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Palmers Green Community Newsletter 7 November 2024

Palmers Green Community Newsletter 7 November 2024
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7 November 2024

cooking champions winter appeal

Making Broomfield Park more welcoming for teenage girls

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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Council advertising £320,000 contract to deliver the Unlocking Broomfield Park project

Enfield Council is currently advertising for a multidisciplinary team, led by a conservation landscape architect, to deliver the project to dismantle the remains of Broomfield House, 'memorialise' it, bring the land it occupied back into use as part of Broomfield Park and restore various heritage features of the park.

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Volunteers sought to fight hunger this winter

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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Should Twenty be Plenty on Enfield's roads?

Just to clear up some possible confusion, the Should Twenty be Plenty on Enfield's Roads? meeting isn't any kind of consultation and it isn't being held by the council or at their instigation. It's an opportunity to hear a national expert from the 20s Plenty for Us campaign set out the arguments for 20mph being the normal limit on urban roads, including most roads in Enfield, and to ask him some questions. So an hour should be quite long enough.

The meeting's on Zoom at 8pm on Tuesday 19th November.

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Reported elsewhere...

Three ways for schools to make climate education inclusive for all children

Virtual Consultation Survey - communities, partnerships and heritage at All Saints Church, Edmonton

The Hard Truth About Soft Plastic: Facts & FAQs

Young SEND interns helping to build the new Piccadilly line trains

More toilets will take 'worry' out of London travel

New housing fails to move away from car dependency, report finds

London bus drivers warn of fatigue and poor conditions

Controversial Liverpool Street station redevelopment dropped in favour of new design

So Thames Water is going bust? 6 steps the government must take to protect the public and our rivers.

'Kick in the teeth' for London rail commuters: Season tickets to rise by up to £300 for delays-hit trains

London’s tube and rail stations to get public toilets, with first seven stations announced

Japan-style ‘tiny forests’ are taking root in British cities

Brake analysis of road casualty data shows that every 19 days a class of young children is killed or seriously injured on roads in Britain


Latest from Enfield Dispatch

Khan says ‘London is for everyone’ in response to second Trump presidency

Plans for ‘unsafe’ tower block refused at fourth time of asking

Hospice invites North Londoners to ‘light up a life’

Twin council initiatives aim to tackle crime and improve community safety

London Assembly calls for more cash to help replace dangerous cladding

London Councils report warns Send pupils being ‘failed’ by lack of funding

Police issue appeal for witnesses to one of last week’s fatal road collisions

Woman charged with murder as female victim of Edmonton attack named

London-wide art trail idea to be considered by assembly

Former deputy council leader among candidates in Jubilee by-election

Three hundred and counting

Working tirelessly for Enfield Lock

Enfield Caribbean Association given £100k lottery cash

Government urged to decide Whitewebbs planning application

Campaign group hosting ‘discussion’ on 20mph limits in Enfield

New mental health trust covering five North London boroughs launched

Council urged to tackle vandalism and antisocial behaviour after park’s toilets closed

Storytelling at its funniest

Mystery over future of ‘night czar’ role at City Hall

The living story of local history

Murder probe launched after woman stabbed to death in Edmonton

TfL responds to complaints over North London bus services

Construction set to restart on Arnos Grove Station housing site

Rough sleeping in London hits new record high

Sadiq Khan welcomes first Labour budget in 14 years


Consultations and surveys

Dates shown are deadlines for responding

Library consultation - Draft library strategy (Enfield Council 14/11/2024)

Draft North London Joint Waste Strategy (North London Waste Authority 23/1/2025)

 


Talkies Community Cinema

Thursday 7 November

Joyland

Dugdale Arts Centre


Saturday 16 November

The Future of Creativity

Waterhouse Hall

 


What's on this week and next

Events marked * normally repeat weekly

Exhibitions and longer runs

25 July until 11 January 2025

Exhibition: Enfield's Forgotten Island

11 November until 17 November

Tottenham Literature Festival

20 November until 11 January 2025

Chickenshed: Pan

5 December until 30 December

Aladdin and the Legion of Genies - A Platinum seasonal pantomime

Wednesday 20 November

9.30am - 3.00pm

Palmers Greenery Community Café open*

10.00am - 11.00am

Story Time at Winchmore Hill Library*

10.45am - 11.45am

Active Enfield free weekly walk in Broomfield Park*

2.00pm - 4.00pm

Broomfield Conservatory open*

6.00pm - 7.00pm, 7.00pm - 8.00pm

Soft Yoga*

7.00pm - 9.00pm

Weekly stitch and knit social*

Thursday 21 November

11.00am - 3.00pm

Palmers Greenery Community Café open*

6.30pm - 8.30pm

Learn to Knit Socks

Future Highlights

Friday 22 November

Meeting of Enfield Transport Users Group (ETUG)

Saturday 23 November

Enfield Art Circle Christmas Exhibition and Sale

Christmas Bazaar at the Ruth Winston Community Centre

Southgate Symphony Orchestra: Be moved by great music

Sunday 24 November

Christ the King Concert at Christ Church Southgate

Thursday 28 November

The Arts Society Enfield: 'The Very Model of an English Entertainment' – The Savoy Operas of W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan

Saturday 30 November

Learn to crochet decorations and gifts

Learn to make fabric jewellery

Sunday 1 December

Arnos Grove Ward Forum

Tuesday 3 December

Meeting of the Enfield Transport Circle

Thursday 5 December until Monday 30 December

Aladdin and the Legion of Genies - A Platinum seasonal pantomime

Saturday 7 December and Sunday 8 December

SMP Theatre presents The Meaning of Christmas

Saturday 7 December

Enfield in Song

Winchmore String Orchestra: Concert in aid of Age UK Enfield

Sunday 8 December until Saturday 14 December

Incognito Theatre presents A Streetcar Named Desire

Sunday 8 December

Festive Market

North London Hospice Big Festive Fete

Tuesday 10 December

Grief Café at Enfield Town Library

Wednesday 11 December

Singers Night at the Little Green Dragon

DJ Juke Box at Balboa Nights

Friday 20 December

Monthly art lecture at Southgate Beaumont Care Community


Latest GlobalNet21 and Enfield Voices webinars

30 October 2024

Climate Change & Food Poverty

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30 October 2024

Extreme Heat & Our Future Welfare

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27 September 2024

Enfield’s Climate Action Plan - A Discussion

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6 August 2024

Climate Change & Food Security

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2 July 2024

Election Hustings Southgate & Wood Green Constituency

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2 July 2024

Election Hustings Enfield North Constituency

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1 July 2024

Election Hustings - Edmonton And Winchmore Hill Constituency

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1 July 2024

Election Hustings - Enfield North Constituency

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30 June 2024

Election Hustings - Edmonton And Winchmore Hill Constituency

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28 June 2024

Election Hustings - Southgate & Wood Green Constituency

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23 June 2024

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22 May 2024

Fairtrade And Climate Change

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21 May 2024

EnCaf Representations On Enfield's Local Plan

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14 May 2024

How Climate Change Will Alter Our Food

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10 May 2024

Collaborative Projects To Green Up Neighbourhoods

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24 April 2024

The Coming Heat Storm

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24 April 2024

Extreme Heat & Tree Canopies

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24 April 2024

Tackling Floods Through Sponge Cities

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10 April 2024

Feedback From London Assembly Hustings

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10 April 2024

TacklingFly-tipping

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