As the newly formed Wanstead Theatre Co prepare to perform their inaugural show this month, founder and professional actor Fiona Gordon talks about her plans to bring the West End to Wanstead

Last month’s public meeting on the future of Christ Church Green was overwhelmingly positive, says organiser Colin Cronin, with residents now invited to join a new Friends of Christ Church Green group

The Thames21 project is making improvements to the River Roding adjacent to Wanstead Park. Catchment Partnership Development Officer Will Oliver provides an update in the third of a series of articles

Redbridge Council has commissioned Jan Kattein Architects to deliver an art audio trail that celebrates the high streets in Wanstead, Woodford and South Woodford. Felicity Barbur reports

Having been selected as a Girls Golf Rocks venue, Wanstead Golf Club is joining others around the country in encouraging more girls to take up the sport. Club manager Danielle Anderson reports

Local historian Richard Arnopp has scheduled two new events for his Wanstead Park in Context series of presentations

Dr Emilia Smeds from the University of Westminster introduces the EX-TRA research project surveying opinions on Wanstead’s street space. Photo by Geoff Wilkinson

Redbridge’s heroes were recognised at the Mayor’s Community Awards last month

Work to bring a new natural play area to Wanstead Park gets underway this month. It will benefit not only local kids’ health, but will improve the park environment as well, says Gill James

Temporary fencing has returned to Wanstead Flats to protect ground-nesting skylarks during the breeding season

The new café kiosk on Christ Church Green is set to open this month

A community sewing group that made scrubs for hospitals during the pandemic is looking for more volunteers

Applications to hold a street party for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee must be submitted by 14 April

Organisers of Wanstead’s Tin in a Bin network were overwhelmed by local support for their Ukraine appeal

An election hustings with an environmental focus will be held at Wanstead Library this month

Wanstead-based knitting group Social Knitworks has created a new range of poppies to show support for Ukraine

Residents are invited to take part in Whipps Cross Voices, a community history project about Whipps Cross Hospital

Redbridge Council launched a new microsite dedicated to identifying culprits caught on camera dumping trash on the borough’s streets

Wellness Festival 2022 has launched and runs until 8 May

The Wanstead Village Directory and South Woodford Village Gazette have become the first publications selected by Redbridge Libraries to be made available on PressReader

Redbridge Museum will open a new permanent exhibition later this year exploring 200,000 years of local history. In the second of a series of articles, Museum Officer Nishat Alam looks at some of the items on show

Dear gas and oil, we want a divorce and we’re taking the kids, writes Troy Da Costa of Wanstead Climate Action, who believes it’s time Britain ended its abusive relationship with fossil fuels

Derek Inkpin from local solicitors Wiseman Lee explains why a new law is a step in the right direction to ending the ground rent scandal in the world of leasehold property

Open-air theatre company Illyria will return to Wanstead Park this summer with three performances

Karina Laymen believes illustration is a servant of the creators of art. In the second of a series of articles, the Wanstead House tutor presents a piece of work inspired by a dream about the rapture