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Hackney is to showcase the best of the borough's architects and architecture in a free event at Hackney House on Shoreditch High Street on 28 and 29 July. Hackney's Architecture Showcase Weekend will play host to some of London's leading architects who ...
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Hackney residents can now buy award-winning salad grown right here in the borough by Growing Communities.
Four shops in Hackney have started selling organic salad bags full of leaves, herbs and flowers grown on Growing Communities’ urban market gardens...
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Hackney Council's collaborative working has led to a crackdown on tenancy fraud in the borough.A dedicated team within the Council’s Audit & Anti-Fraud (AAF) division is working with eleven local social housing providers to reduce tenancy fraud in H...
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Underage Festival, the world’s first and only strictly 13–18s festival, is returning to London for a sixth year this August and is pleased to confirm more exciting names to the bill.
Joining already confirmed acts such as ...
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Hackney Council celebrated the award of two new Green Flags, which recognise the UK’s best green spaces. National environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy awarded the prestigious flags to parks in Hackney, which brings the total in the borough to 15– a...
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Voter registration forms will be dropping through letterboxes across the borough between July 23 to 26 to ensure that all residents who are eligible can exercise their right to vote.Hackney Council’s Electoral Registration Office will be sending forms t...
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HACKNEY Council is supporting local people with learning disabilities into employment, thanks to a ground breaking project creating maps for mobile phones. Through the PhotoRoute London maps project the Council has been supporting people with learning dis...
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Please note that the planned event at Clissold Park will not now take place. The Parade will be at Stokey between 12.30-1.30. The Torch gets here around 4.10. and is due to turn into Church St. around 4.20. There will be some extra pop-up surprises around...
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Empty high street shops have become an all too familiar sight in London as the economic downturn bites and closures increase. What can be done to bring these shops back into use? The London Assembly Economy Committee has launched a review of measures ...
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With the school holidays just around the corner Hackney Council has published its Summer Activities Guide, with details of hundreds of activities for young people. There’s no need to be stuck for things to do over the summer. From arts and culture to s...
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Children are invited to step into a world of adventure through Story Lab, 2012’s Reading Challenge at Hackney’s libraries this summer. This year’s theme - Story Lab celebrates the imagination and features four characters Lex, Rani, Will and Evie. A...
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Hackney Council is to offfer free microchipping for dog owners at its animal welfare depot in a bid to reunite lost pets with their owners.Each year almost 15,000 stray dogs are reported in London, with just over a third of those reunited with their owner...
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Residents of Hackney can do their bit to help the Council set a speedy record for waste and recycling collections this Summer.The Council is hoping to get off their marks quickly, leaving depots at 5.30am to enable collections to start on the 'b' of the b...
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To support businesses while LOCOG’s Olympic parking zone is in place, Hackney Council has identified 41 streets and installed temporary business visitors’ parking bays. All businesses in the zone area have been provided with visitors’ vouchers givi...
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The Council-run Hackney Museum has been working with Simon Marks Jewish School and members of the local community to create a Jewish Treasures workshop for the Museum, which uncovers fascinating stories behind Jewish settlements in Hackney. The workshop...
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Residents of Hackney Homes' Rhodes Estate celebrated the opening of their new community food growing spaces on 4 July with smoothies made from homegrown blackcurrants.With funding from environmental regeneration charity Groundwork, five new growing areas ...
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Mimbre, a Hackney based circus and street theatre company, will be running their own Big Dance event as part of the Big Dance Festival.
The idea is for as many people as possible, of all different ages, to join in for a basic but fun choreography which e...
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Hackney's free air pollution forecasting and alerting service airTEXT is being re-launched this week and now includes a new smart phone app, providing new ways for residents to learn about predicted air pollution, UV and grass pollen levels as well as day...
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As part of Hackney's Torch Rely celebrations Stoke Newington Town Hall is set to play host to its first music festival WoodStoke on 21 July.
The event includes a well-'stoked' bar, live music from five up and coming bands and a silent disco for festival ...
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Hackney Residents will be able to follow all the excitement and drama of the Olympic Games at a live broadcast in Haggerston Park. A big screen will be open seven days a week, from 11.30am untill the day's competition ends. The screen will be available fo...
