The Brent Magazine issue 103 June 2010

ISSUE NO.103

FREE FOR PEOPLE WHO LIVE AND WORK IN BRENT

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Brent is blossoming Competition for gardeners

Looking to you Brent celebrates borough’s carers

Outstanding Ofsted 2008-2009

93% 5+ GCSE A*-C 2009 (Highest in Brent) ‘Outstanding in 24 out of 27 areas’ (OfSTED: 2008)

OPEN EVENING Tuesday 21 September 2010 6pm-8.30pm You are warmly invited to come and see our school

‘Outstanding value added in 2009 – Top 1% in England/Best in Brent’ – KS2-4 CVA 1054.6 (DCSF: 2009)

‘28th most improved secondary school in England 2006-9’ (BBC Education News: Jan 2010)

‘Ranked 4th out of 2685 Specialist Schools for 5+ A*-C including English and Maths JVA’ (SSAT: Jan 2010)

‘One of only 12 schools from over 4000 in England to appear in the highest value added and most improved GCSE results tables’ (DCSF: Jan 2010) We are highly oversubscribed and received 1,092 applications for 210 places in 2010. Places are only available for Year 7 in 2011. Apply to secure a place for your child through the Common Application Form available from Primary Schools and Chesterfield House, Wembley.

East Lane, Wembley, Middlesex HA0 3NT Tel: 020 8385 4800 Email: admin@whtc.co.uk Web: www.whtc.co.uk Headteacher: Ms Gill Bal

Contents Features

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Art for the Olympics

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Brent’s 2010 councillors

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Brent will be blooming

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Time for carers

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Get active at MEND

A local artist wants to hear your stories

Update

Welcome, dear readers, to the June issue of The Brent Magazine.

Mine is not the only portrait gazing out from these pages.

There are 63 others. They are the councillors in our supplement, who were elected, or re-elected, at the local elections in May, which is the biggest exercise of local democracy in Brent. The councillors for your ward represent you so it is worth acquainting yourself with them.

Staying at the grass roots; this month also sees the start of Brent in Bloom. It is your opportunity to display your gardening to a wider Brent audience, and perhaps nationally as well. Besides councillors and gardeners, we are also highlighting carers. They play an invaluable role and in Brent Carers’ Week in June, we will be honouring their hard work.

Brent people

James Diamond Editor, The Brent Magazine

Annual gardening competition is starting in June

Carers’ week rewards those looking after others

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Project helps get children fitter and healthier

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Regulars

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All in a day’s work

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Secret history Competitions Time out

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Meet the newly elected ward representatives

Welcome to The Brent Magazine

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Please ring 020 8937 1106 Cover image: Jack and Kieran O’Donnell Photographer: CARMEN KLAMMER

Artist’s impression of the new Civic Centre

UPdate

Brent festival celebrates refugee life Music, film and dance will be performed at the Take Refuge Festival in Brent from 14-20 June.

The festival, held during the national Refugee Week, has been organised by Tricycle Theatre, Salusbury WORLD, Brent Council’s Granville Plus Youth Arts Centre, Capital City Academy and Kilburn Library. The programme includes drama, film and music at Tricycle Theatre and a special night of dance and performances at Granville Plus Youth Arts Centre compered by local comic and rap artist Doc Brown on 18 June at 6pm. On 18 June the Somali Dance Project will perform at Capital City Academy

Jessica’s up for an award A young Brent Housing Partnership tenant is up for an award for supporting community-life on her estate.

Jessica Perry, 18, has been short-listed for an accolade from the National Federation of ALMOs. She helps run activities for older people such as card making, swimming and a keep-fit class on her estate in Kingsbury and has also started a youth group.

She said: “I love working with the community and it is very rewarding to know that you can make a real difference to people’s lives; being nominated is a real honour.”

in Willesden from 3.30pm5.30pm, on 15 June there will be the Define Refuge drama performance at the Tricycle Theatre in Kilburn High Road at 2pm, 16 June will have the opening of the Garden of Refuge at Kilburn Library in Salusbury Road at 2pm. The Tricycle Singers will perform in the Tricycle Gallery during the week and film shows include a weekend of world cinema on 19-20 June, highlighting refugees.

For more details about the programme contact The Tricycle on 020 7328 1000 or visit www.tricycle.co.uk call Granville Plus Youth Arts Centre on 020 8937 3615.

