out&about Chiswick - Oct/Nov 2016

FREE CHISWICK, ISLEWORTH, BRENTFORD & OSTERLEY

OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 2016

Bedford Park

House histories project

Secret GARDEN

Hidden gem unveiled

Photography with Better Pictures

BUSINESS MATTERS with

Chiswick Pier Fireworks cruise � Jazz nights at George IV � Honey at Hen Corner � British wildlife photography award � The Chiswick Calendar celebrates two years � Osterley Park & House Halloween Pumpkin Festival � Chiswick in Minecraft

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CONTENTS Regulars

Features

5 Letter from the Editor & Editor’s Tips 16 Hen Corner Autumn show time 23 Coffee Break Crossword & Halloween Quiz 30 Business Matters Hounslow Chamber of Commerce member news and events

6 Isleworth Salopian Garden A hidden gem uncovered 11 The Chiswick Calendar Local What’s On website 13 Fox’s dinner Local photographer wins British Wildlife Photography Award 15 Bedford Park House histories project

17 Better Pictures Capturing our changing landscape 20 London myths Misconceptions about London debunked 21 Chiswick Pier What’s on this autumn 24 Minecraft players needed Building a fantasy Chiswick

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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR Welcome to the October/November issue of out &about.

I love this time of year, autumn sunshine, crisp cold air, beautiful colours, but much like the little chap on the front cover, you do have to poke your nose out and see what the weather’s doing before venturing out. He’s a common weasel, photographed by Robert E Fuller, one of the winning entries in the British Wildlife Photography Awards. I went to the award ceremony because Chiswick photographer Jon Perry also won an award for his picture of a fox featured on page 13 with some of the other winning photographs.

Neither would be welcome in Hen Corner, where they’re gearing up for the National Honey Show from 27th -29th October. For Sara Ward’s column and the recipe for her delicious honey, orange and cardamom cake, see page 16.

Karen Liebreich will be composting in the new community garden in Isleworth (apparently there’s a right way and a wrong way to do it). Find out why it’s called the ‘Salopian Garden’ on page 6.

As usual, history features in this issue, with Terry Scott telling us about a new house histories project on page 15 and Matt Brown’s book “Everything you know about London is Wrong” making me reassess what I think I know on page 20.

Or if you express your creativity through photography you may be interested in a local group that shares experience and tips on how to get a better shot, page 17. Who knows, you too could win an award. After all, one of the BWPA winning photographs was of baby spiders underneath the barbecue in the back garden.

Nisia Studzinska set up this magazine and has edited it until now. I’m delighted to take over as editor and wish her all the best with what she’s going on to do next. This is a lovely little magazine and I shall endeavour not to mess it up for you! I like to think I have my finger on the pulse of what’s happening in our neighbourhood as I also edit The Chiswick Calendar website. We celebrate our second birthday in November, see page 24

Bridget bridget@fhwem.com

Fed up with your kids playing Minecraft? Apparently they are well placed to become the architects and town planners of the future. Nigel Walley calls on all Chiswick Minecraft players to come and help construct the W4 area in Minecraft, on page 11.

EDITOR’S TIPS • W atermans art centre has really good children’s theatre productions on every Sunday and all through half term

Bridget

Cover Image Robert E Fuller, Winner of the BWPA ‘British Seasons’ award

• C hiswick Food Market, Halloween mask making 9th and 16th October, 11am to 1pm, book via admin@dukesmeadowstrust.org • Chiswick House & Gardens - Kitchen Garden Open Day, 9th October.

Visit the walled Kitchen Garden and enjoy its plentiful displays of flowers and produce. 11am-3pm. Free entry.

• F or a daily update of what’s on in the area go to www.thechiswickcalendar.co.uk

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FEATURE

The Salopian GARDEN

Karen Liebreich wipes the mud off, brushes the cobwebs out of her hair and celebrates the launch of Cultivate London’s new community garden The Salopian Garden, owned by the National Trust and run by Cultivate London, is a newly restored community and training garden in Isleworth. Named after the popular 18th century drink made from orchid roots, which used to be served when the site was a carriage staging post along the London Road, it has now become a beautiful space for events.

In 2004 Miss June Temple, who had lived at Salopian House all her life, died and left her property – a small cottage and a large garden – to the National Trust. After several years of neglect, during which the once-beautiful garden became overgrown, the NT leased the garden to local charity Cultivate London, which teaches horticultural skills to young people.

