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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Enfield Council is making changes to arrangements for collection of waste and recyclables. Aluminium foil and carrier bags can now be recycled, but from 5th October households will no longer be able to put out extra bags of general waste.
Sometimes it can take a childs-eye view to see how we can do things better, and a new competition for young budding transport planners, launched today, is intended to take advantage of this to help us speed up the decarbonisation of transport and in particular of the school run. The national walking charity Living Streets is teaming up with the Transport Planning Society to offer a prize for the best poster designed by a child of primary school age showing environmentally friendly ways to travel to school.
All of us, to greater or lesser extent, shape the world that children have to grow up in. And, without our realising it, our lifestyle and behaviour might be contributing to the problems that lead to so many children growing up obese, unfit, unhealthy and with poor mental health. Instead of blaming their parents, we should consider whether we are part of the problem.
Women who are resident in London and have an idea for a new enterprise can now apply for Enterprise Enfield's Inspiring Women Start Up Programme, a 3-month FREE package of support designed to empower women with the skills needed to establish viable and sustainable businesses. Following Covid-19 the programme is now delivered online via a series of webinars and access to an expert adviser throughout the 3-month period. As the programme is part funded by the European Regional Development Fund, all the support is FREE of charge.
A school street scheme comes into force on Monday 7th September outside St Paul's primary school in Ringwood Way, Winchmore Hill. Between 8.15 and 9.15 in the morning and 2.45 and 3.45 in the afternoon Ringwood Way will be a pedestrian and cycle zone between its junctions with Station Road and Shrubbery Gardens. This normally busy cut-through will be closed to all vehicles other than those with specific exemptions.
The September issue of Enfield Dispatch has been published. You can read it online or pick it up at one of the many distribution points in the borough.
Simon Gilbert, former choral director of the Enfield Community Singers, invites everybody to join him to sing for fun at the Dugdale Centre, Enfield Town's top entertainment spot.
If you like seeing Palmers Green town centre at its best, why not lend a hand to Palmers Green Action Team on Saturday 19th September when they will be running their next Clean Up Palmers Green High Street event?
Greetings from St Harmonica's Blues Club, Southgate, North London. All being well, we will be re-opening for live music on Friday 25th September 2020. Until then, we'll carry on with the weekly playlists. This week's selections are based on an even bigger list of suggestions from Chris Howe. Hope you enjoy his wide-ranging tastes in bluesy music.
An alliance of eight sustainable transport charities has issued a press release appealing to families to support their children to walk, cycle or use public transport as much as possible as they return to school in order both to protect their children's health and wellbeing and to support the effort to reduce carbon emissions to net zero in order to avoid climate catastrophe.