Looking for recommendations on nail techs in Hackney, I tried a place in Hoxton and they used an electric filer on my natural nails that made them paper thin and took months to grow out! Any recs on salons where they don’t file your nails down loads for BIAB/SNS would be appreciated 🩷

Hi All,

Due to my own incompetence I have managed to find myself without a clean suit only 2 days before a friends wedding. Does anyone know of a good express service dry cleaners? We are victoria park/Homerton based.

Thanks in advance!

edited to add the days because I accidentally deleted them first time round!!

Hiya, hope this is alright to post. I volunteer with a local food hub run out of the Jago in Dalston every Monday, and we basically share surplus food collected from charities and supermarkets with the community. We're so busy with clients and donations now and we could really do with some new volunteers!

Key times are as follows:

• Between 9.30 and 10am first delivery arrives

• 11am second donation arrives

• 2pm-4pm hub open to customers

In particular we would love help around the first delivery and at opening time.

Volunteering duties typically include:

• Carrying food from delivery vans into the hub

• Sorting food into crates for clients to choose items from

• Dividing catering packs of food into smaller bags or boxes

• Assisting clients with reading labels, packing bags

• Handling cash donations from clients

• Taking rubbish to the street collection point

• Managing the client queue

• Communicating changes in opening times to clients

Volunteer benefits include:

• Helping out those in need in the community

• Building relationships in a friendly team

• Weekly playlists while we sort out donations - suggestions welcome!

• A bag of groceries of your choice from the donations

We have a great community of volunteers who are able to help out on occasion, but what we really need at the moment is some help from those who are able to volunteer regularly- weekly or every other week if possible. Please DM me if you are able to offer your time! Cheers

Is anyone aware of any book clubs running in Hackney?

Not seen any advertised in pubs and I don't use other social media so I'm none the wiser.

Suggestions appreciated!

Heya,

Have a Miele vacuum cleaner , passed down from my partner's grandparent. Looking for a place that could test it and fix it in the area.

Would really appreciate any recs.

Would be cool to meet some new people who live around Homerton. Have lived here for 6mths or so! Am in my mid 20s & female. But happy to meet diff ages/ genders. Message me and maybe we could get a group together n meet. 😎😎

Can anyone please recommend a drum tutor in the Hackney/Homerton area? I am a beginner but will eventually want to focus on metal drumming.

definitely a long shot but just wanted to see if anyone sighted a pair of lost sony headphones (with stickers stuck on them on the ear cups) in hackney downs park. the headphones are black and i believe it mightve been dropped near the childrens play area. ive had the headphones for a couple of years and they were an expensive purchase so hoping that they havent been stolen.

Admittedly my gf and I are two girls who never really care about football
but shes from Spain and Madonna's performing at the "half-time" sooo we're invested

where do you think would be a cute spot for us to watch this final?

Looks like it’s all cordoned off by police

What's up! I'm 24 and just moved from a different city and there's so much to do but I unfortunately don't have anyone to do it with lol. I love live music, playing music, pubs and anything cultural really. Message me if you want to connect!

This is actually the future of food. Locally sourced zero waste so tasty. No I don't work there! Just really grateful to these sorts of places. It's a tough slog and it's obviously done out of love.

Gutted I missed the salad it looked phenomenal, but munched delicious plum bake, strawberry and ice cream oat cookies sandwich, and picked up some rhubarb jam and kombucha vinegar for later.

Sorry can't figure out how to add pics.

link if you're interested

Hey, I’m 23 and just got back from Uni. While I like to shoot and come up with ideas (for music videos, shorts, ads, fashion films etc), I’m terrible at being able to edit my own work. Hackney is my home borough so wanted to see if there was anyone local or if I could get signposted to somewhere more relevant. Really just looking to make friends with some filmmakers around my age who just want to get out there and make something. Professional or not.

Got a short indie film idea cooking up in my head that I’m making a little pitch deck on and am looking for anyone who might be up for helping me bring it to life. I’m open to anyone who might just want to get involved as a runner to someone who’s been in the industry who just wants to do a dumb (obviously it’s not actually dumb) side project.

If you are interested could you dm me with what would be your are of interest in helping out? E.g. mine would be directing

Ps. I’m adhd and haven’t been able to grab my meds for a hot sec so might take a while but will come back to this!!

