Haringey peopleDecember 2018 - January 2019 Kids' charity surprise day Inside this edition Find us online www.haringey.gov.uk Next Meal Follow us Victoria Cross Community @haringeycouncil celebrations People's day Haringey People | December 2018 - January 2019 01 Christmas and New Year services Haringey contact centre Haringey libraries and opening times customer services opening hours Haringey’s Contact Centre (020 8489 1000) will be closed from WOOD GREEN, MARCUS 25 December to 1 January 2019. GARVEY & HORNSEY During this period our out of LIBRARIES hours service will pick up any • 24 December - open 9am-1pm emergency enquiries. 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If you would like to receive a copy of Haringey People in your • 27 and 28 December - For more information go to www. open 7am-7pm own language please email your haringey.gov.uk (search ‘library’) request including the date of the • 29 and 30 December - issue and language needed to: open 7am-5pm translationandinterpreting@ • 31 December - open 7am-5pm haringey.gov.uk • 1 January - closed • 2 January - open7am -9pm For more information go to www.haringey.gov.uk (search ‘leisure centre’) 02 Welcome | Haringey People Contents News 20 23 05 Curtain rises for theatre 06 Budget: have your say 07 Getting a kick out of Haringey 09 A stroke of genius Caring for Calais Last Victoria Cross for the First World War 25 Keep it in the family Features Sibling sports duo supports Haringey young people 10 Ward Focus 06 We look at what makes 27 Shining through Tottenham Green and Crouch Shine café opens its doors to the End so special community 13 On to the next one 29 A day for the people Homeless provided with their Community gets together for annual celebration Next Meal 31 Haringey Boulevard 14 Black History Month Hollywood comes to Haringey A round up of Black History Budget - have your say Month events 33 History Inspiring women of Haringey 18 Recycling 13 Key dates for recycling over the 35 Local Democracy festive season Your councillors and council meetings 19 Stop the violence Ending violence against women What’s On and girls 37 Listings 20 Caring 4 Calais All you need to know about what Haringey headteacher helps to do in Haringey during the next Calais refugees two months: exhibitions, events, Next Meal theatre, walks, talks and more 21 Children in Need Celebrities surprise Haringey Haringey People is available as an school kids 37 audio magazine in partnership with the Haringey Phoenix Group. 23 A hero’s honour For more information, contact Honouring the last WWI Victoria 020 8889 7070. Cross recipient Pixie Hollow Grotto Haringey People | December 2018 - January 2019 03 Haringey 6th form JOIN US: OPENADVERT EVENT COME TO ONE OF OUR NEXT OPEN EVENTS AND DISCOVER OUR: - New Innovation Centre packed with the latest tech - Great student results and experiences - Range of bursaries to help you travel and study - Fastest growing College in London BOOK ONLINE TODAY FOR OUR OPEN EVENTS www.haringey6.ac.uk04 #H6Experience News | Haringey News Curtain rises for historic theatre December marks the long-awaited reopening of Alexandra Palace Theatre, following its £27million restoration. Alexandra Palace announced that on 1 December, the An eclectic programme will run throughout 2019, East Court would open to the public and the Theatre including a Richard III theatrical production opening would host its first public performances in 80 years. in March. A series of events will mark the completion of the three- year East Wing Restoration Project, which received an The Haringey Design Awards returned in October, £18.8million National Lottery grant – the largest ever for created to celebrate the best in design across the a heritage scheme. borough. This year’s shortlist included 25 of Haringey’s most impressive buildings, but it was the Alexandra Scheduled for the opening weekend was a festival Palace Theatre restoration which captured the judges’ of music, including families joining the BBC Concert attention most. Orchestra in creating an original Christmas piece, plus performances from Haringey Music Service’s choirs and The theatre took the Overall Winner prize, together with Symphony Orchestra. the award for Best Restoration. The independent judging panel praised the “sensitive and intelligent restoration” of All that was a prelude to the Ally Pally Christmas Carnival the theatre and the “architectural poetry” of the design which runs until December 16, with a series of seasonal by architects Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios. events and attractions, including a Christmas market, funfair and pantomime on ice. The full programme is at christmas.alexandrapalace.com. Haringey People | December 2018 - January 2019 05 News | Haringey Honouring Report the fallen anti-social The borough paid its respects behaviour to fallen soldiers in a series of touching Remembrance online Day events across Haringey. Remembrance Sunday was A new online tool launched by the Met commemorated at Hornsey, Police provides an easy way to report Wood Green, Highgate and anti-social behaviour. Tottenham war memorials. There was also an event at St Once the incident is reported, the Saviours Court, at Alexandra information will be passed through to Park Road. Local children also the Met’s control centres where they joined clergy and residents on will be seen, reviewed, assessed and Monday, November 12 at the actioned by an operator in a similar war memorial in the Garden of manner to a phone call to police. Remembrance at Tottenham Cemetery. This year’s events The service can be accessed from the marked 100 years since the end homepage of the Met’s website. of the First World War. Budget: have your say Celebrating St Residents will be asked for their views on the council’s budget in a consultation due to launch in Ann’s mid-December. The council’s overall spending power has St Ann’s Library has celebrated its been reduced by 32% since 80th anniversary, with residents 2010. This is £405 less for every attending a celebratory event with resident. The consultation flamenco guitar playing, photography will look at decisions to be and poetry. made on spending plans for Visitors heard a reading from local the £250million in the budget poet Abe Gibson, and there was face for the financial year that runs painting for younger guests. from April 2019 to March 2020. When the consultation is live The era the library was opened in information will be available in Tottenham was evoked with a 1930s all Haringey libraries and online photographic exhibition, book display at www.haringey.gov.uk/ and a 1938 film was screened. budgetconsultation. 06 News | Haringey Fly-tipping fines A café boss has been told to pay £2,095 in total for fly-tipping in Green Lanes earlier this year. Taksim Bistro Café director Ali Ozturk pleaded guilty to three offences. A second case to result in a successful prosecution involved Kardesler Pastanesi’s Adem Guzel, who has to pay a total of £1,290. Guzel – owner of EFE Bakery Limited – pleaded guilty to fly-tipping on the public highway at Lordship Lane in Wood Green. These prosecutions were part of the council’s Operation Twilight, a weekly enforcement operation which takes place in late evenings. London Living Wage Haringey Council became a fully accredited London Living Wage borough recently at an event hosted by the Living Wage Foundation. The council already pays staff, agency and temporary workers the Getting a kick out of Haringey independently-calculated Living Wage rate, which has just been A massive well done to local team Haringey Borough for putting on a raised to £10.55 an hour.