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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: {youtube}https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n11o-kfFgdQ{/youtube} 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.......

A brand new reed bed is being constructed in Grovelands Park lake to help improve water quality. The reed bed is being created as part of Thames21’s Salmons Brook Healthy River Challenge together with Enfield Council. The aim of the project is to improve water quality across the area through the delivery of practical environmental schemes. Currently Salmons Brook and the waterways which feed it suffer from pollution due to plumbing misconnections and run-off from roads which contain heavy.......

The organisers of the Save the Green Dragon campaign have reported that their email account has been attacked by hackers and are asking supporters to resend messages.  It is unclear whether this is an example of the "normal" type of Internet crime or a deliberate attempt to sabotage the campaign. During June hackers broke into the email account and diverted messages sent to the campaign to another email address that the hackers control.  As a consequence, the Campaign did not receive.......

Despite rain earlier in the day, the Proms in the Park season got off to a hot and sunny start on Sunday afternoon.  A pleasant atmosphere prevailed as music lovers sat on the grass near the Broomfield Park bandstand to listen to music by North London Brass, with an intermission provided by young drummers from BishBashBosh and BoxBeaters.   There are three more Proms in the Parks concerts featuring a variety of musical styles - see below.  As well as the music and great.......

Sureka Fernando, who runs the Salsa with Sureka dance lessons in Bowes Park, is organising a fund-raising party this weekend for the North London Samaritans. You are warmly invited to our Summer Party in aid of North London Samaritans on Saturday 11 July! All welcome - please bring friends, partners, random party people - the more the merrier!!! Here's the plan... 6.45pm: Dinner at Ciao Bella, 86-90 Lamb's Conduit St, London WC1N 3LZ. (Nearest Tube: Russell Square) Table.......

Enfield Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), together with Barnet, Camden, Haringey and Islington CCGs, are proposing to commission NHS 111 and GP out-of-hours as a combined service.  They are inviting members of the public to give feedback. The CCGs' preferred option is to let a contract with a single provider who would cover both services for patients in all five boroughs.  They consider that this solution would take account of the following findings based on monitoring of NHS 111.......

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As already announced, Silverfit Silver Fridays are about to be launched in Broomfield Park. Silverfit, a charity that promotes exercise and healthier lifestyles for older people, is looking for a volunteer to act as a "Silverfit Ambassador". Volunteer Positions: Silverfit Ambassadors Hours: 3 hours/week Silverfit isa charitable organisation promoting exercise and healthier lifestyles for older people. We need enthusiastic, highly motivated, enterprising individuals to be our Silverfit.......

The Pinkham Way Alliance has today sent an urgent message to its supporters warning of a new threat to Pinkham Wood.   HERE WE GO AGAIN... I’m very sorry to have to inform you that plans for a huge waste plant at Pinkham Way are back. This is a very serious turn of events, and on Tuesday 14 July, we must briefly attend a council meeting in Wood Green to let Haringey know how angry we are. ANOTHER WASTE PLANT?! Barnet Council aims to relocate its 6-acre Cricklewood Waste.......