The first issue of Enfield's new community newspaper has been published. Delivery to 222 distribution points throughout the borough began on Friday and should be complete by Wednesday.
Fourteen of the 16 pages of the first ever Enfield Dispatch are entirely devoted to news and features about the borough - easily outstripping the small number of column inches which the existing "local" paper, the Enfield Independent, dedicates to Enfield.
The Dispatch is the third community newspaper published by Walthamstow-based Social Spider CIC, which works on projects around social finance, community media, health, mental health and developing digital solutions to social challenges.
The majority of the content has been written by local community journalists, but the publication has been professionally edited by Southgate resident James Cracknell, who has also employed his reporting skills to update us on important local issues, such as the Meridian Water regeneration project, the arguments within the local Labour group about councillor candidate selection, the suspension of the Conservative whip from two councillors, the petition to save the Intimate Theatre, and more.
Articles submitted by community journalists cover a very wide range of subjects, including the project to improve water quality in the Pymmes Brook, a new Age UK Enfield project, an interview with the outgoing manager of Forty Hall Farm, the amalgamation of borough police forces, opportunities to hear live classical music in Enfield, films at the Dugdale to mark Black History Month and a new children's choir. And, naturally, on the last page, a report on Enfield Town's prospects for promotion from the Isthmian Premier League.
Enfield Dispatch distributors in Palmers Green
| Hugs and Mugs | Wishing Well |
| Kiva Coffee House | Hayaty Shisha |
| Sainsburys Local | Ruth Winston Community Centre |
| Vaporium | Palmers Green Library |
| My Time Cafe | Winchmore Hill Library |
| Palmers Cafe | Cult Salons |
| Greens Cafe | St John the Evangelist Church |
| Craft Hairdressers |
