Sadly, like all local councils, Hackney is desperately short of funds and has taken the decision to start charging for garden waste collections @ £78 per year from May 6th.
Hackney Council is also ending its provision of free food waste liners for street-level properties – with residents able to place loose food waste into caddies, lined with newspaper or brown paper bags, or purchase their own liners.
Screen Hackney is offering a free two-day training course, run in partnership with Set Ready Ltd, for up to 25 Hackney residents aged 18+. Those who successfully complete the course will be offered a high quality paid position as a location marshal on a film or TV set.
Holiday activities and food in Hackney offer a wide range of exciting activities and a daily healthy meal – free for those eligible for free school meals.
FREE Hackney Easter programme For young people aged 6 – 19 (OR up to 25, with a special educational need and/or disability [SEND]). Tuesday 2 April – Friday 12 April
London events for the Easter weekend 2024 Easter egg hunts and special Easter events for kids and grownups, the best chocolate shops and Easter opening hours in London
Tues Mar 26 at 11:00 am to 02:00 pm The Boiler House Community Space, George Downing Estate, Cazenove Road N16 6BE
Join us at The Boiler House Community Space for a free informal coffee morning.
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“In the last Mayoral election only 42% of Londoners voted, which is pathetic when you think that more than a century ago, Emily Davison threw herself under a horse and died for the right to vote. A few years ago, I didn’t bother voting against Brexit because I never thought it would happen. I will never underestimate the power and importance of my vote EVER again. Voting changes things. Get off your arse and vote and positive change happens.” – David Buonaguidi aka Real Hackney Dave
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Showcasing 250 provocative, humorous, and inventive images encouraging people to cast their ballot. The show has been put together by East London artist David Buonaguidi aka Real Hackney Dave, whose own work is a cushion in TFL tube upholstery, with the slogan ‘Get Off Your A**e’.
Prints will all be sold to raise money to fund bursaries for young people to study on the Art and Design foundation course in Camberwell.
A charge for garden waste collections is set to be introduced in Hackney from 6 May as the Council responds to a £52m budget shortfall over the next three years.
It is expected to affect the fifth of Hackney households that currently use the Council’s garden waste service, and brings the borough in line with neighbouring councils that also charge.
Collection days will also change for dry mixed recycling, garden waste and food waste for some street-level properties as the Council makes its collection routes more efficient – helping to reduce pollution from collection rounds. The frequency of collections will not change.
The changes will help the Council prioritise funding for essential services, such as the care it provides for vulnerable children and adults.
Residents can apply online from today to keep receiving garden waste collections, which will cost from £78 for 6 May 2024 to 31 March 2025.
Hackney organises free walks and walking groups for all abilities to help people get outside, exercise regularly, lose weight, keep fit, connect with others and discover the area.
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You probably know that any physical activity, including walking, is a boon to your overall health. But walking in particular comes with a host of benefits.
Some benefits of walking you might know and some you might not.
1. Improves your mood: Just 10 minutes of walking can lift your spirits and help reduce depression, even more if you take a stroll through some greenery.
2. Helps maintain a healthy weight, shape and tone Daily walking increases metabolism by burning extra calories, reduces fat, improves your body’s response to insulin, helps reduce sweet cravings and intake of sugary snacks thus reducing the risk of diabetes. It also helps prevent muscle loss, particularly important as we get older. It even counteracts the effects of weight-promoting genes. A Harvard study of 1200 participants showed that a brisk walk for an hour a day cut the effects of those genes in half.
3. Improves heart health One of the major ways that walking can improve your heart health is by lowering your blood pressure and reducing the risk of heart attack or stroke.
4. Reduces risk of chronic diseases Chronic diseases include obesity, sleep apnea, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), major depressive disorder (MDD), diabetes, and hypertension.
5. Reduces stress Walking reduces the stress hormone cortisol, which helps you feel less stressed and more relaxed. Just 10 minutes of walking lowers both anxiety and depression and increases focus and creativity.
7. Boosts brainpower Possibly partly due to increased blood flow to the brain that occurs with exercise, brain scans of people who walked briskly for one hour three times a week showed the decision-making areas of their brains worked more efficiently than people who attended education seminars instead.
8. Alleviates joint pain Walking for at least 10 minutes a day—or about an hour every week—can reduce disability and arthritis pain in older adults and walking five to six miles a week can even prevent arthritis from forming in the first place.
9. Reduces occurrence of varicose veins ‘The second heart,’ is formed by muscles, veins and valves located in our calf and ankle. These helps to squeeze blood back up towards the heart and lungs. Walking promotes this secondary circulatory system by activating and strengthening leg muscles, which boosts healthy blood flow. Daily walking can help ease related swelling, pain and restlessness in your legs from existing varicose veins.
10. Stimulates digestive elimination Walking uses core and abdominal muscles, encouraging internal movement in our gut so if you currently count on your morning coffee to get your bowels moving, get ready to start thanking your morning walk instead.
11. Boosts the immune system. In a study of 1000 participants, those who walked at least 20 minutes a day, at least 5 days a week, had 43% fewer sick days than those who exercised once a week or less. And if they did get sick, it was for a shorter duration, and their symptoms were milder. It also reduces the risk of developing breast cancer, even for women with breast cancer risk factors, such as being overweight or using HRT.
12. Protects bones Walking works directly on the bones in your legs, hips and lower spine to slow density loss. Specifically, taking brisk walks for 30 minutes per day 3 or more times per week is recommended to prevent bone loss in premenopausal women.
13. Enhances creativity Researchers administered creative-thinking tests to subjects while seated and while walking and found that the walkers thought more creatively than the sitters
14. Makes other goals more attainable. Walking is adaptable and accessible for a wide range of ages and levels of fitness and relatively easy to establish as a routine habit, so people feel empowered and motivated to stick with it and more enabled to adopt other new healthy behaviours. In studies those who walked regularly had more self-belief, higher health perceptions and were more likely to have better mental health.
15. Prolongs life One of the many studies found that people who did just 10 to 59 minutes of moderate exercise (like brisk walking) per week had an 18% lower risk of death during the study period compared to those who were inactive. Meanwhile, people who completed the recommended 150 minutes of weekly exercise in at least 10-minute spurts had a 31% lower risk of death.
16. Helps solve problems Walking and talking with another creates a synchrony effect, which can open our minds to ideas and inspiration and help solve problems, resolve conflicts and discover new paths of action to achieve goals.
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