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Are you a patient or carer affected by cancer? Would you like to help shape cancer services and improve early diagnosis? UCLH Cancer Collaborative has various opportunities for people who have had cancer treatment, or cared for someone who has had cancer treatment, to get involved. The involvement opportunities are Being a patient representative on a Pathway Board or Expert Reference Group – deadline 28th January Joining the Patient Experience and User Involvement Steering Group.......

LEAP (Local Energy Advice Partnership) is Enfield Council's FREE service aimed at fighting fuel poverty and providing affordable warmth. We are offering local residents a completely FREE OF CHARGE service called LEAP (Local Energy Advice Programme). LEAP can help you to save money and keep your home warm and cosy. How it works: If you’re eligible, you will get a FREE home visit from a friendly, qualified Home Energy Advisor. LEAP can: Install FREE, simple energy saving measures which.......

Last  night's Winchmore Hill Ward Forum at the Orange Tree was by all accounts very informative and a success - apart from disruption from someone who will be standing in the council elections for one of the councillor seats in the same ward.  It seems that the police even had to intervene.  Probably no coincidence that the same man is the only person I've ever had to ban from the PGC forums because he persisted in attacking "the man, not the ball" and for unacceptable language........

If you are a creative writer or would like to become one, or just love reading and would like to know more about the writing process, then book your place at the first Enfield Literary Festival, to be held on 27th January in the refurbished Edmonton Green Library. Speakers include London writer Catherine Johnson and children's author Alex Woolf.  (Alex was one of the people behind the amazing Palmers Scream project in 2015.) There will also be a talk about "hyperlocal journalism" - the.......

Bigger, brighter and bolder, the UK’s largest light festival is returning for a spectacular second edition. More than 40 UK and international artists will reimagine London’s iconic architecture and streets, transforming the city into a dazzling nocturnal art exhibition. Free to visit and taking place north and south of the River Thames, Lumiere London will extend its reach across the capital. Everyone is invited. To find out more, click here to visit the Lumiere.......

At its meeting on 16 January Enfield Council's Health Scrutiny Panel will be briefed on the Council's strategies to tackle public health and health inequalties by Tessa Lindfield, Director of Public Health, and Glenn Stewart, Assistant Director of Public Health. The briefing paper provided for the meeting notes that "The role of public health is to advise on the design of Council and NHS services and the design of Enfield as a place to promote health and reduce inequalities. This recognises.......

St Monica's Players are running their Big Race Night on 3rd March.  Here are a couple of Special Races videos from previous years to put you in the mood: {youtube}93HGn3v4JY0{/youtube} {youtube}NLqgiES3XLo{/youtube} See more SMP Races The fun and games will be held at the Scout Hut next to Tile Kiln Lane Open Space, N13 6BY.  Click on the flyer below for more details. The next SMP production is The Little Mermaid at the Intimate Theatre (18th to 21st January)........

This article by James Cracknell was originally published on 17 December 2017 on the ENTWO website. Two years ago this month I cycled from London to Paris with a group of climate activists. We were travelling to the United Nations’ COP21 climate talks, raising awareness of the importance of the talks along the way. On the Champs-Élysées we joined with tens of thousands of others – including many who had cycled from around Europe as we did – to demand the strongest.......

If you've ever wondered about the "obelisk" in Bounds Green Road, its history and the story of the person is commemorates are recounted by Harringay Online. The obelisk, actually a drinking fountain, was erected in 1879, originally in the middle of the road, but is now located on the grass, opposite Nightingale Gardens.  It commemorates Mrs Catherine Smithies of Earlham Grove, Wood Green, founder of the Band of Mercy Movement.  The Band of Mercy was a predecessor of the RSPCA. .......

It's still technically Christmas/Yuletide, so I'm just in time to upload this photo of part of the window display in the Broomfield Estates shop in Aldermans Hill.

INTO 2018 WITH TALKIES:BBC correspondent Kurt Barling kicks off 2018 introducing ’I am not your Negro’, followed a week later by a film about a very special marriage, ruled on by the American Supreme Court.Start filling in your 2018 cultural diary!    THURS 4 JANI AM NOT YOUR NEGROTHE DUGDALE CENTREBased on the work of author and activist.......

Hostile Streets - Walking and Cycling at Outer London Junctions was published by the Greater London Authority's Transport Committee at the end of November. Shortly afterwards I went along to a meeting of Islington Living Streets to see a presentation about the report given by Caroline Russell. Caroline Russell is one of two Green Party Assembly Members (AMs) and is a member of the Transport Committee. She was the Rapporteur for this particular study, which was carried out at her initiative........