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
Four months to go before the biggest event in the PG calendar - the Palmers Green Festival. This year the Festival will be back in Broomfield Park on 3rd September.
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The 2017 Festival will look, feel and sound very similar to last year and the year before, but in its tenth year there will need to be some changes behind the scenes. The Festival is now so popular that the volunteer-run approach that has worked so well needs more professional - ie paid for -.......
The Palmers Green Festival has developed a website tool to support other local event organisers and local home start-up entrepreneurs.
We need help to develop the website a little further. We are looking for someone local with knowledge of Word Press with a few hours spare.
A very small budget is available to pay expenses.
Please contact Phillip on .
PhillipPalmers Green Festivalwww.palmersgreenfestival.org.uk Palmers Green CIC
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Exactly one month to go until Palmers Green Festival 2016. Expect the same mix as before of fun and games, food and drink, music and dancing, things to buy, people to talk to...
However, behind the scenes there will be some changes in the way the PG Festival is run this year. The chief organiser behind all the Festivals to date, and this year's too, is Phillip Chard, who explains how the Festival's phenomenal success makes it necessary to do things a bit differently this.......
Change to Programme: Saturday 18th June, 7.30pm. This evening the Mary Lamb Lecture was to have been given by our MP, Kate Osamor.Kate was a friend of the MP Jo Cox who was murdered on Thursday, and quite understandably is unable to join us this evening. In place of the lecture, a local actor will be giving a reading of the essay which inspired our annual lecture, Mary Lamb's 'On Needlework'. You can read an excellent article about the importance of the essay here: .......
This year's Palmers Green Festival will be held in Broomfield Park on 4th September. Put the date in your diary now, it's not to be missed!
No further information available at the moment, except that the weather will be sunny and hot, as in 2014 and 2015 (fingers crossed!).......
Whether or not you believe the stories about ancient scrolls and witches under the pond, there's no doubt that thousands of children and their parents were spellbound by the extraordinary happenings in Broomfield Park on Saturday night.
There were no tricks at this Halloween event. Visitors of all ages were treated to imaginative storytelling, open air theatre, puppet shows, strange costumes, eery illuminations, glowing pumpkins and spooky bottles, all culminating at 7pm in the Scream.......
Streetz Ahead thrilled unsuspecting shoppers in Morrisons Palmers Green on Sunday when their flash mob Thriller dancers launched a week of Palmers Scream pre-events.
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They were FANTASTIC and the audience were amazed and all had their cameras out! Visit streetzahead.org/thriller-flash-mob.......
At 5.30pm on Halloween (31st October) Broomfield Park will be lit up by Spooky Lanterns, each containing a glo-stick, provided free courtesy of Range Homes.
There will be two family drop-in sessions to help you make lanterns:
Thursday 29th October from 3.30pm at Kiva Cafe (corner Green Lanes and Hazelwood Lane)
Friday 30th October 10.30 to 11.30am in Palmers Green Library
If you can't make either session, just decorate a plastic milk bottle to bring to the boating pond at Broomfield.......
Congratulations to Phillip and the whole Palmers Green Festival team for yet another brilliant Festival. How did they manage to get the weather to cooperate so well?
The photos below say more about the Festival than any amount of words. These are just a few from a big selection in the official Festival Photo Gallery. See if you can spot yourself there!
Do you have a great photo that you took yourself? If so, you can upload it to our forums or Facebook page........
4th Southgate Scout Group Top Field
Adams London Ltd Top Field
Age UK Enfield Community Friendship Zone
Antonella Corradetti Dance
Barnet College Top Field
Baskervilles c Bandstand
BB Balloonz Top Field
Bekamaths Top Field
Body, Mind & Spirit Lakeside
Bomken Nursery School Top Field
Cafe2UEnfield Top Field
Cakes by Mey Dance
Caribbean Sunset Dance
Centre Stage Theatre School Bandstand
Chris Stewart Ceramics Dance
Citizens Advice Enfield Community Friendship.......
If you'd like to have a stall at the 2015 Palmers Green Festival, you'll need to move fast. It's already too late for food and catering stalls, but there are ten days to go before booking closes for everything.
If you do take a stall, you'll be joining an eclectic collection of organisations large and small. The current list of stallholders is on the Festival website.
As always, the Festival organisers depend on teams of volunteers to run this big event. You too could.......