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Hearth Bakery Hackney Wick outside entrance and sign.
Photo courtesy of Fynn French-Collins.
Eating & drinking Local Local economy News 

Hearth Bakery opens East London’s first communal oven addressing the cost of living crisis

November 26, 2022March 25, 2023 Polly Nash 0 Comments Cost of living, High street, News

Inspired by medieval communities, Hearth Bakery has launched The People’s Oven in Hackney Wick for budding home bakers and those

shutters down on pink corner cafe on Roman Road market, Bow, East London
Eating & drinking Local Local economy News 

‘Amazing’ Bakery Room forced to close due to cost of living crisis and Brexit

September 9, 2022March 25, 2023 Victoria Miller 0 Comments Cost of living, High street, News

Rise in food and fuel prices, fewer customers, and staff shortages due to Brexit have led to the cheerful corner

Sophia Chisty with her daughter contemplating the cost of living crisis.
Sophia Chisty with her daughter contemplating the cost of living crisis.
Culture Life and living Local News 

One local mother is working all hours to cope with the cost of living

September 4, 2022March 23, 2023 Victoria Miller 0 Comments Cost of living, Features

With concern about the cost of living soaring for the winter, it bit just as hard in the summer as

a woman leading a workshop in a classroom in Bromley-by-Bow centre, Bow, East London
Bromley-by-Bow Centre is delivering workshops to help people manage budgeting their energy bills. Image courtesy of Bromley-by-Bow Centre
Local Local economy News 

How locals are taking control of energy bills during the cost of living crisis

July 19, 2022December 13, 2022 Panayiota Demosthenous 0 Comments Cost of living, News

With energy bills increasing by 54% since April, local Tower Hamlets residents are taking matters into their own hands. Fuel

£2.7m cost of living relief package for Tower Hamlets’ residents

Thousands of families in Tower Hamlets who have been most impacted by the cost of living crisis will receive one

Man fills boxes with supplies for Bow Fooodbank
Photo courtesy of Bow Foodbank.
Local Local economy News 

Dealing with the cost of living crisis: what help is there and how to get it

July 8, 2022December 13, 2022 Panayiota Demosthenous 0 Comments Cost of living, News

Thanks to Tower Hamlets’ roots in philanthropy, social reform and innovation, help is varied and inventive, from longstanding charitable behemoths

woman in hi-vis jacket handing a shopping bag to another woman in Bow Foodbank, Bow, East London
Photo courtesy of Bow Foodbank
Local Local economy News 

‘Heating or eating’: the cost of living crisis in Tower Hamlets

July 1, 2022February 13, 2023 Victoria Miller 0 Comments Cost of living, News

In this four-part series, we look into the cost of living crisis, how it’s affecting our neighbourhoods and how organisations

Library of Things recommended by London Evening Standard in current cost of living crisis

The current cost of living crisis has lead to 80% of Londoners reporting an increase in their living costs over

Queen Mary University students walking on Mile End campus.
Local News Social care 

Tower Hamlets Council launches University Bursary Award to support students amid the cost-of-living crisis

January 31, 2023March 25, 2023 Polly Nash 0 Comments Cost of living, News

Eligible young people in Tower Hamlets could receive £1,500 to support them through their undergraduate studies as a cost-of-living measure.

A block of flats with green doors in Whitechapel, East London, showing a courier delivering food at one of the apartments, and laundry hanging outside another. Photography by Matt Payne.
Photography by Matt Payne.
Environment Local 

Sustainable living in Tower Hamlets for the many, not the few

April 6, 2023April 14, 2023 Polly Nash 0 Comments Features

How our borough is becoming a model for grassroots environmental change, with organisations and charities proving the cost-of-living crisis and

Tower Hamlets new town hall in Whitechapel.
Photo credit: Tower Hamlets Mayor's Office.
Environment Local News 

Tower Hamlets Council set to move housing services in-house to cut costs

February 18, 2023March 25, 2023 Ruby Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter 0 Comments Housing, News

Eighty-six per cent of residents backed the idea of the Council taking over housing services citing value for money and

Roman Road lights, Christmas 2020, by Phil Verney
Roman Road Market Christmas lights. Image taken by Phil Verney.
Local Local economy News 

‘Closing on Mondays for the first time in 11 years’: How East End businesses are cutting down energy costs

October 13, 2022March 25, 2023 Polly Nash 0 Comments Cost of living, High street, News

Faced with rising prices, businesses of all sizes are scratching  their heads about how to reduce energy usage, but what

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