Electric Gallery – located at 12 High Road – has become the exclusive partner for Getty Images in east London and Essex

Councillor Rosa Gomez (Churchfields, Labour) explains an innovative ‘park and stride’ scheme to cut school-gate traffic and pollution at Churchfields Junior School

Redbridge in Bloom – the borough’s annual amateur gardening competition – returns this year with a rainbow theme.

Teresa Farnham is a local area organiser for the National Garden Scheme, which encourages people to open their gardens to the public for charity. Here’s a taster of the nearby gardens you can view this summer

Some South Woodford scribbles from DD, our resident diarist, commentator and observer of all things local

Following her successful pop-up cake trail last year, Michelle Vanlint is planning the return of her annual garden party and 16th charity cake sale. With a £25,000 fundraising target, plenty of volunteers are needed

As the South Woodford Society plan for the return of community litter picks this May, Louise Burgess praises the efforts of a group of local teenagers who have been keeping South Woodford tidy

Diana Varakina, Co-op Member Pioneer for Wanstead and South Woodford, reports on the supermarket’s latest Local Community Fund awards and encourages applications for the new round

A South Woodford child psychotherapist will be offering her top five self-care tips for parents in a post-pandemic world during a free virtual event on 10 May

Woodford Town FC has launched a membership scheme for the new season.

Historian and author Dr Hannah Armstrong talks about her earliest memories of Wanstead Park and her personal journey to writing Wanstead House: East London’s Lost Palace

Organisers of the South Woodford Business Forum are reaching out to local business owners.

Abbotts Stationery at 135 George Lane – thought to be the longest trading shop in South Woodford – has closed down.

Artist Alison Stenhouse – who has been inspired by the blossoming trees of Wanstead and South Woodford – introduces her fellow Woodford Arts Group members, who will all be taking part in a late-spring exhibition at Packfords Hotel (restrictions pending)

Pupils from Nightingale Primary School have raised £2,200 for the PTA’s Covid Response Fund by taking part in a team ‘marafun’ challenge

The Woodford and District National Trust Centre is planning for a return to in-person meetings this autumn.

Kathie Teahan is one of many residents who would like to see the empty bowls club behind the hedges in the centre of Elmhurst Gardens become a resource that is open to everyone in the community. Photo by Geoff Wilkinson

A South Woodford resident is urging local drivers to take note of the Idling Action London campaign.

The City of London is consulting the public over the future of cycling in Wanstead Park.

Redbridge Council is seeking community input on how to improve high streets across the borough.

A new temporary Post Office has opened in The Galleria shopping arcade, replacing the George Lane branch which closed for good on 28 April.

The first seven trees – including cherry and apple trees – have been planted at the community orchard site

The South Woodford Society has been awarded £2,500 by the Daily Mirror Pride of Britain Fund.

The Rotary Club of Leytonstone and Woodford will be hosting a virtual festival of music on 21 May

As Woodford Arts Group make tentative plans for an exhibition in June (with a virtual display back up), group member Ged Rumak compares and contrasts two of his spring-themed paintings

Old Mill Court – a development of 26 two and one-bedroomed properties off Chigwell Road in South Woodford – has officially opened.

Redbridge Liberal Democrats has launched a petition demanding the local community have a say in the future of the former bowls club in Elmhurst Gardens.

Redbridge Council’s Principal Arboricultural and Horticultural Officer Peter Marshall heads up a team responsible for thousands of trees across the borough. With South Woodford’s felled trees being replaced in March, Peter explains the scope of his team’s work. Photo of Elmhurst Gardens by Geoff Wilkinson