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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The following advice has been issued by the British Lung Foundation.
What can I do about air pollution?
On most days and away from busy city streets, air pollution in the UK does not rise to levels at which we need to make major changes to our habits to avoid exposure.
Nobody needs to worry about going outdoors. Children should not be kept from going to school or stopped from taking part in games.
If you have a lung condition, you might want to avoid spending long periods of time in places.......
The National Childbirth Trust celebrates its sixtieth anniversary this year. Enfield NCT doesn't go back anything like as far, but they don't actually know when the branch was founded.
Branch Coordinator Shonagh West is keen to find out exactly when Enfield NCT was set up. 1993 is the earliest she's traced it back to so far, but perhaps you were a member or volunteer before that date?
Even if you don't know the answer to the question, Shonagh would like you to get in touch for a.......
The question of whether or not we should vote to remain in the EU or to leave it is a complex issue. Coming to a reasoned conclusion is made all the more difficult by the fact that both sides are coming out with any number of dramatic claims and counterclaims. Which arguments make sense? Whose claims are true? Can we believe any of them?
On 26 May Palmers Green residents will have an opportunity to listen to a debate between a number of experts and put their own.......
The following is reproduced from www.parliament.uk
Urgent Government action is needed to stop up to 50,000 people a year dying early from air pollution-related illnesses, says the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, in its report on Air quality.
Report: Air quality
Report: Air quality (PDF 675KB)
Inquiry: Air quality
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee
The Committee's Air quality report presses for new Clean Air Zones in dozens of English towns and cities.......
The owners of the former university campus in Trent Park have published a response to the online petition which calls for the creation of a museum in the mansion and continued public access to the grounds of the former campus.
The statement issued by the Berkeley Group can be read below. It includes assurances that there will be a museum and that public access will be available not just to the grounds, but also - for the first time - to part of the mansion. However, the statement.......
The leaders of a campaign to prevent development of Green Belt land between Oakwood and Enfield Town are warning that, despite the withdrawal of proposals to build houses, the fields are still threatened. They have been seeking support from candidates for the Mayor of London and GLA members, as well as other local politicians.
Enfield RoadWatch Action Group's latest update points out that Enfield Academy is continuing to press for the construction of a new school on the site, which is.......
The upcoming bank holiday sees the opening of a large wildlife reserve that includes two reservoirs hoding water that has travelled along the New River, through Palmers Green. The Woodberry Wetlands project is run by the London Wildlife Trust and is making the area accessible to the public for the first time since the reservoirs were built in 1833.
You can watch a clip about the Wetlands from BBC1.
The wetlands will be open every day and there will be regular guided tours and various.......
Centre Coordinator
Charity in Palmers Green requires a highly motivated and enthusiastic person. Good communication, organising and numeracy skills essential.
35 hour week, Mon - Fri.£18-19k Salary - according toexperience and skills
Tel: 020 8886 5346 or email For an application pack.
Closing date: 06.05.2016.......
We reported a while back about the call from the Royal Voluntary Service (RVS - formerly the WRVS) for new volunteers to deliver library books to homes - a replacement for the mobile library service.
The RVS volunteers will deliver books and audio materials to older and disabled people who find it difficult to visit a library. Volunteers will need their own transport and will be required for approximately four hours a week. However, if you don't have your own car there will.......
For the third year running All Saints Church in Edmonton will be hosting the Lamb Festival, celebrating local literary celebrities Charles and Mary Lamb.
The Festival will run from Saturday 18th June to Friday 24th June, starting with a Fair on the Saturday afternoon. Other highlights will include the young performers from Iconic Arts, jewellery making with Zinfinity, a guided walk with Joe Studman, the Carers UK poetry evening, and music from the Tottenham Community Choir, and.......
Please would you consider becoming a volunteer driver for North London Hospice.
We urgently require drivers to collect patients from their homes to attend clinical and therapy appointments at our sites in Finchley and Winchmore Hill.
We will:
Provide training
Arrange your DBS check
Reimburse your mileage costs.
Please call / email Manjit on 020 8343 8841 Ext 2102
Registered Charity Number: 285300www.northlondonhospice.org.......
Tributes have been paid to former Enfield Council leader Jeff Rodin, who died last weekend at the age of 65.
Mr Rodin served as a councillor representing Bowes ward for 24 years and was Council Leader between 1994 and 1999. After retirement he continued to work for the community at Enfield Citizens Advice Bureau and Enfield Community Transport. He was a campaigner against the "austerity" policies pursued by the current and preceding governments, co-founding the Enfield Alliance.......