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