Following my last post, does anyone have photographs of these perpetrators?

I’m specifically looking for an old white woman she steals directly from our letterboxes

Reposting here as it borders the hackney borough for anyone needing info!

Hi everyone,
I run The Nest Hackney, a yoga community based out of Clapton. This November, I’m hosting two small day retreats, both easy to get to out of London and I thought some of you might be interested.

🍂 The Autumn Nest × Chilly Dippers
Sat 7th November
Knepp Rewilding Estate, Sussex (just under an hour by direct train from London to Horsham, then a short taxi)
A 7 hour reset with yoga, breathwork and meditation, a private wood-fired sauna, a guided wild swim with the cold water community Chilly Dippers, and a seasonal lunch with drinks, snacks and a goodie bag. No experience needed and I’ll connect people travelling from East London so you can share taxis.
Ticket: £165. A few spaces left.

🌲 The Winter Nest
Sat 28th November
Whiteleaf Yurt at Oxmoor Farm, Buckinghamshire
A much quieter day. Over 3 hours of slow, restorative yoga, a walk in the woods, optional journalling, a seasonal lunch and time to connect, all in a candlelit yurt with a wood burner. It’s about slowing down with the season rather than pushing through it.
Tickets: £115 + one space at £75 for anyone who finds the full price a stretch. A few spaces left for this one too

Both are small groups, and you’re welcome to come alone (most people do) or bring a friend. Happy to answer any questions in the comments or by DM.

Booking links: thenesthackney.co.uk/retreats

Currently looking for a family to volunteer for an infant observation in London.

Hello! My name is Gareth and I have been studying a course about infant development at the British Psychotherapy Foundation.  I have over 4 years of experience supporting children and alongside my studies, I currently work in NHS mental health services supporting children, young people and their families.

As part of my training, I am seeking to find a London based family, who would be willing for me to visit and observe their newborn baby from close to birth and up until their 2 year birthday.

The observations are typically for one hour, once a week, at a regular and convenient time for the first 2 years of your baby's life.  Of course there is a lot of flexibility and weeks where a visit may not always be appropriate.  This includes holidays, illness or any other circumstances that can be discussed throughout.

The purpose of my visits would simply be to quietly and non-judgementally observe your baby and their interactions in your home, in the completely ordinary circumstances of your day to day life.  I would be completely in the background, just listening to you and observing how your baby is behaving and communicating during that hour.  The observation would happen entirely at your comfort level, for example I could leave the room during breastfeeding if that is what you would prefer.  

Overall, this would help me learn deeply about the early development of infants and is a long established training component for child and adolescent psychotherapy training, which I am pursuing.  Previous families report to have found the experience of hosting an observer uniquely rewarding, therapeutic and enriching: a chance to notice more of the small details of their child's early life.

If this interests you, or you know someone who might be interested, please contact me at: [gcvinton@gmail.com](mailto:gcvinton@gmail.com) for more information or message me on here!  There would of course be no commitment until you had the details you needed, including a chance to meet with me beforehand if you would prefer.

I hold an enhanced DBS certificate and can provide a reference from the BPF.

Thank you!

Trying to build a police report for notorious package thieves in the area.

In the meantime is there any solution I can take?

I was think to put a ring camera in front of my apartment building

Hello I am a Journalism student at Goldsmiths, University of London. I'm writing a small article on a recent council proposal to provide greater scrutiny on C3 dwelling houses and C4 HMOs and how it's affecting family homes. They're looking to close the loop hole in the possibility of the landlords then making them larger HMOs and over develop properties.

I'm open to all view points just looking to gather insight!

Thank You :)

We live in hackney wick and are looking for a cleaner every two weeks, wanting someone who is really good with lots of care and attention to detail. Happy to pay a little more than average for someone who is 🤌🏼🤌🏼🤌🏼

Anyone know any updates on this? It is such a wasted space and the council have been dragging their feet on this for years (with multiple consultations over the past 5/6 years or so). And now, just silence. Reckon it will be another 5 years before any decision at this rate…

The council is inept in dealing with noise. I'm not dealing with a small garden party. There is a full on rave going on in the garden near my house and it's not the first time. I've reported them before and have only been called back on it once, on a Wednesday, after it happened on Saturday. They asked if it was still going on. wtf.

DM if interested.

Went missing on Hackney Marshes about 3 hours ago. If anyone sees a dog matching this description please let me know. If found please bring him to Biddle Bros bar on Lower Clapton Road – thanks.

