It’s never too early to start planning to enter for this year’s Finest Flowers competition! So, get your gloves on, spades and watering cans ready and start planting! The categories are: The best front/back garden The best communal garden The best balcony/container The best new gardener The Geoff Beddingfield award for the most outstanding garden [...]
The Fosters Estate in Hendon is one of Barnet's largest and is part of a new construction project which will deliver 142 new homes. The homes are being built for Sage Homes, by contractors Hill Group, with Barnet Homes managing the process. 82 homes will be for shared ownership, while 60 will be for Barnet [...]
This week is Debt Awareness Week 2024 – an annual event led by the UK's leading provider of free debt advice, StepChange. We’re proud to be supporting the charity’s 10th Debt Awareness Week, which aims to increase awareness of problem debt, and the solutions available to help. Amid the cost-of-living crisis, it’s more important than [...]
The Barnet Group (which includes Barnet Homes, Opendoor Homes, and Your Choice (Barnet)) is refreshing its Strategic Plan. The Strategic Plan 2024-29 sets out our vision for the future and identifies our shared goals and objectives for getting there. We would like your feedback on our draft document. You can let us know what you [...]
Hosting a play street gives children an opportunity to play safely and freely on their street. Play streets also act as a community building activity with children getting a chance to play with all the children in the neighbourhood and neighbours can come together to meet. Play streets are a community event run by residents. [...]
Work to begin resurfacing footways at the Grahame Park Estate will be on Monday 26 February 2024. Footways on The Concourse and the Quakers Course area will be resurfaced with a new, even, hard-wearing surface as Barnet Council and Barnet Homes continue to invest in the Grahame Park area. The works will take place in [...]
BOOST is The Barnet Group's employment, training and benefits support service helping Barnet's residents. The team at BOOST have recently been given the green light to start a new employment support project, funded by the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF). The UKSPF is the government’s domestic replacement for the European Structural and Investment Programme (ESIF). [...]
The Metropolitan Police have put together this useful crime prevention advice leaflet. Use it to keep you and your neighbours safe. Download the leaflet here.
