Your Voice, Your Town is change – powered by communities
Your Voice, Your Town is a new way of organising the 7 towns in the borough of Ealing. It brings residents, businesses, faith and community organisations, and councillors together to improve their area and make great things happen. This approach aims to unlock the skills, energy, and potential in each town to take action on the things local people care most about.
It is led by the community, with support from Ealing Council.
Your Voice, Your Town brings local people together to identify issues, see opportunities and enable great things to happen based on an understanding of what matters most to people.
In each town, a Town Team, made of local people, businesses, community groups and councillors works to decide how to take action on the local priorities identified, and help create ways for people to get involved to shape the future of their town.
Over the last year, Ealing Council led a process where thousands of residents shared the great things happening in each of the towns. They shared ideas about how to make things even better, and offered insights into how Your Voice, Your Town should work.
The council heard lots about how, with the right help and support, people could shape how the council responds to big challenges and create even more ways to support great things locally.
Whatever your idea or interest, there are lots of ways to get involved and make a difference in your area.
Over the coming months the Town Team will be sharing more about how to get involved.
Whatever your idea or interest, there are lots of ways to get involved and make a difference in your area.
Over the coming months each Your Voice, Your Town – Town Team will be sharing more about how to get involved.
Your Voice, Your Town community-led funds
Over 2024 and early 2025 Ealing Council led a process – called community engagement – to work with hundreds of residents to identify priorities for action.
Find out more about the process to date, in ‘the journey so far’ section below.
At the end of this process, people in each of the borough’s 7 towns voted for the things they most wanted to act on.
Over the last 6 months, each Town Team has been deciding on how to take action. Their first area of work has been to design and lead a community-led fund to respond to the identified local priority in each town.
The council has allocated £480,000 to share between the towns, which they will spend on ways to address the local priorities. Find out more about what each town aims to support on the town pages.
How Your Voice, Your Town works
Your Voice, Your Town aims to create the conditions to support communities to bring together resources, create activities and commit to action on key priorities.
Some people in local communities may want to be involved in leading and shaping the overarching approach, others may want to be involved in projects and activity, so there will be different ways to get involved.
Each town has a Town Team. Town Teams act as the local decision-making body, guiding the direction and priorities of Your Voice, Your Town in each of the borough’s 7 towns. Town Team members are volunteers who join a Town Team in their area and commit to working together to achieve shared goals.
Town Teams are made up of residents, community groups, faith groups, businesses and councillors. This is to help ensure that there is a brilliant diverse range of people who are more reflective of the different views across a town.
It also enables the team to hear from a wide range of perspectives. This enables the work of the Town Team to reach and involve lots of different people through the different networks and connections of the group.
One of the first areas that each Town Team is working on is a community-led fund.
Visit the Town Team page
Your Voice, Your Town – how it started and what’s next
Ealing Council started the development of Your Voice, Your Town with a borough- wide engagement process, where hundreds of residents, businesses, faith and community groups were asked what matters most to them and their community.
They were also asked how the council could support the Seven towns to organise and work together to enable more community-led change.
The journey so far...
This page shows the journey of developing Your Voice, Your Town so far - how it came to life - and how things will develop in the months ahead. Working with each town we also know this approach will evolve as it responds to the people and priorities in each town.
You’ll also find ways to get involved and help shape the future of your own town.
During the engagement process, hundreds of people were asked how they wanted to work with Ealing Council. The council also wanted to understand what people and organisations were already doing in their communities, and what they would like to change in the future.
They were asked four simple questions to learn more:
- How are you currently active in your community?
- How would you like to be involved in the future?
- What would make that possible?
- What would you want to change?
During this process, the council wanted to listen to as many people as possible – especially people who don’t usually get heard. Officers heard from over 1,000 people, including 500 face-to-face conversations in 35 places across the borough.
The council used translation when needed and went back to people and places to share what they had learned from the conversations they had.
Following this initial listening phase, Ealing Council held seven town events. This was an opportunity for residents to meet local organisations and council teams to understand what support currently exists in each town.
To help shape how Your Voice, Your Town would work, and to enable a focused approach, Ealing Council asked each town to think about what mattered most in their town.
After listening to people in phase 1, the council gathered a long list of things that people in each town cared about. From this, seven common themes appeared across the borough.
People were then asked to vote for the theme they felt was the top priority for their town. This meant each town had a clear priority to focus on.
To make sure everyone had a chance to vote, council officers also visited 42 places across the borough, where people live, work, and spend time, to make it easier for as many people as possible to take part.
The council also promoted the vote through AroundEaling.com and social and local media.
Once each town had chosen its top priority, Ealing Council invited people to talk more about what that priority meant to them and their community. They also opened the conversation to local councillors.
For example, in towns where the priority was “clean and pleasant”, people were asked to share what that could look like in real life. The ideas were gathered into collective statements, which you can read on your town’s web page.
These statements helped shape the Town Team’s vision – a shared idea of what each town want to work towards.
People were also invited to sign up and tell the council how they’d like to get involved, whether that’s volunteering, sharing ideas, or helping with local projects
Anyone who joined in the priority voting and wanted to be involved in Your Voice, Your Town, or who completed an online form was invited, via email, to the first Town Team meeting in each of the towns.
Town Teams first agreed how they wanted to work together, including developing shared values or ways of working—things like respect, teamwork, and listening to each other.
Every Town Team member also signs a Participation Agreement. This explains what their role is, what they’re responsible for, and how they should handle things like sharing information.
Town Teams meet often, at times and places that suit them. They are taking different approaches, that suit their town’s needs, but have first focused on developing a community fund. You can find out more about your town’s Town Team on your town’s webpage.
Each Town Team has developed a community fund that supports local projects based on their town’s chosen priority.
Every town has been given a share of the fund, based on how many people live there:
Town Teams are deciding how people can apply for funding and what the rules should be.
Starting in October 2025, Town Teams—supported by the council—will begin promoting the community funds in each town.
Here are the dates for when applications open in each town:
| Location | Opens | Closes |
|---|---|---|
| Acton | 15 October 2025 | 30 November 2025 |
| Ealing | 17 November 2025 | 9 January 2026 |
| Greenford | 18 October 2025 | 18 December 2025 |
| Hanwell | 18 October | 6 January 2026; 31 December |
| Northolt | 16 October | 18 December 2025 |
| Perivale | 18 October | 18 December 2025 |
| Southall | To be confirmed | To be confirmed |
If you have an idea, you can find out more about the Community Funds by visiting your town’s page.
If you have an idea – big or small – and would like to apply for funding, get in touch with your Town Team by visiting your town’s page.
Your Voice, Your Town is change, powered by communities.
Want to know what's happening in your town?
Visit your town page to find out more about your Town Team, community funding, plus meetings, events and activities. Or, to get involved and help shape your town – join your town’s Town Team – a friendly group working together to make your town better. We are also developing other ways to get involved and will be sharing more information here soon.
If you have any ideas or suggestions – please get in touch and add Town Team you are interested in the subject line.