This is the journey of someone who is resilient and determined to never give up on his dream to do something great. James Rose serves as a real example of how anything is possible regardless of your situation or who you are. We hope that his journey and experience can inspire you and others to keep fighting life’s difficulties and use all that energy to make a difference to the world we live in.

​However, his journey into Heston West Big Local was not straightforward, at first he was reluctant and scared of getting worse due to past experiences with people. 

​When he finally began, he started at the debate nights due to his love of politics and at first was quite shy in expressing opinions and being confident in public speaking. Over time his confidence and character began to build up again and make him the happier and healthier person he is now. In his words “Heston West Big Local was behind my back”

​Since then he has gone on to do some amazing things such as doing projects at Parliament, helping at Community Clean Up Days and other Big Local events, he’s even beginning to develop his own mental health support programme to help others with similar experiences to him reach their full potential. His hard work and dedication not only to the community but himself has allowed him to grow as a person despite the barriers and achieve some fantastic things at only 15 years old. 

​If you have had a similar experience to James and feel inspired to keep fighting on contact someone who you trust, services such as Childline (0800 1111) or your own local community group and aspire to do something great.  

Current Heston West ward includes Brabazon Estate, Hartlands, Redwood Estate, Harlech Gardens along with Cranford Community College. ​

​The proposed Heston West ward will have a devastating impact on the Big Local area which will see us lose the Brabazon Estate, Hartlands, Redwood Estate along with Cranford Community College.

​By MADE in HESTON WEST

​'CONSEQUENCES’ is our final short Anti-Knife Crime Awareness film aimed at Year 6 primary school pupils. The film is part of the Council's and Mayor of London's Prevent strategy and aims to educate and inform children about the dangers of knife crime and the devastating consequences it can have on young lives, families and communities. Between 17th to 28th June we had 3,000 primary school students across the borough of Hounslow watch our films. In addition, the children sang our song 'Think Smart' at the Hounslow Citizen's Staying Safer event held at Cranford Community College. 

This film was made by young people (10-16yrs) involved with our Big Local Youth Action Team and MADE in HESTON WEST. This project is in partnership with Make A Difference Entertainment, Hounslow Citizens, London Borough of Hounslow, Metropolitan Police, Mayor of London and ZeroPlus Theatre. 

Main Cast: Iman Jaura, Sharanjit Kaur and Layba Nisar
Produced by Taz Virdee
Directed by Layba Nisar
Camera by Arfhan Razak
Edited by Blaise Singh
Written by Layba Nisar and Hardial Rai
Production Assistants: Abraham Hameed, Ameerhamza Hameed, Rehan Sheraz, Haris Sethi and Daniyal Sethi
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​To watch our first film 'Pranked' please click here. 
To watch our second film 'Jag & Jill' please click here.
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Big thanks to our local community and all our volunteers and supporters involved with making this project happen. If you or someone you know has been affected by the issues raised in this short film please talk to your teacher, parent/legal guardian, an older relative or an adult you can trust. However, if you cannot speak to any adult you know, please contact Childline which is free on 0800 1111 or the local police on 101 or if an emergency 999, they are here to help and support you 24/7.

Two years ago we started our Kids Fun Club, a project led by parent volunteers at the Brabazon Community Centre. Eventually due to the popularity of the sessions, we moved to a bigger space at Berkeley Academy. In the past year we have engaged with 23 children including 8 parents and many of the children have also given up their time to give back to the community by volunteering for the Big Local. Each week we provide children with freshly prepared fruit, drinks and a few snacks. The children spend the first past of the session learning Spanish in a creative and fun way. They sing, dance and play games to help enhance their learning. After the Spanish, we play multi-sports led by our young volunteers – Mario Zapata and Biansha Kapoor. The club was founded by Alexandra Montoya, she has been incredible in leading the sessions for the last two years as a dedicated volunteer.

​Alexandra said: “Kids Fun Club is a place where kids lay off some steam after a long week of hard work in the classroom, we have between 21 to 23 kids attending on a regular basis and they all love the fact we get to play games, sports and learn Spanish through songs. We hope to continue on to next year with help of parent volunteers. We just love our little community of young future volunteers.”
 
We encourage children and parents to volunteer for the Big Local and this year we've had 11 children, their siblings and parents help us at two community clean up days and also our mural on the Redwood Estate.
 
Our Kids Fun Club runs every Fridays 3.30-4.30pm at Berkeley Academy during term-time. If you would like to volunteer and support our Kids Fun Club please get in touch. 

We want to say a big thank you to our Intergenerational Walking Football coach Sharan Khroad at Brentford FC Community Sports Trust for leading our sessions for the last 2 years. Originally she was a participant at the projects inception - nearly 3 years ago when our founders Kulbir and Bobby set up the project with our Big Local community chest fund.

​Since then the project has been an enormous success engaging over 150 people in 3 years.
​Sharan is now moving onto new pastures and we will really miss her. We wish her all the best with her new adventures and we are certain she'll be a success wherever she goes. 

​THANK YOU SHARAN keep up the great work! ​

Our Intergenerational Walking Football runs every Wednesdays 6 to 7pm at Cranford Community College from March to October 2019. 

It's that time of year again! We are delighted to announce that we will be running our Summer School for a 3rd year running. This year we have been given additional funding from the London Borough of Hounslow to open up spaces for children living in Heston and Cranford. 

​In addition, Cranford Community College have kindly donated their space for the 5 weeks. This year the summer school will be led by Rachel Doherty at Creative Spaces London in partnership with Heston West Big Local. 

For more information or to sign up please click here.