Events in the Salopian Garden

Wednesday November 9th, 10am -12 noon: Compost workshop

We tend to take this basic element of gardening for granted, but nourishing your soil is key to a healthy and productive garden. Making compost is an essential (and inexpensive) skill. Come along and learn more about it in this friendly (and free!) workshop.

Last year Cultivate was awarded a Postcode Lottery grant to transform the garden, and as a result the visitor can now enjoy a hidden gem. Vegetable beds, an avenue of heritage fruit trees, a herb garden, raised beds, a wildflower meadow, a polytunnel for tender fruit and veg, a flower garden, bee hives, a cob oven, a salad green roof... Every Thursday volunteers are invited to come and garden and learn new skills, sharing the resulting produce. Surplus is also offered to passers-by.

Training events and workshops are held each month.

Register for the mailing list at www.cultivatelondon.org Thursday 8th December at 6.30pm: Wreath-making workshop

Make your own fabulous Christmas wreath - £25, includes all materials, a drink and maybe - if you’re very lucky - a mince pie! Booking required at www.cultivatelondon.org

For further information on all events, www.cultivatelondon.org, and follow us on facebook and twitter @Cultiv8London 6

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FEATURE

Calendar THE CHISWICK

Bridget Osborne celebrates The Chiswick Calendar’s second birthday Do you sometimes find out after the event that something you would have enjoyed happened only a few streets away and you missed it because you didn’t know about it?

music promoter Larry Pryce, who for many years ran the Dover St Restaurant and Jazz Bar and now books bands for the Bulls’ Head in Barnes.

That need not happen. The Chiswick Calendar website, www.thechiswickcalendar.co.uk is an up to date, everchanging noticeboard of all that’s happening in the area.

The website, which has a different beautiful photograph of Chiswick on its home page each day, (including many of Jon Perry’s, see page 13), has a page per day listing all the events going on in the area and video features about life in W4.

Thursday 27th October - The Blues Engineers Trio Swing & Latin Jazz together with more funky Blues Thursday 17th November - The Zena James’s Jazz Groove Trio

Life after the BBC

I set this up with my business partner Nick Raikes after 30 years as a journalist with the BBC, intrigued to see how many interesting events were only advertised in torn and tatty flyers nailed to trees. We quickly started getting emails like “love what you’re doing for the community” and “what a fantastic local resource”.

Events

We’ve had several sell-out events at the Tabard theatre, including a highly charged General Election debate between the sitting Conservative MP Mary Macleod and challenger Ruth Cadbury, hosted by BBC Radio 4 Today Programme presenter Sarah Montague and a discussion on the EU Referendum, with six top contributors including Andy Bagnall, campaigns manager for the CBI and political journalist Peter Oborne, presented by BBC News presenter Julian Worricker. Ballet dancer Wayne Sleep was ‘In Conversation’ with me, telling hilarious stories about his extremely colourful and celebrity–filled life.

Soulful jazz, groovy arrangements of popular jazz standards Tickets £10 online, £12 on the door, £8 for Chiswick Calendar Club Card members.

The Chiswick Calendar Club Card

Free to subscribers to our weekly newsletter, the club card gives you access to deals and discounts from a wide variety of local businesses: restaurants, pubs, retail and services.

Sipsmith offers an exclusive free tour of their distillery (normal price £15). Next one Monday 12th December.

Headliners comedy club offers £6 Friday night tickets (less than half price) for top acts. Fingertips home IT offers 20% off photo scanning (an easy way to convert large quantities of photos into high quality images) and help with putting together personalised cards, calendars and photobooks – an idea for Christmas perhaps?

The picture, by the way, was our very first home page two years ago. Do you know where it is? Answer on page 23.

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Jazz at George IV

We’ve just started doing jazz nights in the Boston Room at George IV pub in Chiswick High Rd in association with

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FEATURE

Supper A LATE

Local photographer wins British Wildlife Photography award with this stunning picture of a fox having a late night supper on Chiswick High Road

Photo credit: Jon Perry

The competition, now in its eighth year, both recognizes the talents of photographers, showcasing the very best of their work to a wide audience, and celebrates British wildlife in all its beauty and diversity.