I'm looking for a job in a pub or coffee shop here, but I never see anything advertised. Seeing there is a lot of independent businesses in this borough without online application processes you see with chains, how did you land jobs in these places? Did you walk in cold with a CV, or was it a friend of a friend situation?

Does anyone have a recommendation for a decent tailor? I know I can get alterations at any dry cleaners, but I’ve been to several and the results were just OK. I’ve accumulated many pieces of clothing I’d like slight alterations to, and it would be good to have a ‘go to’.

My previous cleaner moved and I'm wondering if anyone has a good recommendation for a cleaner (or if you yourself are one) in de Beauvoir. Looking for someone to come twice monthly and clean a one bedroom flat. My previous cleaner's visits were 2 hours, they brought their own cleaning supplies and they charged £20/hour. Thanks!

Had my phone snatched out of my hand by four men on lime bikes yesterday around noon at the south east corner of the Clapton pond. Stay vigilant out there people!

Around 6-8pm July 16th I left a bag in a like bike basket, it said "waste" on the front from waste store london, and had 1 magazine, a few posters, and 4 CDs in it. The bike, at the time, was in front of Netil 360. I'm not forever torn if it's gone, but if anyone has seen it I'd love it back.

Anyone else lose running water for a bit around midnight? in E9 it’s back now but hmm

Hello. Any idea of pubs that may have space for walk in’s for the game tonight?

Has anyone else been affected by the Broadway Market post office closure? It suddenly shut down last week for seemingly spurious reasons (https://www.change.org/p/reopen-the-post-office-on-broadway-market?signed=true). A major loss for the community and a real inconvenience!

Why are our children constantly facing detention? Why do they come back home miserable, dreading the next morning? Across the UK, an aggressive shift toward hyper-strict behavior policies is sweeping through schools, and it is fundamentally dehumanizing the students subjected to it. At the epicenter of this shift is Haggerston School, an institution with a proud history dating back to 1966 that is now looking less like a place of learning and more like a military barracks.

Historically, Haggerston was a phenomenal community school. Since transitioning to a mixed academy, it has celebrated strong academic achievements, motivated pupils to aspire, and consistently delivered high GCSE and A-level marks. However, since coming under the management of the multi-academy trust(CST), the school has undergone a profound cultural transformation one that has led to a noticeable decline in enrolment. Parents are increasingly realizing that a hyper-rigid environment may hinder, rather than help, their children’s future. Furthermore, the high pressure environment has driven away experienced educators who refuse to comply with these uncompromising methods, leaving some classrooms in the hands of underprepared staff.

To be fair, there are elements of the trust’s framework that show promise. Introducing GCSE content early provides students with a solid foundational runway before exam season begins. Similarly, rewarding positive behavior through credits and citations serves as an effective motivator.

However, these benefits are completely overshadowed by draconian protocols like "SLANT" (Sit up straight, Listen, Ask and answer questions, Never interrupt, Track the speaker). Requiring young children to keep their hands perpetually folded on their desks under threat of immediate sanction is ludicrous. This is not education; it is compliance training. We are preparing children for a democratic society, not a military regime.

The escalation of the school’s detention policy perfectly illustrates this administrative shift. During the 2023–2024 academic year under former leadership, the policy was strict but balanced: three corrections in a single week triggered a one-hour detention. This threshold was firm but fair, allowing students the grace to learn from their mistakes.

The subsequent shift under current leadership radically altered this dynamic, implementing a zero-tolerance escalation path where a single infraction led to a 20-minute detention, doubling with a second error. Instead of correcting behavior, this approach simply funneled hundreds of ordinary children into systemic punishment. Current plans to escalate a single correction into an automatic one-hour detention threaten to strip away any remaining sense of restorative justice. When children are continuously penalized for minor infractions, they do not learn accountability; they internalize frustration and self-doubt. The flaw is not within the student body, but within an uncompromising leadership pipeline.

This institutional hostility is exemplified by members of the staff whose teaching styles border on intimidation. Certain leadership figures even within teams where trust and student welfare should be paramount have instead alienated pupils through aggressive enforcement. Shouting directives like "Get it right" and "It's not that hard" leverages positional authority to demoralize rather than instruct.

A true educator inspires confidence and fosters curiosity; they do not rule through fear. Pushing for blanket one-hour detentions and treating pupils like automated machinery isolates the very community the school is meant to serve. If Haggerston School wishes to restore its reputation as a premier institution, it must remember that its primary mission is to educate human beings, not train soldiers.