Happy Christmas from the Hackney Citizen!
As we near the end of another challenging year for everyone, the Hackney Citizen team wishes all of our readers, Twitter followers, supporters and subscribers a very merry Christmas. Stay safe.
We’ll be returning next week. In the meantime, enjoy a selection of recent stories along with a couple from our archive, and, if you can, please consider supporting some of the charities and projects that feature:
- Winter Toy Appeal: Thousands of children in poverty to receive gift this Christmas as organisers issue ‘heartfelt thanks’
- Poetry: Still Lurking In The Dark by Charlie Cook
- ‘How can we shift the narrative?’ Photographs of smiling Black schoolboys go on display around Hackney as ‘call to action’
- St Mary’s Secret Garden launches appeal for donations amid funding uncertainty
- Community kitchen appeals for cyclists to deliver free meals to Hackney’s most vulnerable
- The Citizen Gardener: Bringing in the rain
- Stars pay tribute to Hackney Empire as historic theatre celebrates 120th anniversary
- Hackney’s role in stranger-than-fiction wartime escapade commemorated with plaque
- Hackney Winter Night Shelter appeals for volunteers with ‘demand high’
- Local charity launches campaign to support brain injury survivors and families through first stages of rehabilitation
- Yuletide past in Hackney
- How to have a green Christmas