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.
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07 January 2026
Residents of Enfield are are welcome to volunteer as mentors for students at schools in Haringey. Mentoring can make a meaningful difference to a young person’s confidence, motivation and future opportunities. It's also highly rewarding for the volunteers – when one person mentors, two lives are changed.
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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.
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10 December 2025
All People All Places, a charity that seeks to prevent homelessness in Enfield and Haringey, has launched its winter fundraising campaign with the slogan Help Before Homelessness.
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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.
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05 November 2025
Enfield Council and the Restart Project are working together to set up a 'mobile repair café' which would operate from multiple venues across the borough, repairing electronic devices and other items, and teaching people repair skills. If you're interesting in volunteering, or just want to find out more, there's a meeting at Enfield Town Library on 22nd November.
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28 October 2025
The Ruth Winston Centre in Palmers Green is recruiting volunteers for two important roles: a Marketing Coordinator and an Office Assistant.
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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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20 August 2025
Enfield Climate Action Forum is recruiting volunteers to help schools handle the challenges of climate change.
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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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16 April 2025
Local charity Cooking Champions invite you to a feast of Mexican cuisine on 3rd May, celebrating not just a historic battle south of the border, but most importantly their own fifth anniversary.
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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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20 December 2024
Whether you're a volunteer or not, your input into an anonymous survey will help develop the London Vision & Action Plan for Volunteering.
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11 November 2024
In September Barnet-based Noah's Ark Children's Hospice won an Investing in Volunteers award from the UK Volunteering Forum (UKVF) in recognition of its excellence in managing and developing its pool of 163 volunteers.
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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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17 October 2024
The Dugdale Arts Centre is looking for members of the local community with a stake in arts and culture to sit on its community panel.
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17 October 2024
As Cooking Champions celebrate two years of their community kitchen, the Enfield-based charity has launched a winter fundraising appeal aimed at raising £10,000 to support its work feeding the hungry and helping people in the borough prepare their own affordable nutritious meals.
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14 August 2024
A local volunteer who helps enrich the lives of residents of the Southgate Beaumont care home is through to the national final of the Barchester Care Awards.
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10 July 2024
The latest issue of the guide to volunteering opportunities in the borough and further afield has been published and can be downloaded from the Enfield Voluntary Action (EVA) website.
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