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
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Residents who want to dispose of unwanted electrical items or bulky furniture are being urged to take advantage for two free services Enfield Council is offering.
The services are being offered to encourage recycling, reduce fly tipping and promote the reuse of perfectly good electrical items that have been replaced or which are no longer wanted. Enfield Council is also providing free compostable liners for food waste in council libraries for a limited time.Residents can arrange a free.......
The website Changing London has published the fifth in a series of publications which set out "a vision for London's next Mayor".
A Healthy City - a city that does no harm and tackles sickness at source can be downloaded from the Changing London website. The website's introductory page (reproduced below) concludes by pointing out the remarkable success of New York's Mayor Bloomberg in increasing life expectancy in his city through a series of measures to improve public health.
London is.......
The application for outline planning permission to redevelop Chase Farm Hospital is available on the Enfield Council website (click on this link). Members of the public are able to submit comments up until 15th January.
The application seeks approval for the principle of the development, the amount of development, the maximum three-dimensional extent of development and access arrangements. If approved, these would form the parameters upon which future reserved matters applications would be.......
Starting early in 2015, the not-for-profit organisation Studio 306 will be running sewing workshops. Starting with the basics - how to thread a needle - and ending up creating beautiful cushions or patchwork quilts.
Studio 306, based in the Chocolate Factory in Wood Green, has the aim of empowering disadvantaged local individuals. It offers a creative space for people who are recovering from mental illness, where they can rediscover forgotten skills, develop new ones and boost their.......
After hundreds of hours of preparation and nearly a year of planning, the St Nicholas Fair will be here one week from today.
There will be 85 stalls with a huge variety of foods, clothes, jewellery, gifts and unique hand-made items. Plus a whole day of free children's entertainment run by volunteers from Hang out the Bunting, Lolly Pots, Nelly Jelly, Pirates and Princesses, Monkey music, Disco Ducks, Tatty Bumpkin and last but not least Smart Play.In addition there will be the amazing Mr.......
Sixteen-year-old Joshua Folkes was stabbed to death in Palmers Green on 3rd December 2013. To mark the anniversary of this sad event, the campaigning group Get Outta the Gang is organising a march on the afternoon of Saturday 6th December from Palmerston Road to New Southgate Cemetery. The march will commemorate Joshua and so many more young people who have died as a result of gang violence.
Read more about the march on the Get Outta the Gang website and on North London Today........
A newly published guide to street design sets out the latest thinking on how roads and streets in cities, towns and villages can be decluttered and redesigned to make them not only pleasanter to look at and to use, but also significantly safer.
Street Design for All - "a compilation of current thoughts and practices in the art of Street Design" - reflects the work and ideas of professional road engineers and of campaigners for improvements to the "public realm".1 It provides an easy to.......
The Enfield Transport Users Group (ETUG) is a forum that meets several times a year to discuss the provision of public transport within the Borough. It brings together representatives of various official and voluntary organisations - including councillors and officers from Enfield Council, TfL, train operating companies, the Enfield Commuter Group, the Federation of Enfield Residents' and Allied Associations (FERAA), the Enfield Over 50s Forum, organisations representing disabled people,.......
Talkies Community Cinema rounds off its Autumn season on 10th December with Downhill, a humorous but touching look at men's mid-life crises, starring local actor Jeremy Swift.
Jeremy is well know to viewers of Downton Abbey, in which he plays Maggie Smith's butler, Spratt. And he is currently rehearsing for a major role in an amazing production of the Railway Children at King’s Cross Station (featuring a proper steam train!)
After the screening Jeremy will answer questions from members.......
Keeping House' is Enfield Council's innovative scheme for property owners living in long term residential care.
For people moving into long-term care the cost, time and effort needed to maintain an empty property can prove challenging. Properties often remain unoccupied for lengthy periods of time, falling into disrepair and can attract anti-social behaviour.
Under this scheme homes can be leased to the Council for a fixed period of time (five years) and provide guaranteed rental income to.......
Would you like to help improve local health and social care services? Can you help Healthwatch Enfield reach out to local communities and find out about their experiences as patients, carers and service users? Do you have personal experience, skills and enthusiasm to offer?
We welcome and value contributions from all sections of the community, including people of all ages from 16 upwards.
We are currently looking for volunteers for the following roles:
Community Outreach volunteer: reach.......
In the same week that Southgate District CivicTrust placed a blue plaque on the former home in Winchmore Hill of wildlife photographer and author Oliver Pike, their members celebrated winning the Local History Publications Award for Best Journal 2014 for the latest edition of their local history bulletin, Oakleaves. The.......