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Stoke Newington businesses are being offered the opportunity to run temporary catering facilities in 10 of the boroughs parks and green spaces.  Between June and November 2013 temporary mobile catering facilities will be trialled in: Haggerston Park, Well St Common, Millfields, Mark St Garden, Hackney Road Recreation Ground and Homerton Grove. From June 2013 to April 2014 catering facilities will be also be trialled at...

Baroness Lola Young, a peer who sits in the House of Lords, recently visited Stoke Newington School (SNS). Members of the SNS students' House of Lords and House of Commons attended as well as AS and A2 politics students. The atmosphere in the resource centre was electric as pupils awaited the arrival of the baroness, and she didn't disappoint. Questions from the students clearly startled the baroness, and that just goes to show...

Hackney Ambassadors is a fresh opportunity being offered to young people within the Hackney borough to contribute to the Olympic and Paralympic Legacy by volunteering with the Take 12 Challenge. Take 12 Challenge is working with Hackney Council and is looking for individuals, aged between 16 and 25, to engage people to get physically active and to access the open spaces and sporting facilities right on their doorstep. The Take 12...