We are delighted to announce the return of our Intergenerational Walking Football sessions. Our sessions run Wednesdays 6 to 7pm at Cranford Community College.
Our Walking Football sessions are fully inclusive and open to all including children, families and older residents. If you would like to get involved or like more information, please get in touch with Taz on 07840047771

Heston West Big Local has been selected by the GLA to partner on the My London: Enabling Youth Social Action programme. This programme has been developed in response to the growing concern around young people’s mental health due to the impacts of COVID-19.
​This programme, delivered by Team London and match funded by the #iwill Fund, puts frontline youth sector organisations at the heart of developing models of youth engagement for young people in their communities.

​Partnerships of five community organisations will be resourced to take part in a six month Design Lab where they will use their local knowledge and frontline expertise to co-design a model that will increase participation opportunities for vulnerable young people and amplify youth voice in their boroughs. Our partnership will then be able to apply for ringfenced funding of £200,000 to deliver our co designed model in Ealing and Hillingdon. 

​The overall purpose of this programme is to improve mental health outcomes for young people. But along the way we want to support youth organisations to collaborate in order to provide more sustainable opportunities for youth social action at a local level. 

Ealing and Hillingdon
Ealing and Hounslow CVS
Hillingdon Autistic Care and Support
Spark! Charity
Each Counselling
Heston West Big Local

For more information about My London: Enabling Youth Social Action please click here. 

London's Councils were asked by BBC Radio London to nominate a Make a Difference Hero. We were delighted to hear London Borough of Hounslow nominated Tarek Mrad from Heston West Big Local for his work on our Big Local Live Community Podcast, supported by volunteers from the Big Local.

BBC Interview recorded on Saturday 3rd April 2021.

Hounslow Council are pleased to announce the Push Doctor project has almost completed the roll out of a partnership with 46 GP Practices in Hounslow, to provide additional GP video consultations to over 300,000 patients in the Hounslow community. This not only offers greater access for patients, but Hounslow GPs can use the capacity to address local challenges. For example, enabling local GPs to focus on their patients with complex needs or relieving workforce pressures arising from the COVID-19 pandemic.

The COVID-19 pandemic is having a heart-breaking impact on our community and it is important that patients don’t delay seeking help for medical concerns. Push Doctor enables patients to see an NHS GP for free through a video consultation in a place that they feel comfortable, using a smart phone, tablet, or computer.

Push Doctor and Hounslow Consortium will be joining the Community Champions meeting on Wednesday 10th March 2021 at 5:30pm to explain more about the service and answer your questions.

Please feel free to join, even if it is your first time. You are welcome to keep your cameras off and stay muted. Please email publichealth@hounslow.gov.uk to gain access to the meeting. 

Some good news! Hounslow Council are planning estate improvement works on Redwood Estate, Norman Crescent, Harlech Gardens and Archer Court & George Chatt House with works starting in Spring 2021. Hounslow Council commissioned Groundwork London to carry out community engagement and landscape designs for the programme and they are delighted to now share the updated designs based on resident’s comments and feedback they received in January 2021. 

They want to make sure that these proposals for green space improvements meet the needs of the local community, building greener neighbourhoods for everyone to enjoy.

Please visit: https://hounslowestateimprovements.commonplace.is/ to view and comment on the latest designs. 

Thank you for sharing your ideas!​

Recently our Chair Alan Fraser was involved with Local Trust's discussion on addressing inequalities in education alongside Natalie Perera, CEO at Education Policy Institute, Javed Khan, CEO of Barnardo’s and Gina Cicerone, CEO at Fair Education Alliance.

Read more about the discussion and report by clicking here. 

The Community Partnerships Unit within Hounslow Council has been in the process of creating a food action plan. As the pandemic has highlighted the issues of food poverty in the borough, the council are creating a plan for the future to tackle these issues.

Their steering group has helped the council to identify five pillars of their action plan. Hounslow Council have decided to put on a workshop for each pillar. The aim of these will be to discuss the main issues and understand the current situation from those directly involved in these areas, and to come up with solutions and actions the council want to take to try and tackle to problems.
The five pillars are:
 
Food Insecurity
Tackling food waste
Access to healthy affordable food (this will include food growing, access to markets, healthy food etc)
Supporting older and vulnerable adults
Addressing health issues (diabetes, obesity)
 
Hounslow Council have set up an event for each workshop. If you would like to get involved with these online workshops, please register your interest for the one(s) you wish to attend below by clicking on the link:
 
Food Insecurity: Wednesday 10th February 2-3:30pm
 
Tackling Food Waste: Tuesday 16th February 2-3:30pm
 
Access to healthy/affordable food: Wednesday 24th February 3-4:30pm
 
Addressing Health Issues: Wednesday 3rd March 2-3:30pm
 
Supporting Older/Vulnerable adults: Tuesday 9th March 1-2:30pm

A few days before Christmas we delivered festive hampers to 50 families in our local community. We focused on families and residents whom previously received our Covid-19 essential food parcels during the first lockdown and a few volunteers.

​The Christmas hampers were kindly donated by Sapna Dhall and Mimi's Coffee and Dessert Lounge in Hounslow. We also prepared our own hampers supported by chef and author Manju Malhi.