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A forum for businesses EALING TOWN HALL W5 > Acton-based business-owner Prakash Gautam, principal of London Paragon College, raises a point during the Ealing Council Ealing Business Partnership meeting last Thursday. > more on pages 4-5
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Chasing Deer Pitshanger’s latest gift to rock’n’roll, Chasing Deer, recently moved to Ealing from the West Midlands. We talk to their brand new manager Geoff Langston (the big announcement was made during #EalingHour on Twitter last Tuesday) about the band’s plans...
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t’s a big step for a band to appoint a manager – so are you off on a big tour soon? What about Hanwell Hootie, The Ealing Club, Ealing Jazz Festival etc? Where next can we see these guys on stage in Ealing? > The band has already had great success including being part of BBC Introducing, performing at O2 Academy venues and a whole host of summer 2016 festivals. Appointing a manager is a natural next step to enable the band to realise their full potential leaving them to do what they do best – perform and entertain with passion. We have already spoken to Hanwell Hootie and Soundbite
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organisers for 2017 and will be announcing some Ealing gigs very soon. The free live roadside show on Pitshanger Lane during the Ealing Half Marathon was a stroke of genius – how did that happen? It’s the most watched recent video on our YouTube channel; online readers click to view: youtube.com/ watch?v=te-Cd4eTNvo
So who’s who in Chasing Deer? > Chris Wood is on lead guitar and vocals. He has been playing guitar for 13 years and studied music at university. Rob Hodkinson plays keyboards and sings lead vocals. He has been singing for 19 years and has a degree in music. He formed Chasing Deer in 2014. What’s next for Chasing Deer? Adam Biddlecombe plays > Chasing Deer will be releasing drums and percussion. He has an EP in early 2017. Their been playing in bands since the current CD consisting of original age of 12. material, including the award chasingdeer-official.com winning tune ‘Step into the Light’, @ChasingDeerBand is available on their chasingdeer website. > The idea came from the band’s marketing manager, Gita Katbamna, realising that the band would be perfect both for entertaining those cheering and supporting the runners, as well as for motivating the runners themselves. Where better than on their doorstep!
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Chasing Deer busking in West Ealing during the Ealing Farmers Market’s 15th anniversary in September Opposite page: the band (l-r Adam Biddlecombe, Rob Hodkinson and Chris Wood); and (top) with new manager Geoff Langston Photos: contributed
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EALING TOWN HALL W5 > The Ealing Business Partnership began in May 2012 as a forum for connecting local businesses with Ealing Council. Here is how it is described on the Council website: “The Ealing Business Partnership is a business led forum, where the council and local businesses work closely together over both service and delivery issues, especially regulatory services. It is a key mechanism for consulting and working with the business community across the borough. Annually it is used to present the council’s annual budget with the business community.” For the past two years the chair was held by GLconnects’ Geoff Langston, who handed over to a ‘coalition’ between Andrew Dakers of West London Business, and Camran Mirza of BoomZone, at last Thursday’s meeting.
Below: Henry Kennedy Skipton, head of Ealing Council Regeneration, updates the meeting with the latest Regen news. Councillors in attendance included leader Julian Bell; deputy leader Ranjit Dheer; cabinet member for finance Yvonne Johnson; Steve Hynes; and Gregory Stafford. Ealing Broadway BID was represented by Ann Hunter; and several independent business-owners attended, including Gita Langston, Michael Greer, and Prakash Gautam.
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Ealing Council Regeneration manager Carol Sam (right) and Fatima Rana present early results from the Ealing Business Survey: youtu.be/YMxrIywdWto
Below: Simon Freestone, emergency management officer at Ealing Council, announces a free business continuity event open to local shops and home-based businesses, scheduled for 6 December at the Ealing Town Hall. ealing.gov.uk/ealingprepared
See survey ad on page 9
Top: Incoming co-chairs of the Ealing Business Partnership, Andrew Dakers (left) and Camran Mirza Above: Council Regen manager Carol Sam and outgoing EBP chair Geoff Langston At right: Council leader Julian Bell (seated) with Councillors Steve Hynes and Yvonne Johnson.
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Polish goodies in West Ealing Below: Pani Kasia and the shop. Photos by Joanna Dudzinska
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BROADWAY W13 > Kujawiak, a Polish shop with a branch in West Ealing, has a wide selection of food and drinks imported from Poland. The_Ealinger’s Joanna Dudzinska remembers being their customer “some six or seven years ago in South Ealing, and then got sad when they disappeared. However, I discovered they only moved to much bigger premises in Broadway!” She added: “Pani Kasia rules behind the meat counter and is as friendly, chatty and cheerful as ever.”
