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Beer day on the Lane PITSHANGER LANE > Verasammy sisters Joelle (left) and Kezia enjoy a pint or three at The Village Inn on International Beer Day last Friday. It was “Happy Hour” all day at the W5 pub, much loved locally for its cozy beer garden. > see pages 4-5

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Q&A Naomi Rattrey founded Educare Family Support Service Ltd partly because of her own experiences trying to keep her four children busy in Ealing. In our Q&A she shares her ideas for growing the company...

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hat made you start up Educare Family Support Service? Did you find there was something lacking for families in Ealing? > We are an independent company founded in January 2014, after budget cuts made to funding within the local authority.

As an existing London Borough of Ealing employee at the time, this change was going to affect me.

I met with managers from LBE and this led to me deciding to take the opportunity and open up my own business.

“The services we offer are there to meet the needs of children and their families”

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Did your work before this overlap with what you’re aiming to achieve now with Educare? > I have 13 years experience of working with children and families. My background is in child protection as a Family Support Worker, providing

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A Children working on their football skills at the Pitshanger Summer Football Camp for boys and girls aged 8-13 years

outreach support to the Social Care team. In 2011 I moved into facilitating parenting programmes and direct work in children’s centres. Being independent allows us to deliver high quality frontline services, whilst still working in

partnerership with professionals (running until 19 August). from a range of services.

How is that going? > We currently offer stay & A lot of your services are play sessions, creche provision, offered in the Pitshanger area. parenting programmes and Would you operate outside workshops. The summer Ealing borough? football camp was introduced > We are currently based within to provide an inclusive service the Central Ealing Locality for all familes. It has been very children’s centres. The services successful and we hope to we offer are there to meet continue to offer this during the needs of children and their school holidays. families to achieve positive How can schools and clubs – outcomes. As the company and parents – book you for any expands we intend to offer our of your programmes? services to other boroughs. > For further information please contact me on 07944 482977.

Give us an outline of ongoing/ Email: upcoming activities. Your nrattrey.307@lgflmail.org Facebook page shows the educarefamilysupportservice Pitshanger Football Summer Camp as your latest project – Carlene Bender Subscribe to The_Ealinger & you could win a two-page Q&A feature like this (advertorial cost: £150) Click here: eepurl.com/bLdZQb

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Celebrating Beer Day PITSHANGER LANE W5 > The International Beer Day inspired all-day “Happy Hour” at The Village Inn on Friday night was the perfect precursor to settling down in front the telly to watch the Olympics Opening Ceremony from midnight.

International Beer Day began in the US in 2007, and is traditionally celebrated on the first Friday of August.

Below: Patrons enjoy the warm and sunny weather and the (actually not “free”) beer.

Bottom: Pitshanger residents, sisters Joelle (left) and Kezia Versasammy, share an after-work drink with friends in the beer garden at the Inn.

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BEER DAY (continued) Below: Staff and customers at The Village Inn on the eastern end of the row of shops on Pitshanger Lane (current holders of the Great British High Street award for London) show their appreciation for the taste of beer.

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Lots of Ealing Shopping EALING BROADWAY W5 > Shopping options in the Ealing Broadway Shopping Centre get a boost on the first Saturday of every month when the Crafted W5 fair comes to the centre put on by event organiser Kate Mc Kenzie.

The artisan fair operates alongside her Eat Me Drink Me Food Stop W5 food fair every Friday and Saturday in the centre’s open plaza area.

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EALING SHOPPING (continued) Below: Besides the Crafted W5 and Food Stop W5 fairs on this weekend, the Ealing Broadway Shopping Centre sandy sunny beach was a major attraction for families with young children.

Opposite: shoppers stop to meet and find out more about Crafted W5 traders Shraddha Pande (Forever aloe products) and Tori Johnson from former South Ealing Road gift shop, Kaboodles (they now mostly trade online).

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Charlotte’s Ealing designs EALING BROADWAY W5 > Charlotte Berridge is so excited about her next set of designs, I’m surprised that I’m able to find her tending her Crafted W5 stall when she could be at home working on her ideas.