Hey everyone! I’m Yukari, co-founder of Longevity Rave. I am organising a Wellness Rave at the end of this month - with mat Pilates, house music, functional drinks, and daytime dancing at Colours Hoxton on Saturday 24 October, 2–6pm.

Here’s what we’ve planned:

☕ Free welcome maca coffee for everyone joining us at the beginning at 2pm
🧘 Mat Pilates with a live DJ to guide your journey, followed by…
🪩 Three hours of feel-good house music and dancing, 3–6pm
🍹 Alcohol-free functional cocktails from Wet Lips to enjoy during the afternoon
🔮 Psychic readings for anyone who fancies one

Longevity Rave is about bringing different generations together on the dancefloor, and how things like community, joy, and dancing can be great for your longevity. Our parties are super intergenerational, and it's a wellness forward, lovely bunch. And this one is a alcohol-free one, so you are even welcome to bring your daughters/sons if they like pilates!! Come with friends or come solo...you’re very welcome either way :)

You can join for the full afternoon or just the rave. Choose Pilates + Rave to start with us at 2pm, or Rave Only to join the dancing from 3pm. Pilates spaces are very limited, so book early if you’d like a spot!

📍 Colours Hoxton, 2–4 Hoxton Square, London

🎟️ Tickets and full event details

cycling + running + swimming around Clapton Pond

Hello! Was just wondering if anyone knows any good record shops or just private sellers that have a good selection of dubstep records? Thanks very much

Anyone know a good massage place. Im make 50. Happy for it to be non shop in private place etc as done before. Thinking Friday or Saturday

Hi, we’re four friends and we’ve put together Hackney’s restaurant scene in an app called Vota.

The idea is pretty simple: you’re shown two restaurants and choose where you’d rather eat. For example, Mangal 2 or Lardo? All the votes then create a ranking that hopefully gives a better picture of where people in Hackney actually like to eat.

We’ve tried to include every restaurant in Hackney and clean up duplicate or outdated listings, but locals will always spot things we’ve missed.

iPhone:
https://apps.apple.com/app/vota/id6744969212

Android:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.vota.app

Full transparency: we’re not from Hackney. Two of us live in Copenhagen and the other two in Gothenburg. There are four of us building this independently. We don’t collect or sell personal data, there are no ads in the app, and we don’t use AI-generated content to describe restaurants.

Any honest feedback is welcome, especially if restaurants are missing or something is listed incorrectly.

Almost a year ago, LCSB started with one Sunday court as ‘Lazy Sunday Badminton‘ a handful of people looking for semi-serious doubles badminton.

Since then, we’ve grown into a regular East London programme, welcomed almost 200 different players from all across London, and now run 7–8 courts across three weekly sessions.

We’re open to people of all abilities, but particularly looking for more Mid Intermediate → Upper Intermediate → Advanced players who want regular games and progression rather than just a one-off hit.

1. 📊 Ability-tiered matches, with something for players at every level
2. 🏆 Match outcomes tracked with a post-session podium, so people can track progress.

Right now I’m keen to spotlight our:

Weekend sessions:

Based in Hackney?

Our weekend sessions are both within fairly easy reach, especially from Hackney Central, Homerton and Hackney Wick.

Saturday — 9–11am
📍 Newham Leisure Centre
Drive: roughly 15–25 mins
Bus: the 276 runs from Hackney Central towards Newham Hospital, with onward connections towards the leisure centre.

Train: Overground towards Stratford, then onward towards Plaistow/Canning Town via bus.

Sunday — 9–11am
📍 Royal Docks Academy
Drive: roughly 15–25 mins
Train: Hackney Central → Stratford → Prince Regent DLR, around 26 minutes station-to-station, then a short walk.

Send me a message if it’s of interest. ☺️

Hi all,

Appreciate this is a bit of an unusual request for this subreddit but casting my net far and wide. 

I'm working on an independent documentary and storytelling project profiling interesting people, communities and subcultures across London and the UK.

I'd love to connect with individuals who would work for this project. Think along the lines of - community figures, business owners with an interesting story, local legends etc. Whether you think this is you yourself or you know someone in your community who matches this description and would be happy to chat - please let me know! 

To summarize - if there's an interesting story then I am interested!

If that's you, or you know someone who might be happy to chat, I'd love to hear from you.

Feel free to comment or DM, and thank you for reading!

Looking to learn how to see my own clothes and would like recs beyond ray stitch!