Glorious garden’s charity day

A delightful garden in Willesden Green is open to the public on 20 June to help raise money for charity.

The garden at 208 Walm Lane features a fish pond with fountain, lawns, and planted borders of flowering shrubs and perennials. A string quartet will be playing during the opening and there will

also be a plant sale, teas with homemade cakes and wine in the evening.

The opening, from 2pm-8pm, is part of the National Gardens scheme and is raising money for the Yellow Book charity; entry is £2.50 but free for children, and there is wheelchair access, visit www.thegardennw2.co.uk

Plans for Harlesden unveiled Harlesden Town Charter will be unveiled to residents and the business community on 7 June.

The document, written after meetings and workshops run by design consultants with the community, sets out a future for the town centre. It was commissioned by Brent Council with funding from Transport

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for London. The charter will be developed by a Town Team and used by Brent Council as a guide for planning future development. It will be unveiled at the Salvation Army building, 32 Manor Park Road, Harlesden, at 6.30pm; email scott@urbandesignskills.com or call 020 7287 4269.

Library closes for revamp Barham Park Library has closed to undergo refurbishment, including the introduction of self-service machines and improved IT facilities and will reopen in the autumn.

UPdate

Brent Council gets new Leader and Executive

Councillor Ann John

A new Leader and Executive are running Brent Council after the local elections in May. Councillor Ann John OBE (Labour) is the new Leader of Brent Council and Deputy Leader is Councillor Muhammed Butt (Labour). Councillor John was Leader of Brent Council from 2002 to 2006 and has been a councillor on Brent Council since 1990.

A new Executive was confirmed at Brent Council’s Annual General Meeting in May. Councillor John is also Lead

Award for volunteer at museum A volunteer has won an award for his work at Brent Museum.

Christopher Robertson won highly commended in the developing a role category at the London Volunteers in Museums Awards 2010.

Christopher has worked two days a week at the museum, which is in Willesden Green Library Centre, since July 2009.

He catalogues new historical objects, logs data,

A history trail A Relic Trail for families to discover historical objects will be at the Brent Museum in half term (2-6 June).

The trail highlights unique objects in the museum at Willesden Green Library Centre; pick up a trail sheet in a leaflet rack and once you have done all five steps you get a certificate, call 020 8937 3600.

photographs objects and helps with their preservation in the museum stores.

He said: “I’ve really enjoyed my time volunteering at the Brent Museum; it has been very rewarding. I hope to be able to use my voluntary work to get a job in heritage.

“The museum has many fascinating objects dating from the 18th century to today. My favourites include a gas mask and a defused incendiary bomb from World War Two.” Brent Museum is recruiting more volunteers visit www.brent.gov.uk/museum or call 020 8937 3602.

Member for Corporate Strategy and Policy Coordination and Councillor Muhammed Butt is Lead Member for Resources on the Executive. Councillor Ruth Moher is Lead Member for Adults, Health and Social Care and Councillor Mary Arnold is Lead Member for Children and Families. Councillor Lincoln Beswick MBE is Lead Member for Crime, Prevention and Public Safety, Councillor James Powney is Lead Member for Environment, Planning and Culture and Councillor James Moher is Lead Member for Highways and Transportation.

Councillor Bobby Thomas is Lead Member for Housing and Customer Services and

Family friendly teams launched Five local teams which offer joined-up services to families have been launched by Brent Council.

The early intervention teams, based in Wembley, Harlesden, Kingsbury,Willesden and Kilburn, will provide services under one roof for families who have children with additional needs and will make specialist help easier to get.The teams allow families to get support from youth workers, Connexions advisers and education welfare officers.They will work closely with schools, children’s centres, and NHS Brent.To find out your nearest team email caf@brent.gov.uk or visit www.brent.gov.uk/eilt

Councillor Lesley Jones is Lead Member for Human Resources and Diversity and Local Democracy and Consultation and George Crane is Lead Member for Regeneration and Economic Development.

In addition, Councillor Paul Lorber is Leader of the Liberal Democrat Group on Brent Council and Councillor Harshadbhai Patel is Leader of the Conservative Group.The Labour Party won 40 seats, the Liberal Democrats 17 and the Conservative Party six seats at the local elections held on 6 May this year for Brent’s 21 wards.

Turn to page 16 to find out your new councillors in each ward.

Novel night for the girls!

Author Rosie Alison will be talking about her new romantic novel at a special evening on 11 June.

