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Charities

Free removal of unwanted bulky objects and electrical items

10 December 2014

Residents who want to dispose of unwanted electrical items or bulky furniture are being urged to take advantage for two free services Enfield Council is offering. The services are being offered to encourage recycling, reduce fly tipping and promote the reuse of perfectly good electrical items that have been replaced or which are no longer wanted. Enfield Council is also providing free compostable liners for food waste in council libraries for a limited time.Residents can arrange a free.......

Friends of Firs Farm

06 December 2014

Friends of Firs Farm - entry in Palmers Green Community Directory

Charity gala night at the Intimate, with a special guest

05 November 2014

Despite the name, Finchley & Friern Barnet Operatic Society, or FFBOS for short, is based in Enfield borough, rehearsing in New Southgate and performing at the Intimate Theatre in Palmers Green. The next FFBOS show - the classic musical Mack and Mabel - opens at the Intimate on 12th October and runs until the 15th. The opening night will be a gala performance in aid of Cherry Lodge Cancer Care in Barnet.  One of the guests will be Elaine Page, who is Honorary President of FFBOS. See.......

Boogie-ing to transform the "Tin Tabernacle"

11 October 2014

If you travel to Bowes Park station, walk up the stairs from the platform and turn right (towards Bounds Green), the first building you encounter when leaving the station is Shaftesbury Hall, a former chapel now known locally as the "Tin Tabernacle".  It's a rare survivor of a type of metal self-assembly church that sprang up the Victorian era, but is now in a state of disrepair.  Shaftesbury Hall aka the Tin TabernacleSince 1974 the Tin Tabernacle has belonged to North London.......

Your breakfast can help look after young adult carers

04 October 2014

Enfield Carers Centre is raising money for a Young Adult Carers Project to help 3000 young people in Enfield looking after someone in their family with an illness or disability. Help us raise funds by hosting a breakfast during 17-19th October. Invite your friends and family to enjoy a delicious breakfast and make a donation. Why not have a special theme to make your breakfast fun? Contact us and we can supply you with placemats, recipes, invitations and other publicity material for free!.......

Singing the "Greek Blues" to help leukaemia sufferers

03 October 2014

The haunting Greek musical style Rembetika (the "Greek Blues") will be the theme of a trilogy of events - two concerts and a film - which will be raising money for the Leukaemia Cancer Society, starting this month.  And appropriately enough, given the large Greek-speaking presence in our area, the first two events in the Trilogy of the Greek Blues will be taking place locally. The Trilogy begins with Rembetika and Beyond - A Journey into the Greek Blues, a concert at the Millfield Theatre.......

Enfield Carers Centre's Best Breakfast Campaign

24 September 2014

Enfield Carers Centre has contacted Palmers Green Community asking for help from our readers for its Best Breakfast Campaign, which will take place in October.  A good opportunity for those of us who are fortunate enough not to have carer responsibilities (at the moment anyway) to help this organisation provide its invaluable support to those who need it. Dear Friends in Palmers Green, Many of our registered carers live in N13 so it’s great to see that community spirit in N13 is live.......

Helping people recover through their own creativity

21 September 2014

The newest addition to our Community Directory is Studio 306, which is a community interest company based in the Chocolate Factory, Wood Green.  Studio 306 helps people to recover from mental health problems by empowering them to use their creativity.  Specialised tutors teach them, helping them to rediscover forgotten skills, learn new ones and boost their confidence in four creative disciplines: ceramics - produced using stoneware slip and earthenware clay and featuring bright and.......

Nightingale Cancer Support Centre

27 July 2014

Nightingale Cancer Support Centre - entry in Palmers Green Community Directory

Citizens Advice Enfield

20 July 2014

Citizens Advice Enfield - entry in Palmers Green Community Directory

Stroke survivors “Stroke and PAT” their way to improved health with animal-assisted therapy

04 February 2014

Lottery funded ‘Stroke and PAT’ project offers highly innovative, and motivating, therapeutic opportunities for stroke survivors to incorporate PAT dogs into their rehabilitation treatment programme. It is a collaborative venture between the national charity Pets As Therapy, founding Director of Stroke Rehab Dogs, Sallie Bollans, and the Ruth Winston Centre, London N13........

Buying charity Christmas cards? Make sure your money actually reaches the good cause

28 October 2013

If you're planning to send charity Christmas cards this year, be careful where you buy them from! If you purchase them from a well-known High Street name, the chances are that most of the money you spend will go to the retailer, not to the charity. Very few shops pass on more than 25 per cent of the selling price to the named charity, and the average figure is actually closer to 10 per cent. We don't yet have the figures for 2013, but the Charities Advisory Trust carried out research last year.......

Noah's Ark to the rescue!

28 August 2013

When you visit the Palmers Green Community Festival on Sunday 1st September, be sure to visit the stand run by Noah's Ark Children's Hospice. This is a locally based charity with a difference: a hospice without its own building. Instead of patients coming to them, they come to the patients and care for them - and the other members of their families - in famliar home surroundings. Noah's Ark estimate that there are 900 children in the boroughs they serve - Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey and.......

Help the North London Hospice buy new syringe drivers to manage pain

27 July 2020

At a time when the Covid-19 pandemic has seriously affected its fundraising, the North London Hospice needs to buy expensive syringe drivers so that patients can manage pain.

The Cards for Good Causes shop is back, starting on Saturday

26 October 2020

For the 27th year in succession, Palmers Green United Reformed Church will be hosting the Cards for Good Causes Christmas card shop. Undeterred by Covid, enough volunteers have come forward to open the shop inside the church for six hours a day, six days a week for nearly seven weeks. They are doing this in a truly good cause, because when you buy your cards from Cards for Good Causes you can be certain that the money will be going to the charities.

Easter eggs for the food bank - drop-off point in PG

16 March 2022

Baker and Chase estate agents are acting as a drop-off point for people to donate Easter Eggs to the Enfield Food Bank.

Please help Noah's Ark find more nurses

03 February 2021

It has been an intense start to 2021 for all at Noah's Ark. They are receiving a large number of referrals for children requiring acute care. An already very significant local need has been exacerbated by the pandemic. Please help them find the additional specialist nurses required to support the children relying on Noah's Ark through the pandemic, and beyond.

Get back into the swing of things to help support cancer patients

09 June 2021

The Nightingale Cancer Support Centre's annual charity golf day is back this year, on 13th August

Charity appeals to government and public to come to aid of domestic abuse victims

24 October 2022

The charity Solace is warning that the current economic crisis, especially the rises in the cost of living, poses a serious threat to the safety of its clients - women and families who are victims of domestic abuse.

Celebrate International Women's Day with food cooked by celebrity chefs - while helping fight hunger!

10 January 2024

The wonderful Enfield-based charity Cooking Champions never cease to amaze. In March, to mark International Women's Day, they're organising a special Inspiring Women Gala Dinner, with some very special guest chefs. And they're offering a chance for us to nominate an Inspiring Woman who'll be invited along for free.

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