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Volunteers needed for stall at Queen’s Jubilee event
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Musicians wanted to play at West Ealing monthly craft market
Having got the monthly craft market up and running last month it would be great if we could add some music to create an atmosphere and a sense of occasion. We may not be able to pay but we can offer local musicians a venue to play and a chance to perform somewhere a bit different. The market is the first Saturday of every month in St James Avenue from 10am-3pm. It’s suitable for acoustic music rather than amplified as there is no power available. If you are interested in playing for an hour sometime on that Saturday please email us at westealingeighbours@gmail.com
Follow the West Ealing Monthly Craft Market on Facebook
You can find out more about our monthly craft market in St James Ave on its just-launched Facebook page –
http://www.facebook.com/pages/West-Ealing-Craft-Market/387521781287733
Stalls for our market on 5th May include The Buttoneer with her jewellery made from buttons to Nick Lazarow’s locally made wood-turned products including candle holders and bowls. The full list is:
- Cosmetics & toiletries
- Candles
- Hand-knitted clothing
- Greetings Cards
- Notelets
- Soft toys
- Ethnic clothing & accessories
- Leather goods
- Woodturning
- Cakes
- Swarovski crystal jewellery
- Button jewellery
West Ealing monthly craft market off to a successful start
After two years of planning and discussion West Ealing Neighbours launched its monthly craft market today with its bright red gazebos signalling its presence in St James Avenue. West Ealing was fairly quiet to day but the craft market got off to an encouraging start. The general feeling was a good first day and we now need to build on this and start to establish the first Saturday of the month as a regular date for the diary.
Our thanks to the Council, St James Church and everyone else who contributed to helping get the market up and running.
Watch out for our next market on Saturday 5th May.
Come and visit the new West Ealing craft market in St James Ave tomorrow 10am – 3pm
The new monthly craft market launches tomorrow (Saturday) in St James Ave, near the entrance to Sainsbury’s car park. It’s open from 10am to 3pm. Please do drop by and visit us and help us get off to a great start.
New monthly craft market to launch in West Ealing on Saturday 7th April
West Ealing Neighbours, with the support of Ealing Council, is launching its new monthly craft market in St James Avenue on Saturday 7th April. The market will open from 10am-3pm and its 16 stalls will feature a regularly changing selection of handmade goods from local craftspeople. There will also be free teas and coffees provided by St James Church.
WEN has been working with the Council on plans for this market for well over a year. We want to build on the success of the annual Arts and Crafts Fair in St James Church and the two West Ealing Family Days to pilot a regular craft market offering quality, locally made goods. If we are successful, we hope to increase the frequency of the market.
Please do come along and support this new venture and if you are able to distribute our posters and flyers in your streets do please email us a westealingneighbours@gmail.com
If you’re interested in taking a stall at the market please email Martyn Clarke at martyn237@yahoo.co.uk
Riot-hit Seba Electronics shopowner promises to donate any recovered goods to charity
The owner of Seba Electronics in West Ealing, whose shop was badly hit by the summer riots, has promised to donate any goods recovered by the police to local good causes. See story at Ealing Gazette online here – http://westealing.ealinggazette.co.uk/2012/03/riot-hit-shopkeeper-promises-t.html
I’ve bought various TVs and other items from Seba over the years and the owner, Mr Sehgal, and his family run a brilliant shop with excellent customer service. I’ve also heard him talk about the impact of the riots and looting and he is just extraordinarily forgiving – a remarkable man and one West Ealing should be very proud of.
Calling all actors, musicians,set builders, lighting designers, sound, costume, make-up, stage-managers…
-3.5c and we were still up for pruning our West Ealing Orchard
Oh yes we at WEN Abundance and Ealing Transition are a hardy lot! We braved the freezing cold on Saturday 4th February to be part of a pruning workshop at our lovely little Orchard at Walmer Gardens. The London Orchard Project are doing a fantastic job helping us and brought in an expert to guide us through the day.
With some dedicated volunteers and support – including Jon Skoyles, Ealing Park Ranger, this Orchard has undergone a complete transformation. It will take a couple more years of pruning, planting and caring for the place but we know it will be worth bringing this place back to life.
Next up is the beehive Ealing Transition will be setting up around April – I’ll let you know exact dates when confirmed should anyone be interested in coming along.
Here are some pictures of the day (click to enlarge).
Ealing Transition looking for people to help it tell its story
Ealing Transition is a focal point for practical community action on peak oil and climate change. It now has 1200 members and is looking for volunteers to help it tell its story:
Telling the Transition Story
Are you a storyteller, a journalist, blogger or film-maker? Could you get Ealing Transition into the headlines? We need a team to start magnifying the effect of our work, making our website work harder, using social media to its greatest potential, making presentations to groups around the borough etc. Contact steering@ealingtransition.org.uk if you think you can help.