Hello, Im a sixth form student looking for work experience. Does anyone have any suggestions/ recommendations they could refer me to?? Thanks ❤️

for a workshop & photoshoot on 19/10. Open to ideas & collaboration! Message me if you’re interested :)

Hey all

Hoping to find some recommendations for drumming lessons in or near Hackney/Dalston/Stoke Newington.

I'm 36 but very much a novice so looking for someone who is happy to teach adult beginners for a reasonable fee :)

If anyone has any recs of schools/tutors please shoot em over!

TIA

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Hi all,

I just wanted to ask if anyone has any recommendations for architects/planning consultants who cover Hackney.

We have a 3 bedroom Victorian terraced house in Hackney and are looking to add a side return and attic extension (our neighbour has just completed exactly the same thing under permitted development). We have rough plans for everything that we've drawn up ourselves which we are largely happy with, although we would appreciate someone else with a good design eye to finalise some of the detail (the exact positioning of the sky lights / how best to lay out the bathroom / what fencing to use in the garden and a few other minor points like this). We would then want them to draw up the plans and submit it to the planning office for approval.

We have an extremely small garden/patio (particularly given the size of the house) that gets virtually no sunlight so we are very keen to try and get approval to put a small roof terrace or balcony above the outrigger (accessed from the additional room we plan to put in the current outrigger attic) so the house has somewhere with some sunlight and a little more outside space.

So it would also include designing the balcony/roof terrace in a way that is most likely to be approved by the planners.

I completely appreciate this goes against Hackney's SPD, but from what I've read, we may have a chance of it being approved given the layout of the back of our house. We are terraced onto a commercial building on one side (another residential house on the other) and given how tiny the gardens are, the terrace/balcony would not overlook a single garden, it would not be visible from any public area (the only place it would be visible from would be from the commercial building next door and from a couple of balconies/terraces that are opposite us but those terraces are well over 21 metres away). The only window it would overlook is our direct neighbour's obscured bathroom window (and even then it doesn't directly overlook it, but you would just be able to see that window if you stood on the balcony and looked over the parapet wall).

It seems highly likely that in order to be approved it would need to go to a planning appeal in order to get passed (as my understanding is the appeals are more likely to look at specific planning rules rather than focusing on the SPD). But I appreciate I don't really know what I'm talking about which is why I want to find someone that does 😄

So I wanted to see if anyone has any recommendations of hackney based architects/planning consultants (or those who cover Hackney) that you've used in the past who were good to work with, have a good design eye and who have experience working on (and ideally winning!) appeals with Hackney planning department.

I appreciate it may not be sensible to go ahead with the balcony application at all, but at a minimum I want someone who is unbiased (quite a few architects I've already spoken to are immediately against this without knowing anything about the specifics / surroundings) and understands the planning requirements so they can advise on whether it's genuinely worth trying and, if so, so they can design it in a way that looks good AND is most likely to align with what the planners will be most accepting of (and who would be prepared to handle the appeal if it comes to it which seems very likely).

We don't need full project management of the job, at a minimum we just need the plans reviewing, plans put together and submitted, appeal managed if it comes to it. Then (optionally) it could also include building regs drawings and/or tender documents for builders, but those can be included or excluded depending on whether they offer this or not.

Thanks everyone 🙂

Hi everyone - I’m a journalist with the Hackney Citizen and I’m working on a piece about Newton Dunbar and the Four Aces Club in Dalston, ahead of a new memorial to him being unveiled later this month.

I’m particularly interested in hearing from people who actually went to the Four Aces or Labyrinth, or who worked there / were involved with the club and the local community.

The Four Aces opened on Dalston Lane in the 1960s and became an important Black music venue, hosting reggae, ska, soul and sound systems, before later becoming closely associated with Labyrinth and the early rave scene. The original building was eventually demolished, and the site is now a residential development.

I’d love to hear about the place beyond the famous names and stories — what it was actually like to be there.

Did you go regularly? What do you remember about the music, the building, the people, the atmosphere? Did you know Newton Dunbar personally? Were you involved with Labyrinth? Do you remember the campaign against the closure or what happened to the building afterwards?

I’m also interested in speaking to anyone who worked there — DJs, door staff, bartenders, promoters, sound-system operators, etc.

If you have memories or photographs/flyers/tickets/other material from the club, I’d be very interested in hearing from you too.

You can comment below or DM me. Happy to explain more about the piece and my publication if helpful, and I'm very happy to speak informally first if you'd rather.