A way to a warmer home
If you own your own home, or rent privately, and are on a low income, you might be able to get free improvements to your heating, insulation and ventilation to help make it warmer for next winter. Ealing Council is taking part in the Mayor of London’s Warmer Homes programme, which provides Londoners help with […]
Gentlemen, gangs and an Anglo-Saxon burial site
Reel Life is back after what was another bumper year in filmy world across London. And Ealing managed to get in on a fair bit of the action, too. Here are a few choice nuggets fashioned across the borough last year by the convoy of trucks, cameras and creatives that passed through. You can see […]
Reopen doors to empty homes
London’s housing crisis is deepening all the time. Yet there are some empty homes simply sitting unused. Ealing Council is doing all it can to get these properties back into use. In our borough alone, there are more than 2,500 families in temporary accommodation and almost 9,000 households waiting for a council home. With so […]
Is your home too cold? Need some help?
If the answer is ‘yes’, are you finding it hard to pay your energy bills? Does the cold affect your health? Well, Ealing Council can offer you some free help – if any of the following apply to you: You are over 65; or have children under five years old. You are on a low […]
Networking event for business is postponed
A local business networking event due to take place this month has been postponed until later this year. More than 700 people had been expected at the Ealing Business Expo 2020 across 23-24 March. But it will now take place in September instead. The event, which is organised by Contactus Ealing, is sponsored by Ealing […]
Course perks up coffee dream
“I always wanted to start something as a business,” said a local entrepreneur who gained the confidence to begin his own coffee business after going on a free course offered by Ealing Council. Gamal Almaitamy from Ealing set up YeMan Coffee after attending the Pop-up Business School offered in collaboration with the council. Anyone in […]
Lego suffragette gets the vote from museum
To mark International Women’s Day on Sunday (8 March), a suffragette with a difference is making an appearance at Gunnersbury Park Museum. Hope the Lego suffragette is made of 32,327 Lego bricks, and is 170cm tall (about 5ft 6in). She will be at Gunnersbury from Monday (9 March) until 28 March. The statue was built […]
Wise heads and author book a trip to school
High school heads from the across the borough met at Ellen Wilkinson School for Girls today (Thursday). They took time out of their busy schedules for World Book Day, to celebrate their love of reading. “Reading is a significant part of our roles,” said Rachel Kruger, the headteacher at Ellen Wilkinson, which is in Acton. […]
Helping those homeless and sleeping rough
As anyone who has been out and about in the city at night-time will know, rough sleeping is still a serious problem across London. It has more than doubled in the capital over the last decade, with hundreds of people bedding down for the night outside. The issue is not restricted to the city centre. […]
You can get in with the movies and shakers, too
You may have seen the latest Guy Ritchie film, The Gentlemen? But did you know some of it was filmed in our borough? Or that your home could get in on the act and feature on the screen, on TV or in the movies? Popular television series are filmed in our borough all the time. […]
War hero’s 10 incredible escapes in his own words
To the Germans, he was ‘one of the most dangerous characters in the country’; to fellow prisoners he was an inspiration and a hero. We have the handwritten notes of Harold Medlicott’s 10 escapes from prison camps during the First World War. Harold was from Ealing. We ran a story on his incredible wartime escapes […]
Council tax rise to aid investment despite budget gap
This year, for 2020/21, the council has reluctantly decided to take a 1.99% increase in core council tax, as well as the government’s 2% social care precept. It will mean a weekly increase of around 90p on the council tax bill for the average band D property. This will bring in an extra £5.6million. This […]