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New facilities proposed include tennis courts, 3G artificial turf pitches, a high ropes course, bowling green, multi-use games area, outdoor gym, play area, skate park and more. They also include improved pedestrian and cycle routes to and around the park to encourage more people take up eco-friendly ‘active travel’ and leave their cars at home, helping to reduce the effects of climate change, while improving public health.

The process, which follows a three-month public consultation last year, was formalised this week with the signing of the official designation document by the authority’s CEO, John Hooton.

Last night at Barnet Council’s committee meeting councillors voted to pass Cllr Linda Lusingu’s motion ensuring Black History Month is fully recognised and that funding is allocated to support it. The motion calls for Barnet’s diverse communities and organisations to be supported to promote events throughout the month of October every year and given access to funding, with a programme of events co-designed with schools, headteachers and council officers.

The Mayor of Barnet awarded twelve-year-old, Sophia Wolfe, a special certificate yesterday, 27 July, for swimming one-hundred lengths of Copthall swimming pool raising £688.75 for a local charity. Sophia decided to mark her Bat Mitzvah by swimming the 2.5 kilometres in her local pool for Dementia Club UK, a charity close to her heart, as her grandma attends their sessions.

A group of young creatives from Barnet were awarded ’Best Group of the Year’ for their short film Generation Verified, at a virtual awards ceremony on Friday 22 July. The film, coproduced with Youth Realties and commissioned by Barnet Public Health’s Resilient Schools Programme, was an opportunity for the students to experience all aspects of scriptwriting, acting, film making and directing.

This summer, Better Health have again teamed up with Disney to help get kids active throughout the holidays by playing free 10 Minute Shake Up games. The games are inspired by some of their favourite characters – including Disney’s Encanto and Frozen, to Pixar’s Lightyear, and Marvel’s The Avengers. Visit the 10 minute shake up website to get started.

Barnet Council has urged the Government to deliver on promises of supplementary funding to help support the maintained nurseries in the borough. Maintained nursery schools look after a wide range of children and in Barnet are the Moss Hall Nursery School and the Barnet Early Years Alliance Nursery schools, Brookhill, Hampden Way and St Margaret's in New Barnet.

Opened last week the new facilities are part of a multi-million-pound investment in the borough’s parks to help residents get out into the open air, enjoy the green spaces and keep themselves fit. The new playpark includes a mini castle, swings, slides, a seesaw, climbing frame and even an alligator to be traversed, while the gym includes apparatus such as a cross-trainer, weights equipment, kettle bells and bars for triceps dips and chin-ups.

We were elected with a mandate to change Barnet for the better, to put sustainability and communities at the heart of what the council does, to help people with the cost of living crisis, and to protect and improve local services. Our top five pledges We promised to deliver on our top five pledges, and since May we have:

Barnet students celebrated their A-Level results today (18 August), with many schools across the borough having reported achieving their best ever results, despite all the challenges of the last two years. Most exams and assessments did not take place in 2019/20, or 2020/21 academic years, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, so this cohort of students experienced public exams for the first time ever.