Posts by Hackney Citizen
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Read MoreLeader – Desperate measures
Help out Hackney Foodbank through our winter appeal
Read More‘Wages haven’t kept pace with living costs’: Hackney Foodbank launches Friday night centre to reach working people
‘When even working people can’t afford to heat their homes or buy food, you know the system is very broken,’ says Foodbank boss
Read More‘Amazing’: Halloween charity trail collects three tonnes of food for residents in need
Team behind the Trick or Eat scheme ‘very grateful’ to everyone who took part
Read More‘Each one contributed to Hackney’: Plaque honouring late African-Caribbean musicians to be unveiled on Mare Street
Twenty-four artists will feature on the memorial outside the former Ocean venue, which is now the Hackney Picturehouse
Read MoreWinter Toy Appeal returns for ninth year – with organisers expecting it to be ‘toughest yet’
Initiative distributes thousands of toys to children in poverty across north-east London
Read MoreHackney politicians welcome Metropolitan Police chief’s plans to banish racism from force
Borough leader and community safety chief agree with Sir Mark Rowley’s vision of ‘root and branch reform’
Read MoreUpcoming exhibition in Stoke Newington wants to ‘go beyond notion of art as only a two-way conversation’
Conversations in Colour runs from 10-14 November at Stokey Pop Up
Read MoreReconnect with the world at Autograph gallery tomorrow as it hosts art-inspired wellbeing day
The Shoreditch institution has enlisted artist Lateisha Davine Lovelace-Hanson to lead activities including breath work and soundscaping
Read MoreHackney’s young politicians invite local teenagers to Black History Season launch this weekend
Special guests, music and food on offer as Youth Parliament kicks off two-month celebration
Read MoreTown Hall to host Winter Warmer event for older residents in council housing – with advice on how to beat the cold and keep costs down
Free massages and activities on offer as annual get-together returns for first time since 2019
Read More‘Makes a big difference’: Organisers of Halloween food bank trail urge residents and businesses to sign up
Donate supplies while out and about in Hackney on 31 October as Trick or Eat returns for fourth year
Read More‘You take the highs with the lows’: London’s ‘only Black-led high street vintage shop’ celebrates 10 years in Hackney
The Citizen catches up with Rekindled owner Jackie Dacres as she looks back at a decade on Well Street
Read More‘I’ve seen a hell a lot of change’: Legendary Hackney film director launches 50-year retrospective in Shoreditch
John Smith, who Jarvis Cocker calls his ‘favourite British filmmaker’, will show 50 of his works over 10 weeks
Read MoreGreenpeace Shoreditch volunteers raise money for ‘boulder barrier’ to thwart industrial fishing in English Channel
Local residents helped bring in more than £5k for the charity’s campaign to protect oceans
Read MoreCharity for African communities celebrates new home at council property in Clapton – with Hackney Mayor welcoming ‘brilliant’ organisation
AFRIDAC selected as new tenant at one of the 50 council buildings reserved for the voluntary sector
Read More‘The trauma lasts for life’: Author and psychologist visits Hackney charity to launch novel about child trafficking
Angela Karanja’s thriller, Smuggled, is based on her experiences working with teenagers
Read MoreStamford Hill Clockhouse to be put up for sale – with council urging local businesses to help bring it back into use
Town Hall is keen to hear from ‘organisations with a presence in Stamford Hill’ as it prepares to market the property
Read MoreHackney Wick set to benefit from £1.2m fund to help creative industries go green
City Hall announces grants of up to £200k for London’s nine Creative Enterprise Zones
Read More‘We’re all in’: Award-winning wildlife illustrator to open studio and shop in Clapton after crowdfunding success
Ben Rothery delighted to ‘put roots down’ in his local borough – with Hidden Planet set to open later this year
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