Wine, chocolates and treats will be on offer when she discusses ‘The Very Thought of You’ – a romantic tale of a girl’s wartime evacuation.

The night, at Wembley Green Library Centre, from 7.30pm-9.30pm, will also offer nail art, pampering and a chance to browse chick lit and romance titles. To attend you need a ticket from Brent libraries, call 020 8937 3400.

New acclaim for Stonebridge The regeneration of Stonebridge Estate has won an award from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

The project by Hyde Housing Association and Shepheard Epstein Hunter Architects won the regeneration

category and the overall London award at the institution’s 2010 awards. It won acclaim from judges for turning a run-down area into quality medium-rise homes with a community spirit, and will be put forward for a national award.

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Revamped centre for St Raphael’s is opened

A new community and children’s centre has been opened by Brent Council in St Raphael’s.

The old community centre in Rainborough Close has had a £587,000 facelift to put in new kitchens, toilets, windows, floors, CCTV, a better roof, new rooms and outside children’s play area. It is offering stay-and-play, family

New head at Brent housing Gerry Doherty has taken over as Chief Executive of Brent Housing Partnership – the organisation which manages 13,000 council-owned homes.

Gerry has worked at Brent Housing Partnership for a number of years and was part of the team which helped to set up the arm’s length management organisation.

“I will ensure we continue to provide an excellent service for our residents,” he said.

support, healthy eating sessions, yoga for adults and babies, speech and language therapy and citizens’ advice. More than 500 children and families are registered at the centre.

Centre Manager Val Joseph said: “The old centre had limited use before refurbishment. We now have a building that the community

can be proud of, but we need the support of local people in carrying this project forward.

We will be asking them what they think there should be for young people and adults and which community groups might benefit from using it.”

Email cfis@brent.go.uk or call 020 8937 3001 for more information.

Brent’s pledge to young in care Brent Council has signed a pledge committing it to further improve the lives of young people and children in its care.

It sets out commitments to improve health, education and emotional wellbeing and to improve services and support.

Join St Luke’s purple army The ladies-only Midnight Walk to raise money for St Luke’s Hospice will be marching again on 11 June.

The nine-mile walk begins at Harrow Leisure Centre at 10.30pm before covering a route through Harrow Weald, Stanmore, Kingsbury and

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Kenton. More than 1,000 purple-clad women will join this year and the organisers’ target is to raise £200,000.

Entry costs £20 and everyone who takes part gets a T-shirt and breakfast, but you must register by 4 June, visit www.midnightwalk.co.uk or call 020 8382 8023.

Baby Show for parents The Baby Show on 23 June will be offering parents the chance to learn more about key parenting skills. The event at Vale Farm Sports Centre, Watford Road, Wembley, will have workshops run by health professionals on breast-feeding, baby massage and yoga, father’s support, contraception and sexual health. The show, from 9.30am3.30pm, will have a crèche, freebies, money-off vouchers, and taster sessions for the centre’s toddlers’ gym and parent and toddler swimming.

It has been organised by NHS Brent and North West London Hospitals Trust to help mark National Breastfeeding Awareness Week.

Email gloria.urhoma@nwlh.nhs.uk or call 020 8869 2920 for more or to register on the parent and toddler swimming class.

Get ready for Respect 2010 Get set for Brent Respect Festival on 4 July – Brent Council’s hugely popular day of fun in Roundwood Park.

This year you can sample the flavours of Brent from the array of food on offer while enjoying music at the Respect and Momentum Dance Tent, packed with singers, dancers and performers. The festival (visit www.brent.gov.uk/ whatson) will feature the launch of Brent Dance Month, a roller disco, Barber Bash Football Tournament, Brent Youth Circus Company and more.

The free festival is from 1pm-8pm.

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Step forward and foster in Brent Brent Council is launching one of its biggest ever fostering campaigns in June as it aims to recruit more carers for some of the borough’s 300 lookedafter children.

Commuters at West Hampstead and Kentish Town stations will see huge billboards featuring profiles of young people who are in need of short or long-term foster placements and fostering service staff will give out leaflets and promotional items.

Other stations and Brent Council’s transport fleet will also

Follow the Bookstart bear

loving homes, which sadly, for many children in care, is something they have never had. If you’ve thought of doing something to make a difference to a child’s life, please consider fostering.We will provide preparation, training and support.”

