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By Taz Virdee ‘Together We Are Stars’ showcased last November to our local community in partnership with Bantu Arts. In our Ugandan inspired performance, we highlighted social concerns and issues surrounding online bullying, body image, Brexit and climate change. To celebrate Black History Month 2020, we finally been able to capture last year's journey and our story behind the performance and scenes of ‘Together We Are Stars’ with directors Steven Kasamba and Sharanjit Kaur. Watch the full ‘Together We Are Stars’ live performance below:
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By Taz Virdee Before lockdown, there was our Big Local Family Cooking Club! In this video, chef Manju Malhi treats a few of our lucky participants to some of her new recipes in her latest book called Easy Indian Cookbook, containing over 70 delicious recipes for all to enjoy!
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Heston West is getting towards the end of its Big Local funding. We want to ensure we make best use of this and get your input on what we do next...
The survey is anonymous and important for us to help plan for the next few months and years ahead. The legacy survey (below) will take no longer than a minute to complete, so please do give us your feedback, it would help us greatly and it is very much appreciated. By Taz Virdee  After nearly six months of lockdown, we finally got together to run our Big Local Socially Distanced Community Clean Up Day on Saturday 26th September 2020. In partnership with Hounslow Highways and Keep Britain Tidy campaign, we collected over 25 bags of rubbish.
In total, we had 20 volunteers (including our local MP Seema Malhotra), 4 groups of 5, staggered throughout the morning and afternoon. The Clean Up was an opportunity to trial our new Covid-19 secure measures to ensure the health and wellbeing and safety of our volunteers and the public. After our successful trial on Saturday, we will look to run further Clean Up days and other outdoor community events in the near future. For more information about our upcoming Big Local events, please click here. We would like to thank our brilliant and amazing volunteers for their incredible dedication and support and our partners Hounslow Highways, Keep Britain Tidy and Cranford Community College.
By Taz Virdee  By Megha Dahdrai  Megha (centre, back row) alongside our Big Local youth volunteers receiving their legacy awards in Dec 2019. Hello! I’m Megha Dahdrai. I am currently studying English Literature at Royal Holloway; University of London and I have been a volunteer with Heston West Big Local since 2016. Over the years, I have taken part in planning and executing creative projects for various age groups. Being a dedicated member of the group led to me receiving a job offer as an art facilitator with Creative Spaces LDN. Recently I was given the opportunity to run a project online with my best friend, Juhi Kumra. We help run the summer school together every year and make a rather brilliant team. We decided to work together to create a stimulating twelve-week program, Juhi’s being drama-based and mine being art-based. Personally, during the lockdown, it has been impossible for me to find inspiration to create art – my hopes for this project are that it acts as a form of inspiration and a source of information for my participants.
To anybody considering volunteering – I think that it is both hugely rewarding and gratifying, I would urge you to give it a try. I have had wonderful experiences, met amazing new people and it has shaped me as a person.
For more information about the project please click here. By HWBL Board  At Heston West Big Local we’re an intergenerational community organisation encouraging an environment which is inclusive to all and free from direct and indirect discrimination. We bring together and celebrate people and communities from all walks of life regardless of race, ethnicity, age, gender, disability, religious beliefs, physical appearance and sexuality and we fully embrace and promote equality, diversity and inclusion in the community.
Racism is a pandemic that affects us all. We stand together with the black community against Racism and all forms of discrimination. By MADE in HESTON WEST Maria Pedro fought her way through many barriers to live a truly incredible life making a real difference to many lives...Maria Keith-Roach or as many of us knew her Maria Pedro (1952-2018) lived a remarkable life. From the most challenging background she fought her way through many barriers to live a truly inspirational life. This film brings together some of those who were influenced and inspired by her.
We started our journey into making this documentary over 18 months ago, please click here for more information about film and behind the scenes. Also please read our Big Local tribute to Maria Pedro by clicking here. Special thanks to Philip Keith-Roach Directed and Edited by Blaise Singh Produced by Alan Fraser, Taz Virdee and Kelly Tennison Camera by Arfhan Razak Presented by Serena Lola In partnership with Heston West Big Local and Cranford Community College. Big thanks to Baroness Floella Benjamin, OBE DLV, Michael Caines, Seema Malhotra MP, Sir Kenneth Aphunezi Olisa, OBE, Khalid Ahmad, Paul Lynch, Capt. Priscilla Ledlie, Haroon Lukka, Anjali Parmar and Steven Curran. In addition, we would like to thank The Warrington Hotel (Maida Vale, London), The Queens Head Pub (Cranford, Hounslow), Cranford Community College (Hounslow), House of Lords (London), Lympstone Manor (Exeter) and Restoration Partners (London) for providing us with the free filming locations. By Taz Virdee  Ahead of Mental Health Awareness Week, Heston West Big Local is featured on Local Trust's News and Stories about the mental health impact COVID-19 will have on our young people and local community. Read more here.
By MADE in HESTON WEST In the last two months we’ve been working hard on delivering essential food parcels to the most vulnerable families and individuals in our community alongside Cranford Community College. Please watch our mini-documentary highlighting our journey so far and to meet some of our incredible volunteers helping out with packing and delivering the parcels.
Please click here to show your support and to donate: Directed, Camera and Edited by Blaise Singh Produced by Taz Virdee and Alan Fraser Special heartfelt thanks to our amazing volunteers: Sarah Williams, Sharanjit Kaur, Sandeep Singh, Mar Pelaez-Munoz, Muna Abdulahi, Damon Szumowski, Ryan and Nicola Arnold, Nafessa Nisar, Najash Abu, Harry Parmar, Sue Bucke, Apinder Sidhu, Simmy and Jaspal Kapoor, Chrissie Jones, Sukhdip Gill, Anna Perszewska, Alexandra and Jorge Montoya, Charlotte Morgan-Williams, Martin Woodford, Pratima Pattani, Davinia McKoy, Terry Noad, Michael Willis at Morrisons, Brentford and staff at Cranford Community College. |
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