Welcome to Your Voice, Your Town Hanwell

About Hanwell

Hanwell is a lively and well-connected area with the Elizabeth Line, the Grand Union Canal, and the Brent River running through it, its own community managed library, and Hanwell Zoo. People from many different backgrounds and interests come together to provide a rich variety of community activities – there’s a big focus on music, with the Hanwell Cavern, and the annual Hanwell Hootie, as well as a carnival. Hanwell also has a big heart, providing support when needed through foodbanks, community cafes, the work of the Charity of William Hobbayne and the Store Cupboard.

People care about Hanwell town with its iconic clocktower and its reach into West Ealing, north of the Uxbridge Road, and they work together to make them better. This is a place full of ideas, compassion, creativity, and local pride.

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What is Your Voice, Your Town

Your Voice, Your Town is a new way of organising each of the borough’s 7 towns. It brings residents, businesses, faith and community organisations, and councillors together to improve their area and make great things happen.

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Introducing the Hanwell Town Team

Hanwell’s Town Team currently has 12 members – a diverse mix of people all passionate about Hanwell and working together to make real change.

See Hanwell’s Town Team

How do the Hanwell Town Team work together

The Hanwell Town Team met to decide how they wanted to work together. They established a set of ways of working that shape how they work as a team:

Accountability – we take responsibility for actions and decisions and follow through on commitments
Inclusive – we ensure all voices are heard and considered in the decision-making processes. This includes collaboration – we work together towards common goals, using everyone’s strengths and skills. Where there is conflict, see rule on respect
Respect – we treat each other with dignity and recognise the value of diverse perspectives, life experience and skill sets. This includes conflict resolution – we address disagreements constructively and seek mutually beneficial outcomes
Sustainability – we promote practices that ensure long-term well-being of the community
Empathy – we show understanding and compassion for others’ experiences and viewpoints
Equity – we strive for fairness and justice in all interactions and decisions
Transparency – we maintain open and honest communication to build trust
Action – for the community, by the community

Being a Town Team member is a voluntary role and each member must sign up to a participation agreement

Hanwell’s town priority and community fund

Through a big engagement process in 2024 and 2025, local residents, businesses, faith and community organisation shared their insights about the brilliant things already happening in Hanwell and their ideas to make things even better.

Through this process people voted making ‘feeling safe for all’ in Hanwell the top priority. Local people have shared what ‘feeling safe’ meant to them through collective statements.

Over the last 6 months, Hanwell’s Town Team, has taken the insights from this process, and created a local community fund to support great ideas big and small to respond to this priority.

The Hanwell Town Team wanted to define a vision for change, that captured the vibrancy and brilliance of Hanwell. They want all projects funded to contribute to this vision for change.

“Your Voice, Your Town Hanwell is about reclaiming local spaces, investing in community solutions, and strengthening what already works in Hanwell. Safety is about more than policing—it’s about belonging, opportunity and trust. This fund is one small step in helping Hanwell thrive from the ground up.”