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Barnet will mark Hate Crime Awareness Week (12 to 19 October) with a series of events and engagement opportunities designed to promote the message that ‘hate has no place in Barnet’.

Illegal tobacco products with an estimated street value of £61,000 have been seized as part of a major crackdown in Barnet. Trading standards officers from Barnet Council confiscated thousands of illicit goods on Wednesday 16 October, using sniffer dogs to find products that had been concealed in hideaways within shops.

Barnet Council has unveiled a new playground in East Finchley transforming it into a green, modern park for the whole community to enjoy, as well as contributing to Barnet’s NetZero aspirations. It’s been a four-year journey from the original imaginative vision, through extensive community consultation and the design, fundraising and build phases to deliver the transformation of this historic bit of East Finchley.

Schools and businesses across Barnet are being urged to prepare for the introduction of separate food waste collections next year. Under a national sustainability drive, all schools and commercial businesses with the equivalent of ten or more full-time employees in England will be required to separate their food waste for recycling, as well as recycling glass, paper, cardboard, cans, and plastic pots, tubs and trays, from March 2025.

The London Festival of Architecture (LFA) is returning to Barnet for the 20th Anniversary of the Festival with an exciting programme of activity and activations taking place across the borough, throughout the month of June. This is the second year that Barnet has formed a key Destination within the Festival’s programme and this year will see over 60 events take place across the borough that respond to this year’s theme of ‘Reimagine’.

A new sensory garden, which has been created in partnership with Barnet’s sight impaired community, has been officially opened in Finchley’s Victoria Park near to the café and the bowls club building.

Barnet Council launched a new campaign aimed at helping residents eat more healthily on a budget, with a bean-based cooking demonstration hosted by Allotmentz restaurant with NLCC (North London Community Consortium) in Friern Barnet on Sunday 5 May. Over 50 residents attended the event where Allotmentz chef, Anita Watson, and her team prepared and served up three different recipes while chatting to attendees about healthy eating and affordable meals.

A free online service has been launched by Barnet Council to make the planning process simpler for residents looking to make changes to their homes. The new tool, Find Out If You Need Planning Permission, makes it quicker and easier to check when and how to apply for permission for building works such as home extensions.

Barnet Council is inviting residents to vote for their favourite sustainability project, designed by local experts, with the winners taking home part of a total prize pot of £10,000 to help fund their idea. The finalists of the ‘BarNET ZERO Challenge’, a collaborative initiative with Middlesex University, were invited to present practical ideas for reducing carbon footprints.

The sparkling finals of Dance Barnet, a pan-disability Strictly-inspired dance competition took place on Thursday 16 May at the Pentland Theatre in the Arts Depot, north Finchley. The event saw ten disabled people perform as they competed in a special initiative designed to provide accessible dance to everyone and to encourage more disabled people in the community to be active.