Southall Community Alliance

Community day at Western Road - 30/5/26

Our May community day activity at our urban garden took place in glorious sunshine and was amazingly productive. We decided to focus upon planting and achieved a lot of our targets, both inside our Polytunnel and outside on raised beds.

Well done to all our volunteers and the hard-working Good Gym team led by Kash.

We aim to grow and then share the produce locally to tackle food hunger.

Healthy cooking classes at Dormers Wells - 20/526

SCA is committed to improving the health of our communities. We know that certain health conditions disproportionately affect residents in Southall and we support activities which raise awareness and build capacity to respond to these health challenges.

We have recently helped to arrange some healthy cooking classes in the Dormers Wells area and some have incorporated the use of slow cookers to save energy whilst cooking.

Community forum and data centres - 28/5/26

Our May community forum meeting had a fascinating presentation about data centres and their local impacts. Owen Espley from GAP shared valuable information about data centres and how they have worrying local impacts on water and energy consumption.

The meeting also had a short presentation by Inspector Leigh Ballard about local policing measures.

Community forum meetings continue to provide an opportunity for local residents and groups to engage on the issues affecting our communities.

Community picnic at Southall Park - 26/5/26

As part of the Caretakers Cottage project Marta from SCA and colleagues from MIND arranged a picnic for families at Southall Park on 26th May. The very sunny conditions meant the families arranged their picnic under the welcome shade of some trees and the picnic was enjoyed by all.

Well done to Marta for all her work in making this outdoor event possible.

New Mayor of Ealing

Congratulations to Cllr Faduma Mohamed as she was inaugurated as the first female Somali Mayor of Ealing. Cllr Faduma represents Southall West Ward and it is inspirational that a woman from Southall has now been selected as the mayor for the borough. The Mayors consort is her father. our very own Ahmed Mohamed.

The Cup comes to Southall !

Congratulations to Southall FC for winning the Middlesex Senior Challenge Cup. This superb historic trophy was on display recently at Parkside Yards and Janpal and Natalie almost managed to get their hands on it

The Green Quarter - Social Impact Report - 21/5/26

The Green Quarter launched their annual social impact report on 21st May at Parkside Yards. The report detailed their work with residents and other community engagement activities. Jags Sanghera provided an overview of the work during the year and the event ended with some lovely singing from Dairy Meadow Primary pupils.

Human Rights Network

Our excellent human rights project has established a number of themed human rights networks. Each network is led by a different voluntary sector partner and the network regarding children and young people is led by the Young Ealing Foundation.

Many thanks to Elly and colleagues from YEF and well done to Mehak Bajaj for coordinating the work of the networks.

History talk at Durdans Park Primary - 19/5/26

Our latest school history visit took place on 19th May to the year six pupils at Durdans Park Primary School. The pupils were very attentive and interested in the information about community activism in Southall and we finished the session with a cap making activity to reinforce the learning.

Natalie and Janpal from SCA delivered the session, engaging positively with the children.