Calendar of things to do: Regular events every week
EVENTS COMING UP
Hornsey Vale; £2 Soup on Mondays Hornsey Vale Community Centre’s Soup Cafe, launched in October 2023, runs every Monday during term time. It serves home-made soup using (mostly) surplus veggies supplied by its friends at The Felix Project. The Soup Café takes place in the Small Hall at the centre in Mayfield Road, N8, which is open from 11am to 2:30pm. Soup is served from noon to 2pm. The Soup Café hopes to create a relaxed space where people can meet new friends, join in fun activities and talk about what they would like to see and do at Hornsey Vale. There is a growing collection of games, art supplies for guided creative drawing, enthusiastic singers… and, in the coming months, some other activities. The suggested donation is £2 per person.
Exercise and lunch; Epione Wellbeing Centre, Denmark Road/Wightman Road, N8 0DZ Ladies fitness classes; Mondays and Wednesdays 11am – 12 midday. Works on wellbeing inside and out. There is a nurse every Wednesday 10.15am – 11.15 am. All welcome to have blood sugar levels and blood pressure checked. There’s a lunch after the class on Wednesday. Email address info@epionewellbeing.org.uk. Phone contacts; Theodosia; 07985 725818; Andrulla; 07872 633508
Keep walking! It’s good for the bones and the heart If you can brave the cold, don’t forget Rebecca’s walks – Bruce Castle Park, 10.30 every Wednesday. There are lots of other walks in different parks listed on https://www.haringey.gov.uk/streets-roads-travel/travel/walking
Food, glorious food Every Tuesday afternoon from 12.45, the Antwerp Arms (Tottenham’s only cooperatively run pub, in Church Road N17) serves a free lunch in the pub to anyone in need of a hot meal and some company, and delivers free meals to homeless and vulnerable people. Its community kitchen is run entirely by volunteers and supported by generous food donations from the Felix Project and Fairfax Meadow Butchers. The Antwerp Arms Association also provides funding, training and equipment to keep the kitchen running smoothly. The community kitchen is about so much more than a hot meal – for both visitors and our volunteers, it’s a place to meet other people, have friendly conversation and enjoy the warmth and support of a wonderful community. Read more of this wonderful story on https://www.antwerparms.co.uk/our-community-projects. You can eat, volunteer to help cook or wash up, donate cash, or take a meal to one of the people who needs one, who might live near you.
Cinema Club The first Thursday of the month it’s at the Finsbury Park PictureHouse. The third Thursday of the month is at the Crouch End PictureHouse. Many people have already joined the e mail list to be told what film is being shown and the time, which we tell people as soon as the cinema tells us. If you would like this information please e-mail info@ho50s.org.uk
New GP centre in Tottenham Hale The new Wellbourne Practice has opened at Unit 1, Walter Tull House, Monument Way N17 9QX. Tel. 020 8808 4203 Since July, it’s been helping to address the shortfall in appointments in the north-east of Haringey, providing GP appointments for 25,000 patients. The Centre, set over three floors, features 24 consultation rooms, as well as a variety of other spaces for clinicians including GPs, pharmacists and more. The Lawrence House Group has also moved its Hale Village (Tottenham Hale Medical Practice) and Dowsett Road (Dowsett Road Surgery) medical centres to the new site.
Members of Parliament in Haringey You elect an Member of Parliament to represent your interests and concerns in the House of Commons. MPs deal with and propose new laws and can raise issues that matter to you. Remember they are there for you. There are now four MPs in Haringey due to changes in constituency boundaries. We share them with neighbouring boroughs.
Catherine West – Hornsey and Friern Barnet Catherine holds regular advice surgeries for new cases by telephone and in person. To arrange an appointment, please contact Catherine’s office by email in the first instance. Please say in your email that you would like a surgery appointment, and include details of your problem as well as your full address in the constituency. If you do not have access to email, please call Catherine’s office. Tel.: 020 7219 6141 Email: westc@parliament.uk
Bambos Charalambous – Southgate and Wood Green Advice Surgery slots are booked on a first come first served basis and must be pre-booked. Please contact his office to arrange an appointment. Tel.: 020 8882 0088 email: bambos.charalambous.mp@parliament.uk
David Lammy – Tottenham Surgeries are by appointment only. Please tel. 020 7219 0767 to make an appointment, between 10am – 1pm Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. At all other times please write to David Lammy MP at: House of Commons London SW1A 0AA. Tulip Siddiq – Hampstead and Highgate Business address: House of Commons London SW1A 0AA Tel.: 020 8127 5525 Email: tulip.siddiq.mp@parliament.uk
Members’ contributions to the newsletter are invited – if you have an interesting photo, or information about a club, class or event you attend, let us know for the March edition. And if anyone tells you they haven’t had a newsletter they were expecting, please tell us on 07915 477009. See you at the Winkfield Thursday January 23rd!