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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A new self-guided walk booklet will take you around 21 of Palmers Green's architectural and heritage highlights and reveal fascinating snippets about our local history. For instance, did you know about the time when three crowned heads of European states got together around a PG table?
Journeys and Places are offering FREE summer holiday Learn to Ride and Basic Cycle Skills sessions for various age groups from Monday 31st July to Friday 25th August. Sessions will take place at Winchmore Secondary School.
This Saturday evening a mile and a half stretch of Fore Street and Tottenham High Road plays host to an amazing range of entertaining and life-enhancing events: brass bands, Latin grooves, a makers market, a steel band, circus performers, comedy, a martial arts demo, a community growing garden, a photographic exhibition and much more (not forgetting, of course, the World of Gazza exhibition).
Enfield Council is inviting local people to help develop ideas for improving Broomfield Park and 'memorialising' Broomfield House ahead of submitting an application for lottery funding in August.
Coming to the Dugdale on Saturday 22nd July: a one-woman play that's part autobiography, part myth, and digs into what happens to women when they become culturally and geographically dislocated for the 'greater purpose' of mothering. And on Friday the show's creator, Edith Tankus, invites fellow parents and carers to a free workshop using playful games and discussions to create an audio piece that gives voice to their experience.
When in Broomfield Park I often see people feeding bread to the water fowl, ignoring the signs asking them not to. On one occasion I pointed out the signs to someone who was in the process of throwing bread in one of the lakes, only to be told 'No, that's wrong.' But the notice is right - feeding ducks bread is bad for them.
As part of ongoing restoration work at Southgate Station, a large roundel located above a sheltered seating area outside the station was recently renovated.
A Palmers Green resident has launched an online petition calling on Enfield Council to refuse a licence for a new adult gaming centre in former bank premises in Green Lanes.
A 'grand launch party' this Friday, Saturday and Sunday featuring live Irish music will celebrate the reopening of one of Palmers Green's few pubs, now renamed in memory of a much missed local tree.