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LGBT+ history in Ealing

Three people looking at a desk - in the centre is pop star Elton John

February is LGBT+ History Month, celebrating the lives and experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and promoting equality and diversity. Borough archivist Dr Jonathan Oates looked back at the local archives. Although two London students founded Gay Liberation in 1970, very little is recorded about gay and lesbian people locally until the 1980s. […]

Beavers to return after 400 years

A beaver in the water

Beavers will return to live wild in our borough after more than 400 years, in a rewilding first for urban London. A licence has been granted by Natural England for Eurasian beavers, a native British species and Europe’s largest rodent, to be introduced in Paradise Fields, a 10-hectare area of woodland and wetlands in Greenford […]

What a waste: Fly-tipping hitting local funds

Fly-tipping dumped in Stirling Road

Fly-tipping costs Ealing Council more than £300,000 per year to clear up. That is money that could be spent on other services. Just as an example, that could have bought 1,000 street trees and paid for their upkeep for two years. Or it could have got 44,000 children’s books for our libraries. Or two top-notch […]

New event to mark Holocaust Memorial Day

Candle burning on table draped in material with Star of David motif

Ealing Council’s plans to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day have changed. Residents are invited to attend the new event. It has postponed an event to unveil a permanent memorial in Walpole Park to remember the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust, alongside the millions of other people killed under Nazi persecution of other populations and groups, and during […]

ECO scheme to help more homes use less energy

Mr Horgan's carer is shown how to use the new heating system by an advisor

A scheme helping households to improve the energy efficiency of their homes, and save on heating, has been extended for another four years. Ealing Council will continue to help low-income and vulnerable households benefit from the national energy efficiency programme, called the Energy Company Obligation (ECO), until March 2026. Since April 2020, the ECO scheme […]

Win a free exercise class and keep moving

Woman standing at the top of a stairwell - fitness trainer Doreen Whittaker

In a bid to help local people get moving despite the weather and the current financial challenges, an experienced fitness trainer is offering a free class for 10 lucky readers of Around Ealing – and exercise tips for everyone else to follow. Doreen Whittaker has taught a wide range of personal clients, including members of […]

Why dumping food waste is hard to swallow

Woman considering swallowing fish bones - jokey approach to recycling food waste

This festive season, as we all hopefully enjoy some good food, it is worth remembering that chucking food leftovers in the rubbish bin comes with a huge cost. Not just to our wallets but to our environment, too. It is estimated that around 70% of the six million tonnes of food we throw away in […]

Enforcement patrols tackle anti-social behaviour

Two councillors surrounded by a group of enforcement officers in uniform

Teams of officers from Ealing Council and the police went out recently to check the streets for fly-tipping, parking offences and much more. They were accompanied for night-time patrols by council leader Peter Mason and deputy leader Deirdre Costigan. Councillor Costigan, who is also the council’s cabinet member for climate action, said: “The borough has […]

Primary places: Time to apply

Primary school children - a boy and a girl - working at a desk

If your child was born between 1 September 2018 and 31 August 2019, they will be due to start primary school in September 2023 – and applications for pupil places are being received. Under the London-wide primary school admissions scheme, parents living in the borough will submit a single application to Ealing Council, listing their […]

Hello electric, goodbye gas

Woman using touch-screen heating system digital control panel on wall in apartment

We are in a climate emergency. And we are in a cost-of-living crisis, with energy at the forefront of it. These things are not unrelated. Electric-only heating might hold some of the answers. According to the Committee on Climate Change (or Climate Change Committee), 40% of the UK’s carbon emissions – which are harmful to […]

Around Ealing magazine – winter 2022

Front cover of winter 2022 edition of Around Ealing magazine

Welcome to the winter 2022 edition of Around Ealing magazine. It is available to view (below) as a PDF or as an interactive version. The front-end of the winter 2022 edition is dominated by information about the cost of living. When the editor was standing in a street recently that contained both a foodbank and […]

Orchard for every town as part of ‘greening’

Apples and an apple tree

A pioneering project based at Blondin Park has been bearing fruit for an astonishing 25 years. It is now providing a blueprint for an ambitious programme of greening and growing across the entire borough. The park, in Northfields, has an apple orchard planted in 1997 – which was the borough’s first community orchard. It has […]

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