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Town 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 MoreCyber attack recovery effort cost Hackney Council over £12m last year
Town Hall thanks residents for ‘continued patience’, with October 2020 hack still under investigated at National Crime Agency
Read MoreDe Beauvoir residents launch Heat Exchange so people can donate £400 energy rebate to neighbours in need
Scheme co-founder Stephen Grosz encourages other areas in Hackney to do the same
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‘Unjustified’: Hundreds of motorcyclists protest Hackney Council’s plans for ‘eye-watering’ parking charges
Around 300 people gather at the Town Hall to condemn proposals that could see riders paying up to £6 an hour
Read MoreHackney Council defends plan to restructure libraries as unions promise to fight any job losses
Town Hall proposals, which it hopes will save £300,000, could lead to 19 jobs being scrapped
Read More‘Cost-of-living crisis will mean tough decisions on budgets,’ warns Hackney’s chief executive
Mark Carroll, who took up the job last year, says the council will have to do ‘things we don’t want to do’
Read MoreCouncil ‘determined’ to forge ahead with Kings Hall Leisure Centre refurbishment despite ‘significant financial challenges’
Town Hall procurement committee set to approve £35m plans – with ‘doing nothing simply not an option’
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 MoreMayor apologises to campaigner who was told to move her pop-up parklet during ‘harmless community event’
Brenda Puech was approached by enforcement officers on Pop-up Parklet Day last weekend
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 MoreAnti-LTN campaigner stages silent protest after being told her question about air quality would not be considered at health meeting
Council says cabinet is ‘most appropriate body’ to respond to Clair Battaglino’s concerns
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 MoreHackney Foodbank in plea for support as residents speak out about cost-of-living crisis – including one mother who has stopped her son taking baths
Volunteers at the charity are ‘worried’, with food donations falling away despite demand doubling
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
Read MoreSt John at Hackney Church to host memorial service for the Queen this Sunday
Local MPs and councillors will join the event, which will be shown on screens outside the church
Read More‘Once-in-a-generation chance’: Crowdfunder for wild swimming pond in East London smashes past the halfway mark
Volunteer-led campaign has raised £250k in a matter of months
Read More‘Like losing a mother’: Hackney councillors unite to remember a Queen who ‘defined modern Britain’
Politicians from all parties used their full council meeting to pay tribute to the late monarch
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