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Connect at Christmas DICKENS YARD W5 > Ealing Connect networking group founder Anita Wong raises a glass of bubbly on Wednesday at the group’s final meetup and lunch event for the year 2016, the year in which the group was launched. Meetings took place every two weeks, alternating between mornings and afternoons, and were held at Charlotte’s W5 restaurant, Ealing Broadway. > more photos from last week’s Ealing Connect on page 4
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Andrew Mcleay He works with homeless people in Ealing every day at the Ealing Soup Kitchen, yet rather than talking about the sadness of the rising numbers of people using the facility at St John’s Church on Mattock Lane in West Ealing, Andrew Mcleay wants to share a few of the ‘good news’ stories that he’s come across...
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o what are the numbers like at the Ealing Soup Kitchen? How many people use the facility, how many staff, how many volunteers..? > On average over the four days we’re open we serve something like 350 people. Currently I’m the only paid staff – the rest are volunteers, with about 14 volunteers for our drop ins, and about 10 usually on each session at the weekend soup kitchen. Ealing Soup Kitchen is there for people who have hit rock bottom, so does this often
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mean that they rise up again after coming to you? Tell us a couple of these “feel-good” stories. > We have two core volunteers who used to be homeless; they are now housed, and give back by serving with us – there’s a new video coming out which talks a bit more about that soon. We also had a guy who dropped by a few months ago to tell my colleague
Alan that through our help, he managed to get accommodation and a new job, and he was really enjoying it, and came to give a donation. There’s also another man who used to be homeless and got a bed in Ealing Churches Winter Night Shelter. Through them and us he got accommodation and a job over Stratford way – but travels all that way to help us at our soup kitchen most weekends. What is the number one thing that everyday
Ealing people can do to support you all at Ealing Soup Kitchen? > There are a few ways: consider donating in whatever way you can (money, clothes, time, sleeping bags etc). Please tell people about us – we can only be effective to the community if they know who we are. Be our ‘street team’ – especially to the local homeless you see!! @EalingSoup ealingsoupkitchen ealingsoupkitchen.org – interview by Carlene Bender
Andrew (page 2 photo, and inset), working with volunteers at the Ealing Soup Kitchen in West Ealing. Photos: contributed
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Networking with a bit of Zen DICKENS YARD W5 > You could hear a pin drop (well maybe a spoon or knife) at last Wednesday’s Ealing Connect networking group meeting as Pascale Chaillet performed her Zen Shiatsu Therapy massage on willing subject Joanne Brianti. Anita Wong then closed off her group’s launch year with a Christmas lunch for small businesses at Charlotte’s W5.
See live video of Pascale’s Zen Shiatsu Therapy massage posted on our Facebook page: contactusealing
@EalingConnect Below: Shereen Presky of Express Print Ltd in West Ealing introduces her new printing products and prices Below right: Education consultant Katie Jayne talks about the app she’s working on Bottom: Pascale working on Joanne Bottom right: better with cake...
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Food market flair EALING TOWN HALL W5 > Fresh from her feature in last week’s Q&A, Lucy Do popped up and brought some new excitement to the #W5FoodMarket with her soon-to-open The Dodo Micropub business venture. Bottom left: Also venturing out of Hanwell W7 for the first time were Stephen and Claudia Beaumont, with their hand-roasted artisan coffee business Kaffee Culture. Below right: always popular: @desibakerboy. @EatMeDrinkMeLDN
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A festive Ealing Business Forum Chasing Deer’s THE GRANGE W5 > Geoff and Gita Langston of GL connects held their “The Simple Life”: last 2016 monthly business networking meetup, Ealing Business Forum, youtu.be/oLkzUjZCfZw in a more relaxed format at The Grange on Ealing Common. Below: The Grange landlady Barbara welcomes visitors; At left, top to bottom: former Team GB Olympian Jo has taken over from Jo at Saddle Drunk massage, and is telling Alex of DeBaere patisserie about it; a gallant Rob of Chasing Deer saves Nicola (Iconic Creative) from having to get up; he then gets up on stage with his band.
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Being Ealing Prepared EALING TOWN HALL W5 > The Ealing Council one-day event last Tuesday, entitled “Ealing Prepared” was aimed at any size or type of business in Ealing, and sought to provide business continuity advice to local business-owners. Practical tips came from a range of speakers talking about what to do when natural disasters like floods or wind damages happen, or disruptions such as power loss, IT failure, theft or fire. More info at: www.ealing.gov.uk/businesscontinuity
‘Ealing Prepared’ event organiser Simon Freeston discusses business continuity with Valerie, a retired hairdresser
#EalingPrepared Below: the Q&A session in the Princes Room
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Workspace workshop BROADWAY W13 > The West Ealing Workspace hub project is gathering speed – help us create the space your business needs. Projects Office, the architecture practice that has been appointed to design the hub, are leading a workshop on Wednesday 14 December. They want local business input into the manifesto which will be at the heart of the hub’s development. What is important to you? What does your business need? What skills can you share, or would you like to gain? Join us to get your ideas at the heart of West Ealing’s dynamic new workspace. After the more structured workshop there will be a drop-in session for anyone to come in and explore the space and talk to the designers. Register for the workshop for free via Eventbrite. Workshop: 1-2pm; drop in session: 2-5pm
Watch Bethan Kay and Megan Charnley from hub design firm Projects Office speak about their ideas: youtu.be/DUgxUJFy3wM
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West Ealing Christmas cheer MELBOURNE AVE W13 > West Ealing got the jingling Christmas feeling on Saturday thanks to the West Ealing Christmas Fair, with live music, stalls, a donkey to pet, and lots of neighbours to catch up with.
Catch a bit of Ealing Rock Choir: youtu.be/ YbK9Fim3QDU
Below: The Ealing Rock Choir entertains the crowd; Bottom left: Yewande Rolph of the Natural Fragrance Company with her copy of ‘Contactus Ealing’; Bottom right: The Ealing Club rock’n’roll stalwarts Bob Salmons (aka Robert Hokum), left, and Alistair Young.
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Acton lights up for the season THE MOUNT W3 > Santa Claus, small businesses and a few sheep came together last Saturday to make the Acton Christmas Fair a special day out for local people, as these photos from The_Ealinger freelancer Joanna Dudzinska show. Below: Lights sparkle over the market stalls. Bottom left to right: Santa all settled in to his grotto at The Blend House on Churchfield Road, as the cafe’s owner, Marites Araneta, enjoys the scene with her family. Bottom right: the sheep.
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Ready for the first dig NEW BROADWAY W5 > With the heavy equipment standing by and branded signage in place, the Ealing cinema building site was ready for the next phase of construction, with St George taking over the building of the eight-screen cinema and the “cinema quarter” area. Digging work was expected to begin this morning, with the promise of a finished cinema in 2019. Read more about the Ealing cinema saga in the Nov-Dec editon of ‘Contactus Ealing’ local business magazine: www.issuu.com/contactusealing
Ealing cinema building works video update: youtu.be/D2StLGzCsFE
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