Acton Vale Community centre on Sunday 11 February will be the focus for repairing electrical appliances and clothes. Thanks to Ealing council who has brought Ealing Clothes Repair cafe and West London Central Fixers together to help repair your loved items.
Celebrate the ancient tradition of ‘Wassailing’ in Gunnersbury’s very own orchard on 20 January. The purpose of Wassailing is to encourage the spirits into ensuring a good harvest the following season.
If you want to get fit this year, join the GoodGym, with the added bonus to do good in your community. GoodGym is a group of runners, walkers, and cyclists who combine regular exercise with helping in our Ealing community.
Be inspired for the new year by Climate cast that includes Dr Sean McCormack from Ealing Wildlife group and Mary Horesh from Ealing Repair Cafe who joined University of West London students to discuss how we can all make a difference to the climate crisis. The students produce the Climate Cast podcast as part of their university studies.
In January Ealing Repair cafe is launching two new meet ups in Acton, at ActOne Cafe and Cinema and W3 gallery, see full details below. Come along with your clothes mending pile and the volunteers will teach you how to patch and darn your clothes and textiles.
In the UK, we throw away 6.6 million tonnes of household food waste a year in the UK, almost three quarters is food we could have eaten, Wrap found out. A disproportionate amount of this is at Christmas time.
The UK throw miles of wrapping paper each year at Christmas, So it is worth considering swapping wrapping paper for alternatives, such as fabric wrapping. However, if you are going to use wrapping paper, choose one that can be recycled.
Acton Reduce and Recycle hub returns on Saturday 2nd December to Acton Market for a festive edition of the popular event. The hub will be at Acton market from 10 am until 3 pm with lots of great organisations and businesses there to help people in Acton to reduce, reuse and recycle.
Acton market is running a Community Day on Thursday 24 August from 10 am- 3 pm. The market is teaming up with Action West London, Acton Reduce and Recycle hub and the Met Police to host a community event on the Mount in Acton, by Morrisons. On the day you will be able to: Reduce,... Continue Reading →
Ealing Repair is back for May with lots of great clothes mending events. Friendly monthly gatherings around Ealing, giving suggestions and show examples of repairs to inspire.
