05 August 2022
Get out your fancy frock and party hat and head out for a night of top entertainment, glitz, glam and fine dining! The excuse? Celebrating the twentieth anniversary of a leading Enfield charity - the Nightingale Cancer Support Centre.
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03 August 2022
Philanthropy London, a recent addition to Palmers Green's high street, has an unusual name and a novel business model.
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04 July 2022
At the end of June volunteers in Broomfield Conservatory gathered in their favourite greenhouse for the first time since January 2020. Read about how volunteers maintain the plants and welcome visitors and find out how you can join them.
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11 June 2022
The local Royal British Legion community fundraiser is recruiting volunteers for the Poppy Appeal in October/November. The role involves manning stands with various poppy items on them and retrieving donations from the public.
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01 June 2022
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Anne Nicholls' work to relieve period poverty, both initially in Kenya, and more recently in Enfield. Later this month she's off to Kenya to continue her work, but before that, on 12th June, in conjunction with Jackie Lee of North London Yoga, she's running a Wellbeing Day at Mayfield Tennis Club. They've invited lots of small, local businesses to join them and share their expertise on fitness, healing, health or general wellbeing.
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01 June 2022
Citizens Advice Enfield is experiencing increased demand for its services and is looking for volunteers in specified roles.
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14 May 2022
The local branch of the national charity Home-Start is recruiting home visiting volunteers and is looking in particular for people speaking Albanian, Arabic, Syrian Arabic, Farsi, Dari, Bengali or Pashto or proficient in British Sign Language. Home-Start helps families with young children through challenging times
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09 February 2022
The amazing Cooking Champions are recruiting new volunteers to help them provide food support. There are information sessions in Grange Park on Saturday.
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01 February 2022
Enfield's Nightingale Cancer Support Centre has benefited from many fundraising efforts - but this one is truly remarkable!
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21 January 2022
Friends of Broomfield Park have a vacancy for a vital position on their committee. Could you or someone you know fill this gap?
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21 January 2022
Can you help Age UK Enfield raise money by knitting little hats for the Big Knit? Innocent Smoothies donate 25p for each hat we send them - last time we got over £700 and this year we are determined to beat that!
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17 November 2021
A new community hub at Firs Farm Wetlands and improved equipment in Tottenhall Rec are among the projects that will be benefiting from the first round of the Enfield Neighbourhood Fund.
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14 November 2021
Watch a presentation about the last year's work by the Friends of Broomfield Park.
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10 November 2021
A newspaper article has a photograph of the interior of St John's Church in Palmers Green piled high with boxes containing donations for Afghan refugees to this country. The church is continuing to provide meals to the hungry - more than 450 a week.
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08 November 2021
'This week we were all moved when a courageous couple told us they were genuinely starving and had walked over four miles to come to us with the simple request of some food. Their circumstances had involved a hard choice of eviction or starvation and they had chosen the latter. How can it be right that such a basic human need is not being met for so many in our borough?'
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20 October 2021
The appeal by the Friends of Broomfield Park for donations to help restore three of the park's borders has got off to a great start. Only four days after sending out their first email asking for donations, enough money had flowed in for the Friends to start work on one of the borders this autumn. However, the volunteers are still £1000 short of the amount they need to complete the project.
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22 August 2021
The charity End Child Poverty is recruiting End Child Poverty Youth Ambassadors. The deadline for applying to become one is 6th September. Please share with organisations, schools and individuals who might be interested.
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05 May 2021
This year Dementia Action Week runs from 17th to 23rd May, with Denim for Dementia day on the Friday. PG resident Matt Wegner is a volunteer fundraiser for the Alzheimer's Society and is keen to get the local community and local groups engaged in raising money to help support people affected by dementia and in promoting a UK-wide campaign to Cure the Care System.
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13 April 2021
Nightingale Cancer Support are planning to bring together knitters old and new, even if it is virtually, to do something positive with our lockdown creativity and bring comfort to those who need it most. They're calling all knitters, crocheters, beginners, professionals and everyone in between to be part of Stitches of Support.
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