 2025
Addressing Poverty In Enfield
31 May 2025
Purple Shoots & The Micro Credit Movement
30 May 2025
Empowering The Community Through Microcredit
29 May 2025
May Forum 2025 Empowering Communities Through Microcredit
24 May 2025
Waste Heat & Community Engagement
