Let’s start the year knowing what is possible when we stand firm and unify. Asma Shah is the CEO and Founder of You Make It.

More than 1,000 Hackney residents and business owners have called on the council to remove a bus gate on Chatsworth Road. A Low Traffic Neighborhood (LTN) was implemented in the area in August 2025, ...

Idris Elba has been knighted in the New Year Honours. The Hackney-born actor, 53, has become Sir Idris in recognition both of his ‘exceptional’ work in the entertainment industry and his charity work ...

‘Last night Zohran Mamdani was sworn in as New York City’s new mayor. Thousands of miles away in the East End of London, I feel elated. Here’s why’ ...

A charity has given underrepresented communities a voice as it developed proposals for a new community-owned park. East London Waterworks Park (ELWP) has now published its Inclusive Design Proposal, ...

East London Waterworks Park has published plans to transform a disused Thames Water depot into a biodiverse community park featuring a cafe and wild swimming ponds ...

In an interview with Tom Rogers of Teachers Talk Radio (TTR) on 20 December, Independent Safeguarding Children’s Commissioner for the City of London and Hackney, Jim Gamble, spoke of the methodology ...

The Citizen was given a peek inside the museum’s huge depository, which members of the public can peruse from 31 May ...