Finchlinks

Finchlinks is a website for anyone who lives in Finchley in North London. Narrowing it down a bit, we mostly cover the bits of Finchley to the North of the A406 (North Circular) mainly because there’s a busy community site serving East Finchley already, alongside a commercial one.

We’re here to encourage positive local community projects that involve voluntary co-operation. We’re expressly not a local political website and we don’t take sides – we’ll cover or link to anything that we think is of interest.

We want to set up some LinkedIn groups to promote local business networking (any volunteers for this?). There is already a Facebook group for Finchley Village, and we’ve got one for North Finchley and Woodside Park as well. And we’re on twitter at @finchlinks

We will be concentrating on the bits of Finchley north of the A406 – North, West and Central Finchley. There is already a lively community site for East Finchley – here. There’s also a wider community site for the whole of The London Borough of Barnet.

This site is here to help develop a community of people in the area who are talking to each other a bit more. We want to use it to promote good innovative ideas and to help people who want to do interesting things in the area to meet up with each other. An early post on the site have covered a lot of this in more detail.

We’d like to start informal business meetups and get people together for arts / culture / history / educational projects. We’re looking for people with positive ideas (and when we set the site up, we had a few of our own – stay tuned) to get a discussion going.

We’re not a political project and we don’t want to nail our colours to any particular approach to local regeneration. Instead, we want to help you to get together with others to describe the challenges that you think the area faces. We’re asking commenters to be as positive as they can.