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
News, comment and features
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As anyone who went last year or the year before will know, Palmers Green Festival is a brilliant way of bringing people together and having fun. It's entirely volunteer run and a big festival needs a lot of volunteers to make it run smoothly and safely.
The Festival organisers are still looking for more volunteers for various roles. If you fancy helping out, visit the Festival 2015 Volunteers Zone to find out how to get involved........
The Pinkham Way Alliance has issued the following message about what happened at last week's meeting of Haringey Council.
As Stephen Brice says, the new draft of the North London Waste Plan (PDF, 9MB) does include Pinkham Way in its list of proposed future waste sites - though it refers to the site as the "Friern Barnet Sewage Works" - something which has not existed for a very long time!
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!.......
Tottenham Art Classes have provided details of taster workshops to learn printmaking and illustration.
For anyone who has ever wanted to try printmaking or illustration, now's your chance!
We're holding taster workshops in Printmaking and Illustration in August. Open to anyone aged 14 years and over and adults.
PRINTMAKING TASTER WORKSHOPS
Choose from two dates:
Tuesday 11th August from 1pm - 5.30pm
Saturday 12th August from 11am - 3.30pm
Course info:
An introductory workshop to mono.......
Enfield Carers' Centre - a volunteer-staffed organisation that looks after volunteer carers - is looking to recruit additional trustees to its Executive Board, who must have skills in the following specific areas:
organisational managment
marketing
fundraising.
For details of the specific vacancies and the role of trustees, please download these two documents:
ECC Trustee Vacancies July 2015
ECC Trustee Information Pack.
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The first of this year's Proms in the Park was hot and sunny, the second - held last Sunday - was overcast with occasional drizzle. But the weather didn't deter over a hundred people gathering to listen and dance to musicians from Bowes Park Folk Club and local singer/songwriter Luke Carey - as you can see from the cutting below, taken from the Enfield Gazette.
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As the Gazette also points out, this weekend will see a change of style: .......
These are the new shopfronts in original style that were recently installed in Myddleton Road, Bowes Park, replacing the unattractive frontages that had been fitted to these shops.
The restoration work cost more than £200,000, the funds coming from Haringey Council, Historic England and the shopkeepers. As well as the work on the shopfronts, new sash windows have been fitted to upper storeys.
An official opening ceremony was held on 7th July, organised by We Love Myddleton.......
The Centre Stage Summer Course returns to keep your performing dreams alive during those Summer Holidays!
This years theme...
DISNEY!
Places book up fast, so don't delay and get yourself booked in for a week of Singing, Dancing and Acting, resulting in an 'End of Week Performance' on the Friday!
Call 0208 886 4264 or email to reserve a place now!
www.centrestageuk.com.......
The video below, released in connection with an exhibition at Bruce Castle Museum, is a beautifully filmed and soberly narrated tour of the architectural and artistic delights to be found within churches in Tottenham, Hornsey, Stamford Hill, Noel Park and Harringay. The buildings date from the middle ages right through to the 1990s - but the modern buildings contain some astounding items salvaged from demolished buildings.
Well worth spending half an hour watching (I could have done.......
It's just after a year since the Palmers Greenery Community Cafe opened in Broomfield Park - but work on this imaginative project goes back much longer. It has transformed an abandoned toilet building into a top destination for visitors to the park.
This video tells the story so far:
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Just one of many videos about local people that you can watch on www.palmersgreentales.com.
At the moment the Greenery is open on Saturdays,.......
Enfield Veg. Co have sent details of the service they provide in Palmers Green and Winchmore Hill and of a special offer available this month.
Enfield Veg Co.- Enfield's very own veg bag scheme
Enfield Veg Co. is a social enterprise based at Capel Manor's Forty Hall Farm. We run a vegetable bag scheme which delivers weekly bags of organic vegetables - much of them grown on Forty Hall Farm in Enfield. We offer three different sized bags:
small (£7 per week)
standard (£10).......
Latest Pinkham Way Alliance briefing - July 2015
North London Waste Plan – to be considered by Haringey on Tuesday, July 14th .
The draft plan is going through the 7 Councils’ Cabinets/Committees . It is being considered/approved for consultation, which will start at the end of July and finish end-September. This is still quite an early stage – adoption of the plan is not scheduled until Autumn 2017, so there’s plenty of excitement.......
Palmers Scream have published more details of the great prizes that children can win by writing a spooky story
Great Prizes to be won by children writing a spooky story for Palmers Scream.
If you are 8-12 you can win a prize by writing a scary story about your area. Whether about the Bogwarts of Bounds Green, the witches of Winchmore Hill, the spookiness of Southgate, apparitions of Arnos or the phantoms of Palmers Green, we want you to create a story that we will all enjoy!
Your story should.......