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The following information about volunteering opportunities was posted on the Enfield Council website this week. Volunteering is fun, rewarding and it changes lives - volunteer now for Enfield's Library and Museum Service.We are looking for people from a range of ages and backgrounds to help us deliver fantastic projects in our Libraries, Local Studies Unit and Museum for the benefit of the whole community.We have opportunities from helping out with our children's activities to sharing your IT.......

The Enfield Young People's Project (EYPP) needs volunteers! If you are looking for a volunteering opportunity working with young people and are over 18, apply today! You will be supporting your people with interpersonal skills, to build their sense of responsibility and to make positive decisions about their education, health and future You will also be Making a positive contribution to your community Learning new skills Boosting your career options. The next project starts on 4.......

An Enfield-based playwright is looking for actors to play parts in a play about the dangers of new media to be staged at the Dugdale Centre in January. My name is tom is a new play by Alan Spence, whose company, Theatre is real life, will be performing the play from 13th to 16th January. The play explores the problem of e-safety and new media for young people and adults.  What starts out as a typical boy-meets-girl story later goes horribly wrong. When Paris and Darnell are exposed, they.......

The following item was posted on the Enfield Council website on 12 August 2015 Enfield Council is asking all local residents for names of Enfield’s service men and women who sacrificed their lives in conflicts since 1945 for inclusion on a new war memorial. The memorial, which is due to be constructed in early 2016, is being organised in partnership with the Suez Association and the Royal British Legion (RBL), and will be sited in Chase Green adjacent to the existing memorial. It will.......

An 18th century stone boundary marker destroyed by council workmen years ago and left in ruins has been rebuilt by local conservation group Southgate Green Association. Local stonemasons Abacus Stone were awarded the task of piecing together the obelisk using methods adopted to restore the temple ruins at Karnak, Egypt. The obelisk is one of two remaining in Enfield. The obelisk is located on Waterfall Road down the road from The Green, set back from the kerb on the bend and hidden from view.......

The redrafted version of the North London Waste Plan is currently out for consultation.  The previous version of the Waste Plan was withdrawn because it had not been properly consulted with affected authorities outside London. Any resident is able to comment, but clearly most people will not have the expertise to assess the validity of the data it is based on and the policies it proposes.  The Pinkham Way Alliance, however, does have the required expertise and is currently formulating.......

Enfield Council are consulting residents about proposals for a controlled parking zone in Palmerston Crescent.  There is current and likely future pressure on parking in this street because of the ongoing "Deadmans Bridge" sewer replacement work, the new flats being built on the site of the former Town Hall and in the grounds of Truro House and the planned increase in the number of buses based at Palmers Green bus garage. For fuller information, see the Bowes & Bounds Connected.......

A resident of the Lakes Estate has contacted us with information about a notice posted outside the former Anthony Webb shop in Aldermans Hill. I just wondered if residents on the Lakes Estate are aware of the new planning notice in the window of the premises on the corner of Lakeside Road and Aldermans Hall? Anthony Webb were there briefly, but the new owner (who has stated that it will be a coffee house) has now applied for a licence for alcohol, music and TV.   I wonder if the.......

Local members of the campaigning group 38 Degrees will be holding an event in Palmers Green on Saturday 22nd August as part of nationwide campaign against TTIP - the Transatlantic Trade Investment Partnership. Campaigners will be talking to passers-by and collecting signatures for a petition at the Triangle, starting at 11am and continuing into the afternoon. TTIP is a proposed deal designed to facilitate trade between the USA and countries in the European Union.  However, 38 Degrees -.......

The five Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) in north central London (Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey and Islington) are proposing to commission the NHS 111 and GP out-of-hours services through a combined contract across north central London (NCL). Engagement with local people has been ongoing. As part of the commissioning process, contract documentation will be created to describe the kind of service that is required - this is called a service specification. This will help organisations who.......

From 2nd September Enfield Citizens Advice Bureau will provide an independent financial advice service. The bureau’s new volunteer financial adviser is Minesh Patel, a Chartered Financial Planner who was awarded the prestigious honour of "Adviser of the Year" at the FT Financial Adviser's Life and Pensions Awards in 2014. He will be available by appointment every Wednesday afternoon to provide free advice on a wide range of subjects including planning for retirement or long term care.......

BFI Player, the online video streaming service run by the British Film Institute, recently launched a channel called Britain on Film, featuring footage from across the years and across the country. Among the local films that can be viewed for free are two featuring Palmers Green in the 1950s: Southgate Celebrates the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II Southgate's New Running Track, Broomfield Park The Coronation film is fascinating for many reasons, not least for the sheer number of people.......