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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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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07 October 2025
Local teens are the stars of a new video filmed in Broomfield Park with the aim of raising funds for the campaign to Make Space for Girls. All donations made between 8th and 15th October will be doubled by sponsors.
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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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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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06 November 2024
The Make Space for Girls Broomfield Park project has published a report on the series of workshops with young women that were held in spring this year. Their purpose was to explore and co-design ideas of what's needed to make Broomfield Park more appealing and welcoming for teenage girls, non-binary teens, and boys.
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25 October 2024
4th Southgate Scout Group has room for young people from 6 to 14 years old.
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02 October 2024
Healthwatch Enfield introduce their newly published guide to mental health support services for young people living in the borough.
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25 September 2024
The Enfield Over 50s Forum has added its voice to the campaign against Enfield Council's proposals to close eight smaller libraries. It has launched a petition calling on the council to instead make use of community libraries to 'protect, serve and strengthen' the borough's neighbourhoods and communities.
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16 May 2024
On Monday the umbrella body London Councils launched a new reportexploring ways the boroughs can break the barriers to addressing youth unemployment in London.
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10 April 2024
The Make Space for Girls Broomfield Park project is recruiting local girls, young women and non-binary teens to take part in a series of workshops starting this month aimed at teasing out what it is that deters them from using the park as a social space for 'hanging out'. The findings will be used in the design of new park facilities that they will be happy to make use of.
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05 March 2024
Chickenshed's March fundraising campaign, 'we hear you', is in support of their mentoring and counselling service for young people, which helps tackle the mental health problems that are today one of the biggest challenges facing them.
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22 November 2023
The borough's health services watchdog, Healthwatch Enfield, is conducting an online survey to determine what areas it should focus on during 2024.
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30 October 2023
Residents are being invited to contribute ideas to a project to reopen a historic school building in Edmonton as a community hub which will provide training opportunities for young people in the borough.
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06 September 2023
Among the many people who had a great time at last Sunday's Palmers Green Festival were members of the Broomfield Park Skatepark Group, whose stall attracted many visitors. As a survey is launched to gauge opinion, campaigners are continuing their efforts to raise money for a feasibility study.
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02 August 2023
Enfield Youth Justice Service (YJS) needs volunteers who: are concerned about youth crime and serious youth violence; are able to engage with children and young people; would like to be part of the restorative justice process; can work with children and young people who offend to help support a change in their behaviours and actions; can help our children and young people to make Enfield a better place to live and work.
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06 April 2023
The conversion of derelict garages into 35 workspaces plus communal areas in Upper Edmonton is nearing completion. If you're aged between 18 and 30 and want to start or grow a business, Angel Yard could be just the place for you!
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05 April 2023
Accelerate is a free pioneering design, education and mentoring programme providing access to a wider pool of young people and increasing diversity in the built environment professions. Applications are now open for next year's course, starting in October 2023.
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01 March 2023
The charity Cooking Champions is launching a 12-week cooking course for teenagers, starting on 15th March and described as perfect for anyone who wishes to find out about a range of different cuisines.
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21 September 2022
The autumn term is starting at Collage Voices - a performing arts and creative media programme for children, young people and emerging artists.
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