The fostering service is holding recruitment evenings at Willesden Green Library Centre on 7 June and 5 July at 6.30pm to support the campaign, visit www.brent.gov.uk/fostering

carry advertisements for the campaign, starting on 7 June.

Brent Council has too few foster carers for black boys aged between ten and 12, babies and infants up to two-years-old and white teenage siblings aged between eight and 14 who need to be placed together.

Brent Council’s Fostering Head Naima Khan said: “Foster carers provide children with a good experience of family life; doing ordinary and normal things that families do together.

They provide safe, secure and Children will be enjoying books with their parents and carers on Bookstart Day on 11 June.

This year libraries will have seaside-themed story activities for under fives and the Bookstart bear will visit story-and-rhyme sessions at many libraries from 8-17 June.

Bookstart is a national reading programme managed by Booktrust which gives free packs of books to children under four in the UK to help encourage a love of reading.

Health centres have packs for babies and toddlers when parents bring their children

for health checks and there are packs for blind and deaf children. Packs for three to four-year-olds can be collected from libraries if parents bring in a child’s Red Health Book as identification. Visit www.brent.gov.uk/libaries or call 020 8937 3400.

New centre for people with learning disabilities in Brent

A ragged school for the day

A resource centre for people with learning disabilities is to be built by Brent Council.

The John Billam Resource Centre in the John Billam Sports Ground in Woodcock Hill, Kenton, will offer places for 60 people with learning disabilities.The two-storey building will have a courtyard enclosed by a glass roof; a sensory and roof garden.

The new centre, which has

received planning permission, will be for service users who use the Albert Road Day Centre in South Kilburn and ASPPECTS - a centre for people with autism based in Wembley.The Gujarati community group which owns a building on the site will not be affected. The centre is expected to open in 2011 and will be for wider community use, call 020 8937 4042 for more information.

Gaynor Watson as Queen Victoria, Mike Reed as Gladstone and pupils.

Pupils celebrated their school’s links to the 19th century Prime Minister William Gladstone by dressing up as Victorian children.

Chimney sweeps, street urchins and mill girls appeared at Gladstone Park Primary for Gladstone Day. School chef Gaynor Watson dressed up as Queen Victoria and teacher Mike

Reed appeared as William Gladstone, and a Scottish piper performed. Pupils at the school, near to the park named after the politician, studied childhood in Victorian England and collected money for Barnado’s, a charity founded in 1866; they also learnt more about Gladstone in an assembly.

Take up the green challenge Brent Council’s Going Green challenge needs 200 residents who can save energy over six months and inspire others to do the same. Those taking part will receive a free energy-use monitoring box worth more than £100 and

will use social media to report results and share ideas for saving energy and green living. Visit www.brentbrain.org.uk/ brentgoinggreen for links to Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.

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Local issues Who’s got the answers?

Have your say at one of Brent’s five area consultative meetings. Come and discuss the local issues which concern you, such as environment, transport, planning, streetscene, health care and policing with councillors and local policy makers.

The next cycle of meetings take place in June and July 2010. Dates of the meetings will be posted on our website after 26 May.

For more information contact Brent Consultation Team Tel 020 8937 1055 Email consultation@brent.gov.uk www.brent.gov.uk/consultation

BRENT ACF Area Consultative Forums

BRENTpeople

Monique’s moment Kensal Rise based author Monique Roffey has been short-listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2010 for her second novel – The White Woman on the Green Bicycle.

What have you been nominated for?

It is for my second novel ‘The White Woman on the Green Bicycle’. I’m one of six on this year’s short list for the Orange Prize – a competition for the best women writers. I was delighted but surprised to be nominated; there is a really strong short list again. Amazingly, I’m not the first Brentbased writer to make it onto the Orange short list. Zadie Smith won the Orange prize in 2006 and Maggie Gee was short-listed in 2002.

What is your novel about?

The book is set in Trinidad in the Caribbean, where I was born. My mother, who is half-Italian and half-French, moved there with my father in the 1950s. She once said ‘I arrived with a suitcase and a green bicycle’ and that stuck with me and became the seed of the novel. It unfolds over five decades and is a dark thorny story dealing with the island’s politics after winning independence from the UK. It’s a romantic thriller and has a few real people in it such as Brian Lara and Trinidadian Prime Minister Patrick Manning.

How did you start writing?

