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A charity Diwali lunch was held at Copthall Leisure Centre on 13 October organised by a team of resident volunteers led by Kusum Israni from Edgware. Around 125 attendees enjoyed a lavish buffet lunch prepared by the volunteers themselves. Entertainment was provided by Bollywood dancers, and this was followed by an interactive dance workshop where everybody could have a go. One of the first to take to the floor was Cllr Gill Sargeant, who is the council’s older people’s champion.

New additional licensing scheme for Barnet This week (24-28 October) is Empty Homes Week at Barnet Council. The council is marking it by encouraging owners of the 1,891 empty homes in the borough to bring them back into use and is signposting the range of incentives available to help.

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.

Barnet pupils are celebrating GCSE results today (25 August), with this year marking the first time since before the pandemic that grades are being assigned based on end-of-year exams, rather than teacher assessments. Most exams and assessments did not take place in the 2019/20 and 2020/21 academic years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, so this cohort of students experienced public exams for the first time ever.

Barnet council has launched a British Sign Language (BSL) video interpreting service, InterpretersLive!, that assists deaf and hard of hearing residents access its contact centres.

A landlord has been ordered to pay £24,000 in a fine and costs after Barnet Council inspectors found he had been housing five tenants in a dangerous property. They discovered issues including damaged doors and an insecure front door at the House of Multiple Occupancy (HMO). Officers reported an overbearing smell and a first-floor landing blocked by so many items that a tenant had to climb over them to enter and leave his room.

The London Borough of Barnet has put out the following statement following the death today, September 8 2022, of Her Majesty The Queen. The Worshipful Mayor of Barnet, Councillor Alison Moore, said: “It is with the deepest sadness that we learnt today of the death of Her Majesty The Queen. We share in the profound grief felt across the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth and the entire world.

The Worshipful Mayor of Barnet, Cllr Alison Moore, today (11 September) proclaimed His Majesty The King in the borough of Barnet. The Proclamation took place at 2pm at Hendon Town Hall. The Mayor was joined by the Representative Deputy Lieutenant Martin Russell, Barnet Council Leader Cllr Barry Rawlings, councillors, past mayors, and the council’s leadership team. The ceremony was also attended by Barnet residents.