What is East Village Hub?

East Village Hub is a free, independent guide to life in E20. It started in East Village in September 2025, and Chobham Manor, East Wick and Sweetwater are just as welcome. It is for the questions that come up every week: is the heating off for everyone or just me, what's on this weekend, who do I call about the bin store, and has anyone used a good cleaner.

Who runs it?

I'm Andy, and I live in East Village. I got tired of digging through group chats for basic local information, so I built somewhere to keep it. I write and check what goes on EVH, and I read every report and message that comes in. EVH uses some AI tools to help: Claude writes Ask EVH's answers from EVH's own pages and checks comments before they appear. Apart from comments, I decide what gets published.

EVH has nothing to do with Get Living, EVML, Triathlon Homes, Notting Hill Genesis or Newham Council, and none of them can see your account or your reports.

What's on it?

  • Today: what you need to know now, this week's events and the latest news. On a quiet day it says nothing.
  • Live: nine trackers. Residents report district heating, Hyperoptic, phone snatches, parcel theft, foxtail and Sippi parking. Flood watch, roadworks and whether to open your windows come from official data.
  • Ask EVH: answers questions about E20 from what EVH holds, with a link to every source. It doesn't search the web, and if it doesn't know, it says so.
  • What's on: events in the Village, the Park, the Lea and at the Stadium, rounded up every Monday in This Week in E20.
  • Living here: heating, bins, fobs, parking, who to call, and the things nobody tells you when you move in.
  • Places and recommendations: local businesses and groups, and the people residents would use again. Nobody pays to be listed or sorted first.

You can add EVH to your phone's home screen and it opens like an app, including with a weak signal. A free My E20 account adds saves, alerts for the trackers you follow, and a record of your reports.

The look

The mark is a joined-up e2O, set beside the name. Its one colour is Park magenta, the pink London 2012 used to sign the Olympic Park, which you can still see on the fingerposts. Everything else is black, white and grey, so when something is red or amber, it means something. What's new lists every change as it goes live.

How it's paid for

EVH has no adverts and takes no sponsors. It is paid for by residents who choose to support it on Patreon or give once, and by a few offers that pay a referral fee, which are labelled Affiliate. Reading, reporting and asking will always be free.

Get in touch

Found a mistake, want to add your business, or got news? Tell me. How EVH handles your data is on the privacy page, and the house rules are in the community guidelines.

Supporters

EVH is independent, with no ads and no sponsors. These people keep it running.

In the credits

Chris

No ads, no sponsors. Neighbours keep East Village Hub running. See the full ladder: free, £2, £5 or £10 a month, or chip in once, whatever you can.

Credits

The drawings of E20 around the Hub are traced from these photographs. Thank you to the people who took them and shared them openly.

  • An East Village block: traced from "East Village September 2013", CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. The source does not name the plot, so the drawing does not either.
  • London Aquatics Centre: traced from "London Aquatics Centre" by Sumitsurai, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
  • ArcelorMittal Orbit: traced from Geograph 3438684, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
  • London Stadium: traced from Geograph 6220802, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
  • Here East: traced from "Hackney Wick, V&A East Storehouse" (Geograph 7850144), CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
  • Westfield Stratford City: traced from "Westfield Stratford City" by herr, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.