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‘Toughest time in living memory’: Hackney Foodbank launches emergency £100k appeal as it struggles to keep up with unprecedented demand
The charity is expecting to spend £125k on food this year – a figure that has risen from just £2k in 2017
Read More‘Simply not good enough’: Child safeguarding expert urges police and other bodies to back up anti-racism pledges with evidence
Jim Gamble says organisations need to ‘evidence what they have done and who they have challenged’
Read More‘Well overdue’: Much-loved Hackney Wick venue brings its sound system into 21st century – thanks to £5k charity grant
Grow Hackney’s ageing audio equipment was putting shows at risk of cancellation
Read MoreFire safety: Front doors to be replaced at thousands of ‘highest-risk’ council homes
£30m scheme will see Town Hall install doors designed to withstand fire and smoke for 30 minutes
Read MoreDe Beauvoir residents hit out at boundary changes that could see them ‘shunted into Islington’
Voters in the ward could be faced with electing politicians in two boroughs
Read More‘Hands off our jobs’: Library staff across Hackney go on strike amid dispute over council cuts
Unison members take first of four days of action in an effort to protect jobs, with Unite set to follow suit
Read MoreLibrary staff to go on strike over job cuts: four dates announced
Town hall bosses are planning a shake-up of jobs – they could cut 76 roles and create 57 new ones.
Read MoreThe kindness of strangers: thousands donated for Winter Toy Appeal
‘We reached 5,040 children and we’re really relieved to have been able to help this many in what was a really tough year’
Read MoreWarming to the idea of heat exchanges: Residents donate winter fuel rebates to neighbours in need
Some people could get £1,000 in government help but cannot return it if they do not need the money
Read MoreNew Years Honours 2023: Chris Garnsworthy awarded the British Empire Medal
Passionate advocate of library home deliveries has been honoured for his work
Read MoreGift appeal: how and where to donate unwanted toys and games
The scheme is part of a drive to encourage a circular economy, so people re-use things or pass them on
Read MoreTitbits – Church eating and a Priti strange greeting
Read this month’s column that pecks at the crumbs of news in the borough
Read MoreNew Year Honours 2023: Hackney councillor Susan Fajana-Thomas made OBE
“A well deserved award for services to local government in Hackney and beyond’ says Mayor
Read MoreHackney’s libraries put out call for unwanted toys ahead of January gift appeal
People will be able to drop off toys and games at public libraries in the new year
Read More‘Deeply concerning’: Housing watchdog takes swipe at council for ‘high maladministration’ when handling complaints
Town Hall concedes that it is ‘not where we want to be as a service’ but says it ‘always looks to learn from any complaint’
Read MoreHackney councillor says cash-free society will be ‘devastating’ for many residents – and urges businesses to keep the change
Cllr Clare Joseph’s Cash Welcome Here campaign recently won support from Hackney Council, which will accept cash at all of its facilities
Read More‘Interesting and insightful’: Hackney students deliver lectures on gentrification, social media and local education
Hackney Young Lecturers scheme saw three teenagers deliver ‘fresh, intelligent’ takes on key issues
Read MoreHackney entrepreneurs help create innovative pop-up shop for project designed to ‘bring high street back to life’
London Made Me saw 14 businesses from across London join forces to build a temporary shop on Regent Street
Read More‘Expressing solidarity’: Campaigners gather outside Homerton Hospital in support of national nursing strikes
Despite nurses at the hospital narrowly missing out on joining the action, supporters still turned up to demand better pay for them
Read MoreCouncil invites residents to donate coats at Hackney’s libraries – with winter swap scheme in ‘very high demand’
All seven public libraries have coats available to people in need of an extra layer
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