As we near the end of another challenging year for everyone, the Hackney Citizen team wishes all of our readers, Twitter followers, supporters and subscribers a very merry Christmas. Stay safe.
We’ll be returning next week. In the meantime, enjoy a selection of recent stories along with a couple from our archive, and, if you can, please consider supporting some of the charities and projects that feature:
- Winter Toy Appeal: Thousands of children in poverty to receive gift this Christmas as organisers issue ‘heartfelt thanks’
- Poetry: Still Lurking In The Dark by Charlie Cook
- ‘How can we shift the narrative?’ Photographs of smiling Black schoolboys go on display around Hackney as ‘call to action’
- St Mary’s Secret Garden launches appeal for donations amid funding uncertainty
- Community kitchen appeals for cyclists to deliver free meals to Hackney’s most vulnerable
- The Citizen Gardener: Bringing in the rain
- Stars pay tribute to Hackney Empire as historic theatre celebrates 120th anniversary
- Hackney’s role in stranger-than-fiction wartime escapade commemorated with plaque
- Hackney Winter Night Shelter appeals for volunteers with ‘demand high’
- Local charity launches campaign to support brain injury survivors and families through first stages of rehabilitation
- Yuletide past in Hackney
- How to have a green Christmas
