Quiz Night West Ealing Saturday Jan 21st 2012

 Community, Gill Adams, West Ealing Events  No Responses »
Dec 262011
 
Quiz Night West Ealing Saturday Jan 21st 2012

Saturday 21st January 2012 St James Church – top of St James Ave, Ealing, W13 9DL   £10 per ticket to include main meal   Programme: 6.45pm – arrival 7.00pm – dinner is served – chilli con carne + jacket potatoes (please ask for vegetarian meal) 7.30pm – quiz starts 9.00pm – tea/coffee + homemade cake (£1.50) 10.15pm – finish (hopefully on time!)   Please bring your own drinks (alcohol is fine)   Donations of raffle prizes appreciated – thank you!   Tickets from Martyn Clarke – martyn237@yahoo.co.uk or 020 8997 2540. All tickets must be purchased and paid for by 10pm Thursday 19th January so we can purchase enough food.   Please either bring a team of up to 8 people, or we can allocate you to a team.  

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Book swapping campaign started in West Ealing is a winner with Boris!

 Chris Gilson, News  1 Response »
Dec 142011
 

Chris Gilson talks about his winning idea, begun in West Ealing, to help make London a better place to live. Last week, the Book Swaps for London campaign, that I run, was selected to be the winner of the Centre for London’s #ideas4Mayor Twitter competition. On Monday, at the the London Policy Conference I presented the Book Swaps for London campaign plan to Boris Johnson, the London Mayor.  I explained the vision to have book swaps in tube and train stations (as we’ve done in West Ealing station) all over London by the Olympics, and how it could involve community groups and make London a ‘capital of reading as well as sporting achievement’. Boris agreed to look into the possibility of getting book swaps established, though he did warn that TfL often receives requests for ventures on station premises. Some very good Guardian coverage is here – http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/dec/12/book-swaps-london-tube-stations It’s a [...]

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Pedestrian Safety at the Lido Junction: The Public Have Their Say

 Eric Leach, News  No Responses »
Dec 082011
 
Pedestrian Safety at the Lido Junction: The Public Have Their Say

On Tuesday 6 December 2011 some 50 people attended a public meeting to discuss Ealing Council’s proposals to make the Lido Junction safe for pedestrians – for the first time in living memory. West Ealing Neighbours (WEN) organised the meeting and it was WEN (along with Five Roads and Kingsdown Residents’ groups) who researched and published its findings and recommendations on the junction in 2009. This report in fact stimulated the Council and Transport (TfL) for London into action. We are in the middle of a public consultation on the proposals and Councillor Mahfouz, the Council’s Transport Czar, answered questions posed by the audience on the proposals.

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A very busy year for WEN Abundance

 Abundance, Community, Diane Gill  No Responses »
Dec 062011
 

It’s that time of year where Abundance goes into hibernation for the winter after a season that started in August and stretched all the way to November! This year we picked around 1.5 tonnes of fruit – apples and pears were by far the most popular, however we saw a bumper crop of quinces too. We mainly picked in West Ealing, Ealing and Hanwell, but also took a trip down to Kent and managed to pick around 400kilos over a weekend. Our apple juice has been sold by Cheddar Deli as well as The Little Art Room and they have taken the last of our apple and pear juice to sell at Xmas fairs. We have also developed 3 new chutneys this year so look out for them next year, along with yours and our favourites. We covered more fairs this year, with the addition of Pitshanger Party in the [...]

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Launch of OPEN Ealing’s daytime book club Wednesday 7th December 10.30am

 Community, David Highton, News, OPEN ealing  No Responses »
Nov 292011
 

OPEN has a coffee bar with comfy sofas and bookshelves – the perfect place to talk about books.  So, we’re starting a morning book group with our first meeting on Wednesday 7th December 10.30am- 12noon. We’re at 113 Uxbridge Road (opposite the fire station) Everyone is welcome: bring along your baby, if you like; come in after you’ve dropped the children at school or during your shopping trip; or just come along to get out of the house for a bit.  And bring your friends too. In the first meeting we’ll just have coffee and cakes and talk about the kind of books we like to read.  And we’ll draw up a list of books for future discussion. Look forward to seeing you there! Angela

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How to move 8000kg of books to the top floor of OPEN Ealing – get some help!