I always had a pen in my hand as a child; I remember scribbling stories on the walls. Then as a teenager I kept a diary and wrote. I became a journalist, writing for ‘The Independent’ and as a freelancer for a variety of magazines so fiction was a natural progression. I write in the mornings in my pyjamas with a cup of coffee in hand. My influences are the Dominican novelist Jean Rhys and St Lucian poet Derek Walcott.

What are your plans for the future?

To spend some more time back in Trinidad; write my memoirs, and maybe even take a sea voyage.

“I always had a pen in my hand as a child; I remember scribbling stories on the walls.”

How long have you lived in Brent?

I’ve been here since 2006. I lived in Wendover Road, Harlesden, for three years and recently moved to Kensal Rise. The first draft of my book was written in Trinidad, but the rewriting and editing were all done during the years that I was living in Harlesden.

What’s your favourite spot in Brent?

Harlesden High Street is lively. The area has Roundwood Park, and a great gym.

I think the high street is the most eclectic and diverse place that I know.You can buy pretty much anything: Polish bread, real Turkish delight, and great jerk chicken. Then there are Brazilian and Portuguese cafes to enjoy. Harlesden’s diversity is amazing.

‘The White Woman on the Green Bicycle’ is published by Simon & Schuster; the Orange prize will be announced on 9 June; visit www.moniqueroffey.co.uk

Monique Roffey by Jonathan Proctor courtesy of Simon & Schuster.

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Let’s Waste Less!

National Recycle Week

21 to 27 June Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Recycling

Did you know that UK households throw away about one million tonnes of waste electrical items each year? Anything with a plug or a battery counts and should be recycled.

Disposing of household electrical items • If buying a replacement electrical item ask in the shop about how to get rid of the old one. Most major stores can help.

• If the item is in good condition why not ask a local charity shop if they want it.

• You can take any household electrical item to the Brent Council Reuse and Recycling Centre, Abbey Road, NW10 7TJ. The centre is open from 8am to 4pm seven days a week, except Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day. During National Recycling week, every WEEE item taken to the Reuse and Recycling Centre can be exchanged for a reward token for your local school.

• Call StreetCare to arrange a bulky collection for larger items.

Fridges are collected free of charge but there maybe a cost* for other electrical equipment.

* there is no charge to residents on certain benefits

020 8937 5050

www.brent.gov.uk/recycling streetcare@brent.gov.uk

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Waste watchers Brendan Phelan and Jackie Brodie work at Brent Council’s Reuse and Recycling Centre.

Words RACHEL GARDNER

They are here to deal with unwanted goods from TVs and spectacles to mattresses.

Recycling assistants Brendan Phelan and Jackie Brodie are two of a four-strong team at Brent Council’s Reuse and Recycling Centre in Abbey Road, Alperton.

“We try to get the people who visit here to recycle as much as possible,” explains Brendan. “A lot of them come and then return with even more stuff.We encourage them to have all their items sorted before they arrive because it makes life easier all round. It’s nice to get to know the regulars who come at least once a week.” The

centre accepts 50 different items including glass, paper, cans, juice cartons, clothes, light bulbs, cookers, microwaves, radios, stereos, batteries, scrap metal, furniture, tins, garden waste, glass bottles and jars, magazines, shoes, and fluorescent tubes.

It has around a dozen labelled containers to make sure visitors know where different types of items go.

“We regularly check the containers,” said Brendan. “It’s to make sure people don’t mix up different materials and aren’t putting things in there that they shouldn’t.”

Jackie is also on hand to help. “You have to be into recycling to do this job, but it’s very rewarding,” she said. “Sometimes we get people who turn up with the contents of a whole house because a loved one has died.

They think there is no option but to put it all in landfill but that’s not so – we help them sort it and recycle what they can.”

Items taken to Abbey Road, which has

a charge for dealing with goods brought in a van, are sent to different places to be recycled or reused. For example, clothes are sent to charities or Third World countries while wood is turned back into wood chip and old mattresses are reborn as rags.

Unfortunately, some goods still end up in landfill, which the council is working to reduce. The centre is managed by West London Waste Authority on behalf of the council. It is open from 8am to 4pm seven days a week, except for Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day. “This place may be full of junk, but we still take pride in where we work and aim to keep it as neat as possible,” added Jackie. “Visitors often comment on how tidy it is.”

Visit www.brent.gov.uk/streetcare2.nsf email streetcare@brent.gov.uk or call 020 8937 5050 for more information about the centre.