The winning photographs are being shown in an exhibition currently touring the country, and they are also reproduced in a beautiful book (a perfect Christmas present for someone you know?) available for £25 from the British Wildlife Photography Awards website: www.bwpawards.org Jon’s work can be seen on his website www.arranginglight.com ‘Back Garden Babies’, Jacqueline Spindley

Jon Perry, a photographer who is well known in Chiswick for his photographs on The Chiswick Calendar website and the printed calendars he produces each year for charity, has won an award in the British Wildlife Photography Awards, for the beautiful picture of the fox above. His picture was ‘highly commended’ in the Urban Wildlife section.

Jon says he came across the fox on his way home. It wasn’t bothered by his presence and he was able to creep round and take a sequence of shots, with the fox lit by the light of a shop window. He chose this shot because the girl on the right gave the photograph two aspects: “the fox in his society or our society.”

‘Hitchhikers’, George Stoyle - Overall Winner of the competition

‘Common Weasel’, Robert E Fuller

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FEATURE

HOUSE HISTORIES

Famous former residents

Terry Scott on the launch of the Bedford Park house history project

It has been well documented that the Bedford Park estate has had a number of famous residents, including the poet WB Yeats, the French Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro and the playwright Pinero, who wrote 59 plays in a career spanning the late Victorian and Edwardian eras, including The Second Mrs Tanqueray, about the hypocrisy surrounding the social position of women in second marriages. The Russian revolutionary Sergey Stepniak, who fled to Europe after assassinating the chief of secret police in St Petersburg with a dagger, was himself killed by a steam train on the Bath Road level crossing.

But it is the treasure trove of stories of the not famous that we are hoping to uncover, people like the French caterer who lived in Frol’s house in 1911 and the young woman doctor who found love when she enlisted in the Royal Army Medical Corps and was posted to Kenya during the Second World War. The Bedford Park ‘House History’ initiative is collecting the stories to share as a public resource. Bedford Park Residents Association:

Treasure trove of stories

Would you like to know about the people who lived in your house before you did? What if you discovered there had been a murder? Would it make you feel differently about your home?

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The residents of Bedford Park in Chiswick have called in a ‘house historian’ to advise them on how best to find out about the people who previously lived in their homes.

Melanie Backe-Hansen is the author of House Histories: The Secrets Behind Your Front Door (2011). She has been giving residents the benefit of her experience researching hundreds of houses, about the best sources of information to uncover the magic concealed in the history of their homes.

Old soldiers

Francis Cherry, known to his friends as ‘Frol’ was first off the blocks. By looking at the house deeds, censuses and other public documents, he now knows who all the former residents were and says he has a particular affinity with one of them, having come across his war record. He said: “I empathise particularly with the son of the people who owned it up to 1938 because he was serving in the Middle East, as was my father. He was invalided out with a 20% disability and I think he went to the same hospital as my father, who was wounded at Gallipoli.”

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FEATURE

HEN CORNER

Honey, Orange and Cardamom Cake

Sara Ward celebrates autumn at Hen Corner with honey, shows and hampers

As summer has bid its fond farewell for another year and the trees shed their leaves, we gather conkers, hunt out the mistletoe and roll up our sleeves for another new season. The harvest has been gathered in, fruits and vegetables preserved in chutneys, jellies and pickles, larders are being stacked high as we prepare for the colder months and we celebrate the beauty of our bounty.

One event that we look forward to each October is the National Honey Show (27th -29th October, Sandown Park Racecourse) which cherishes everything about honey bees and the products of the hive. We’ve been entering honey, biscuits and cake into this competition every year since we started keeping bees and have been delighted to win many prizes, certificates and silver cups that we proudly display at home. This year we are also planning to enter some beeswax and a traditional straw skep bee hive that we’ve made.

Last year, we were thrilled to win first prize for a ‘Tray Bake containing Honey’, do try it and let us know what you think!

Ingredients: 200g margarine 200g caster sugar 120g self-raising flour 100g ground almonds 1tbsp milk 4 eggs 1 large orange (zest & juice) 2 tbsp honey 6 cardamom pods Method: 1. Line a 23cm square tin with baking parchment, preheat the oven to 180c 2. Cream together the margarine, caster sugar, flour, almonds, milk, eggs and orange zest.

3. Spoon mixture into prepared tin and bake for 40 mins.

4. While it’s baking, bruise the cardamom pods in a pestle and mortar and combine with the orange juice and honey in a small saucepan, bring the contents of the saucepan to a simmer.

5. Bring the orange syrup to the boil and reduce by half.

6. Once the cake is cooked, use a skewer to make small holes over the surface and pour the syrup over the cake through a tea strainer to remove seeds and pods.

