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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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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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.
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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.
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26 October 2025
In combination with their donors and partners, Cooking Champions can turn your £20 a month donation into food worth £150.40.
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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'.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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21 June 2025
Watch a recording of Nnena Anyanwu, manager of Citizen's Advice Enfield, briefing Enfield Climate Action Forum about poverty in the borough and how her organisation can help households.
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08 June 2025
Learning to make tasty, nutritionally balanced meals is a life skill with huge mental and physical health benefits. Cooking Champions would like to run more childrens' cooking lessons in their community kitchen, using fresh produce and respecting dietary and cultural choices. Your donations will be match funded by the Childhood Trust.
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01 January 2025
The wonderful Enfield charity Cooking Champions have published the highlights of their achievements in 2024. They have big plans for 2025, but like other small charities can't assume that they will survive the year. You too can help write their next chapter, by volunteering, donating or simply spreading the message.
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11 December 2024
A meeting on 18th December will discuss a new report that uncovers the scale of food insecurity in the borough and the efforts being made to help people stave off hunger.
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26 November 2024
Help All People All Places prevent homelessness in Enfield & Haringey. And support families who are facing the trauma of losing their homes. Donate by 30th December and your donation will be match funded by the Aviva Community Fund.
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21 November 2024
Every year Anne Nicholls organises collection of toiletries to add to food bags handed out at Christmas by local food bank charities and refuges. This year, could you help with some everyday toiletries, and perhaps a little luxury to donate to someone in need for Christmas?
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06 November 2024
With poverty still a serious problem both nationally and locally, two Enfield-based charities are seeking volunteers to help distribute food to the hungry.
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24 July 2024
In 2021 a campaign to prevent a 24-hour gambling establishment opening in Palmers Green was unsuccessful. Reports in the Observer newspaper uncover the severe social and personal problems that can be caused by seemingly harmless slot machines hidden behind the opaque windows of branches of Merkur Slots and other arcade operators. They also reveal that the previous government was preparing to ease already lax restrictions on such establishments. Will the new government take a different approach?
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10 July 2024
A powerful message for the new occupier of No 10 Downing Street from a 14-year-old resident of Ponders End.
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03 July 2024
A group that brings together 27 charities is calling on the next government to fix "stark health inequalities" that are cutting thousands of lives short across the UK every year.
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