Haven House children's hospice has published Vision 2020, its strategy for the next five years, during which time it hopes to expand the number of children it can care for.
Vision 2020
Vision 2020 is our first five-year strategy since the hospice opened in 2003.
In this time we have been there for over 600 families, ensuring that they are not alone when caring for a child with a life-limiting condition.
This would not have been possible without the help of our donors and partners within.......
An award-winning romantic comedy, in which more than half of the footage was filmed in and around Palmers Green, is now available to view online.
Dead Cat, released in 2013 and a winner of awards in the UK, USA and Cyprus, was written by two local lads, Sam Bern (Sam Bourke) and Stefan Georgiou. Stefan directed the film, in which Sam plays a character called "Sam". Sam started his education at Hazelwood School and then went to Ashmole, where he met Stefan. They have been.......
Our youth centres offer excellent volunteering opportunities for adults aged 18 and over.
If you can commit to a 6 to 12 month period at an after school, evening or weekend session we can help you gain valuable skills and experience of working with young people aged 11-19 (and up to 24 with a learning difficulty or disability).
Some of the youth activities you would be assisting with include:
sport and recreation
dance and music
health education
personal development and.......
Southgate District Civic Trust is delighted to announce that Freddie Gick the Chair of Civic Voice will be visiting us in March.
As the highlight of his visit, Freddie Gick will talk about the work of Civic Voice and the Civic Movement in Britain. This will be a rare chance to hear from and speak to the man who leads this important work.
Freddie Gick has been Chair of Civic Voice since 2013. He is a former research scientist and international management consultant who has been involved with.......
The Mayorwatch blog reports that the Green candidate for Mayor, Sian Berry, has warned that changes to planning laws will pose a threat to the continued availability of laundrettes throughout the capital.
The risk arises because the government intends to make temporary "permitted development" rules permanent and to extend them to cover light industrial buildings and laundrettes. Property owners would be able to convert such premises to housing without obtaining planning permission from.......
HERE is about the diversity of interests, people and places in the suburbs of London
HERE is not in the West End, Southbank or Shoreditch
HERE in the suburbs we aren't the swanky super-rich, the celebrity glitterati or bearded hipsters
HERE is where the cinema creatives of London produce their best output
HERE is where life is a rich diversity of race, religion and culture
HERE is where most of London lives.
Talkies Community Cinema's second HERE suburban.......
Tottenham Civic Society have set up an online petition with the aim of preventing the further dereliction of 7 Bruce Grove, the only building in Tottenham which bears an English Heritage Blue Plaque.
The petition reads as follows:
TO: REDWING ESTATES LIMITED
To restore this derelict historic building, in line with the planning permission that has already been granted.
Why is this important?
No. 7 Bruce Grove is one of the most important historic buildings in Tottenham. It is one of a.......
The first month of this year's Artist-in-Residence scheme in Broomfield Conservatory was brought to a close with a very popular drop-in workshop, giving visitors an opportunity to learn how to create ceramic leaves.
Cathy Taylor's five-month residency goes by the overall title "Spirals of Life", each month having a different theme, but all within the overall concept of "biological sculptures".
Cathy's report on last Sunday's workshop:
"The ceramics leaf-making workshop in the Conservatory in.......
The Friends of Broomfield Park have written to Enfield councillors to express serious concerns about the impact of budget cuts on the management and upkeep of parks in the borough and on Broomfield Park in particular - "one of the jewels in the borough's crown".
The letter from the Friends, sent ahead of last week's full meeting of the Council, listed some of the impacts which the proposed cuts would have: reductions in grass cutting in parks, use of volunteers to pick up litter after.......
Prizes of up to £1000 are being offered to artists living in Enfield or Haringey for an artwork which illustrates what life in the two boroughs might be like if environmental improvements had been made.
The competition is being run by Enfield and Haringey Green Parties in conjunction with Collage Arts. The challenge they are setting is to create art that depicts, embodies, or expresses what it could be like in Enfield and Haringey if one or more of the questions below were to be.......
Nine of the UK's leading environmental campaigns have come together to publish a manifesto outlining ways in which the next Mayor of London could tackle the capital's growing environmental problems.
Greener London: What the next Mayor can do to improve our capital has been produced by the Campaign for Better Transport, the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England, Friends of the Earth, the Green Alliance, Greenpeace, the London Wildlife Trust, the National Trust, the Royal.......
A charity which helps promote good practice among organisations involved in managing and supporting London's parks and other green spaces is calling on everyone who values them to lobby candidates for the upcoming Mayoral and Greater London Assembly elections.
The London Parks and Green Spaces Forum has written to Friends of Parks groups throughout the capital suggesting points which should be made to candidates. The Forum is particularly concerned about cuts in expenditure on parks by.......