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National Clean Air Day is a day dedicated to highlighting the impact of air pollution on our health and the environment. The day aims to educate, raise awareness, and mobilise collective action to improve air quality for the benefit of all. Join Middlesex University for a fun-packed afternoon with air quality monitoring, bees, Eco Show and Tell plus much more. Find out how you can make a difference. No advance booking required.

We REIMAGINE single-use plastic and other discarded materials, in this creative workshop led by local artist Elisa Cantarelli. Join her ‘We Are Plastic’ journey to give a new purpose to waste. Let’s tackle the abuse of single-use plastic and raise awareness together, empowering our communities and strengthening our identity. 

Join us at Barnet Council's Repair Café at Brent Cross Town! 🌍 📅 When: Sunday, 15 June, 11am-3pm 📍 Where: The WorkShop, Brent Cross Town, Claremont Way, NW2 1FE In partnership with North London Waste Authority (NWLA), we're hosting a Repair Café to help make your items last longer and reduce waste. Bring along: - Small electrical items (laptops, kitchen utensils, vacuum cleaners...) - Bicycles needing a fix

This Barnet Climate Action Month, meet us in the heart of East Finchley’s shopping and business area where the voices of local community groups will be enlivening the “square”. You can expect activities from local charity, Art Against Knives, working to prevent youth violence through creativity. Join the Finchley Pollinator Project workshop planting nectar rich herbs and flowers from 2pm-4pm. Fixation Academy of Performing Arts will be presenting an excerpt from musical theatre by young people at 2pm.

Resonant Spaces is an immersive performance and workshop that invites participants to explore the subtle, embodied connections between movement, space, and urban life. Drawing from Tai Chi and dance, this event encourages a deeper awareness of how our bodies respond to the rhythms of our surroundings—its shifting light, textured landscapes, and hidden energy flows. 

Are you passionate about the environment? Do you love writing? Share your passion through your writing in the Speak Up! Speak Out! writing competition. The best entries will be published in a downloadable e-book.

Did you know? Beans, beans are good for the heart… and the planet!  During this drop-in event, Incredible Edible Barnet and Bread n Butter will be spilling the beans about the brilliance of beans! There will be cooking demos and taste tests of different dishes, as well as seed sowing and seed sprouting for you to take to grow at home.  Come along to find out about the health, environmental and cost benefits of eating more beans (and other pulses) at this free event as part of the community food growing programme taking place across the borough this year. 

We are a lovely bunch of volunteers growing fruit, veg and flowers in a community garden in New Barnet.

Join us for a morning of free fun for children aged 4 and younger and their accompanying adults to celebrate London Climate Action Week. We will be singing songs and nursery rhymes, reading an environmentally themed story book, and doing a creative craft activity. The event is facilitated by Middlesex University Education Department in conjunction with Hendon Library as part of Barnet Climate Action Month. The activity will take place in Hendon Library. 

We will look at the village of Totteridge on the edge of London. This is a walking tour. We will see buildings associated with the rural past, the agricultural workers, the remains of the grand houses. We will see the impact of war on a small community. We will see some of the new building alongside the old and discuss architectural style. We will also investigate the idea a communal green space in the community and the impact of green belt planning. Sam is certified City of London tour guide.