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Beautiful bargains on Broadway Local event coming up? Contact Joanna Dudzinska and invite her to come along to cover it for The_Ealinger. Find Joanna on Facebook via: English Lessons Online and Offline
BROADWAY W13 > “Who needs Camden Market when we have Estelle’s?” asked The_Ealinger contributor Joanna Dudzinska upon her discovery of Estelle’s Boutique at 119 Broadway, West Ealing. Jamila, the shop assistant/seamstress running the shop, had created such beautiful and colourful garments that Joanna was drawn into the shop – and very nearly into trying on some of the Afghan wedding garments herself. Such creativity in West Ealing, but alas Estelle’s is set to close, as “the owner cannot afford the rent anymore”. The least we can do now is to grab a bargain or two before it’s too late. Below: Jamila displays some of the outfits that must go in the closing down sale, including wedding dresses (bottom photo), and jewellery Bottom right: Such attention to detail. Jamila is also available for “all types of alterations”. Photos: Joanna Dudzinska
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Promote your Christmas offer Does your business depend on the Christmas shopping season to such an extent that it makes up for all the slow periods during the rest of the year? Then make the most of your best season, and use our annual printed edition of the ‘Contactus Ealing’ local business magazine to advertise and show off your offers to even more customers. • out online 18 November and all over local social media • in print one week later: 5000 free copies distributed to homes, businesses, shops, libraries, cafes, and at networking meetings • ads start from £20 • book ads by Friday 4 November • advertising info at: tinyurl.com/ContactusAdvertisingGuide
Connect up on social media www.contactusealing.co.uk Our Twitter and Facebook accounts are always busy plus you can also find Contactus posting regularly on Instagram & YouTube. Remember to search for ‘Contactus Ealing’ – note that Contactus is one word, no capital U. @ContactusEaling
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Grab your chance to advertise in our only printed edition this year. Ads start from £20. Email Carlene at: info@contactusealing.co.uk Booking deadline: Fri 4 Nov
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Join us in for a walk in Acton The_Ealinger is happy to support the South Acton Walk and Talk scheduled for Sun 6 November. The walk is suitable for all ages, including children, and is full of all sorts of surprises, especially when you think you know your hometown well. Although the tour is conducted in English, Polish speakers learning English are especially welcome to attend. Contact tour director Joanna Dudzinska: English Lessons Online and Offline
South Acton Walk and Talk Sunday 6 November – 11am to 1pm Start: Acton Town station; finish Chiswick Park
This friendly tour will take you to another part of the West London borough of Ealing. We will stroll through the changing area, look at the street art and take in as much as possible. Join in whether you want to improve your English, meet new people or do some sightseeing off the main tourist routes. During the walk you may find out which of the famous graffiti artists is called STIK and why; and see the unique abode and vehicle of the celebrated English craftivist, Carrie Reichardt and maybe even bump into her. We will probably also see the place hit by a German bomb, more street art, some wildlife and some gentrification, not to mention Soapsuds Island! The tour costs £10 per person payable by Eventbrite or on the day (children free but your responsibility). Tour director: Joanna Dudzinska Book via Eventbrite: http://tinyurl.com/SouthActonWalk Ealing Walking, Talking and Exploring Group
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Local biz, have your say in the Ealing Council Ealing Business Survey www.ealing.gov.uk/ebs
Justice on trial at Questors
www.questors.org.uk The Exonerated – suitable for 14+ Fri 28 Oct to Sat 5 Nov at 7.45pm. Sunday 2.30pm. £7 to £18. Box office 020 8567 5184 @questorstheatre
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Athena monthly meet Below: The_Ealinger editor/publisher Carlene Bender delivers the Athena business networking talk: an update about the West Ealing Workspace. Watch a bit of the talk here: youtu.be/ yWoWSb_R1rg
SCOTCH COMMON W13 > A new lunch menu welcomed Ealing’s only businesswomen networking group, The Athena Network, meeting at the Duke of Kent off Pitshanger Lane last Tuesday afternoon. Athena Ealing members have direct access to a wide network of businesswomen across the West London region. Contact Joanne Sumner to arrange a visit. @AthenaWLondon
Pilates instructor Ceza Ouzounian’s one-minute pitch was about her BurlExercise classes
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The second talk at last Tuesday’s Athena Ealing meeting was from Jo Baldwin-Trott. Her advice was to “make success lists, not to-do lists”. See a bit of Jo’s talk at: youtu.be/0YLoXAoVgic
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Small Business Saturday plans Doing something special on Small Business Saturday, 3 December? Tell us about it to be included in our Ealing Smallbiz Saturday Diary being published in next month’s printed/online annual edition of ‘Contactus Ealing’ local business magazine. And if you haven’t yet come up with an event or offer, join us at next Monday’s Acton Business Meetup at The Rocket Pub (see advert below), where our business talk/workshop will focus on working out what sort of offer would suit your business. Online readers click in the advert below to book by Eventbrite. Subscribe to the Acton Business Meetup mailing list at: eepurl.com/b-47ZP @EalingSBS
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WIN A £150 ADVERTORIAL Subscribe to The_Ealinger for a chance to win a Q&A (see pages 2-3) Our Q&A double-page feature is ”the bit to read” in every Monday edition of The_Ealinger. If you would like to be in with a chance to win a Q&A, to be featured and promote your business for free, subscribe to The_Ealinger now to enter the October prize draw. Online readers click here: eepurl.com/bLdZQb
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Ealing biz Facebook group facebook.com/groups/ businessesinealing Do you run your own business in Ealing? Join our Facebook group for some friendly online networking. >1400 members.
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Coming up at the West Ealing Workspace
Northfields Allotments Halloween Pumpkin Trail
Sat 29 Oct. Enjoy our BBQ, soup & cakes. Bring a torch – you never know what lurks in the dark. Free entry 3.30-7.30. www.ealingdean.co.uk @EDASW13
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facebook.com/groups/ BusinessesinActonW3 To promote local business news, offers and events in Acton. *Little sister to the Businesses in Ealing group.
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