We’ve made a few changes to East Village Hub this week, all aimed at making it easier to find what’s happening in E20 - and to pass it along to your neighbours. Here’s what’s new.

A fresh, mobile-first look

East Village Hub has a new look - cleaner, simpler, and built mobile-first, so it feels great on the device most of you actually use to check what’s on. It’s not just a fresh coat of paint, either: the new design lays the groundwork for our future plans to launch an East Village Hub app. More on that to come.

Share anything in one tap

Every article, event, offer, and business listing now has a Share button. Tap it and you’ll get a tidy short link you can drop straight into a WhatsApp group, a text, or a community chat - no more copying long, messy URLs. You’ll also see a little share count, so you can tell which stories the neighbourhood is actually passing around.

A home for Pride in E20

June is Pride Month, and East Village Hub is celebrating. You’ll notice a few rainbow touches around the site this month, and there’s now a dedicated Pride in East Village page that stays up all year round. It’s your starting point for LGBTQ+ life in the neighbourhood - the welcoming venues, the events, and the people who make E20 feel like home.

Spot LGBTQ+ friendly places at a glance

Browsing our directory of local places? Spots that have told us they’re LGBTQ+ welcoming now carry a small pride-flag marker on their card. It’s a quick way to find businesses where everyone can feel at home — whether you’re after a coffee, a haircut, or a night out.

A smarter Ask EVH that learns from the neighbourhood

Our Ask EVH assistant - the quickest way to find out what’s on this weekend or track down a local business - keeps getting better. It now tells you what it’s doing while it works (“Searching the EVH directory,” “Looking up events,” and so on), and answers feel quicker and smoother than before.

It also learns from the questions people ask. Say you ask whether your service charge or energy bill looks normal - we hold on to that insight, in a privacy-friendly way, so Ask EVH can give better answers to the next neighbour with the same worry. The questions help the whole community; your personal details don’t go along for the ride.

That’s it for now. As always, if there’s something you’d like to see on East Village Hub, let us know - this is your neighbourhood, and your Hub.