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
News, comment and features
Articles are shown in publication date order - most recent first.
Enfield Carers Centre has contacted Palmers Green Community asking for help from our readers for its Best Breakfast Campaign, which will take place in October. A good opportunity for those of us who are fortunate enough not to have carer responsibilities (at the moment anyway) to help this organisation provide its invaluable support to those who need it.
Dear Friends in Palmers Green,
Many of our registered carers live in N13 so it’s great to see that community spirit in N13 is live.......
The newest addition to our Community Directory is Studio 306, which is a community interest company based in the Chocolate Factory, Wood Green. Studio 306 helps people to recover from mental health problems by empowering them to use their creativity. Specialised tutors teach them, helping them to rediscover forgotten skills, learn new ones and boost their confidence in four creative disciplines:
ceramics - produced using stoneware slip and earthenware clay and featuring bright and.......
Noah's Ark Children's Hospice, the locally based charity that helps look after very sick children and their families, is organising an event with a difference this Hallowe'en - a Pumpkin Plod in which people of all ages can participate.
The Plod, on the afternoon of 25th October, starts and finishes at the delightful Waterlow Park, half way up Highgate Hill (famous for Dick Whittington).
Start the day at 2pm with Hallowe'en themed activities before plodding through the streets of Highgate,.......
Symphonic Tots - Mondays at Baskervilles
Weekly 40 min classes cover all areas of the early years foundation stage.
Class sizes are small to maintain quality and interaction with every child and carer, chance to try a small instrument and develop active listening skills. Quality percussion kits for each child, orchestral instruments are introduced by Marianne and her team of professional musicians throughout the course, alongside live Cello & Kodaly Method musical training.
Symphonic Tots.......
Wow, what a wonderful Festival! Thanks to the brilliant team of organisers and helpers, stallholders and the public, who turned up in droves and joined in the fun (especially the dancing).
The Festival organisers estimate a turn out of nearly 10,000, ranging from babes in arms to those of us who are enjoying our "third age" and truly reflecting our diverse community.
A new feature this year was the Community Friendship Zone, organised in conjunction with the Ruth Winston Centre. Yvonne.......
Just up the road in Winchmore Hill the N21 Festival people are planning this December's St Nicholas Fair, to take place on Winchmore Hill Green on 13th December. This is a big event and needs help - both money and people. See below.
The N21 team have been busy throughout the summer planning the N21 St Nicholas Festival which is to be held on The Green on the 13th December 2014 from 11.00-19.00
Our thoughts and dreams ...
There will also be an ice-rink, an amazing grotto,.......
The Department for Communities and Local Government has launched a public consultation about proposed changes to planning laws which are aimed at "streamlining the planning system". The proposals are described in Technical Consultation on Planning (click on the title to download). This is a complex 98 page document, but its proposals are summarized by the Department as follows:
We are seeking views on proposals which will:
make it even easier for residents and business to.......
The People's March for the NHS (also known as the "New Jarrow March") will be passing through Palmers Green on Friday afternoon (5th September) on its penultimate leg, which begins in St Albans at 9am and finishes in Fore Street, Edmonton, where it is expected to arrive at around 5.30pm.
The March has been organised to protest against the Coalition Government's NHS reforms. It set out from Jarrow (near Newcastle on Tyne) on 16th August and will finish at Trafalgar Square this Saturday.......
Enfield Library and Museum Service has provided updated information about arrangements during the closure of Palmers Green Library.
The library will not reopen until autumn 2015. In the meantime, opening hours have been extended at Winchmore Hill, Ridge Avenue and Southgate Circus libraries - click on the image to see the official notice. In addition, a mobile library will be open in the Lodge Drive car park every Saturday from 9am to 5pm.
The Library and Museum Service has a web.......
Not long to go now till the 2014 Palmers Green Festival in Broomfield Park on 7th September.
As before, there will be events, activities and stalls to suit all ages and tastes:
NEW Music on the Green – from 12 noon local bands and singers at the new performance area on the old Bowling Green, organised by Lester Clayton;
Music on the Bandstand returns with an exciting lineup put together by Dexxmaster & DJ Slamz – including Choirs, folk, belly dancing, soul and more!
free dance.......
A report based on the findings of a Care Quality Commission inspection into the services provided by the North Middlesex NHS Trust has assigned an overall rating of "Requires Improvement". However, 60 per cent of services were rated as "Good" and Healthwatch Enfield appears to view the findings as encouraging.
Overall summary & rating: Requires improvement
Inspection areas
Safe: Requires improvement
Effective: Good
Caring: Good
Responsive: Requires improvement
Well-led:.......
Enfield Council have refused planning permission for a proposed McDonalds drive-thru restaurant at 188 Bowes Road (on the northern side, nearly opposite the end of Warwick Road and near Ritz Parade). The refusal notice cites eight grounds for refusal, including the proximity of Broomfield School, "unacceptable break and disruption of the shopping frontage" and the fact that its construction would pre-empt long-term development objectives for this "key opportunity site" that are set out in.......