 Chris Gilson, News, OPEN ealing  2 Responses »
Nov 282011
 
How to move 8000kg of books to the top floor of OPEN Ealing - get some help!

Today saw an absolutely herculean effort by a team made up of amazing volunteers. Together, we unloaded 14,000 books in 14 pallets  from an 18tonne truck – each pallet weighing over 550kg! In all they weighed 8000kg, which is more than an elephant. Check out some of the action – (click each picture to enlarge): We put the call out on Twitter and on Ealing Today for volunteers, and we had a great response. Loads of people came and helped out! Without them we would never have been completely stuck. Props also to the team at OPEN Ealing which were cashiered into moving some boxes as well. West Ealing Waitrose stepped up and loaned us a pallet truck, without which we would have been pretty stuck. We managed to put about 3/4 of the boxes onto the 6th floor of OPEN Ealing, and the rest are in the corner of [...]

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Unleash your inner art critic – for radio

 OPEN ealing, West Ealing Events  No Responses »
Nov 282011
 

THURSDAY DECEMBER 1st. 2011, 6.00 – 9.30pm. Cost: £25 At OPEN Ealing Arts Project, 113 Uxbridge Road, London, W5 5TL Refreshments and course materials will be provided. Numbers are limited so please reserve a place by emailing chrissie.kravchenko (AT) btinternet.com with your contact details. Find your VOICE and make your CHOICE  Estelle Lovatt is a freelance art critic for broadcast and print including BBC Radio 2′s flagship arts programme `The New Arts Show With Claudia Winkleman’ and `Art of England’ magazine. In this workshop she will coach budding art critics how to write art reviews specifically for radio. Art criticism for radio involves a specific way of both looking at and describing a work of art. The workshop will look at how the spoken (versus the written) critique is presented, script layout and writing for the programme host. The venue for the workshop is the OPEN community art gallery, where there will [...]

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WEN public meeting about plans to make Lido Junction safer on Tuesday 6th December at OPEN Ealing 7.30pm

 David Highton, News, West Ealing  No Responses »
Nov 262011
 
WEN public meeting about plans to make Lido Junction safer on Tuesday 6th December at OPEN Ealing 7.30pm

West Ealing Neighbours is holding a public meeting on Tuesday 6th December at OPEN Ealing as part of the public consultation about the Council’s planned changes to the Lido Junction. The changes include an all-red stop phase to allow pedestrians to cross all four arms in safety. This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to make crucial pedestrian safety changes at this notorious junction. Please do come along to hear the details of the Council’s plans and why there are some concerns about the possible impact on north-south traffic flow.  Stopping parking on the eastern side of Drayton Green Road makes sense and is as we suggested but the proposed introduction of a loading bay and five stop-and-shop parking bays on the west side of Drayton Green Road seems entirely counter-productive and likely to cause delays for northbound traffic. Whatismore, the shops in Drayton Green Road do not want a loading bay [...]

Government Examines Ealing’s 15 Year Plan – Final Day

 Eric Leach, Local Development Framework  1 Response »
Nov 252011
 

DAY 8 – Wednesday 23 November 2011 As part of an ongoing series, Eric Leach reports from the Independent Examination of Ealing Council’s 2026 Local Development Framework Core Strategy (LDF CS). Elizabeth Fieldhouse, the Government appointed Planning Inspector, today concluded her examination of Ealing Council’s 15 year land use plans. Her public examination hearings, which lasted eight and a half days, have considered Ealing Council’s Local Development Framework Core Strategy (LDF CS). Hard copies of the latest batch (200+!) of the Inspector’s suggested changes and the Council’s responses were handed out to attendees. There were many queries on the detailed Council responses and none more so than on heritage issues. Representatives from the Ealing Cricket Ground Area Panel (CGAP), Ealing Civic Society (ECS) and the LibDems all made various attempts to make the LDF CS more heritage friendly but met stout resistance from Ealing Council. ECS strongly questioned why there [...]

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