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 Enfield Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) are seeking volunteers to help them develop new requirements for musculoskeletal, urology and gynaecology services.  The information below is taken from the CCG's website. Enfield CCG is working with the Royal Free Hospital to develop a new set of pathways and service specification for Integrated Musculoskeletal Services, Urology and Gynaecology servicesWe are planning a series of meetings from September which will be clinically led to.......

Residents are being warned about ‘something for you’ cards arriving through letterboxes designed to look like they have come from Royal Mail.  The cards which lack the Royal Mail logo look almost identical to the ‘something for you’ slips that are posted through homes when a delivery can’t be made.  To organise a redelivery the cards urge recipients to call a 0208 number, which is not registered to Royal Mail. After ringing the number the automated.......

Calling violin, viola, cello, bass and brass players! Good amateur musicians needed for the North London Symphony Orchestra. NLSO is a friendly hard-working amateur orchestra which performs a wide range of symphonic music to a high standard under a professional conductor and leader. Recent concerts have included works by Berlioz, Brahms, Dvořák, Elgar, Mahler, Mendelssohn, Rimsky-Korsakov, Shostakovich, Sibelius and Stravinsky. Upcoming season includes works by Beethoven,.......

"Hi - I am Surayya ,  one of Talkies' volunteers. I will be bringing you a short film on this website each month. Please let us know what you think of this month's film, and watch this space to see what we will bring you in the coming months!" Our August short is the BAFTA-nominated Standby by Charlotte Regan. Charlotte was one of five filmmakers chosen by Talkies in 2017 to create a short as part of the Here Suburban Film Festival, where she made the film Cleared, so we have a.......

North London Samaritans are now 70 per cent of the way towards raising the £15,000 they need to be able to afford to rebuild Bowes Park's "Tin Tabernacle", turning it into a centre for their life-saving activities and a hub for the local community.  Funds received a big boost on Sunday, when Myddleton Road Market stallholders and shopkeepers raised a total of £925 for the project. Future fundraising events include two concerts taking place in September. The plan.  To turn.......

Come to the Forum meeting at Beaumont Care Home, Cannon Hill, Southgate, Tuesday 15 August, 10am for 10.30 start. It is almost opposite the Cherry Tree pub. Our Enfield NHS Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) - the people who decide if, when and how we are treated for medical problems - plan to save money by forcing all patients to wait longer for medical attention. Of all the CCGs in London, Enfield has been selected as the trail-blazer, the pace-setter, for what the local health bosses call.......

This article originally appeared on the Rethinking Childhood website and is republished with the permission of the author, Tim Gill. This week marked a milestone in the UK street play movement, with the publication of three new reports. The first is an evaluation report by the University of Bristol [pdf link], published by Play England, which looked mainly at the health outcomes for children. The second is a report [pdf link] from Playing Out, the Bristol-based national hub for street play, of.......

Andrea Aste (centre) with Zdeněk Kudr and Petr Skoček of Bohem Brewery. Behind them you can see part of Andrea's Myddleton Road muralThe hot news from today's Myddleton Road Market (apart, that is, from the £925 raised at the market for the North London Samaritans' Shaftesbury Hall project) is the launch this week of Andrea Aste's Space Laboratory - a "cyber store where imagination curates space". "Big Spender" - one of Andrea Aste's print designsAndrea is an Italian-born mural.......

Mayor's Charity Fun Run - Sunday 17th September 3km run @ 10:15am, 3km walk @ 10:25am, 10km run @ 11:15am Forty Hall, Forty Hall Estate, Enfield, EN2 9HA The annual charity run at Forty Hall Estate is back again this autumn! Dust off your trainers and join in the fun, raising money for the Mayor of Enfield’s Charity Appeal Fund. Always a great community event, the Fun Run attracts over 800 participants and spectators each year and with a variety of runs and walks to get involved.......

Anna Gaudia has posted this message on our Facebook page: We are group of people who would like to see more art in Broomfield Park and we would like your input. wildgeckos.typeform.com/to/GznvSb Ps. Check out the bonus question if you would like to get involved. <?php$ogImage = ' ';include 'php/article_metadata.php';?>.......

A message from Enfield Council Do not put shoes and textiles into your recycling bin. Please take them to your local charity chop, Barrowell Green Recycling Centre or arrange a free doorstep collection from TRAID TRAID020 8733 /collections <?php$ogImage = 'https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DF-foPnXoAEsbyl.jpg';include.......

Jenny Bourke's latest film on Palmers Green Tales tells the story of Broomfield Community Orchard.  Film footage and still photographs show the evolution of the former bowling green, which is now home to apple and pear trees, wild flowers and a bug hotel, and a venue for an annual round of pagan-derived events. {youtube}2ZPFzzbGprY{/youtube} <?php$ogImage = ' ';include.......