While we admire and support the Christmas campaigns that we see pop up in December, we also know that help is urgently needed all year round, each and every year. As some people pack away after the festive break, we are still here.
Our support is not limited to a food package, but it leaps beyond - we form connections, we listen and respond to everyone who steps through our doors. We open up a warm, safe, environment which aims to feel like a home away from home.
For us to continue to thrive and grow, and keep supporting as many people as possible, we are asking you to become a Friend of Cooking Champions. Even a donation of just £5-10 per month can make a HUGE impact on the lives of those who come through our doors.
Pop to our People's Fundraising page to donate, and we promise to keep you updated with how your support is making a difference. Thank you, we appreciate you! Team Cooking Champions
It is a little known fact that running a car engine while not in traffic is illegal. Another little known fact is that turning off engines while stationary, even for a very short time, significantly reduces emissions of toxic exhaust fumes and climate-changing greenhouse gases.
Recently the City of London Police began enforcing the law against running engines while parked, and there are plans to extend this to more London boroughs - unfortunately, Enfield is not on the list.
An online.......
The Mayor of London's public consultation on measures to resolve the capital's air quality crisis finishes on Friday 29th July. Recently published reports question the adequacy of Sadiq Khan's proposals and suggest much tougher controls, especially in relation to diesel cars.
See this earlier article for information about the consultation.
Call to completely remove diesel cars
A report by the Institute for Public Policy Research, drawing on analysis by Kings College London, calls.......
The Mayor of London has set out his intention to address poor air quality in the capital. He has announced plans to introduce new measures, such as an extra charge on the most polluting vehicles, and expanding the Ultra Low Emission Zone beyond inner London, in order to improve the local environment and health of residents and visitors.
Residents of all London boroughs are invited to participate in an online consultation about their views on the severity of the problem and proposed.......
A Day of Action is being coordinated by Thames21 and CleanupUK to clean up the footpath beside the New River. Residents are coming together at 5 locations to spruce up these well used and well loved paths beside this seventeenth century aqueduct.
Volunteers are invited to join Thames21 and CleanupUK at one of the sites in Hackney, Haringey or Enfield.
Meet at 10am at any of these locations:
Turkey Street: between Bulls Cross and St Ignatius College, Enfield, EN1 contact:.......
The following advice has been issued by the British Lung Foundation.
What can I do about air pollution?
On most days and away from busy city streets, air pollution in the UK does not rise to levels at which we need to make major changes to our habits to avoid exposure.
Nobody needs to worry about going outdoors. Children should not be kept from going to school or stopped from taking part in games.
If you have a lung condition, you might want to avoid spending long periods of time in places.......
The following is reproduced from www.parliament.uk
Urgent Government action is needed to stop up to 50,000 people a year dying early from air pollution-related illnesses, says the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, in its report on Air quality.
Report: Air quality
Report: Air quality (PDF 675KB)
Inquiry: Air quality
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee
The Committee's Air quality report presses for new Clean Air Zones in dozens of English towns and cities.......
The upcoming bank holiday sees the opening of a large wildlife reserve that includes two reservoirs hoding water that has travelled along the New River, through Palmers Green. The Woodberry Wetlands project is run by the London Wildlife Trust and is making the area accessible to the public for the first time since the reservoirs were built in 1833.
You can watch a clip about the Wetlands from BBC1.
The wetlands will be open every day and there will be regular guided tours and various.......
The British Lung Foundation is asking members of the public to send emails to candidates for the Mayor of London and London Assembly Members requesting that they sign up to the Foundation's Manifesto for Better Lung Health in London.
The Foundation's website has a pre-written email for people to send, with or without their own edits. The pre-written text reads as follows:
I’m writing to you as a candidate in the upcoming London elections to ask you to protect London's lungs........
Nine of the UK's leading environmental campaigns have come together to publish a manifesto outlining ways in which the next Mayor of London could tackle the capital's growing environmental problems.
Greener London: What the next Mayor can do to improve our capital has been produced by the Campaign for Better Transport, the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England, Friends of the Earth, the Green Alliance, Greenpeace, the London Wildlife Trust, the National Trust, the Royal.......
The environmental group Thames 21 has issued a progress report on one of its north London projects - the Salmons Brook Healthy River Challenge. During 2015 work was continued in Grovelands Park and along the Houndsden Gutter.
What is the Salmons Brook Healthy River Challenge?
The Salmons Brook Healthy River Challenge is part of Thames 21's Love the Lea programme of work to improve the quality of the water in the River Lea, some of which is used to provide drinking water and some.......