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Category: Features

New book captures Waltham Forest community kindness during Covid

Waltham Forest Community Hub (WFCH) came together to create a book featuring stories of local kindness during lockdown. Here,...
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Discover St J’s Deli, an eco-conscious, artisan café in St James Street

Welcome to our Shop St James Street initiative, a project generously supported by St James Street Big Local. We’re...
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Where can you get a Covid-19 test in Waltham Forest?

Wondering where our borough’s Covid test sites are? Find out where and when you can get tested for coronavirus...
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From Southern Rhodesia to Walthamstow: One RAF pilot’s journey

Royal Air Force welfare case officer James Baillie shares the story of high-flying pilot Norman Enders, now aged 96…...
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5 Waltham Forest foodie gems founded during lockdown

Food writer Erica Pilavaki celebrates five of the borough’s newest, constantly-evolving eateries… In theory, I love to cook. What...
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We try the council’s bystander intervention training. What’s it really like?

Echo editor Elizabeth Atkin was invited to take part in the No Space For Hate campaign’s ‘bystander intervention training’....
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Meet The Head Bloomer – and her headline-worthy hats

Jo Sealy of the Waltham Forest Business Network introduces us to bloomin’ brilliant milliner Victoria Arthur… When E17-based Victoria...
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Local trainer Leeza Sullivan wants us to go back to basics

E17 personal trainer Leeza Sullivan overcame scoliosis and two life-changing back surgeries. Now, she’s teaching Waltham Forest residents how...
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Kids Kitchen: From family cooking fun to helping the unemployed

Sue Wheat meets Kids Kitchen’s Alice Margaroli to find out about the new initiative helping Waltham Forest’s unemployed parents...
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How we put on a virtual charity concert during Covid-19

JJ Khun, founder and lead volunteer of WIILMA, reveals how the charity pulled off their festive end-of-year concert solely online…...
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