04 October 2023
Enfield Council is seeking input from residents and businesses to help develop its Serious Violence Duty Strategy for the period 2024-25.
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13 September 2023
The wonderful charity Cooking Champions have launched a crowdfunder to enable them to continue to run their community meals every Thursday - a weekly event that is about much more than just providing food.
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27 July 2023
The Mayor of London has written to Clare Donovan, a local resident and founder of Cooking Champions, thanking her for the 'amazing' work done by her and by the charity's staff and volunteers.
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23 July 2023
The Vicar of St John's outlines the many activities that take place on board the Ark, her church's response to widespread hunger and other social crises that afflict Palmers Green and the whole of the country.
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26 April 2023
We live in one of the wealthiest countries in the world, but hundreds of thousands of people here in the UK are going without the essentials we all need to get by. The Trussel Trust, which runs foodbanks, is asking everyone to take action by contacting their MP.
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29 March 2023
Following the announcement earlier this year that primary school children in London will receive free school meals, the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, in partnership with the Mayor's Fund for London and the Felix Project, will be helping with emergency food provision during the school holidays.
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21 March 2023
In the face of unprecedented demand, Cooking Champions have introduced new procedures for their food bank and are appealing for more volunteers and donations.
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01 March 2023
Last Saturday campaigners from Defend Enfield NHS were in Parliament Square along with members of other groups opposed to privatisation of NHS services at a demonstration called to highlight the findings of research published in the respected health sector journal The Lancet that changes to for-profit outsourcing since 2014 were associated with an additional 557 treatable deaths across 173 clinical commissioning groups.
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22 February 2023
Fairtrade Fortnight runs from 27th February to 12th March. In Enfield, the annual campaign will be launched by the Mayor, Cllr Doris Jiagge, at the Co-op Food Store in Lancaster Road, where there will be a raffle held in support of several charities. So what is Fairtrade? Bill Linton explains.
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14 February 2023
If you have a bike that you no longer need, take it along to the North Mid hospital on Friday 24th February so that it can be reconditioned and passed on to an NHS worker or other person who needs one.
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08 January 2023
Why are Cooking Champions having to launch a special appeal to allow them to increase the number of families they can supply with free food? To find out, watch this video.
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06 December 2022
Cooking Champions - now a registered charity - have provided food for the hungry every single week since they started in April 2020. This Christmas they will be busier than ever. You can help by donating or by volunteering
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25 November 2022
Help for Hunger, set up by mother of four and PG resident Rosie Hurndall, is planning to provide 900 Christmas hampers of food and gifts for hungry local people this year. Rosie is appealing for donations of items for the hampers and of money.
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13 November 2022
For the past two years a group of volunteers have collected bags of toiletries for Cooking Champions and other food banks in Enfield. Could you make up a bag of essential toiletries, plus a few little extras (if you can) to add to the food hampers and make Christmas just that little bit extra special?
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12 October 2022
Enfield's first community kitchen has opened in a disused church in Ponders End. Initially, it will be open one day a week, providing free food, utensils, hobs and ovens to people who cannot afford to buy food or to turn on their cookers.
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13 September 2022
End Child Poverty wants to hear from people aged 16 to 25 who live in the UK, to find out what impact the rising cost of living is having on you - and those you live with.
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07 September 2022
A crowdfunding campaign has been launched to raise money for a community kitchen designed to alleviate the cost-of-living crisis. It will allow Enfield residents to cook meals using ingredients, equipment and advice provided for free.
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16 August 2022
It's the summer holidays and our food store has felt it. We have a food store that desperately needs to be stocked. If you are able to. please can you donate any of the following in a new and unopened condition...
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07 August 2022
Enfield Council has published interim statistical profiles for the new wards that came into effect in May this year, plus an updated version of the borough profile. The profiles contain demographic, environmental and socioeconomic factors, and comparisons with borough-wide, London-wide and national averages
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18 May 2022
As we transition towards electric vehicles that don't incur fuel duty, the Treasury faces a revenue loss of £30bn each year. Given the unpopularity of fuel duty, a report by Scott Corfe of the Social Market Foundation explores the case for introducing a nationwide road pricing system in the UK, setting out a model that is fairer than fuel duty, replaces lost tax revenue, and reduces the burden on low-income households.
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