Barnet’s Cabinet will discuss options to plot a course to financial sustainability in the face of a ‘perfect storm’ that has unleashed a projected £29 million funding gap when it meets next week (5 December 2024).

Cabinet Members and council officers have been working to address and contain the unprecedented pressures on the council’s finances, driven by conditions beyond the council’s control. These include:

Loving Life is an exciting creative health project for older adults running in 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 using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England

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.

An award-winning film is spearheading a campaign by Barnet Council to encourage thousands of young carers to come forward and get support.

We Know What to Do stars young carers from Barnet and focuses on the skills, heart, resilience, and creativity they display during their everyday lives.