ACORN Hackney

07/05/2026

📢 Local Elections are happening TODAY! 📢 Here is where all the Hackney parties stand on our key community issues!

Remember to get out and vote 🗳️

16/04/2026

🏘️ NEXT WEEK: Local election hustings - ask politicians the questions that matter to YOU! 🤔💬

Hackney council elections are this May! ACORN Hackney is hosting a hustings where you get the chance to ask all the candidates... how they are going to make Hackney better for YOU and OUR COMMUNITY 🌍

Make sure you are there!
📅 Thursday April 23rd 7pm
📍Gascoyne One Community Centre
👥 All welcome

Register here: https://app.zetkin.org/o/1075/surveys/2938

29/03/2026

Join us on Thursday 23rd April to ask Hackney election candidates the questions that matter to you! 🗳️

RSVP Here: https://app.zetkin.org/o/1075/surveys/2938

22/03/2026

Last year, we evicted Hackney Council for their cruel and unnecessary use of bully bailiffs. This year, we are calling on all Hackney local election candidates to sign up to our 5 pledges, including a and

➡️ call on your candidates to support ACORN Hackney’s pledges today!

24/01/2026

Join us this Wednesday for our first members meeting of 2026! ✊

15/12/2025

🎄THIS THURSDAY🎄 Join us at the ACORN Christmas party for drinks, music, and festive cheer!

Union members and friends welcome! 🎅

08/12/2025

Join us for the ACORN Christmas Party on Thursday 18th December at the Langham Club! 🎄🎅 Let’s celebrate in union style!🍾🎶

Free entry for members, £5 for non-members

24/11/2025

We are demanding that Hackney Council end the use of bailiffs to collect council tax debt! ✊

Join the fight: https://acorntheunion.org.uk/bailiffs/

29/04/2025

"The meeting was punctuated by jeers and heckles by members of renters union, ACORN, who had arrived on the Town Hall steps brandishing their letter to the borough’s private renting lead, Cllr Sem Moema.

By the end of the meeting, the campaigners were clad in party hats and throwing confetti from the chamber gallery as the cabinet voted to move ahead with statutory consultation."😎

Renters union welcomes ‘first step’ towards widespread licensing scheme this summer

29/04/2025

🚨ACORN Hackney demands licensing and proper enforcement against rogue landlords at last night's Cabinet vote💪

We delivered a letter to Cllr Moema demanding a meeting, before making our thoughts on the scheme heard from the gallery.

We were swiftly thrown out, but licensing was voted IN!!

Another win for the good guys🎉