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The UK has been an official partner of Giving Tuesday since 2014 and Barnet Council is excited to be hosting the UK’s first official Giving Tuesday Community Campaign. Let’s all come together as a community and help in any way that we can.

Safe Drive Stay Alive (SDSA) – staged from 11-15 November – explores the circumstances that can lead to a collision and the consequences that follow in a hard-hitting and emotive way. Two speakers shared their emotional stories of losing loved ones, while the London Fire Brigade, Metropolitan Police and Ambulance Service recounted their first-hand experiences of dealing with road accidents.

The initiative – now in its fifth year – will cover the following dates:

Almost a third (26%) of the average Briton’s garments have not been worn in the last year. Why not dig out those clothes lurking at the back of your wardrobe, bring them to Swish & Style and swap them for a new outfit for this year’s festivities? There will be two events from 1-4pm at the artsdepot, 5 Nether St, North Finchley, N12 0GA, on Saturday this week (14 December) and on Saturday 15 February, 2020.

Garden waste collections are currently paused Real Christmas trees will be collected between 6 January and 1 February. If residents would like their real Christmas tree to be collected they must ensure it is cut in half and put the at the boundary of their property on their normal collection day.

All it takes is a short visit to barnet.gov.uk/civic-awards where you put them forward for a Civic Award. You can also nominate someone by emailing mayor@barnet.gov.uk or phoning the Mayor’s Office on 0208 3592652. The only rule is that nominees must live, work or study in the Barnet borough. Nominations close on 31 December. There are three categories you can choose between:

The themes of the event in 2020 are ‘health and wellbeing’ and ‘loving London life’. You can watch it from 12noon on Wednesday 1 January on London Live, via Facebook and Twitter @lnydp, or at lnydp.com. You can vote for Barnet to win the People’s Choice award in the London Borough category via the LNYDP’s Facebook and Twitter channels, and via its website. The poll will run from 12noon on New Year’s Day until the end of the parade.

They were recognised for their achievements, and for their charity work, and we would like to say on behalf of the borough that it is much appreciated. The following people were awarded the British Empire Medal: Kathryn Mary Fulton (known as Kate), 55 For services to the community in the London Borough of Barnet

Today’s publication follows three rounds of public consultation and draws new boundaries for each council ward across Barnet. All of Barnet’s current council wards will change as a result of the review.

BOOST was launched in 2015, and two years later, a second BOOST was launched in Childs Hill. A third has now been opened in South Friern Library, where it is open to the public from 10am-5pm on the second and fourth Wednesday of every month.