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Spooky Season

Posted by North London Cares on Friday 4th November 2022

"Last week there were some spooktacular sights at the North London Cares Halloween party. A gaggle of ghouls descended on The Living Centre in Kings Cross and partied the night away! Read on to find more about what we got up to!

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Stanley and Poppy Steal the Show!

Posted by North London Cares on Thursday 6th October 2022

Stanley and Poppy have been a Love Your Neighbour match for just under a year now and enjoy getting together to share their mutual love of cooking. Last week they ran a social club together, teaching neighbours how to cook Stanley's world famous pasties! Here's how they got on...

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My first three Months with North London Cares

Posted by North London Cares on Thursday 22nd September 2022

Having grown up in Camden (then moving out to Hertfordshire), it feels like I’ve come full circle now living and working in North London. I moved back to London a year ago, and despite living in a city so full of people, it was clear to me that it is harder than ever (despite social media) to make connections with people in the city.

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Losing Joan, finding drawing and updating my story

Posted by North London Cares on Tuesday 23rd August 2022

Fred has been part of the North London Cares community for a decade. During the lockdowns, he wrote his memoirs – about how a boy from north London grew up in war, travelled the world, came home, fell in love and travelled the world again. We're proud to present the first of four excerpts from Fred's memoir about love and loss, hope and heartbreak, mischief and misadventure.

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We were the first people to live there and I still live there now

Posted by North London Cares on Tuesday 23rd August 2022

Fred has been part of the North London Cares community for a decade. During the lockdowns, he wrote his memoirs – about how a boy from north London grew up in war, travelled the world, came home, fell in love and travelled the world again. We're proud to present the first of four excerpts from Fred's memoir about love and loss, hope and heartbreak, mischief and misadventure.

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We got married on February 7th, 1953

Posted by North London Cares on Monday 22nd August 2022

Fred has been part of the North London Cares community for a decade. During the lockdowns, he wrote his memoirs – about how a boy from north London grew up in war, travelled the world, came home, fell in love and travelled the world again. We're proud to present the first of four excerpts from Fred's memoir about love and loss, hope and heartbreak, mischief and misadventure.

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