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Japanese Film Club

New £17,000 funding boost for Hackney’s high streets

The Local Area Activation Fund awards £17,000 for community events, including LGBTQIA+ celebrations, anniversary film screenings, and creative workshops.

1. The Portico

Nominate your favourite new building in the Hackney Design Awards 2026

The biennial Hackney Design Awards return this year, launching on Tuesday 1st September

Christopher Addison House Hackney Gym

Hackney's newest gym is now open

An empty Hackney Council office has been turned into a new temporary gym, giving residents an accessible and affordable new space to exercise while Kings Hall Leisure Centre is being refurbished

Students from Clapton Girls' Academy gathered to see their GCSE results

“The power of positivity”: Hackney students celebrate some of their best GCSE results yet

Students across Hackney are celebrating some of their best GCSE results yet.

 Mayor Zoë Garbett ©sean pollock

“We’re giving Hackney back to its people”: Mayor Garbett’s first 100 days

The recently-elected Mayor of Hackney on her new administration's achievement so far.

An empty, sunlit school hall with polished light-wood floring in the closed Oldhill Community School

Displaced Hackney school finds temporary home in Oldhill building

The former Oldhill Primary School building in Stamford Hill will temporarily become the home of a local independent Jewish school

Young people, teachers and Council representatives celebrating their results at The Excelsior Academy in Hackney

Results day in Hackney: “Now I can begin a bigger and better chapter of my life”

Hackney young people celebrate their A-levels, T-levels and BTEC results

Migrant Champion Manal Massalha ©Josef Steen, LDRS

Hackney has its first ever Migrant Champion

Manal Massalha is Hackney’s first Migrant Champion and will advocate for migrant rights locally and nationally.

A row of colorful children's bicycles and scooters parked against a white brick wall and a blue metal rack

Hackney Council demands urgent national review of the childcare system

Hackney Council launches borough-wide, evidence-led campaign to drive national childcare reform

Anti Austerity Summit

End austerity now: Hackney-hosted summit to confront local government funding crisis

The event at Hackney Town Hall on 9 September will discuss the deepening crisis resulting from government-led austerity. 

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Hackney to reconsider Haifa links as part of twinning review

Hackney Council is now reviewing its twinning arrangements with the Israeli municipality Haifa