Neighbourhood Conversations as a response to covid pandemic Voluntary sector organisations, including many Connect Hackney partners, and local public services are working on a Neighbourhood basis to deliver local responses to Covid-19. Online Neighbourhood conversation are taking place in each Read More
Lockdown inspires creativity at Media Group
Lockdown inspires Media Group creativity Despite the lockdown, Charles from Connnect Hackney’s Media Group has been inspired to write a poem. Hand work 1 Cheer those pioneering doctors and nurses.Carers, armed- services, workers and volunteers.“No Human Sacrificed” these rehearsed verses.Words Read More
Five Ways to Wellbeing during lockdown
Five Ways to look after yourself Connect Hackney partners have been looking at some evidence-based findings about how to help people get through self-isolating during the coronavirus pandemic.The most recent issue of Hackney Life has a feature by Connect Hackney Read More
Hackney Lunch Clubs report published
Hackney lunch clubs report published. Read More
Staying connected during the Covid-19 outbreak
Staying Connected: Leisure opportunities in the current Covid-19 outbreak Read More
Coronavirus survey: What’s happening for your organisation and how can we help?
Coronavirus survey: What’s happening for your organisation and how can we help? The next few months are going to be really uncertain for everyone, particularly the local voluntary and community sector. We don’t know how the situation with coronavirus is Read More
Beat Blue Monday with Hackney Brocals
Blue Monday, 20 January this year, is when Christmas memories have faded, our credit card bills arrive, we’ve failed in our New Year’s resolutions to shift the excess weight from Christmas overeating, the weather is grim and we’re back to Read More
Alive and Cooking! With Harold Rubin
Easy cookery for singles and older people Local resident, Harold Rubin, a retired professional cook, restaurateur and cookery consultant has a great video. Originally from New York, 92-year old Harold still enjoys cooking all his own meals for himself and Read More
Join Mind for Silver Saturdays
Join Mind at 15a Homerton Row, 28th September, 11am-4pm, for live music, a history of Hackney art project and a delicious lunch. This month Mind’s Silver Saturdays are going to have a history of Hackney art project, where attendees will Read More
The subject is waste
By Harold Rubin Food waste, time wasted, energy waste, and the waste of resources. To end with a pun, your waist! Almost as much food is disposed of as is consumed. Returning food to the earth via landfill or destruction Read More