Which of these walking routes gets your vote?
Did you know May is National Walking Month? Before you get ready to lace up your shoes and put your best feet forward, we’ve got some exciting news to share. Ealing Council is asking you to vote in a contest to find the borough’s best, or most popular, walking route. It’s no secret our borough […]
Win tickets to Ealing Book Festival 2025
What do reading and stories mean to you? Well, school pupils from across the borough had a go at giving their feelings on the matter as part of Ealing Book Festival. And you could win tickets to one of the festival’s events as part of our competition. The 4-day Ealing Book Festival 2025 begins on […]
Survey shows progress – and shapes priorities
We made a set of promises to you in 2022, when we published the ‘council plan’, setting out our 4-year goals – running up to 2026. We are 3 years in, and making great progress getting the things done that we said we would. The most recent residents’ survey tells us many of you are […]
What did survey say about where you live?
What do you like best about where you live? Well, more than a thousand people took part in a survey and it showed that quite a few of you would say it was our borough’s parks, public transport links, and the community spirit. In fact, the overwhelming majority (90%) of respondents said they were satisfied […]
The year ahead: it’s going to be busy
What’s happening in the year ahead? Quite a lot. From new ways for you to have a say on your neighbourhood, to big changes to our parks, and much more besides. The long-awaited new Local Plan, that will shape the future of the borough over the next 15 years, is reaching the point it can […]
VE Day events near you
Events are being held to mark the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe (VE) Day during a 4-day commemoration. VE Day first took place on 8 May 1945, marking the Allied victory in Europe over Nazi Germany. The news resulted in millions of people across the country celebrating the end of the war with parties, […]
‘Strangely like the Blitz’: VE Day remembered
It is the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe (VE) Day. The early May bank holiday will form part of a 4-day commemoration. Borough archivist Dr Jonathan Oates looks back to the original VE Day in 1945. After nearly 6 years of war, it was becoming increasingly clear in early May 1945 that Germany would […]
Where does your town get its name?
Our borough is reaching a milestone in April. It will be 60 years ago that, in 1965, the old boroughs of Ealing, Acton and Southall were abolished. They were merged into one new local authority, with the name Ealing Council, administering the new London borough of Ealing. By 2023, our borough’s population had reached more […]
Celebrating libraries: cornerstone of communities
Libraries have long been the cornerstone of our communities, fostering a lifelong love of reading and learning, providing a quiet space for children and young people to study and a place for people to build connections with others when they might otherwise feel isolated. Books are the first thing to come to mind when you […]
‘Lot of damage in Ealing’: war through the eyes of Erica
With the approaching 80-year anniversaries of VE Day and VJ Day, borough archivist Dr Jonathan Oates looks at the diaries of a local woman, Erica Ford, and her insights into everyday life during the Second World War. We are fortunate to possess several local diaries which cover some or all of the Second World War. […]
Ready to rock? Hootie music legacy continues
The 12th Hanwell Hootie free music festival will take place on Saturday 10 May – keeping the town ‘firmly on the musical map’. Since it was first held in 2013 as a free music festival by local people, the Hootie grew in renown and popularity. And 2022’s event was possibly the biggest yet, across 2 […]
Financial planning for the year ahead
This week we, as your local council, set a budget for the next financial year, which runs from 1 April 2025 to the end of March 2026. We have a legal duty to set a balanced budget and, by being prudent, ruthlessly efficient and focused on value for money, we have always done so. This […]