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Barnet Council has been recognised for its commitment and continued support to the Armed Forces and has received a Ministry of Defence Employer Recognition Scheme Gold Award.

An update from Barnet Council on community safety issues arising from conflict in the Middle East Friday 10 November 2023

In the week that marks the start of Islamophobia Awareness Month, Barnet Council held an initial meeting with representatives of the borough’s Muslim communities, with a view to holding a wider round table discussion soon. Participants had the opportunity to share their concerns and insights about the local issues arising from the conflict in the Middle East with the council’s leadership, as well as with the Metropolitan Police.

Barnet residents will have the chance to pay their respects to those who have died in conflicts around the world at Remembrance Day services on Sunday 12 November, with several services and parades in the borough. The Worshipful Mayor of Barnet, Cllr Nagus Narenthira, will be attending Hendon War Memorial on Remembrance Sunday and will lay a wreath on behalf of the Mayoralty, Councillors and burgesses.

The Barnet Together partnership has awarded £300,000 of the Barnet Community Fund (BCF) to support the Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise (VCFSE) sector in Barnet.  The fund was shared between 40 Barnet VCFSE organisations and will be used towards the cost-of-living crisis and Covid-19 recovery.

Barnet Council held its annual Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration yesterday (Sunday 29 January) with a service at Middlesex University, bringing together the borough’s multifaith community to remember the victims of the Holocaust and genocide. This year’s theme for Holocaust Memorial Day was ‘ordinary people’ – the everyday people who were the enablers and the victims of the Holocaust.

Barnet Council has installed special lighting and a new mural in Burnt Oak, as part of an exciting creative placemaking project which aims to support and celebrate the town centre’s identity. The new mural is located opposite Burnt Oak underground station on Watling Avenue, and it was brought to life thanks to a joint effort by local young people at Unitas, Burnt Oak Partnership Board, Barnet Council and Transport for London.

The result of yesterday’s by-election in Golders Green ward has been declared at Barnet Council Headquarters, in Colindale. The seat was won by Conservative Party Candidate, Peter John Louis Zinkin and the turnout was 27.2 per cent. This means the political composition of the Council is now 40 Labour, 22 Conservative and one independent.

A total of 3,071* households in Barnet made use of the council’s free Community Skips service through the first three months since it was launched in November 2022. The service, which is managed by Barnet Council’s Street Scene team, allows households in the borough to dispose of up to three large items at no charge, and is available to each household in the borough once every three months.

Barnet councillors unanimously passed a motion to work towards becoming an accredited Borough of Sanctuary at the last full council meeting (January 24). In recent years, the council has helped support the resettlement of 50 individuals through the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme and hosted almost 1,000 Ukrainian refugees through Barnet’s Homes for Ukraine scheme.