Healthy and adventurous family activities are on offer outdoors in the park and indoors at Brittania Leisure Centre. It’s all for fun and it’s all for free…and you don’t need to be super fit to join us! Try out tai chi and trampoline or give beach / seated volley ball a go; enjoy spinning classes [...]

Summer fun at London Fields continues this Saturday, 10 July, when swimming and music will merge together in Hackney at Wet Sounds 2010, a one-off, underwater sound event at London Fields Lido. Wet Sounds by Newtoy is curated by Joel Cahen and supported by Hackney Council’s Cultural Development Team. It is a mobile gallery for [...]

HACKNEY artist Robin Turner will be bringing nature to life in a series of events for local people as part of the CREATE10 arts festival. From 8 to 11 July, the CREATE Art Award winner will drive a transformed mobile library to Homerton Hospital forecourt and Haggerston Park giving visitors the chance to enjoy writing [...]

Enjoy family fun at William Patten School Fair with exciting games including beat-the-goalie and the famous dunk tank, BBQ, cakes and other delicious home-made food and drink; pampering for body and soul; arts, crafts and face painting; raffle with great prizes; wonderful stalls; live music from The Irregulars. Date: Sunday 11 July Location: Stoke Newington [...]

Hackney council are giving young women in the borough, a chance to get pampered, get fit and have fun on Friday 18th June. Workshops in dance, general health advice, drugs and alcohol awareness, and healthy eating will be complimented by free beauty and pampering sessions, plus yoga, Wii Fit, Aeroball and retro school sports day [...]

Hackney Councils free street party to celebrate the new Dalston Junction overhead station,  last Sunday, brought a cross section of the borough out to play, dance, eat and party. Young and old, they showed up to celebrate the new Dalston Junction overhead station and what the council describes as “a new lease of life due [...]

To celebrate the opening of the new Dalston Junction over head station and continued investment into the town centre, Hackney residents and visitors are invited to a street party thrown by Hackney Council. Music from local acts, the chance to join in a tea dance, food from around the world and family entertainment will mark [...]

In an effort to raise awareness about prostrate cancer in men, a group is hoping to persuade 1000 men to walk or run 10.2km wearing wigs and dresses. Prostate cancer kills almost as many men as breast cancer kills women, and yet 70% of men don’t even know what the prostate is. Men are dying [...]

Hackney residents thinking about riding a motorcycle can get a kick start on road safety with a free theory course and discounted on-road training programme available to new learners from June 2010. The Council’s Road Safety Team, in partnership with Metropolitan Police, East London Advanced Motorcyclists, BikeSafe and Scooterden, will be offering potential moped and [...]

A free, fun packed, family event with a green theme at its core is being held in London Fields, Hackney, on Saturday 5 June. Now in its fifth year, the BeReCreative event, a joint effort between Hackney Council’s Recycling Team and Green Champion network, aims to raise environmental and sustainable awareness in the borough. Building [...]