Community projects
Search for community-led projects that are either underway or are looking to get support from people in your area.
Find out what help people are looking for and how you can get involved and contact the project owner or sponsor. Even if you can't help out yourself you can easily share the projects with people in your own network that might be able to. It's also a great way of finding out what’s going on in your area.
Ongoing
Ealing Book Festival
We need help with organising the festival, so if you have any skills in marketing, IT, leaflet dropping. It would be great to hear from you.
We will need volunteers with great interpersonal skills over the festival weekend to ensure that events are managed safely and our audiences have a great experience. We are also looking for sound engineers to ensure that our audiences can hear our speakers.
Towns: Acton, Ealing, Greenford, Hanwell, Northolt, Perivale, Southall
Ongoing
FoodCycle Acton – Acton Gardens Community Centre
We are looking for cooking volunteers to help us cook our meals. You don’t need any previous experience and there is no minimum commitment, meaning you can volunteer as little or as often as you like!
Town: Acton
Ongoing
The Great London Friendship Project
Join us in creating a world where loneliness has no place among young adults. Your involvement, no matter how big or small, makes a significant impact on our journey towards building lasting connections and friendships.
Towns: Acton, Ealing, Greenford, Hanwell, Northolt, Perivale, Southall
Ongoing
Ealing Youth Justice Service volunteer opportunities
Youth Justice Service volunteers come from many backgrounds, with a wide variety of life experience. It is very rewarding to help children develop and grow and appreciate they are part of a supportive community.
Volunteers are provided with full training and development opportunities.
Towns: Acton, Ealing, Greenford, Hanwell, Northolt, Perivale, Southall
Ongoing
Mentoring Programme – Hope for the Young
Mentors can help with (not limited to)
Practicing English
Enrolment advice
Study skills
Confidence building
Independence skills
Accessing local services and activities
Practical and emotional support
Mapping future goals
Learning about the UK.
Towns: Acton, Ealing, Greenford, Hanwell, Northolt, Perivale, Southall
Delivered
Green skills boot camp
For anyone who is interested they can apply now by emailing skillsescalator@hounslow.gov.uk
Applications and screening are taking place now. The course start date is 20 November 2023.
Towns: Acton, Ealing, Greenford, Hanwell, Northolt, Perivale, Southall
Ongoing
Crosslight – Debt and Benefit Advice
We are looking for volunteers to help us support foodbank users. We have different volunteering roles. You can read more on https://www.crosslightadvice.org/volunteer
Towns: Acton, Ealing, Greenford, Hanwell, Northolt, Perivale, Southall
Ongoing
Home-Start Ealing – supporting families with young children
Our home-visiting volunteers are required to have:
– parenting or caring experience
– commit to our training programme
– undergo referencing and enhanced criminal record checks
– understand that support provided to families is completely confidential
– have a non-judgemental attitude and understand the pressures of bringing up a family
Towns: Acton, Ealing, Greenford, Hanwell, Northolt, Perivale, Southall
Delivered
A.P.P.L.E’s Kitchen Hub
Our tiny kitchen has served us well but we need more space and better equipment. A.P.P.L.E. are kicking off a big refurbishment project which will turn our storeroom into a beautiful new shiny kitchen. Back our project with donations and pledges of support!
Town: Acton
Ongoing
Independent Review Panel Chairperson for Permanent Exclusions from Schools
By joining our pool of panel members, you will help us to convene panels within the tight statutory deadlines and to ensure that these important matters are heard without delay.
As Chair, you will play a key role in ensuring that all parties are able to express their cases fully at hearings and that the panels you sit on make reasoned decisions.
Towns: Acton, Ealing, Greenford, Hanwell, Northolt, Perivale, Southall
Ongoing
Samaritan Soup Kitchen
Samaritan Soup Kitchen is run by Destiny House International Church. The church recognises the great need in these difficult times to lovingly relieve hardship by providing hot meals, food bags and occasionally donated clothes to the homeless or those struggling to make ends meet.
Town: Acton
Delivered
Acton Gardens Skate Club
We have raised £10,000 for this 12 month program, and are seeking to raise a further £5000 to ensure that our families can afford the fees. With families paying £5 per session, for a 6 week course at £30 per 6 weeks in comparison to £75 as per our other clubs, without funding. The cost of the venue is higher than any of those we use for our regular club and this prevents us from adding free spaces.
Town: Acton