Welcome This week, we celebrate the local legends who were in the New Year's Honours list. And we look ahead to the Light and Flight Festival. 🎖️ 9 Locals on the King's Honours Roll actress Meera Syal Finchley Now is all about community, and we’re delighted to celebrate local and local-ish people honoured in the New Years Honours List 2026. Highgate resident, actress, comedian and writer Meera Syal has been given a damehood. Best known for her work writing for and starring in British Asian...
12 days ago • 7 min read
Welcome The last Finchley Now of 2025! We've got your New Year's Day sorted: 4 great walks with coffee/pubs at the end, and 3 cool activities. Plus, the last chance to catch Neverland at Kenwood House. Wishing all our readers a happy new year - and with special thanks to all health, retail and emergency workers continuing to deliver their vital services. See you in 2026 🍾 🎉 7 New Year Walks and Activities Amy performing Back to Black Want to start the New Year with a spring in your step?...
19 days ago • 8 min read
Welcome Feels like the world is ready to wind down for the festivities/seasonal break. We've curated some of the best local walks for you, as well as celebrating local boy Anthony Joshua and award-winning Head Teacher Lucy Harrison. Wishing you all a blessed season - see you on the other side. 🥾 5 Finchley Winter Walks Get those walking shoes on | Image Clay Lidner Getting ready for Christmas festivities or a few days off? Come the end of the week, you may be looking for a brisk walk to work...
26 days ago • 7 min read
Welcome Great list of local makers and artists to meet your seasonal gift-giving needs, and a new theatre launches in Hampstead. 🎁 Gift Local: 7 Finchley Finds Miki Shaw's collection of local landmark note cards Meet seven brilliant local artists, creatives and makers turning neighbourhood talent into gifts worth giving. 1 Miki Shaw, Finchley Squared Local artist Miki Shaw created Finchley Squared with images of local spots – now available as prints, cards and mugs. Exhibition of her local...
about 1 month ago • 7 min read
Welcome What the Finchley Now?! It's like buses - none for ages and then two wins from two community groups. After the Regents Park Road Bus Lane success, this week North Finchley Campaigners saved the Lido at Great North Leisure Park. This week we've got great local choirs and a reinvigorated Hampstead Theatre. 🎤 9 Finchley Choirs for fearless fortissimo Image courtesy of Rock Choir (obv) Exploring your New Year’s resolutions? Seeking a feel-good change: join one of these 9 local choirs and...
about 1 month ago • 6 min read
Welcome Top tips on where to get your season tree locally. Plus 6,062 locals have signed the petition to stop Regal's plans for the Great North Leisure Park and Finchley Lido - want to join them? Scroll down. And read more about Kenwood's Double Vision: Vermeer at Kenwood. Mind-blowing. 🎄🌲3 Spots for Christmas Trees Image: Markus Spikse Whatever your tradition, there’s something magical about the tinsel-and-fairy-lights season. If you’re getting a Christmas tree or seasonal bush, we’ve got a...
about 2 months ago • 7 min read
Welcome This week, we look at 3 of Finchley's oldest roads, and you'll find out why (and where) we were front page news. 🚧 Finchley's Oldest Roads Ballards Lane in 1965 | Image from Francis Firth Most of us hurry down Ballards Lane or pop around Church End without a second thought. But these familiar routes are much older than they look - in fact, a few of Finchley’s streets can trace their origins back nearly 700 years. Next time you’re out and about, consider this walk through local time...
about 2 months ago • 6 min read
Welcome You probably heard the whoops across Finchley on Friday morning when locals heard that Barnet Council has wisely reversed the unsafe Bus Lane changes. Congrats to all our local activists - let's see what we can take on next?! Also a great micro-museum celebrating a Finchley artist. 🚌 Regents Park Road Bus Lane Win Quite a philosophical question: the bus lane is not in operation, but still use it? Barnet Council has officially scrapped the controversial Regents Park Road bus lane – and...
2 months ago • 7 min read
Welcome Off the back of the RHS Space to Grow report we've got a great list of local community gardening and green projects. And great news for the artsdepot! Scroll down to read all about it. 🪴Blooming Beyond Barnet: 4 Local Projects Let's get blooming, FInchley and Barnet Image: Nicholas Sorenti The RHS’s Space to Grow report is the first national map of community gardening - and it shows the movement is blooming nationally, not just in Finchley. An estimated 2.5 million people have pitched...
2 months ago • 6 min read