Jackie Brodie from Abbey Road Reuse and Recycling Centre.

Picture by Nadia Attura.

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TENNIS PROGRAMME From Brent Council June - October 2010

Adults, children and young people of all abilities are welcome TIMETABLE Dates: Venue: Beginner Lessons: Improver Lessons:

Saturday 26th June - Saturday 31st July Wembley Lawn Tennis Club, off Sudbury Avenue, Wembley, HA0 2BG 10.30am - 11.30am 7-11yr olds & Adults 11.45am - 12.45pm 7-11yr olds & Adults From Friday 30 July, Adult improver lessons will continue on Fridays 7pm-8pm for further information contact 020 8937 3722

Dates: Venue: Beginner Lessons: Improver Lessons:

Saturday 7th August - Saturday 11th September Preston Park, College Road, Wembley, HA9 7RX 10.30am - 11.30am 12-16yr olds & Adults 11.45am - 12.45pm 12-16yr olds & Adults

Dates: Venue: Beginner Lessons: Improver Lessons:

Saturday 18th September - Saturday 23rd October Gladstone Park, Dollis Hill Lane, NW2 6HR 10.30am - 11.30am 7-11yr olds & Adults 11.45am - 12.45pm 7-11yr olds & Adults

To book your place either visit our website and download a form, or contact Sports Service direct. Cost of the course: Adult - £20, Children - £15. If one adult and one child book together you will receive £2 off.

020 8937 3707

www.brent.gov.uk/sports

A sound story An artist wants your thoughts about the Olympics for a project to celebrate the 2012 Games. Photographs: ISABELLE PLASSCHAERT. On your marks, get set.Your opportunity to qualify for a place in a special squad is here. Artist Lorenzo Belenguer wants 20 residents to take part in Testimonies – an artistic project inspired by the Olympics – which will be gathering residents’ memories about the 1948 Games in London and people’s expectations and hopes for London 2012.

The 20 people will be selected from all the entries by a judging panel, which will be looking for the most inspiring stories and people who reflect the borough’s diversity. Lorenzo will carry out oral history interviews with those selected.

He will also be looking for volunteers to help him collect the information.

An exhibition about the 20 testimonies, featuring recordings, transcripts and a booklet, will be shown at The Gallery in Willesden Green Library Centre in autumn 2011. In summer 2012, during the Games and Paralympics, the voices will be broadcast from solar-powered loudspeakers at sites such as Wembley Arena Square and near Wembley Stadium.

“It is an inter-generational project,” said Lorenzo. “And will allow the transmission

of knowledge and heritage between people of different backgrounds and ages.”

A resident supporting the project is Paulette Harris-German, who was a sprinter and long-jumper for Neasden High School and also represented Middlesex and Brent. She said: “I’m sure there will be testimonies aplenty. Brent has always has been home to athletic talent; the opportunity to capture this for posterity will be invaluable. Anyone with even a hint of an athletic history should come forward to add to the rich tapestry that will be woven by the project.”

She trained with Olympic greats such as Linford Christie and her first pair of running ‘spikes’ were donated to her by a local champion in the mid-1970s when she was 11. “Even today I’m the proud holder of both my school kit and also my Brent kit,” she added.

The project is supported by Brent Council and Brent Artists Resource and funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund.

The deadline to apply to Testimonies is 15 August 2010. Email Lorenzo at info@brentartistsresource.org.uk stating your name, address and why you feel so passionate about the Games, or call 020 8459 1421.

“Even today I’m the proud holder of both my school kit and also my Brent kit.”

Inset: artist Lorenzo Belenguer (contributed photo). Left: 1948 Olympics memorabila. Right: Paulette Harris-German with her spikes

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The summer is coming... The World Cup is nearly here.

Men, it's time to move more!

Men’s Health week

Return to cricket Wembley Cricket Club off Sudbury Avenue, Wembley, HA0 2BG Tuesday 15, 22 & 29 June, 7pm – 8pm, free

Return to basketball Roundwood Park (multi use games area) Roundwood Park, Harlesden Road, NW10 Wednesday 16, 21 & 30 June, 7pm – 8pm, free

14 - 20 June 2010

Return to badminton Vale Farm Sports Centre Watford Road, North Wembley, HA0 3HG Tuesday 15, 22 & 29 June and 6 July, 8pm-9pm, free

Return to football The Pavilion, Stonebridge Recreation Ground Hillside, London, NW10 8LW Every Tuesday, 7pm – 8pm £2 per session

Physical activity can improve all aspects of health, from relieving stress and anxiety to losing weight, reducing the risk of cancer, heart disease and diabetes.

