Barnet Council launches ‘Art in Barnet’ celebrating the borough’s creativity and culture
Barnet Council’s ‘Art in Barnet’, aims to shine a spotlight on and celebrate the borough’s most diverse artists, venues, and events, and to inspire people to showcase their creative talents.
Launching on the 7 April 2025 Art in Barnet will exhibit the borough’s cultural landscape, spanning theatre, film, music, parks and leisure, history and heritage, through to its public art trails.
Deputy Mayor of London visits ‘Clear, Hold, Build’ site to view progress
Eighteen months into the borough’s ‘Clear, Hold, Build’ initiative to tackle organised crime and anti-social behaviour on Grahame Park Estate, Deputy Mayor of London for Crime and Police, Kaya Comer-Schwartz, has visited Grahame Park in Colindale to see the impressive progress that has been made.
Cabinet approves £16.9 million investment in roads and pavements for 2025/26
Barnet Council’s Cabinet (5 February) approved a £16.9 million investment for 2025/26, as part of the £97 million package announced in 2024 for improving the boroughs roads and pavements over the next few years.
This year’s investment of £16.9 million includes:
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Hundreds of Volunteers plant 1800 trees in one day – creating ‘Tiny Forests’ in Barnet
Barnet Council, in partnership with environmental charity Earthwatch Europe and local tech firm Pure Data Centres, yesterday (March 26) brought together hundreds of volunteers to plant 1,800 trees, creating three new ‘Tiny Forests’ in Mutton Brook, East Finchley.
Four Barnet businesses fined nearly £20,000 for fly tipping
Four businesses – based in Burnt Oak and Mill Hill – have been handed a total of 68 fixed penalty notices, totalling £18,480, for multiple fly tipping offences – breaching their duties to responsibly dispose of trade waste under the Environmental Protection Act.
Barnet’s schools continue to outperform national averages
Schools in Barnet have achieved outstanding results in the 2023 – 2024 academic year, with many schools achieving well above the national averages.
Schools across the early years provision (Birth to Five years old), all the way through to key stage (KS) 5 (16 – 18 years old), have performed significantly well, with achievement scores placing Barnet above national averages and much higher than in previous years.