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
We had a very good meeting of our monthly community forum on 26th January. These meetings take place on the last Thursday of each month at Southall Town Hall. Yesterday‘s meeting had two excellent updates from Southall Black Sisters and about the Local Plan consultation… Read More »SCA Community Forum
SCA has arranged weekly English classes for residents at Southall Town Hall. The class takes place every Friday morning and has been arranged with the excellent support of the Ealing Adult Learning Team. The classes are going well and the participants are in the value… Read More »English Classes at Town Hall
One of our newer projects is Community Action Southall which looks to support groups responding to poverty locally. We have employed Kamaljeet Sembhi as our Anti-Poverty Support Officer and she is pictured dropping off warm winter clothes at St Mungos, who help the street homeless… Read More »Warm winter clothing for the homeless
The Community First Foundation is based at the Rectory Park Community Centre in Northolt. It is a nice building that is slowly beginning to return to pre-lockdown usage. Well done to Mohamed and Ranjit (pictured) who are looking to extend resident involvement in their activities… Read More »Community First Foundation
We arranged our end of year Christmas party at the Town Hall on Thursday 22 December. After a long and busy year on the side it was nice to have a break and a small gathering with staff and friends of SCA. Hopefully everyone will… Read More »SCA Christmas Party
Our office hosted a busy book launch event on Saturday 3rd December raised through Shagufta Gimmi Lodhi. This morning event was well attended with poets, writers and literary figures who shared their views about Punjabi literature. There were some passionate speeches and discussion and we… Read More »Book launch at Town Hall
Inspite of the unsettled weather our intrepid volunteers, Paul and Ashok, continued to brave the elements on Monday, as we put up the first signs for our urban garden project. A lovely design was prepared by our Treasurer, Ravi Jain, and we hope it will… Read More »Western Road Urban Garden