About Your Voice, Your Town
Your Voice, Your Town is change, powered by communities.
It brings residents, businesses, faith and community groups, and councillors together, building on local knowledge and skills to turn great ideas into action. This might mean creating safer streets, supporting local businesses, or improving green spaces across the Borough of Ealing’s 7 towns.
This approach shifts power to the communities that know their town’s strengths and challenges best. Supported by Ealing Council, Your Voice, Your Town makes it easier for people to connect, share ideas, and take action on what matters most where they live.
How it started
In 2024 and 2025, hundreds of residents shared what improvements they’d like to see in their town. Each town then voted on its top priority. These priorities guide Your Voice, Your Town work.
7518
Residents Consulted
3472
Ideas Given
£2,184
Funds Awarded
Acton
Clean and pleasant area
Ealing
Feeling safe
Greenford
Clean and pleasant area
Hanwell
Feeling safe
Northolt
Clean and pleasant area
Perivale
Clean and pleasant area
Southall
Clean and pleasant area
Town Teams
Each town has a Town Team of up to 20 people from different backgrounds, a mix of residents, businesses, faith and community groups, and councillors. They meet regularly for about a year to manage a community fund, agree values and ways
of working, and make sure decisions are fair and transparent. They are supported by Ealing Council.
Community funds
Town Teams have created community funds to fund projects that support their town’s priority. The council has set aside £480,000 which is allocated between the towns, based on how many people live there. Each team decides how their
share is spent.
Community projects
Projects funded by the community fund must respond to the town’s priority and reflect what local people said. They can be big or small, but they need to make a real difference locally. Details on what’s being funded and why are on each town’s page.
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 developed a community fund to support local projects based on their town’s priority.
Every town has been given a share of the £480,000 fund, based on how many people live there.
Town Teams decided how people could apply for funding and what the rules should be.
Starting in October 2025, Town Teams and Ealing Council promoted the community funds and applications ran until January, depending on the town’s application process.
Find out more about community fundsTown Teams are now reviewing community fund applications and deciding which projects get a share of the funding.
To see what projects are being funded, visit your town’s page.
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 the Town Team you are interested in to the subject line.