Welcome to the Bountagu 'Our Bigger Story' website. This is part of the multi media evaluation of 15 Big Local areas in England. The website is an opportunity to follow what is changing in Bountagu as a result of Big Local over a ten year period.
The aim of the website is to share the learning from everything that is happening in Bountagu with other Big Local areas and highlight what works in communities with a wider audience of practitioners and policy makers.
New monthly networking events for local Edmonton-based businesses, supported by UnLtd - The Foundation for Social Entrepreneurs. Grow : Network : Learn
Bountagu Big Local holds regular open evenings so that residents can find out more and how to get involved. Diring 2020 and the COVID pandemic these have been mainly virtual.
Online training event for local residents and those working with Bountagu Big Local. The event is a joint venture between Bountagu Big Local and UnLtd, and will take place on Thursday 9 June 2020, 11am - 1pm on Zoom.
Bountagu Big Local has commissioned some projects for children and young people.
If you have an idea to do something great locally, the little ideas fund is here to help make it happen! We are providing awards for projects that help improve the lives of residents in this area. The 3 Little Rules 1. Your idea hopes to improve life in the Bountagu area. 2. You must be a Bountagu resident (or your project will mainly benefit Bountagu residents). 3. Your idea must match one of our priority areas below; Children and Young People Older People 50+ Environment (Outdoor Spaces, Community Safety) Developing Opportunities (Business, Jobs, Skills) Now... What's YOUR idea?
Bountagu have FREE SEED PACKETS and BOOKLETS, and a number of FREE WINDOWSILL BOXES for local residents who want to learn more about growing for bees and butterflies, and harvest some greens in the process! Bountagu is joining forces with Pollinator Paths to encourage East Edmonton residents to create pollinator-friendly patches at home, to welcome bees and butterflies in our neighbourhood!
Our Over 50s volunteer team have joined forces with Bread n Butter CIC and St Peter's Church to keep the Lunch Club spirit thriving during lockdown. They've been preparing and delivering meals once a week to some of our elderly residents, providing delicious food, and a weekly hello. It's given a chance for our volunteers to stay in touch with people we'd usually see every week or month at our coffee mornings, lunch clubs and afternoon choirs, and with some of our most isolated neighbours.
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Bountagu Big Local has put together a series of images to encourage people to become involved in making the area an even better place to live
The Bountagu Over 50s volunteer team have joined forces with 'Bread 'n Butter' CiC and St Peter's Church to keep the Lunch Club spirit thriving during lockdown. They've been preparing and delivering meals once a week to elderly residents, providing delicious food, and a weekly hello. It's given a chance for the volunteers to stay in touch with people we'd usually see every week or month at our coffee mornings, lunch clubs and afternoon choirs, and with some of our most isolated neighbours.
Bountagu is joining forces with Pollinator Paths to encourage East Edmonton residents to create pollinator-friendly patches at home, to welcome bees and butterflies in our neighbourhood!
The first half of 2020 has been far from "business as usual", but Bountagu is still here, busier than ever, and sending our wishes to stay healthy in body and mind, and to lean on each other in these challenging and unusual times. We have been playing our part, doing what we can within new limitations. Our popular Open Evenings have stopped for now, but residents have been contacting us by phone and email asking for and offering help. See our May2020 newsletter here
That's something you won't see everyday! London Fire Brigade helping Bountagu volunteers watering our planters along Bounces Road.
If you have an idea to do something great locally, the little ideas fund is here to help make it happen! We are providing awards for projects that help improve the lives of residents in this area.
We're really excited to be restarting Bountagu's youth focus, which has been so successful in the past. Following our invitations to tender and partnership building over the past few months, we've connected and reconnected with some amazing local groups and individuals, and started dozens of conversations around the challenges facing our local young people.
Flyers with contact details for Bountagu and for Enfield Stands Together went through 2100 local letterboxes in Bountagu this week. Contact us if you need help, or if you have an idea to support our neighbourhood that we can help you with.
Afternoon Community Choir at St. Peter's Church 2nd Wednesdays Join our monthly community choir sessions, timed on Wednesday afternoons, to fit in-between the school run! ALL WELCOME!
Mothers Day Workshop Zoe at Zinfinity is running a Mothers Day Workshop supported by Bountagu's Little Ideas Fund. Come along and have some family creative fun!.