7. Allow the cake to cool completely in the tin, then cut into squares to serve.

Winter plumage

It seems, as usual, that the chickens here at Hen Corner (currently 23 of them) come out in sympathy for the trees in autumn as they too drop their summer plumage. Fortunately, unlike the trees, the chickens are merely changing their wardrobe to allow a thick beautiful winter’s coat of feathers to keep them both glamourous and warm throughout the forthcoming festive period. For a stunning display of the most wonderful chickens, do seek out the National Poultry Show (19-20th November).

As we move into November, we get ahead with some Christmas preparations. We’ll be making puddings, hampers, wreaths, stollen and much more. We’d love you to join us for one of our courses, or maybe consider choosing one as a gift for someone special?

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FEATURE

BETTER

Pictures

Putting People in the Picture Photo credit: Lawrence Acher

Debal Bagchi, a long established professional photographer who heads up the group says: “This is a wonderfully creative initiative combining social activity, local community activity and learning photographic technique. In a very short time the group has produced some stunning images that meet the highest standards.”

Practical teaching on technique, such as composition, lighting and image processing, is provided, but much of the group’s growing expertise has come through sharing and reviewing each other’s shots. Debal says: “We all walk the same walk, but see with very different eyes.”

If you would like to join a really friendly local group, learn some new photographic skills and help in documenting the changing local scene then please contact:

Debal Bagchi debal07@yahoo.co.uk Photo credit: Andy Longford

A bright new group of local photographers is capturing and exhibiting the changing face of our little corner of west London. Their original images, presenting local landmarks and scenes captured through imaginative new eyes, have featured in exhibitions in Isleworth, Richmond and Chiswick, as well as online galleries, in the past two years.

The informal group, friendly, on social and always keen to welcome new members, meet Friday mornings for up to 30 weeks of the year and focus for each session on a different theme or area of the changing landscape. They have already recorded rapidly vanishing local landmarks including Brentford industry and the riverside.

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Photo credit: Paul Holloway

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The lost art of brunch. A leisurely meal of

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Chef, Srdjan Kovijanic (previously The Ritz, Quaglinos and The Langham), is passionate about creating exceptional seasonal menus never failing to keep the firm favourites including everything from delicious home-made pies to a 500g Chateaubriand sharing steak, buttery garlic lobster and fresh Irish Rock oysters.

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Time to unwind. The Weir's cocktail bar

has become hugely popular, especially from 6-7pm at the end of a long day at the office. Seven days a week, ‘Cocktail O’Clock’ commences – with each unique cocktail, The Weir offers one on the house, to share with a friend (or sneak two yourself ). This year, the Weir welcomed new general manager Arnaud Campestre (previously Benugo Group) who has been adding some personal touches to the cocktail menu and expanding The Weir's exceptional wine cellar. Their selection of tempting fine whiskeys and award-winning craft beers, including 1936 Bière, brewed at the foot of the Swiss Alps is pretty special!

Seasonal celebrations.

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After a special NYE menu, The Weir's huge riverside fireworks display is spectacular with a glass of Champagne. A magical place to be when the clock strikes midnight. Live music from The Buttercups and DJ Rusty Egan will have you dancing in the new year.

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FEATURE

EVERYTHING YOU KNOW ABOUT

by Bridget Osborne

London IS WRONG

Oliver’s Island at sunset. Photographer Alastair Hilton, www.londonw4photographer.com

Oliver’s Island, opposite the Bull’s Head at Strand on the Green in Chiswick, reputedly gets its name from the ‘fact’ that Oliver Cromwell took refuge there during the Civil War, through an underground tunnel linking the island with his temporary headquarters at the pub. Dick Turpin is said to have jumped out of the window of the Old Burlington pub in old Chiswick village, abandoning his wedding breakfast to ride to York on his famous horse Black Bess with the law in hot pursuit.

Sadly neither is true. Oliver Cromwell did spend time in Chiswick apparently, as his son-in-law, the Earl of Fauconberg, was Lord of the Manor of Sutton Court, so he may even have enjoyed a pint in the Bull’s Head. Dick Turpin could equally have hung out in the Old Burlington, since Chiswick village was pretty dodgy in the 1730s, with local fishermen lighting the way for smugglers to land their rum and spirits and a long since redeveloped alley earning itself the name ‘Slut’s Hole’ after the women who worked there. But if ever there was any smidgeon of truth to these tales, they’ve been so embroidered as to have parted company with the notion of veracity long since.

