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
People who were in the vicinity of the former Southgate Town Hall early this morning have mentioned that something unusual seemed to be happening - there was a distinct buzz of activity. One of our sources was told that when demolishing an internal wall workers came across some sort of old manuscript and that a Mr Goole got in contact with the Council to report the find. However, when we tried later this morning to talk to the people working on the building, they seemed very.......
The concept of Play Streets is catching on in and around Palmers Green. People from fourteen streets in Palmers Green, Southgate and Winchmore Hill met at a meeting at Baskervilles last month to learn from the experience of Devonshire Road residents and find out how to go about making their own street a Play Street.
Play street in Devonshire Road (photo: Phil Rogers)So what does a Play Street involve? It means getting together with your neighbours and agreeing to close the street to.......
Campaigners trying to prevent the conversion or demolition of local pubs, such as the Green Dragon in Winchmore Hill and the Fox in Palmers Green, received some good news today, when the government announced a change to planning laws.
From 6 April where a pub has been nominated or listed as an Asset of Community Value, a planning application will be required before a change of use or demolition. Though this will not prevent eventual conversion or demolition, it will provide an opportunity for.......
The Pinkham Way Alliance is appealing to the public to support its campaign to prevent the building of waste processing facilities in Pinkham Wood (next to the North Circular in New Southgate, just past the railway bridge).
The Alliance has sent the following email to its supporters and is asking for wider support from the community:
Haringey's Sites Allocation (SA) consultation is underway; please sign up now in support of the PWA response.
This is vital to our campaign. It will determine.......
The Council has a duty under the legislation to put in place proposals for the preservation and enhancement of its conservation areas. As part of this duty the Council is reviewing the Conservation Area Appraisals and Management Proposals for its 22 conservation areas in three phases.
This means that the existing Appraisals and Management Proposals have come, or are coming, to the end of their five-year life span. Through the review changes in the conservation areas can be reflected and new.......
Palmers Green residents who are angry with the wholesale removal of trees from a trackside cutting have begun sending messages of protest to a Network Rail manager.
Complaints relate to a section of track adjacent to the Fox Lane bridge. On the western side of the cutting absolutely all trees and bushes have been removed along the section of track next to the new "Palmadium" housing development. Quite apart from the visual impact, there will be an obvious severe affect on wildlife.......
On Wednesday the community website Love Your Doorstep (LYDS) invited Councillor Chris Bond to record an interview about Cycle Enfield/Mini Holland for later transmission on the locally based internet radio station Radio JJ.
Emma Rigby, the brains behind LYDS, used questions provided by her readers.
The recording will be streamed by Radio JJ this Sunday (22nd February) at 8pm. To listen to it, visit radiojj.co.uk/lyds........
Enfield Council has begun the first phase of consultation for a further Quieter Neighbourhood in the vicinity of Palmers Green: Fernleigh Road QN will comprise Hoppers Road and all roads to the east as far as, but not including, Green Lanes, plus Winchmore Hill Green and the area to its east as far as Green Lanes, including Compton Road and Station Road.
Residents will be sent a questionnaire but can also respond online - in fact, the Council are seeking responses from all members of.......
Work on the Fox Lane Quieter Neighbourhood has now moved on to the stage where selected residents are invited to participate in design workshops. Colin Younger attended a workshop on 10th February.
Following the presentation hosted by the Fox Lane and District Residents' Association, Enfield Traffic and Transport officers held a design workshop on 10th February at St Johns Church Hall. Overall this was a well-managed meeting and the discussions were good tempered.
About fifty residents.......
Following the closure and boarding up of the Green Dragon in Winchmore Hill, a petition has been launched calling on Enfield Council to not allow the building to be converted into flats, retail or any other alternative use.
The Green Dragon in its most recent guise: English pub downstairs, Thai restaurant upstairsThe online petition, initiated by the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA), says that saving the building as a public house is important because
There has been a Green Dragon pub on or near.......