Jump on the skills (and job) escalator
Ealing Council is running two schemes to give people a push with their career. One, WEST, helps unemployed people get work; the other, Skills Escalator, helps those with a job to improve their chances of getting a better-paid one. If you are employed… For those residents who are already in a job but still claiming some housing […]
Summer soundtrack: Jazz and Blues
Walpole Park in Ealing will provide your soundtrack for the summer as it hosts two consecutive weekends of live music with the long-running and ever-popular jazz and blues festivals returning. Across 22–23 July, the Ealing Blues Festival will feature world-famous acts The Blockheads and Mungo Jerry (pictured above) as well emerging bands from the blues scene. Originally started […]
Tuck into summer with fine food and drink
Thirsty for some outdoor socialising? Hungry for some new food? You can get stuck into the summer by sampling gourmet grub and a refreshing beer or two as food and drink festivals come to town. The newest addition to the Ealing Summer Festivals programme, Eat Drink Ealing will take over Ealing Common on 1-2 July […]
Hanwell opens the summer carnival season
This Saturday (16 June) marks the start of carnival season as Hanwell is the first of three summer events known throughout the community. Hanwell Carnival is now in its 119th year. Catch the parade on 17 June as it makes its way from Hanwell Community Centre to Elthorne Park, where the main event takes place […]
How to get ahead with adult learning courses
Whether you want to improve your job prospects, or ‘up-skill’ for your current job, gaining a qualification can help strengthen your CV and help you get ahead. Ealing Adult Learning offers a range of courses – one of which could be exactly what you are looking for. In fact, Ealing Adult Learning has more than […]
Around Ealing magazine – June 2017
Welcome to the June 2017 edition of Around Ealing, which looks at the summer. Everything seems better in the summer. Not much can spoil it. Not even mowing the lawn while in the grip of raging hayfever and its constant twitch and snuffle; nor the stifling Tube journeys and their hot morass of assorted armpits. […]
Hospitals: Disaster waiting to happen
In April, Ealing Council reaffirmed its commitment to campaigning against NHS proposals that would result in our two most local hospitals, Ealing and Charing Cross, losing a huge number of bed-spaces for patients. We are determined to fight what amounts to a disaster waiting to happen. The NHS has confirmed to Ealing Council that its […]
Win tickets to Ealing Comedy Festival
Dara O’Briain, Russell Kane and Julian Clary are among the top comics at the Ealing Comedy Festival this year. You can win tickets to each of the five nights of excellent comedy. The big top tent at Walpole Park in Ealing will be billowing with laughter on 20–21 and 26–28 July. On each of those […]
Win the race for a place at Ealing Half Marathon
Would you like the chance to put yourself in the picture to win a coveted race place at Ealing Half Marathon, one of the best half marathons in the UK? Take part in our competition and you could do just that, and get some official clothing too. People are racing to sign-up to take part in the […]
Spies: The real ‘M’ and his near undoing in Ealing
Maxwell Knight was a paradox, writes Henry Hemming. A jazz obsessive and nature enthusiast (he is the author of the definitive work on how to look after a gorilla), he is also seen as being one of MI5’s greatest spymasters. He was a man who did more than any other to break up British fascism […]
Calling all entrepreneurs: Opportunity at Manor House
Entrepreneurs, start-up businesses and other small local companies are being offered an exciting opportunity to showcase their products, as part of a major restoration project in the heart of Southall. As you may have read on Ealing News Extra already, Southall Manor House is currently undergoing extensive refurbishment and will be reopened as a catering […]
Arch that links park’s history to be restored
A historically significant arch at Gunnersbury Park is to be the latest piece of heritage to be lovingly restored as part of the large-scale project taking place there. The arch is on the south-east terrace of the large mansion building and it will be restored thanks to a £5,000 grant from Heritage of London. This […]