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This of course is not untypical. Many of the stories that tour guides tell visitors about London are tall tales. Writer Matt Brown has made it his business to debunk them in his book ‘Everything You Know About London is Wrong’, published in July. He gives hundreds of examples of popular misconceptions and outright mistakes, not only from tour guides, but from others, like those who put commemorative plaques on the sides of historical buildings, who really should know better.

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FEATURE

Events on this autumn at Chiswick Pier Tuesday, 25th October 7.30pm

‘Everything You know about the Thames is Wrong!’

Talk from author Matt Brown.

Saturday 12th November 3.45pm

Dick Turpin

Matt will be giving at talk at Chiswick Pier, organised by the Chiswick Pier Trust, on Tuesday 25th October, in which he will discuss some of the myths and misconceptions about the river, its bridges, and the buildings along its banks. Expect plenty of facts, counter-facts and peculiar anecdotes as Matt picks apart some Thames trivia.

Everything You Know About London is Wrong is published

by Batsford with a cover price of £9.99. It can be purchased directly from the publishers www.pavilionbooks.com and on Amazon, if not available from your local bookstore.

Cruise from Chiswick Pier to watch the Lord Mayor’s Show Fireworks from the river. Leaving Chiswick Pier at 4pm, cruise down to central London and watch the spectacular display from a prime location, sitting comfortably with food and drink, on the Thames just east of Waterloo. To book tickets for the cruise call 020 8742 2713 or 07594 596729. Adults £18, children (under 12) £14. www.chiswickpier.org.uk Tuesday, 22nd November 7.30pm

‘Johan Zoffany and The Thames’ talk by the National Gallery’s Matthew Morgan on the life of Johan Zoffany, painter of the Thames and Strand-on-theGreen resident.

The Chiswick Pier Trust is a registered charity dedicated to putting Londoners in touch with the River Thames.

It manages Chiswick Pier and Pier House, which are at the end of Corney Road and Edensor Road, Chiswick, W4 2UG.

Fireworks over London

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West Thames College.You’re invited to an Open Day. Main campus/ Isleworth Thurs 13 Oct 5-7pm Sat 12 Nov 10am-1pm

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3. Is a pumpkin a vegetable or a fruit?

4. Keifer Sutherland played a vampire in which 1987 film?

5. The last witchcraft trial to take place in England was that of Jane Wenham - she was found innocent. In which year did it take place?

6. The world’s largest collection of witchcraft-related artefacts are located in the Museum of Witchcraft in Boscastle. In which county is Boscastle?

7. What is the name of Harry Potter’s owl?

8. The mask in the film Scream was based on a painting by which artist?

9. What is another name for Halloween?

10. Pointing upwards so the lucky power cannot run out, what should be nailed to a house door to keep witches away?

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Chiswick

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Nigel Walley invites Minecraft players to help build a video game version of Chiswick Throughout the land, mums’ advice forums are packed with parents complaining that their children are addicted to Minecraft. The game enables players to create fantasy worlds, building their own 3D constructions out of textured cubes in a ‘sandbox’ environment where, like the original child’s sandbox, there’s no direction or structure other than your own imagination.

A tech start-up in Chiswick is now hoping to harness that creativity by encouraging local players to join them in creating an online version of Chiswick in Minecraft.

The project picks up on initiatives by the Chartered Institute of Building and Ordnance Survey (CIOB), which have both recognised the potential of a new generation skilled in constructing sophisticated landscapes and buildings digitally.

The CIOB has created a version of the game called ‘Craft your Future’ aimed at 12-14 year olds in which students encounter a variety of problems that reflect construction challenges in cities today. “Minecraft, like Lego, has the

capacity to inspire a new wave of construction managers into an ever-increasing digital industry” says the CIOB. The Ordnance Survey has created a Minecraft map of the UK, available to anyone who wants to experiment with augmented reality by building imaginative versions of their own neighbourhood.

The Chiswick tech start-up Chimni aims to do just that. Through local residents’ associations it hopes to interest young people in re-creating their own streets and neighbourhoods in Minecraft. They’ve started in Bedford Park, the area to the north of Turnham Green tube station which was designed by leading Victorian architect Richard Norman Shaw as the first ‘garden city’. Two houses, one designed by Norman Shaw himself (above), the other by his partner Edward John May(opposite), have already been given the Minecraft treatment and can be used as templates to populate the virtual Bedford Park.

