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Enfield Council is running a public consultation to gauge views about an application for funding for improvements to children's play facilities in three local parks. Hazelwood Recreation Ground, Tatem Park and Grovelands Park Play Areas The Friends of Hazelwood Recreation Ground, Tatem Park and Grovelands Park are proposing to improve the play areas in these parks and they need your help to apply for funding. The groups are looking for people’s views and comments on the current play.......

With the General Election coming up on May 7th, there's never been a better time to get involved and find out what your local election candidates think about the policies that affect you. Come along to Breast Cancer Question Time at Ruth Winston House on Wednesday 15th April to hear more and ask your own questions. The event will begin at 18:00 with refreshments and the Question and Answer session starting promptly at 18:30. Do you have questions about Breast Cancer Question Time -.......

The Council has a duty under the legislation to put in place proposals for the preservation and enhancement of its conservation areas. As part of this duty the Council is reviewing the Conservation Area Appraisals and Management Proposals for its 22 conservation areas in three phases. This means that the existing Appraisals and Management Proposals have come, or are coming, to the end of their five-year life span. Through the review changes in the conservation areas can be reflected and new.......

Sessions all within the timeframe 7th April to 27th June. From art to animals, history to horticulture and business to building, EnfieldThinks has something for everyone! The project is supported by Birkbeck, University of London; Enfield Council; Barnet & Southgate College; Capel Manor College; The College of Haringey, Enfield & North East London and Christian Action Housing. We aim to promote the range of educational options available in Enfield and beyond. We want to raise the.......

The Friends of Hazelwood Recreation Ground are currently preparing a funding application to a charitable foundation for £50,000 to improve the playground in the Rec, including installing new play equipment. In order to succeed, it is necessary for the Friends to consult local residents and users of the recreation ground and demonstrate that the new equipment is needed and that the project has public support. Enfield Council has set up a web page for the consultation and members of the public.......

This year's spring production by FFBOS is a radical retelling of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, The Mikado.  Retitled Hot Mikado, this musical story brings a modern twist to the popular tale about the wandering minstrel Nanki-Poo and his love for the fair maid Yum-Yum. Expect hot jazz solos, big swing numbers and sharp zoot suits, as FFBOS brings this fantastic show to life. This toe-tappingly fun show will be coming to the Intimate Theatre in Palmers Green, for one week only, so.......

Palmers Green residents who are angry with the wholesale removal of trees from a trackside cutting have begun sending messages of protest to a Network Rail manager. Complaints relate to a section of track adjacent to the Fox Lane bridge.  On the western side of the cutting absolutely all trees and bushes have been removed along the section of track next to the new "Palmadium" housing development.  Quite apart from the visual impact, there will be an obvious severe affect on wildlife.......

Date: 7th/8th and 14th March Location: Palmers Green & Southgate (various locations) Details: Local residents are needed to help turn Palmers Green yellow for Marie Curie Cancer Care's Great Daffodil Appeal! Collections are taking place in the area on weekends in March and all funds raised will go to the Marie Curie Hospice in Hampstead and to fund local Marie Curie nurses. Marie Curie provides high quality end of life care for north Londoners with cancer and other terminal illnesses, in.......

On Thursday 12th March, from 1pm to 4pm, Enfield Town Market will play host to an unusual visitor - a KinoVan (or should that be "the KinoVan"?) The KinoVan - a "cinema on wheels" - will be showing cine clips illustrating how the borough has changed over the past hundred years.  And various experts, such as film archivist Louise Pankhurst, will be there to tell people about the borough's film history. The KinoVan belongs to Film London - London's Film Archives and its visit is part of a.......

The Enfield Society has just published the fourth volume in its series A History of Enfield.  "A Time of Change", covers the period 1939 -1969. It includes chapters on life in Enfield, Edmonton and Southgate during the war, the austerity of the late Forties, the difficult Fifties and the swinging Sixties. Written by Monica Smith, this hardback book with over 200 illustrations costs £18.50. It is available from Waterstones in Enfield town, online at www.enfieldsociety.org.uk and at.......

This week the ever ambitious Talkies Community Cinema announces its latest venture.  HERE proudly proclaims itself to be a "suburban film festival": HERE FILM FESTIVAL 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.......

Starting in April, Chickenshed will be running acting workshops for adults on Thursday evenings and for children on Saturday mornings. Adult Theatre Performance Workshop Venue: Chickenshed Theatre Dates: Thursday 23 April – Thursday 14 May and Thursday 11 June – Thursday 2 July Times: 7pm - 9pm Cost: £60 for series of 8 workshops Age: 21+ Duration: 2hrs Chickenshed's Performance Workshop is a series in which you will develop your performing skills and creative ideas using.......