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Anja Porter launched the Broomfield Park Runners a couple of months ago, after moving to PG from Brighton and looking in vain for a local social running club to join. The club is getting established, but still looking for new people to join and finding the best days and times.

Eastenders actor Milly Zero plays the main role in a video made by the domestic violence charity Solace to launch its Safe This Christmas fundraising campaign.

Cara McDonald from Palmers Green Action Team invites us to four opportunities for Christmas shopping this Saturday.

The Palmers Green Community Hub was held on 28th November and attracted around 120 different organisations and individual attendees. Francis Sealey celebrates a successful afternoon.

The Environment Agency has agreed to commission an ecologist to carry out an environmental audit and recommend an enhancement strategy aimed at increasing biodiversity and water quality in Broomfield Park. Next spring FoBP volunteers will start testing water quality in all the watercourses and carry out new planting to help improve water quality and provide natural food for birds and other wildlife.

Karl Brown, chair of the Palmers Green Ward Panel (CAPE), provides advice about ways of reporting crime.

'Report, report and report.' That was the key message for us all emerging from the latest PG CAPE, writes its chair, Karl Brown. Without information, crime statistics will be misleading, and with many more eyes and ears across our community than the police can muster, we are ideally placed to provide intel on potential and actual bad things.

Every year Anne Nicholls organises collection of toiletries to add to food bags handed out at Christmas by local food bank charities and refuges. This year, could you help with some everyday toiletries, and perhaps a little luxury to donate to someone in need for Christmas?

NHS North Central London Integrated Care Board would like your help to shape and influence how community eye services will be delivered across Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey and Islington. They are conducting a short questionnaire to gain insight into eye services.

The Big Give Christmas Challenge runs for a week from next Tuesday. A chance to see your donations doubled.

The borough's health services watchdog, Healthwatch Enfield, is conducting an online survey to determine what areas it should focus on during 2024.

More than 100 people from PG and nearby came together last Saturday to spend the afternoon discussing their common challenges and ways of meeting them at the first Palmers Green Local Community Hub.