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Best New Business KM Removals & Shipping Ltd Stubbings Accountancy & Bookkeeping Services Ltd Vix Solutions Surejogi Group - Hest Hyde Hotel Love Give Ink The Vet in Old Isleworth Best SME Beyond Group My Plumber PGSD Ltd Mannys Sauces Ltd Pks Services Ltd South Street Ice Cream Ltd Surejogi Group - Heston Hyde Hotel Oasis Accountants Ltd Russell Finex Ltd Love Give Ink Best Green Business Consolidated Logistics Services Ltd Vix solutions Farah Qureshi Magenta Security Services Best Business for Marketing & Social Media

National Trust, Osterley Park and House Little Cherubs day Nursery Russell Finex Ltd

Entrepreneur of the Year A Petkar - Magenta Security Services F Gazi - Consolidated Logistics Services Ltd E Owusu - KM Removals & Shipping Ltd K Bhagat - Piccolo Playcentre W Iqbal - Vix Solutions D Schoenherr – Move into Wellbeing S Devarashetty - Oasis Accountants Ltd R Lawrence - Rachel Lawrence Pilates M Jacobs - Jacobs and Co Logistics M Keith - Love Give Ink Best Charity or Social Enterprise Consolidated Logistics Services Ltd Outside Chance Resco Living Super Saturday Inspired Ltd The Goodwork Organisation Ltd Move into Wellbeing Charity Spark Brentford FC Community Sports Trust Brentford Market Independent retailer of the Year AM2PM Nisa Local The Eye Studio Opticians

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MEMBER NEWS Russell Finex named as champions for Feltham & Heston constituency by Seema Malhotra MP Russell Finex has been named Feltham and Heston Responsible Business Champions 2016 in recognition of their support of the local community. The firm is now being considered for the national title of Responsible Business Champion 2016 in an award scheme run by the House of Commons All-Party Parliamentary Corporate Responsibility Group.

Established in 1934, Russell Finex has enjoyed 80 steady years of successful growth to become an international group employing more than 200 direct employees with annual sales exceeding £30 million. They are worldwide leaders in fine mesh separation technology, producing the widest range of sieving and filtration equipment for use in manufacturing and medical equipment.

The All-Party Corporate Responsibility Group launched the Responsible Business Champions Scheme last year. MPs from across the UK are invited to nominate an outstanding local business which, because of its positive impact locally, deserves the title of Responsible Business Champion in their constituency. MPs are given certificates to present locally to their Constituency Responsible Business Champion.

The nomination recognises the company’s commitment to engaging in the local community, ensuring a healthy workplace and providing apprenticeships and training.

Presenting the certificate on a visit to Russell Finex’s Feltham headquarters on 22nd July, Seema Malhotra said:

It’s a long way from Tipperary

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Seema Malhotra MP presents Ray Singh, CEO of Russell Finex Limited, the nomination certificate at the company’s headquarters alongside Sally Smith, from the Hounslow Chamber of Commerce.

“I am delighted to present this nomination certificate to Russell Finex Limited, a highly valued world class company in the local community. Their approach to community engagement is a great example to others as we encourage other businesses to get more involved in the local community.

It’s vital for how we spread and share opportunity and prosperity.”

Ray Singh, Russell Finex Managing Director, replied: “We are delighted to have been recognised with this award.

At Russell Finex, we remain aware of our responsibility as a leading business, both in the UK and overseas. Therefore, we take an active role in leading our industry with innovative manufacturing practices, while ensuring ethical standards are complied with throughout the company. In addition, Russell Finex supports the local community through charity fundraising events, business knowledge sharing and offers graduate programmes, apprenticeships and employment opportunities to the local area. As well as investing in people, we also understand our environmental responsibility, and have recently installed solar panels to reduce the carbon footprint of our factory in Feltham.” meet those within the creative sector.

With this in mind we arranged a visit to Sky Academy, followed by lunch at Charisma, our local Punjabi restaurant. We then took them to the University of West London, where we had a tour of Blast Radio, and on to an open day at iBurbia Studios, home to the media research company Decipher.

Leader of the group Brian Cleary was particularly impressed with Sky: “It was a great day at Sky TV in west London … The tour of their extensive facility was mind blowing. Three thousand software developers on site, 18,000 people in total …”

So it may be a long way from Tipperary, but hopefully they thought it was worthwhile.

