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Shout out with a couple of specific opportunities to get involved with us at Clapton Pond Neighbourhood Action Group (If these don’t appeal and you just want to find out about getting involved, get in touch as well). Opportunity 1. A local resident is volunteering their time to collate a large library of old photos of the area into a...

Already a new slide has appeared! The works to refurbish the play area at the Pond started last week and are set to continue for another four weeks – landscaping and other items are to be added.

Lower Clapton Guided Walk with visit to the Round Chapelled by Julia LaffertySaturday 16 October11am-1pm For our first physical event in 20 months, Julia Lafferty will take us on a walk around the Clapton Square Conservation Area, revealing the area’s radical past, including the visits made by Lenin to a Bolshevik sympathiser in Clapton and the women’s suffrage campaigner who...

The Ritz Cinema at Clapton Pond opened on 23 October 1939 with Gary Cooper in “Beau Geste” and Rosella Towne in “The Adventures of Jane Arden”. It was built by Associated British Cinemas (ABC) and designed in typical Art Deco style. It changed its name to ABC in 1962 to bring it into line with all the other cinemas on...

A vaccination clinic for Hackney’s Turkish, Kurdish and Turkish Cypriot communities is being organised by local GPs to help encourage uptake of the COVID-19 vaccine. Hackney Council and the NHS, including local doctors want to make sure all communities in Hackney can take up the offer of the free COVID-19 vaccine, which is the best way to be protected from...

RIP St John Ambulance Hall, Mildenhall Road, scene of many a local community meeting and vote

Do you want to help keep Hackney’s parks clean this summer? Some groups have started helping out by arranging litter picks and clean up days in their local park. Sign up to a FREE webinar on 14 April to hear how they did it: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-to-organise-a-community-clean-up-tickets-148742481767