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Barnet Council launched a successful information event for recently arrived Ukrainians last Thursday (19 May) at Barnet and Southgate College in Colindale. The event, translated live in Ukrainian, informed over 60 attendees about opportunities to work, learn English, access healthcare and a range of local services. Sponsorship has been provided by Cadent Gas and Hill Group to purchase and provide laptops to help access employment and education opportunities more easily.

Barnet is celebrating the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee with a record-breaking 130+ street parties, fairs, big lunches and family-friendly activities for everyone to join. One of the main events is the Golders Hill Fun Day which takes place on Thursday 2 June, from 2pm to 10pm. It will include the ceremonial lighting of the beacon, live music performances throughout the day, a range of food and drinks stalls and will finish with a silent fireworks display.  

Barnet Youth Offending Service (YOS) has received an overall rating of ‘Good’ following an inspection by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Probation (HMIP). Inspectors were pleased with the way Barnet YOS was organised, citing high-quality work in safeguarding, governance arrangements and work with their partners. The inspection also found the service has in-house speech and language therapy and a psychologist.

Barnet Council yesterday (31 May) launched a bold new strategy to enable children and young people to influence decisions in the council. The participation strategy, called My Say Matters, was unveiled by young people at a special event at Hendon Town Hall.

Barnet council is to light up Hendon Town Hall tonight (Monday 13 June) and tomorrow night to honour the memory of those who died in the Grenfell Tower tragedy five years ago. On June 14 in 2017, a fire swept through a 24-storey block of flats in North Kensington and killed 72 people. To mark five years since the tragedy, Barnet joined authorities all over the capital, in lighting up green for Grenfell.

Young people across Barnet have voted to elect their Members of Youth Parliament and Youth Ambassadors for the 2022 - 2024 term.  Barnet’s newest Members of Youth Parliament are: Elysse Adil, age 11, Belmont Preparatory School Isaac Reuben, age 16, JCOSS Barnet’s newest Youth Ambassadors are:

This Thursday 5 May, voters in Barnet will go to the polls in the Local Elections to elect 63 councillors across 24 wards. Voters will receive one ballot paper when they go to vote. Barnet’s recent ward boundary changes mean that the borough is now made up of nine 2-councillor wards and fifteen 3-councillor wards, based on the number of electors that they contain. Therefore, depending on which ward they live in, voters will vote for either 2 or 3 councillors to represent them.

This year’s Barnet Civic Awards were presented to members of the public and organisations that have performed outstanding voluntary work in their local communities. They were awarded at a special ceremony at Hendon Town Hall on Wednesday 6 April. This year’s awards were divided into two categories: ‘Lifetime Achievement’ and ‘Outstanding Service to the Community’.

The borough of Barnet is set to host more than one in six of all of London’s electric vehicle (EV) on-street charge points, after Barnet Council secured a £5.19m government grant. Funding from the Office for Zero Emissions Vehicles’ On-Street Residential Charge Point Scheme (ORCS) will pay for 60% of the total project costs of installing 1,293 EV charge points. This will add to the almost 800 public charge points already installed in the borough.

Barnet Council is one step closer to beginning work on the £18.8million transformation of one of its largest parks after appointing a design team to lead the project. Ove Arup & Partners Ltd was chosen to head up the regeneration of West Hendon Playing Field after winning a prestigious design contest by the London Borough of Barnet in partnership with the Landscape Institute.