Highgate Gives initiative launched to support Haringey Giving
Highgate Gives is looking to raise at least £5,000 from the Highgate community to help support community projects across Haringey.
Covid Business Survey
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The Highgate Society has prepared a short online survey to assess the challenges that the Covid pandemic has had on local businesses. To find out more and to access the survey click on More below. Please complete the survey before the end of October.
Coffee mornings suspended
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Owing to the introduction of Tier 2 restrictions in London the Society has had to suspend the Saturday coffee mornings until further notice.
J’ai deux amours
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Monday 26th October 2020 7.30 pm
Josephine Baker loved two things – her country and Paris. But which country? America, her birthplace, where she suffered under segregation, or France, where she was admired as a great musical star?
This is an online Zoom event
The Long Win: a reading club session with the author
Monday 2nd November 2020
In a talk/Q&A/book club session based on her new book, ‘The Long Win: The search for a better way to succeed’, Cath examines our obsession with winning, how it is holding us back in schools, businesses, sports and politics, and proposes a new approach, ‘The Long Win’. Don’t miss the opportunity to read and discuss this book live with Cath and put your questions to her. An online Zoom event.
Help keep Highgate
clean
The Society’s Infrastructure group has restarted its monthly tidy up events. We have held monthly tidy ups since July. We are holding our next event on Saturday 14th November. If anyone is interested in joining please let us know by emailing us at infrastructure@highgatesociety.com.
Highgate Watercolour Group Annual Exhibition
ANNUAL EXHIBITION AT LAUDERDALE HOUSE 11 NOVEMBER TO 7 DECEMBER
The Highgate Watercolour Group members are keen to raise everyone’s spirits by holding this show, despite the difficulties. We hope to bring a bit of sunshine and joy to our community with paintings of places that we all love, and particularly to share the fun we have had during lockdown when we set ourselves a weekly project.
Major project to transform Jacksons Lane Art Centre
Jacksons Lane is set to begin a multi-million pound redevelopment project to transform and future-proof the Grade II-listed arts centre, with construction work starting in November 2020 and the building set to reopen in July 2021.
Highgate Society Events
The Highgate Society exists to make Highgate and its neighbourhood a better place in which to live and work; to ensure changes enhance the area, to encourage sound planning and to improve public transport.
As a social hub the Society is at the very heart of Highgate, staging or facilitating a wide range of events for the whole community.
