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100 days of Barnet Council’s new administration: A message from Cllr Barry Rawlings, Leader of Barnet Council

We were elected with a mandate to change Barnet for the better, to put sustainability and communities at the heart of what the council does, to help people with the cost of living crisis, and to protect and improve local services.

Our top five pledges

We promised to deliver on our top five pledges, and since May we have:

Barnet Council opens £200k playpark and £75k outdoor gym

Opened last week the new facilities are part of a multi-million-pound investment in the borough’s parks to help residents get out into the open air, enjoy the green spaces and keep themselves fit.

The new playpark includes a mini castle, swings, slides, a seesaw, climbing frame and even an alligator to be traversed, while the gym includes apparatus such as a cross-trainer, weights equipment, kettle bells and bars for triceps dips and chin-ups.

Doing business in Barnet

From business rates to waste and recycling, business licences, permits and registrations to consumer advice and trading standards - find out about doing business in Barnet.

Growing your business

Networking, recruitment, new business premises and support schemes.

Starting your business

How to start a business, advice and start up funding.

Business news and events

Find out about news and events for Barnet businesses.

Barnet Council urges Government to deliver on its promise to fund nurseries

Barnet Council has urged the Government to deliver on promises of supplementary funding to help support the maintained nurseries in the borough.

Maintained nursery schools look after a wide range of children and in Barnet are the Moss Hall Nursery School and the Barnet Early Years Alliance Nursery schools, Brookhill, Hampden Way and St Margaret's in New Barnet.

Young Barnet residents win award for film on impacts on mental health from social media

A group of young creatives from Barnet were awarded Best Group of the Year’ for their short film Generation Verified, at a virtual awards ceremony on Friday 22 July.

The film, coproduced with Youth Realties and commissioned by Barnet Public Health’s Resilient Schools Programme, was an opportunity for the students to experience all aspects of scriptwriting, acting, film making and directing.

Mayor awards young Barnet resident after she raised hundreds swimming for a local charity

The Mayor of Barnet awarded twelve-year-old, Sophia Wolfe, a special certificate yesterday, 27 July, for swimming one-hundred lengths of Copthall swimming pool raising £688.75 for a local charity.

Sophia decided to mark her Bat Mitzvah by swimming the 2.5 kilometres in her local pool for Dementia Club UK, a charity close to her heart, as her grandma attends their sessions.

Barnet Council passes motion to fund local organisations and communities ahead of Black History Month

Last night at Barnet Council’s committee meeting councillors voted to pass Cllr Linda Lusingu’s motion ensuring Black History Month is fully recognised and that funding is allocated to support it.

The motion calls for Barnet’s diverse communities and organisations to be supported to promote events throughout the month of October every year and given access to funding, with a programme of events co-designed with schools, headteachers and council officers.

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