Working together to make West Ealing a better place for residents, businesses and visitors.
There’s a whole fortnight of foraging workshops on offer at Grow Heathrow, a project reclaimed from the emptiness of uncertainty about the third runway. Opportunities to learn from local people and the young people involved in Transition Heathrow. More here.
Inspiring video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orp6-KlZVFE
I’ve just walked back from OPEN Ealing and passed police cars and ambulances all over the place. Then I saw an air ambulance in Dean Gardens. It looks to me as if an incident took place in Chapel Road, location of a major fire last year, and someone was taken by road ambulance to the air ambulance which had landed in Dean Gardens. More information when we have it… think I’ve just heard the air ambulance fly over our house.
UPDATE – Saturday from Ealing Today website
Seems a man in his 30s was attacked in Chapel Road and left in a serious condition and then airlifted to hospital in east London.
Last Friday (15th June) marked the successful end of 5-year effort by WEN and many others to make it safe for pedestrians to cross at the Lido Junction. The lights now have an all-red stop phase to allow safe crossing in all directions.
West Ealing Neighbours and its partners the Five Roads Forum and Kingsdown Residents Assn thank everyone involved in Lido Junction Project Group and many others for campaigning for, negotiating for and finally implementing a safe crossing at this notorious junction. Thanks to the Council and TfL for their hard work to reach agreement on this and we now hope everyone will feel confident that they can at last cross this junction safely.
Why not party the morning away at Pitshanger Party in the Park 
then spend the afternoon foraging for food with Ealing Transition Community Garden…
Wild Garlic Mustard, mild Linden leaves, wild spinaches and elderflowers await you by the side of the Brent in Pitshanger Park. Ealing is overflowing with free, healthy, delicious food. It’s wild and free, not in the sense of Woodstock but rather of glittering salads full of exciting new flavours. Local transition town supporter and expert forager Sam Sender will lead a wild food walk in Pitshanger Park on Sunday 17th at 2pm. Meet at the tennis courts, and bring baskets and bags.
Cost: Free
Check out their blog at http://ealingtransitioncommunitygarden.wordpress.com/, and refer to the Upcoming Events tab for dig day dates.
The next West Ealing Craft Market is in St James Avenue 
on Saturday 2nd June – the Jubilee weekend. With a bit of luck it may even be sunny! It would be good fun to have some live music and other street performers involved to make a bit of a special occasion. If you’re interested in volunteering to play or perform between 11am and 3pm do please email us at westealingneighbours@gmail.com . At the very least I’m sure we can supply you with something to eat and drink.
As we get the market established we’re keen to make music and street performance a regular feature of the market so even if you can’t make it in June do still please email us.
Walking along the Uxbridge Road this morning I spotted two new shops about to open. Bake & Cake near Cudi and Roosters Piri Piri opposite Blockbuster. I’m not sure when they’ll open so if anyone gets the opportunity to have a closer look then let me know.
It’s nice to actually see a ‘healthy’ chicken place open amongst all the fried in West Ealing!
Our second craft market last Saturday was a bit damp with the rain but the general feeling from stallholders was that more people were buying this time. It will take time for people to know the market is there in St James Ave on the first Saturday of the month but there feels to be a gathering momentum and a lot of good will. We had some music and that went down well. I think we need to investigate whether we can get some modest amplification for future music. We’ll see if we can get more musicians for our next market on 2nd June which is Diamond Jubilee holiday weekend.
You can see photos of the May market on WEN’s website
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Volunteers needed for stall at Queen’s Jubilee event
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