Ten Barnet organisations to benefit from £240,000 Community Innovation Fund
Barnet-based community groups have been awarded grants from the £240,000 Community Innovation Fund (CIF), to help support and fund projects that tackle the cost-of-living crisis and its impact on residents’ health.
Following the success of the first two rounds, the Fund’s third round opened for innovative local projects that would particularly benefit communities with poorer health outcomes.
Barnet to become Borough of Sanctuary and continue long history of supporting refugees
Barnet councillors unanimously passed a motion to work towards becoming an accredited Borough of Sanctuary at the last full council meeting (January 24).
In recent years, the council has helped support the resettlement of 50 individuals through the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme and hosted almost 1,000 Ukrainian refugees through Barnet’s Homes for Ukraine scheme.
Free Barnet Community Skips service used by 83 households a day
A total of 3,071* households in Barnet made use of the council’s free Community Skips service through the first three months since it was launched in November 2022.
The service, which is managed by Barnet Council’s Street Scene team, allows households in the borough to dispose of up to three large items at no charge, and is available to each household in the borough once every three months.
By-Election result – Golders Green ward
The result of yesterday’s by-election in Golders Green ward has been declared at Barnet Council Headquarters, in Colindale.
The seat was won by Conservative Party Candidate, Peter John Louis Zinkin and the turnout was 27.2 per cent.
This means the political composition of the Council is now 40 Labour, 22 Conservative and one independent.
Barnet communities come together to reflect on the ‘ordinary people’ of the Holocaust
Barnet Council held its annual Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration yesterday (Sunday 29 January) with a service at Middlesex University, bringing together the borough’s multifaith community to remember the victims of the Holocaust and genocide.
This year’s theme for Holocaust Memorial Day was ‘ordinary people’ – the everyday people who were the enablers and the victims of the Holocaust.
£300,000 awarded to local Barnet organisations to help with the cost-of-living crisis
The Barnet Together partnership has awarded £300,000 of the Barnet Community Fund (BCF) to support the Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise (VCFSE) sector in Barnet.
The fund was shared between 40 Barnet VCFSE organisations and will be used towards the cost-of-living crisis and Covid-19 recovery.
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Iconic artwork lights up Brent Cross
An impressive new artwork by London-based artist, Lakwena in collaboration with architects, IF_DO, has been revealed at Brent Cross Town today.
Mayor of Barnet writes to Mayor of twinned city of Pokhara following tragic plane crash
Following the tragic events in Pokhara, Nepal, the worshipful Mayor of Barnet Cllr Alison Moore has written to the Mayor of the city twinned with Barnet. As a mark of respect, the borough flag flying outside of Hendon Town Hall is flying at half-mast.
Dear Mayor,
It was a tremendous shock to learn of the tragic air crash in Pokhara on Sunday 15th January.