We had a great Holi and International Womens Day event at the Town Hall today. This is a combination that we have never tried before and we had a very entertaining and colourful event on a cold and wet day. All the participants enjoyed themselves… Read More »Holi and International Womens Day
SCA hosted two days of training for a group of residents from across Ealing interested in becoming community researchers. The training was arranged by Indy Sira from Voices of Colour and she worked in partnership with the Institute of Development Studies. The workshops took place… Read More »Community Researcher Training
Working with Ealing Council colleagues, we arranged a workshop on 28 February about the new arts and culture manifesto. This was a chance for some local residents to share their views and aspirations about arts in Southall.
The Voice of Women group arranged a very successful Punjabi Maa Boli event at Christchurch in Southall. As usual, their event was attended by a large group of women who enjoyed the social interaction.
SCA hosted a Health workshop on Tuesday 21st February at the Town Hall. It was arranged with the Institute for Development Studies and we had a good mix of colleagues from the health sector who contributed to the discussions about health equity. The day finished… Read More »Health workshop at Town Hall
Our last SCA Community Forum meeting took place on Thursday 23rd February and had guests speakers from Citizens UK and the Canal & River Trust. We had a good turnout of people who heard two excellent presentations from Diana FitzWilliam and Hilal Yazan. There were… Read More »SCA Community Forum
As part of our NFL American football project working with young people we have started sessions at Dormers Wells High School on Thursdays. The project is called ‘Touchdown Southall’ and is funded by the NFL Foundation UK. Kamaljeet from SCA and Joel Kenyon from the… Read More »NFL Flag at Dormers Wells
As part of our Urban Garden project on Western Road we will be planting over 500 trees and hedges on the 2 acre site. On Wednesday 22nd February our team went to Horsenden Farm to pick up trees to take back and plant in Southall.… Read More »Tree planting for Southall
SCA and partners are transforming the urban garden site on Western Road in Southall. After over a year of work we are still making site improvements, especially to improve access after a period of very wet and cold weather had left the ground very soggy.… Read More »Western Road Urban Garden
We have had a busy day sharing food to distribute to households in need. We provided two pallets of food to Dormers Wells High School for 100 families. Many thanks to the excellent staff who helped us including Stacy Fleary and Jas Rana. We hope… Read More »Food for the Needy