WITH more than 300 people, including more than 40 children*, waiting for a heart transplant this Valentine’s Day, NHS Blood and Transplant is calling on families to have a heart-to-heart about organ donation. While heart transplants have continued throughout the pandemic, with only 7% less in…

THE Harlow Concert Band is a community band based in Harlow and have around 40 members. They rehearse 8-10 pm on Wednesday evenings at St. Stephen’s Church Hall, Tawneys Road, Harlow, CM18 6QR. They play many different types of music ranging from marches to big…

LAST week, we reported on St Luke’s pupil Chloe, who has taken on a 28-day challenge to have her photo taken with a different dog every single day for charity. Let Chloe, who is aged 10, and goes to St Luke’s Primary, take up her…

ECCO has been working in partnership with Roots To Wellbeing CIC, a Harlow based non for profit organisation focusing on mental and physical health, wellbeing for all ages and community support.  Together, the organisations were successful in a funding bid created by Active Essex to…

ST Clare Hospice’s new Wellbeing Hub has secured more than £5,000 funding. This will help the Hospice to deliver a broad range of activities and improve the lives of local people living with a life-limiting illness. The BETA Charitable Trust recently donated £2,500 in support…

THE latest film in our series called Faith Matters is an interview with Mauricio Colussi from Gateway Freedom Church. The church was based in Perry Road, Staple Tye for many years but has now moved to temporary accomodation in Haydens Road. The Gateway Freedom Church…

THIS exhibition, LIGHT and SHADOW, which runs until 27th March, is an interesting one. All three artists have been influenced by the pandemic, having had time to be outdoors, immersed in the landscape and seeing the details. Etchings and monotype prints based on landscape and…

A FORMER student of Burnt Mill Academy in Harlow had his second short radio play aired on local radio this week. BBC Essex broadcast A Stable Home last Thursday (10th February) during the Rob Jelly Show. The play was written by former Harlow resident Alan…

WHAT a feeling of hope and inspiration the children from Church Langley and St Nicholas schools provided on the final afternoon of the half-term. Despite the understandable difficulty in preparing a performance, the two schools defied the obstacles which many others succumbed too, to produce…

A SOON-to-be aired TV advert shifting Essex away from its TOWIE image has not been paid for by taxpayers, Essex County Council has said. The county council has also defended the project that promotes Essex as having “something for everybody”, but dismissed attacks it was…

THE Master Barista, based at The Water Gardens, has only been opened a short time but it is already going down a storm. Not only is the food and drinks great but there is a real buzz about the place. It is, as they say,…

St John’s Arc: Piano recital by David Silkoff. Full details on the St John’s Arc website (see below). https://www.youtube.com/embed/ITbZxxwigOE For more details, go to http://www.stjohnsarc.org.uk/whatson.html

A NEW grant scheme has been launched to support more local businesses impacted by COVID restrictions and the rise of the Omicron variant.  Harlow Council has received funding from the government to distribute to local businesses via the Additional Restrictions Grant (ARG) funding scheme.  This…

LONDON Stansted is expected to have its busiest weekend of the year so far as thousands of Brits head to Europe to enjoy the half-term break. Winter sun-seekers and skiers are among the 90,000 passengers who will be departing from the airport between 11–13 February.…