Charlotte aims to finish a new design every month, and so far has “well over 20” designs completed. Some of her finest work were on sale at her stand – her Ealing landmarks and Ealing pubs tea towels, ready-to-frame prints including her most recent Pitshanger Lane illustration, and nifty packets of cards featuring six drawings including Ealing Studios, Pitzhanger Manor and the Red Lion Pub. The images are meticulously drawn on the computer and then sent off to the printers. She is also available for commissions. @CBerridgeStudio

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LANDMARK OF THE WEEK EALING TOWN HALL > Hanwell-based artist Jessica Rose attended Thursday’s Ealing Council Scrutiny Panel on the future of the town hall, and reported back in local Facebook groups: “[The] committee decided to uphold the decision to lease the town hall to a developer [...] Mastcraft has been selected as the preferred bidder to turn the building into a hotel: the planning application will be submitted in Feb 2017”.

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Haven Green tourist-spotting HAVEN GREEN W5 > Possibly because of our town’s reputation for fantastic summer festivals, weekends in Ealing Broadway, particularly around Haven Green, bring crowds of a different type than weekday Ealing: people speaking in far-eastern accents and carrying large cameras, more busking and street music, and full tables at those irresistible outdoor cafes.

While touring student groups are still a feature of Mondayto-Friday

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TOURIST-SPOTTING (continued) Ealing, might the next new group of visitors be turning Ealing into the Piccadilly Circus of the West? Let’s see what Crossrail and the new transport hub will bring.

LEAF WALLPAPER ALL THE RAGE We spotted two quite different uses of leaf wallpaper in the borough this week – one decorating a wheelie bin on Meadvale Road, and the other in a vague attempt at disguising the Crossrail eyesore in Haven Green. Seen any more? Tag me on Twitter @The_Ealinger or Instagram @contactus_ealing

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Cricketforfun die-hards

Cricketforfun is on for two more sessions: Tuesday 9 August and Friday 19 August, both for one GUNNERSBURY DRIVE W5 > With apparently most of hour, 1-2pm. For more information Ealing’s Cricketforfun regulars away on summer holidays, it see the Eventbrite page, or our fell to the die-hard fans of our unique super-short game, Nigel Facebook group. and Garo (in photos below), to keep the stumps up and the No previous experience of cricket is ball hitting bat last Wednesday. Venue: Old Actonians CC. necessary.

What happens at a Cricketforfun game - 12.45pm meet and warm-up; players assigned into batting pairs - 1pm quick introductions - 1.05pm game starts - each batting pair faces two overs (6 balls each). If a batter gets out (bowled, caught or run out only), batters exchange ends so the other person gets to bat. There is no scoring, and no ‘winner’.

- 1.50pm game ends - 1.50pm-2pm warm down, drinks and teas - 2pm-2.30pm stay on for relaxed networking

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Attendance is free as costs of the game have been covered by our sponsor.

All equipment provided.

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Cricketforfun is on this Tuesday Tue 9 August 1-2pm. Kindly sponsored by Loredana Baranga: social media consultant digitalmarketology.co.uk @MarketologyUK

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Easy cricket fun South Ealing based cricket club Old Actonians Ladies were thrilled when TV presenter, author and sportswoman Clare Balding stopped by to have a go with the cricket bat while her wife Alice Arnold gamely offered to keep wicket.

Clare had just formally opened the Super Saturday of Sport event in Turnham Green last month.

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West Ealing fun fair DEAN GARDENS W13 > Ealing does love a fun fair, and the latest merry-go-round family day out in the borough finished in West Ealing on Sunday. During the daytime, Dean Gardens along the Uxbridge Road in West Ealing is a popular children’s playground.

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FUN FAIR (continued) Last week’s West Ealing fun fair included Crazy Cars, Disneytrain, and cup-and-saucer rides for smaller children, alongside the bungee-jumping style trampoline for the stronger of heart.

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Supporting #TeamGB #RIO2016 > August got better from Friday night, once the Olympic Games got going in Rio de Janeiro. Here’s our handy guide for keeping up with what’s going on in the Games four hours away: Accounts to follow on Twitter: @Olympics @Rio2016_en @TeamGB Hashtags to track on Twitter: #OlympicGames #Rio2016 #GBR #gold Sports to watch this week: Archery, boxing, canoeing, diving, equestrian, fencing, gymnastics, judo, shooting, swimming, weightlifting Games of the XXXI Olympiad: 5–21 Aug

TV screen shots of the Great Britain team, including Union Jack flag-bearer Andy Murray, at the opening ceremony of the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics.

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