Why not try before you bike?
Looking to start cycling for the first time or eager to get back on the saddle? Look no further than Ealing Council’s hire-purchase bicycle scheme, Try Before You Bike. Simple and affordable, the Try Before You Bike scheme allows you to trial a bike before buying it. You can rent a bike from £10 a […]
Results highlight a sweeping effort by Greener Ealing
Greener Ealing, Ealing Council’s waste and recycling contractor, has made a positive start to the year with collection rates going from strength to strength. Figures for January showed that 99.97% of all collections were done right first time, rising to a 100% success rate within 24 hours. Missed collection rates have also greatly improved since […]
Got an idea for a Future Ealing?
Do you have an idea to improve the local area or to do something good in the community? Well, the council wants to help some of your ideas become reality and has set up a Future Ealing Fund to do just that. There is £100,000 in the pot on offer, with a maximum of £10,000 […]
Volunteers asked to rise up for research project
Do you like research? Are you interested in local history? Volunteers are needed to help the borough’s library service put together an exhibition to shine a light on those who have fought racism. Ealing Rises Up, planned for later this year, will highlight political activism by black and Asian communities in our borough during the […]
Safe zone outside Ealing clinic to remain
The council has decided a safe zone around a clinic in Ealing should continue to be in place until at least 2024. The Mattock Lane Safe Zone public spaces protection order (PSPO) was due to end in April 2021 after three years in place. But this decision extends it to run for another three years, […]
How we are tackling the COVID-19 variant
As you may well have seen on the news, Ealing Council is responding to the detection of a case of the South African variant of COVID-19 that has been identified in the West Ealing and Hanwell areas, says council leader Julian Bell in his latest video message (above and blog). The government has informed us […]
Pilot’s painting back with family after a century
The daughter of a First World War fighter-plane pilot has been able to return a painting of his to the family after it unexpectedly turned up for sale at an auction house. It was painted in 1910 and, 110 years after it was gifted to a nurse, it is now back in Ealing. Kevin Clark, […]
Lessons on offer to help pupils keep up with work
The latest lockdown has brought with it all kinds of pressures we would not normally have to deal with – one of which is home schooling, which many of us are grappling with. But, fear not, some extra help is at hand with local, online catch-up lessons. Local charity Znaniye Foundation received funding last year […]
Lockdown 3 to fight surge in virus cases
Last night (Monday, 4 January), the Prime Minister announced that the country must go into lockdown to prevent the NHS from being overwhelmed by a surge in COVID-19 hospital admissions. In his latest coronavirus update message (above as a video, and below as text), council leader Julian Bell explains what you can and cannot now […]
Tier 3 and a reminder we need a cautious Christmas
A lot has happened over the last week since I last updated you, says council leader Julian Bell in his latest video message (above). What seemed to be a north east London problem of high rates of COVID infections has rapidly changed into a London-wide, exponential surge in COVID cases that has resulted in London, […]
Hundreds go the distance to raise money for foodbank
More than 500 runners and walkers took up the challenge of raising money for Ealing Foodbank during a virtual 10K event. As we reported, Ealing Half Marathon Legacy (EHM Legacy), the community interest company behind Ealing Half Marathon, organised the challenge as a replacement for the Osterley Park 10K race – which had to be […]
How stolen, precious pottery item was found again
Many of you will know that the Dominion Centre in Southall houses an exhibition on the famous Martinware pottery and the Martin brothers who created it in the town in the 19th Century. However, some may not realise that, 15 years ago, a unique piece of the collection was stolen. Amazingly, it was recently recovered […]