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Table Football Tournament While Team GB was delivering outstanding performances in Rio, we held our end up in a sport sadly overlooked in the Olympics. The third annual Table Football Tournament took place in August to celebrate the holiday season and it was fun, even though we were stuck in London!

This year The Light Box in Power Road, Chiswick, hosted the event. The Light Box is part of the Workspace

Hounslow Council offers free training to small local businesses A new free training and mentoring support programme is being offered to local small businesses across Hounslow.

Funded by Hounslow Council and run in association with Branduin Business Support and Hounslow Chamber of Commerce, it is designed to help those who employ fewer than 10 people and are based in the borough.

The package, which includes workshops offering advice aimed at helping to grow small businesses, has a commercial value of £2,000, but application and participation is free providing your business is both small and local. It will offer information on creating a business strategy and plan, advice and support on financial management and ideas about marketing and creating an online presence. There will also be an opportunity to have one-to-one business mentoring sessions with business advisors.

Councillor Steve Curran, Leader of Hounslow Council, said: “Hounslow Council is committed to supporting local businesses and with this project this will enable us to back our small businesses across the borough. In these tough economic times, local businesses rely on the support and backing we can give them as a local authority. This programme is just one of the ways we are helping to boost small local business as part of our promise to achieve regeneration and economic development targets in our borough. I encourage local small businesses to get on board with this and see how it can help them to continue to grow.”

Stephen Fry, Chief Executive of Hounslow Chamber of Commerce, said: “Hounslow Council is investing in the future of the borough’s small business community. We are

group of serviced offices. Workspace sponsored the event, along with Willmotts and K M Removals. The refreshments were provided courtesy of Fuller Smith & Turner and Pernod Ricard.

Willmotts entered two teams and took the first and second prizes – fiercely fought matches with much encouragement from the onlookers. Chris Durkin, one of the Directors of Hounslow Chamber, took the washing up mop this year, for the third year running. Luckily his business acumen is vastly better than his table football skills!

It was another enjoyable evening and will be repeated next year. Thank you to all for taking part and entering into the spirit of the tournament.

looking for this workshop and mentoring programme to offer support to many companies across Hounslow.”

So far, feedback from punters has been good: “The presenter was easy to listen to, knowledgeable and ran the session well” - Ginette Kentish, Manager of the Musical Museum.

“I have gained good business tips” - Brijesh Patel, MD of Valradio Electronics Ltd.

For more details and to register for the programme visit www.investhounslow. com/events-schedule or call 020 8785 0188

Osterley 10km Run Hounslow Chamber and Out & About Magazine were pleased to sponsor the running bibs again for the Osterley 10km run, which took place on 10th June 2016 in the glorious surroundings of Osterley Park with the imposing Osterley House as the backdrop.

The weather was kind to the runners that day and the event ran (pun fully intended) seamlessly. The organisers, Sandra and Kelvin must be congratulated.

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Rombouts Coffee wants you to enjoy better coffee and share the story behind it ...

Once upon a time, when you ordered coffee in a British café, you got a cup of scalding water and brown powder served in a polystyrene cup, that left a rather unpleasant taste. Today, everywhere you turn on the high street you’ll find a stylish coffee shop serving an Espresso, Cappuccino or Flat White made using a state-of-the-art coffee machine.

So where does Rombouts fit in? A family owned and run coffee company, founded in Belgium in 1896, Rombouts has been sourcing, roasting and supplying great coffee to UK coffee drinkers for over 50 years.

Simon Remmer, Sales Director of Rombouts UK, has been a Chiswick resident for more than 15 years and has kept a keen eye on the growing interest in coffee on the high street. He says: “There are a growing number of consumers and local businesses who are more interested in their coffee quality today.”

A big driver for the quest for better coffee is the variety of sources for consumers to acquire knowledge on the subject.

There has never been so much information readily available to consumers to help (or hinder) their choice, online and in social media especially. Simply type in #coffee to Instagram and there are well over 48 million posts! Pretty impressive considering Instagram wasn’t around before 2010.

Rombouts thinks it’s a good thing that consumers are more knowledgeable and enquiring about what they choose to drink. Our everyday coffee lover may be more familiar with Rombouts’ best known product line, the quick and simple One Cup Filter coffee range, available in most British supermarkets. Simply place a One Cup Filter on top of your cup, add hot water and wait a few moments for the coffee to filter through before enjoying! This range is complemented by a full selection of roast and ground coffees, espresso pods and innovative espresso pod systems.

