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Cooking Champions in 2025: “creating long-term, sustainable impact and empowering people to feed themselves and their families”

07 June 2026

Cooking Champions have published their annual report for 2025, outlining in words and figures the achievements of the Enfield-based charity over the course of the year.

Six Enfield groups secure Trust for London grants for housing campaign

10 May 2026

Enfield Voluntary Action has announced that six community groups based in the borough have been awarded funding from Trust for London to run a project aimed at improving the lives of people in temporary accommodation.

Coming to the aid of a local foodbank: eight hours of live music

21 April 2026

Bowes Park Folk Club have published the lineup for Saturday's Food Bank Fundraiser at Bounds Green Bowls Club. All takings will go to support a food bank with clients in Palmers Green that needs more people to start donating if it is to survive past this summer.

Local homelessness charity recruiting outreach workers for Women at Risk project

20 April 2026

The charity All People All Places is recruiting two outreach and project workers to join its Edmonton-based team. They will join a project to support women identified as at high risk of harm, exploitation and homelessness.

New campaign launched to combat ageism in London

15 April 2026

A campaign against ageism has been launched this week by Age UK London, after a survey revealed that a large number of older people feel “devalued, frustrated and even disempowered” because of attitudes towards them.

Five years on from the murder of Sarah Everard: has much changed?

04 March 2026

Five year after Sarah Everard was murdered by a London policeman, the chief executive of the charity Solace looks back on what has happened since then and concludes that with regard to violence against women, little has changed, and the Met have not sufficiently reformed.

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Charity celebrates successful fundraising ahead of new project to help homeless women

28 January 2026

All People All Places (APAP), a charity helping homeless people in Enfield and Haringey, is celebrating a highly successful winter fundraising campaign. APAP are planning to move to new premises and launch a new project.

Food bank with clients in PG sends out an SOS

08 January 2026

Bounds Green Food Bank, whose 4600+ clients include many Palmers Green families, is 'fighting to stay open'. With funds sufficient only to stay in operation until April, the food bank has launched an urgent appeal for more people to provide a one-off donation or preferably a regular weekly donation.

Delivered: Bags of Love!

21 December 2025

Cooking Champions have posted a message on social media thanking Anne Nicholls for her creation of Christmas gift bags for the hungry residents that the Enfield-based charity provides with meals and food items. The bags were filled with toiletries and hygiene products donated by local people.

Christmas at Cooking Champions: Festive products for sale and an invitation to lunch on Christmas Day

08 December 2025

The work of the wonderful charity Cooking Champions doesn't stop at Christmas. On Christmas Day they invite everyone to lunch at their home in Ponders End, and in the run-up to the big day you can buy special festive products prepared in the Cooking Champions kitchen.

Land/Lines: An opportunity for younger voices to be heard in debates about the future of our borough

25 November 2025

How are the loss of community spaces, the housing crisis, structural racism and the climate emergency connected? Join Landlines, a new peer learning project at Dugdale Arts Centre for local people aged 18–35 to come together and creatively explore how land ownership shapes the way we live, connect, and belong. An opportunity to involve younger people in conversations about the future of the borough where older voices currently dominate.

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Residents' 'fear and lack of trust' prompts Palmers Green crime walkabout by politicians and police officers

12 November 2025

A recent walkabout of reported crime and ASB hotspots in Palmers Green by councillors and senior police officers was prompted by a letter from the local MP passing on concerns from constituents about incidents such as drug dealing carried out in broad daylight, leading to some residents 'withdrawing from their community' due to 'fear and lack of trust'.

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Spread dignity and joy this Christmas: Help Anne fill Bags of Love

12 November 2025

Anne Nicholls invites you to help spread dignity and joy this holiday season by donating essential toiletries that can make a real difference to people in need in our community. Your donations will be used to create dignity bags that will be distributed by the food bank run by Cooking Champions.

Culture Connect: Celebrating diversity and promoting unity and understanding

05 November 2025

Enfield Racial Equality Council has received lottery funding to run four events celebrating the borough's diversity and promoting unity and understanding. The first will be held on 2nd December at the Rumi Mosque in Edmonton.

Cooking Champions: 'Funding has never been more challenging'

26 October 2025

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

Lend a hand to help hungry people and reduce food waste

18 October 2025

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 author challenges 'myths' about Gen Z

22 September 2025

'Lazy', 'entitled', 'unreliable', 'snowflakes' - just some of the unflattering terms frequently used to describe 'Gen Z'. But are these descriptions fair and accurate, or completely wide of the mark? In a newly published book, Palmers Green-based educationalist Alex Atherton draws on his career-long experience to reassess this much maligned generation and to suggest that if older generations want to draw on Gen Z's strengths, they need to change their approach.

UK’s first wellbeing hub for diverse youth and families opens in Edmonton Green this weekend

04 September 2025

On Saturday 6th September the Right2Thrive UK project will open a pioneering Wellbeing Hub in Edmonton Green, designed to tackle the local community's severe problems of youth violence and social inequality.

Vacancy for fundraising organiser at local homelessness charity

03 September 2025

The Edmonton-based charity All People All Places (APAP) have a vacancy for a full- or part-time community fundraising and partnerships coordinator.

Cooking Champions Tapas Supper Club moves to Grange Park

04 August 2025

The next Cooking Champions Supper Club event is coming up on 5th September. The theme: Spanish-style tapas. A chance to taste some delicious food and help fund the charity's life-changing work. The event now has a new venue: the front garden at St Peter's Church in Grange Park.

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