The community of Northolt dates back to over a thousand years, mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Northala, it was once a small agricultural village surrounded by vast fields and woodlands. Today, if you take a walk to the old yew tree on Northolt Green, the 13th-century parish church of St. Mary the Virgin continues to serve as a reminder of Northolt’s history as does the memorial that pays tribute to its community.
Today, Northolt remains to be a place celebrated for its green landscapes, Northala Fields, featuring four conical hills attracts visitors from as far as Europe. It’s a place of community activity, every Saturday at 9am you can see runners, of all age groups participating in the 5km Northolt Parkrun, and if you prefer something more sedentary then Get Hooked on Fishing, an angling charity offers many opportunities.
South of Northala is Rectory Park, home of the Middlesex Football Association which hosts YMCA sessions and the forget me not FC- dementia walking sessions. Northolt’s Green Ring, is a new 6.3km walking and cycling route, coming soon to connect 6 parks in the area, including Northolt Park, Lime Tree Park, Islip Manor Park, Belvue Park, Grand Union Canal, Northala Fields and Rectory Park. Works have begun around Belvue Park, with plans to continue interventions in future to the wider Ring.
The Visions for Northolt Programme has been working with you to develop and deliver a community-led vision for the future of the area. This programme has involved hundreds of people, including businesses, young people, and community groups like Urban Edible Gardens to make a positive difference in the community while also keeping links to the area’s unique cultural history. One of the many projects delivered in collaboration with local people is the Northolt Public Art Project, a project adding fun and eye-catching public art all around Northolt.
The arrival of the London Underground’s Central Line transformed Northolt from a rural village into a town of housing and community amenities. Your community is a unique mix of cultures, and stories, the migration of Caribbean and South Asian residents in the 1950’s and 1960’s bought a new vibrant dimension to the local workforce and community. The Husainy Mosque hosts a cultural and social hub for one of the largest Dawoodi Bohra communities in London and Northolt is home to a small but active Nepalese community, that have close ties to the Gurkhas, renowned for their bravery and service.
To build on the work that your community has started, Your Voice, Your Town is designed to bring you, the local voluntary and faith groups, schools and businesses together, to work hand in hand on the issues that are most important to you.
*Budgets are set by size of town population
Are you over-18 and available to join a friendly group of people, that meet up regularly to help guide the activities and decisions on how local resources and budgets can support you town's chosen priorities?
If you have the time and you see yourself as someone who is good at solving problems, have ideas about how to improve your local area, appreciate the views of others and can listen with empathy then your local Town Team needs your support.
Have your say and help shape the future of Northolt
Visions for Northolt is putting local people in the driving seat of change. It is all about ensuring that future investment reflects the priorities, needs and aspirations of the local community. Northolt is a great place but we know it can be better. Last year, over 300 local residents and businesses helped to develop a community-led vision for the future of the area.
Preparing for major emergencies
Ealing and Hounslow CVS, Ealing Council and The British Red Cross are hosting community resilience workshops across our borough.
Residents, community groups, businesses and the faith sector are invited to join us to prepare for responding to emergencies together.
Shape and influence the health and wellbeing agenda for older people from African and Caribbean communities
We are looking for people with direct lived experienced as patients, carers, relatives or friends of older people using health and social care services to be part of our research advisory group.
Keeping Feet to the Flames
A independent Citizen’s Tribunal has been established to follow up on recommendations made by the Ealing Race Equality Commission and to hold the council and its partners to account on the delivery of its commitment and responsibilities to fight race inequality and promote race equality.