Haringey has achieved a ‘significant milestone’ with Ofsted awarding the council a ‘Good’ rating overall for its services to children and young people – a first in the borough’s history. Ofsted inspectors visited the borough in February 2023, when they assessed the care, help and protection given to children and young people and their...
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Yeladenu Preschool
Yeladenu Preschool is a twice Ofsted outstanding Jewish preschool in Haringey that welcomes children and families of all faiths. Our children have a range of activities to choose from every day including weekly intergenerational sessions at a local care home. We are a small, nurturing preschool focussing on developing children’s social and emotional skills and...
Going Green: Sustainable Tips for Companies to Reduce Environmental Impact and Promote Healthy Workplaces 🌱
As we approach Earth Day, it’s time for companies to reflect on their relationship with the planet and consider the changes they can make to operate more sustainably. The COVID-19 lockdowns have brought about a greater appreciation for nature, and it’s crucial that businesses, as well as individuals, take advantage of this opportunity to make...
Early Help support for Haringey families following £3.8m funding boost for Family Hubs & Start for Life Programme
Children, young people and their families in Haringey are set to benefit after the council agreed to participate in the national Family Hubs and Start for Life Programme which could see Haringey receive up to £3.8m funding to develop up to four family hubs in the borough. This quartet of hubs will help to ensure...
Bohem Brewery – authentic Czech-style lager brewed here in Haringey
Bohem Brewery was founded in Haringey in early 2017, by Petr Skocek and Zdenek Kudr, two Czech Republic ex pats. It began brewing in small premises near Wood Green with an accompanying tap room operating on Myddleton Road, N22. The two founders were determined to bring the delicious Czech beer styles they knew from their...
Keep on Running
Bruce Castle has well over 50 photographs of the 2012 Olympic Torch Relay through Haringey, with our thanks to photographer Henry Jacobs. Although we already had some photographs taken along the route, we now have more or less the whole route covered. Henry was the council’s official photographer for the 2012 Torch Relay and had...
Did you know …. Haringey was where cinema first started?
Haringey residents visiting their local cinema or, for some, working in film and screen today, may not realise that they have to thank a couple who lived in Muswell Hill over 110 years ago for creating ‘cinema’. In today’s post we thought we would link you up with some very early film, to take a...
The Great Panorama
Did you know that between 1881-1883, in the Alexandra Palace grounds, adjacent to the upper lakes, there once stood an enormous wooden rotunda? Well, I didn’t know – but my late friend, colleague and Panorama expert Ralph Hyde (formerly Keeper of Prints, Maps & Drawings at Guildhall Library) was soon going to enthusiastically tell me...
Thumb’s Up for the (Penny) Posties
We’re going to wander about with our postal workers on their rounds and give a BIG thumbs up to our posties, – a thank you to the great work they have been doing in keeping us connected with each other and delivering things we can’t buy locally during the lockdown. We do have, of course,...
Basil Lewis OBE (1928 – 2020).
Basil was born in Clarendon, Jamaica in 1928, and came to London in 1954 aged 26. He was not only Haringey’s first Black Council Member, but was also a founding member of the Council’s Race Equalities Committee, Anglo-West Indian Conservative Society and the Hornsey Cooperative Credit Union. Basil received an OBE for his work with...
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