Our fostering campaign is getting the visibility it deserves! 👏 We're looking for foster carers from all cultural backgrounds to provide children with the love, stability and support they deserve. ❤️ Could you be the missing piece? 🧩 newham.gov.uk/fostering

Are you interested in making a positive difference in your neighbourhood? Join our Housing Champions Programme and help shape local housing services. We are looking for residents to join a focus group to help us design the programme. Interested? https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/2ci2Kc12jY

Choose Safer Places to Swim 🚨 As temperatures continue to rise, we are reminding you to stay safe around rivers, docks and open water 🌡️

Your voice helps shape our communities. Our Estate Action Days are a chance to meet housing staff face to face, raise concerns and help improve your neighbourhood. 📩 Want us to visit your estate? Email GetInvolved.Housing@newham.gov.uk

Our Highways team recently celebrated the opening of the newly improved Romford Road/Richmond Road junction. These improvements are part of our ongoing work to create safer, more accessible streets for everyone. https://newhamco-create.co.uk/en/projects/luf-romford

Looking for free family fun this summer? Keep little ones entertained with our fantastic programme of Summer Library Events! From exciting storytelling sessions and creative crafts to fun activities and reading adventures. https://newham.events.mylibrary.digital/search?q=summer

Are you a Council Tenant or Leaseholder? Come along to our Estate Action Day at Hathaway Crescent to speak directly with your housing services team.

Bring your street to life this September! Host a Play Street on Sun 20 Sept, ahead of Car Free Day, and give children a safe space to play, cycle and scoot right outside their homes. Applications close Fri 21 Aug. www.newham.gov.uk/PlayStreets

Illegal dumping is a choice. This week, our Illegal Dumping Action Day came to Bristol Road. Please dispose of your waste responsibly and report fly-tipping when you see it. Cleaner streets don’t happen by chance. They happen when we all play our part.

Thank you to everyone who came along to our Estate Action Day at Beckton Road and Mona Street yesterday. We discussed estate cleanliness, repairs, ASB, tenancy issue's and concerns about their homes and neighbourhood. https://www.newham.gov.uk/housing-homes-homelessness/housing-estate-action-days

We're taking action to make Newham safer. During ASB Awareness Week, our officers joined Stratford BID and the Metropolitan Police on patrols across Stratford, working with local businesses to tackle anti-social behaviour, share crime prevention advice and help keep our town centre safe for all.

Due to the hot weather, waste and recycling collections may be disrupted. Collections may take place earlier or later to protect our crews during extreme temperatures. Please leave your bins out on collection day. Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Inspire a love of reading from day one! If your child lives in Newham, you can register them for Dolly Parton's Imagination Library and receive a free book every month from birth until their 5th birthday.

Free and fun summer activities for children in Newham 🛝👧🎨 Looking for free activities to help keep your children entertained throughout the summer holidays? We have created a helpful guide to show you exactly what’s on offer in our borough, for kids of all ages! 👶🧒

🚶🏽 Join us for the Balaam Street Estate Walkabout. 📅 Thurs 30 July ⏰ 11am-12.30pm 📍 78-98 Balaam Street, E13 8AQ Meet your housing team, highlight local issues and help improve your neighbourhood. Residents' insights help shape better estates across Newham. 🏡

Curious about the new pedestrian crossing on Romford Road? Join us on Wed 29 July, from 1.30–5.30pm, to meet the team & find out about the crossing & the wider Romford Road Improvement Scheme. We'd love to see you there! https://newhamco-create.co.uk/en/events/d7ab6af8-885e-4b42-ade4-769a4218e4b4

🚫💧Thames Water have introduced a hosepipe ban following hot, dry weather. 🔹Do not use hosepipes to water gardens, wash cars or fill paddling pools. 🔹Public water play areas will remain closed for the duration of the ban. 👉 www.thameswater.co.uk/help/temporary-hosepipe-ban/hosepipe-ban-faqs

📢 Beckton Road & Mona Street residents: Join us for our next #EstateActionDay on Thursday 30 July, 11am-2pm at 1-19 Mona Street, E16 1HH. Meet your housing team, report repairs, raise concerns and help shape improvements to your estate. Your voice matters. 🏡

🍴 Calling all food vendors! 🌙 Applications are now open for Summer Nights in Queen’s Square. If you sell tasty finger foods and are based in Newham, apply for a stall at our mini food market this summer. 📅 21 Aug, 22 Aug & 5 Sept ⏰ 6pm–9pm 📍 Queen’s Square, Green Street

We’re thrilled to be part of the Summer Streets programme, supported by the Mayor of London - helping create a fantastic summer of al fresco dining across the capital!

🚨Choose Safer Places to Swim 🚨 As temperatures continue to rise, we are reminding you to stay safe around rivers, docks and open water 🌡️ 🔷Stay away from the water's edge 🌊 🔹Don't enter the water to retrieve a ball or other objects ⚽️

DLR Extension - there's still time to have your say! We're asking for your views on proposals to extend the DLR to Beckton Riverside and Thamesmead, helping to improve transport links and create new homes, jobs and opportunities.

Spotted the new orange and purple bags on busy streets? 👀 🟠 = Recycling 🟣 = Rubbish They’re part of our timed waste collection service for flats above shops on busy roads who have no space to store a bin on their property. Find out more👉 www.newham.gov.uk/rubbish-recy...

Great news! We've received £10,000 from the Mayor of London's Summer Streets Fund to bring even more free events and activities to Queen's Square and other locations across our borough this summer.

Thank you to all who supported #CoProductionWeek! We were inspired by the All Access Young Adults Theatre Team and the conversations shaping the new Young Adults Preparation Forum. Want to help improve services in Newham? Contact Co-ProductionTeam@newham.gov.uk #Equity

It's ASB Awareness Week. Everyone has the right to feel safe in their neighbourhood. That's why we're working to tackle anti-social behaviour and make Newham a cleaner, safer place for everyone.

It's #ASBAwarenessWeek. Everyone deserves to feel safe where they live, work and spend time. That's why we're working with residents, partners and local communities to tackle anti-social behaviour and create cleaner, safer neighbourhoods.

If you've been meaning to learn more about climate action, consider this your sign 👀📚 Libraries are celebrating London Climate Action Week with book displays full of practical ideas, thought-provoking reads & stories that inspire change. Your next favourite read could change more than your TBR...

Planning a day out in one of our parks? 🌳 Please remember that BBQs are not permitted in our parks and open spaces. BBQs can damage these areas and create fire risks, especially in extreme temperatures. Help us keep our parks safe and enjoyable by leaving BBQs at home.

During this hot weather, if you see someone sleeping rough in Newham, please report it via the StreetLink website. This will help to connect them with local support services, and help keep them safe. To do so, and for more information thestreetlink.org.uk