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Your Voice, Your Ealing

Your Voice, Your Town is building on the community wealth that already exists in Ealing. It’s bringing people, voluntary and faith groups, schools and businesses together to work on the issues that are most important to them. Local people were asked to vote for their important issue, or town priority, where they want to focus their skills, resources and funding.

The choices were Clean and Pleasant Area, Development, Feeling Safe, Green Spaces, Housing and Community Facilities.

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The town is home to two community managed libraries with residents and volunteer groups managing the day-to-day running of their buildings under a ‘community managed’ status in the Northfields and West Ealing areas.

Ealing’s diverse communities add to its appeal, reflected in the area’s international cafés, restaurants, and family-owned shops. With quick connections into Central London on the Elizabeth Line, Ealing stays well-connected yet remains a place where people know their neighbours and cherish their community.

Ealings's Town Priority

Feeling Safe

Ealing will have £120,000* and the support of local skills, resources and expertise, to invest in community-led projects, with a focus on the chosen priority.

*Budgets are set by size of town population

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Collective Statements & Emerging Ideas from the community

In February, people were invited to participate in a workshop at Perceval House, Uxbridge Road in Ealing where they shared their thoughts on what a ‘Feeling Safe’ means to them and collaborated to reach a shared understanding of their town priority.

Their collective statements will be shared with Ealing’s Town Team, to help set the criteria for future community-led projects. Residents then worked together to think of project ideas that met their collective goals. The emerging ideas offer a glimpse of the type of projects people are enthusiastic about leading and participating in.

Improving unloved and misused spaces

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Improving unloved and misused spaces aims to identify and enhance neglected areas by improving infrastructure such as lighting, CCTV, benches, and regular maintenance. Audits will be shared with charities like St Mungo's and R.I.S.E. for engagement.

The project targets the local community and will take place in identified spaces. Collaboration with local community and council employees is needed, and participation will be encouraged through schools, residents' associations, local clubs, and social media

“Improvements of public ground and additional infrastructure, better community spaces and activities for community cohesion and integration.”

The Ealing feeling

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The Ealing feeling aims to create an Ealing town app and printed version to be made available at community hubs, linking to the safer community team and police, promoting parks and street services. It targets Ealing residents and will be accessible via smartphones, websites, and through people's doors.

The project is permanent and requires money and administration. Participation will be encouraged through existing networks and platforms, including councillors' own networks.

“Not feeling vulnerable and able to trust your community and services including police and council to support and create personal safety”

Safe and Thriving Ealing

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  1. Implementing a taxi ride/slide program for safer transportation.
  2. Improving pavements for better accessibility.
  3. Establishing a youth club to engage and support young people.
  4. Creating awareness through a book for all kids.
  5. Making Ealing walkable with a walking bus initiative.
  6. Installing CCTV for enhanced security.
  7. Upgrading streetlights to improve visibility and safety.
  8. Introducing an AI agent to address mental health issues.

“Reduce crime and live in a crime-free environment to improve community spirit. Look after our children which include providing for - education; training; awareness; school protection and vulnerable children. Our main focus covers: community; cyber security; crime; kids and road safety”

Taste the difference Melbourne Ave / "Welcome to Oz"

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Taste the difference Melbourne Ave / "Welcome to Oz" is an initiative aimed at enhancing the community spaces in West Ealing. The project focuses on various elements such as art, fairy lights, flowers, plants, a pocket park, a kids' play zone, street cleaning, and community safety officers.

  • The project is designed for kids, families, residents, shoppers, businesses, and the library.
  • The project will take place at Melbourne Ave, St James Ave, Sainsbury's, RISE, and the library in West Ealing.
  • The project aims to engage the community by focusing on solutions such as implementing systems to keep the area clean and tidy for all residents

“Reduce crime and antisocial behaviour through creating clean attractive welcoming spaces so everyone feels comfortable and confident to move around and express themselves.”

Safer pedestrian routes

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Safer pedestrian routes aims to identify and improve alleyways, paths, and bridges for pedestrian use, enhancing accessibility. It targets pedestrians, residents, and families across the six wards of Ealing town. The project is permanent and requires identifying commonly used routes and improving them, with suggestions from local residents and users

“Reduce crime and antisocial behaviour through creating clean attractive welcoming spaces so everyone feels comfortable and confident to move around and express themselves.”

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Ealing's Community

Ealing Town is the borough’s main commercial and retail centre. The town centre also known as Ealing Broadway and the neighbourhoods of Ealing Common, Montpelier, Pitshanger, Northfields, West Twyford, Hanger Hill, North, South and West Ealing are well known for their thriving communities.

One of the area’s treasures is Ealing Studios, the heart of British film history, where timeless classics and modern hits were created. Just down the road, Pitzhanger Manor invites you to wander into its art-filled rooms and take in the tranquillity of its beautiful gardens.

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Each year Ealing Civic Society makes awards to recognise and encourage building and environmental projects that make a noteworthy contribution to the community or to the townscape amenity around the wider London Borough of Ealing.

Community life in Ealing is always bustling, especially around the green spaces that locals love, like Walpole Park, Haven Green and Lammas Park to name a few, where families gather, friends meet for picnics, and children play. These parks come alive in the summer with a series of exciting festivals for people to celebrate including comedy, blues and jazz events and the New Gen Festival, a dedicated festival curated ‘by and for youth. Some of the many annual events that take place around the town bringing people together to enjoy each other’s company.

During the workshop, local residents shared their knowledge of Ealing and the diverse activities they participate in. This exchange fostered a deeper sense of connection among attendees, both with each other and with their community of Ealing.

If you are part of a voluntary or community group, residents association or faith space that delivers an activity in Ealing and you want more people to know about it, you can register with Do Something Good to include your group’s activity in the Community Support Directory.

Your Voice, Your Role

Are you over-18 and available to join a friendly group of people, that meet up regularly to help guide the activities and decisions on how local resources and budgets can support you town's chosen priorities?

If you have the time and you see yourself as someone who is good at solving problems, have ideas about how to improve your local area, appreciate the views of others and can listen with empathy then your local Town Team needs your support.

I want to sign up for the Town Team

Alternatively, if you want to be kept up to date on what is happening locally in your town, such as future town events, projects and activities which you might want to know more about and get involved in, then you have the option to keep in touch.

I want to stay in touch

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