Rombouts Professional division supplies hotels, restaurants, coffee shops, hair & beauty salons and offices with premium quality coffees, coffee equipment and service packages,

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ensuring that your customers always drink a quality coffee and that your barista staff are given the best training in using the right coffee equipment to deliver that great cup every time.

Rombouts is a member and patron of Hounslow Chamber of Commerce. If you’re a local business, Rombouts can help you identify the best coffee and equipment for your customers. If you simply love coffee and want to taste the Rombouts range, we’d be happy to send you a sample!

More info at www.rombouts.co.uk/ professional (if you’re a local business) or www.rombouts.co.uk or email us at info.uk@rombouts.com

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EVENT SCHEDULE 5th Oct

8.00am 9.30am

Chiswick Park Business Breakfast Moot Bar, Chiswick Park, 566 Chiswick High Road, London W4 5YA £5 for networking, coffee and breakfast, Parking needs to be pre-booked via Sally Smith

7th Oct

9.30am 11.30am

Business Biscotti Twickenham London Marriott Hotel Twickenham, 198 Whitton Road, TW2 7BA Business networking event - meeting and forming business relationships with like-minded people

11th Oct

10am - 12 noon

Business Biscotti Brentford Urban Villa, Great West Quarter, Great West Road, Brentford TW8 0GP Joint breakfast with Business Biscotti Brentford

12th Oct

12.45pm – 2.15pm

Hounslow Business Lunch Indian Gymkhana Club, Thornbury Ave, Osterley TW7 4NQ Free lunch

13th Oct

9.00am 10.30am

Business Breakfast at the Bulldog 556 London Road, Ashford, TW15 AF (large car park!) £5 for a full breakfast including tea and coffee Joint event with Ashford Chamber, Spelthorne Business Forum & Surrey Chambers

14th Oct

10am - 12 noon

Business Biscotti Heathrow Park Inn, Bath Road, Heathrow UB7 0DU Joint networking over coffee with Business Biscotti

26th Oct

12.45pm 2.15pm

Chiswick Business Lunch The Roebuck, 122 Chiswick High Road, W4 1PU Free lunch

2nd Nov

8.00 am – 9.30 am

Chiswick Park Business Breakfast Moot Bar, Chiswick Park, 566 Chiswick High Road, London W4 5YA £5 for networking, coffee and breakfast, Parking needs to be pre-booked via Sally Smith

4th Nov

9.30am 11.30am

Business Biscotti Twickenham London Marriott Hotel Twickenham, 198 Whitton Road, TW2 7BA Business networking event - meeting and forming business relationships with like-minded people

If you would like to attend any event please contact Sally Smith on 020 8326 6416 or sallysmith@hounslowchamber.org.uk or visit www.hounslowchamber.org.uk

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WATERMANS Q&A Out & About popped into Watermans to speak to their director, Jan Lennox.

Here’s what she had to say.

What do you see as Watermans role?

We are West London’s leading arts centre and we exist to inspire people through creative practise. We believe that experiencing the arts enriches lives and that that experience should be available to everyone, whatever their background.

As an independent, charitable organisation, that ethos is at the heart of what we do and in real terms that means things like keeping ticket prices low, welcoming everyone regardless of ability, taking risks creatively – for example in our cutting edge digital arts programme.

What’s happening at Watermans at the moment?

We have year-round programme of independent cinema of course, plus children’s theatre every Sunday. Highlights this season include our half term special Fables & Fairytales Week – a week of theatre and fun, creative workshops for families exploring the world of traditional tales. We continue our series of weekend festivals with the Digital Weekender in early November when you can experience virtual reality and see your brainwaves visualised in front of you while sitting in

a dentist’s chair – we can guarantee surprises that weekend!

And we’re hosting the UK premiere of Gauhar, a play that received critical acclaim across India and is directed by Lillete Dubey, who starred in Indian Summers and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. We’re also looking forward to a season of cabaret in February and March – watch this space!

We’ve heard that Watermans is moving – is that true?

We’ve been in discussion with two developers for some time, and one is now progressing more quickly. We expect to be moving to a state-of-the-art new centre in about 3 years’ time which will be in the heart of Brentford and enable us to deliver our ambitious artistic plans and the experience that customers want in a modern venue. We will be sharing more news as plans develop over the next few months but we think it’s an exciting time to live in West London!

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