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Volunteer at the Palmers Green Festival on the 2nd September in Broomfield Park. An amazing opportunity to give back and contribute to your local community festival! We are looking for volunteers to help on the day.
Francis Sealey's interviews with local community activists continue with Karl Brown speaking about the Palmers Green Festival - how it started, how it's run and what innovations we can look forward to this year.
The organisers of the Palmers Green Festival have issued an appeal for help of a very practtcal kind.
Palmers Green Festival seeks relief
Festival organisers are worried that its ongoing success might cause some discomfort to visitors. Organising volunteer Angie Smith explained, “For a number of years our portaloos have been funded by a hugely generous £600 annual donation by a Palmer’s Green resident. Because the festival is developed, organised and funded entirely by.......
The organisers of the Palmers Green Festival have announced two innovations for this year's Festival on 2nd September: an Arts & Crafts zone and a Speakers' Corner. And they're seeking ideas and input into how to fill these new spaces.
Arts & Crafts on the Bowling Green
This year the festival will have a new special area dedicated to our local Arts and Crafts - the Bowling Green! We are keen to support our local craftsmen so there are.......
Adding to what’s it’s so well known for – fun & free– the Palmers Green Festival has taken health and wellbeing as its 2018 theme. Its fare of world champion dancing, a fun-fair, two music stages, waggiest tail and other dog competitions, over 100 stalls to browse and lots more, will be augmented by a focus on building a stronger, healthier community and promoting healthier lifestyles.
Ann and Hugh Humphrey have announced that there will be no more N21 Festival events but that there will be another Fancy Fair this year.
The 2017 Fancy Fair on Winchmore Hill Green was the most recent N21 Festival event. The first event was held in 2012, again on the Green, and there have been two winter events - the St Nicholas Fair.
These have all been very successful events designed to interest and entertain people with many different tastes. But they have required a huge input.......
The 2018 Palmers Green Festival date has been announced: Sunday 2nd September from 12 noon to 7pm in Broomfield Park.
The theme for this year's Festival will be Health and Wellbeing and all stalls will be encouraged to offer an element of healthy living and community wellbeing.
Anyone interested in running a stall at the Festival should send an expression of interest email to to include an explanation of how they would meet the Health and Wellbeing.......
There'll be so many things going on at the Palmers Green Festival on 3rd September that you might miss some of them, so over the next couple of weeks we'll be highlighting a few that you might enjoy, This time we look at the 2nd Palmers Green Art Festival.
A new feature at last year's PG Festival was the Art Festival, run by Starfish & Coffee. More than 35 artists exhibited their work along Aldermans Hill.
The Art Festival will be back this year in the same place. Aykut Hilmi.......
There'll be so many things going on at the Palmers Green Festival on 3rd September that you might miss some of them, so over the next couple of weeks we'll be highlighting a few that you might enjoy, starting with Try-a-Bike.
Think you can't cycle? Think again!
You don't have to be young, fit or even able-bodied to ride a bike. And lots of bikes are great for carrying kids and/or shopping.
Come and try some out for free at Palmers Green Festival! We have cargo bikes to carry kids or.......
Two weeks to go before the Palmers Green Festival!
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What can we expect at this year's 10th PG Festival? Well, pretty much the same eclectic mix as before, something for all ages and tastes. Music, dance, a funfair, food, drink, art and craft stalls, local history, conservation groups, community groups, charities, political parties (do they count as fun?), a dog show (prizes include Prettiest Bitch and Dog with the Waggiest Tail) and more. Check.......
This year the Palmers Green Festival organisers are planning to use the former bowling green in Broomfield Park to stage "Classics on the Green" - an afternoon of local musicians playing classical music.
This innovation will depend on finding a local volunteer who would put together a line-up of locally based musicians. They would be supported by the Festival Team, but would be responsible for administering and stage managing on the day.
If you are local, have a few hours a month and are.......