Loving Life is an exciting creative health project for older adults at Chipping Barnet and Colindale Libraries throughout 2025.

The project provides a range of free creative events and activities and is designed to maintain and improve health and wellbeing and provide essential social interaction.

We particularly welcome those living with dementia and their carers to our Loving Life activities.

Loving Life is supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

For updates on Loving Life and information about events and activities across Barnet Libraries sign up to receive our regular newsletter for adults or pick up a Creative Communities booklet, including Loving Life events from your local library.

The Mayor of Barnet helped switch on the Christmas lights in Whetstone High Street yesterday as lights were turned on around the borough.

The event, arranged by Love Whetstone, was well attended with over a hundred people there to see the tree and high street lit up.

Find out how our faith organisations have a vital role to play in our journey to support sustainable practices, and how to get involved if you are part of a faith organisation

Find out how our internally produced dashboard has been developed to inform residents, communities and partners about the progress the council and borough are making towards achieving our net zero targets.

Find out what we're doing to provide improved access to safe, sustainable and healthy transport options

Find out what we're doing with waste, from the food we don’t eat, to the household goods we no longer need

Barnet Council’s ‘Money Worries?’ campaign is returning this month to once again highlight the national issue of benefits going unclaimed. Every year, it’s estimated that across the UK, more than £20billion of benefits that people are eligible for are not being claimed – and that’s what Barnet’s innovative and award-winning Financial Calculator is seeking to change for people struggling with the cost of living crisis in the borough.

Find out how to get involved in nature in Barnet

Find out how we're working to improve biodiversity in our borough