For further information please contact Brent Council on 020 8937 3707, www.brent.gov.uk/sports sportsservice@brent.gov.uk

Adults get active Gentle aerobics class for adults aged 50 and over This 50+ gentle aerobics class takes place in a safe and friendly environment. This is a mixed ability class for men and women.

Kingsbury Fitness First 632-640 Kingsbury Road, Kingsbury, London, NW9 9HN Tuesdays 1.30pm – 2.30pm £2 per session, to book this class call 020 8937 3722/3727 St Margaret’s and St George’s URC and Moravian Church Hall Nicol Road, Harlesden London, NW10 9AX Wednesdays 11.30 – 12.30pm, £2 per session, no need to book

Mums and babies postnatal exercise class (aged 18+) An exercise class specifically designed for new mums and their babies.

Have fun, get back in to shape, improve your strength and meet new friends.

For more information call 020 8937 3722

Strictly Ballroom Patidar House 22 London Road, Wembley Middlesex, HA9 7EX Tuesdays, 7.30pm – 8.30pm (beginners) Starting 22 June 2010 Tuesdays, 8.30pm – 9.30pm (improvers) NEW £2 per session, no need to book

NEW Kayaking Welsh Harp Reservoir Birchen Grove, Kingsbury, NW9 Eight-week course 19 July – 6 September, 6.30pm – 8pm Participants must be able to swim. Participants (with assistance) must be able to lift and carry Kayak to water. £25 for the course

Willesden Sports Centre Donnington Road, Willesden, London NW10 3QX Wednesdays, 10.30 –11.30am, £2 per session

Strictly Come Salsa Capital City Academy, Doyle Gardens Willesden London, NW10 3ST Thursdays, 7.30pm – 8.30pm (beginners) Starting 24 June 2010 Thursdays, 8.30pm – 9.30pm (improvers) NEW £2 per session, no need to book

For further information contact Brent Council on 020 8937 3707 www.brent.gov.uk/sports sportsservice@brent.gov.uk

Vale Farm Sports Centre Watford Road, North Wembley, Middlesex, HA0 3HG, Thursdays, 10.45am – 11.45am, £2 per session

Neighbourhood Working

Working with your new councillors Most people have a view on what needs to be done to make their local area a better place to live.

We have £20,000 to fund improvements in each ward. How would you spend it?

The council’s Neighbourhood Working fund is entering its third year and the team are gearing up to work with local councillors to improve your ward over the coming year.

Greening the borough

Improving our parks

The team work with councillors, local residents,

Over the past year the money has been spent on a

police safer neighbourhoods teams, community

wide range of projects, including new park lighting,

organisations and council departments to tackle

after school activities for young people, burglary

issues raised by people in Brent.

advice and exercise classes for the over fifties.

Over the next few months we will be out and about with your councillors asking you: “£20,000 – how would you spend it?”

Send your ideas to neighbourhoodworking@ brent.gov.uk or call us directly on 020 8937 1976.

Or speak to us at your next Area Consultative Forum. We will be there with some of your newly elected councillors to hear what you

Supporting activities for children and young people

think should happen in your ward. For details Improving the street scene

visit www.brent.gov.uk/consultations

Brent Councillors 2010 2010: ALPERTON

BARNHILL

BRONDESBURY PARK

James Allie

Abdi Aden

Barry Cheese

LIBERAL DEMOCRAT

LABOUR

LIBERAL DEMOCRAT

Flat 3, 26 Chamberlayne Road, London, NW10 3JD

146 Mordaunt Road, London, NW10 8ET

35 Hardinge Road, London, NW10 3PL

쏽 020 8969 6419 EMAIL

MOB

쏽 020 8459 1716

07932 707 525

EMAIL

cllr.abdi.aden@brent.gov.uk

EMAIL

Daniel Brown

Judith Beckman

Mark Cummins

LIBERAL DEMOCRAT

LABOUR

LIBERAL DEMOCRAT

109 Preston Road, Wembley, Middx HA9 8NN

c/o Labour Group Office, Brent Town Hall, Forty Lane, Wembley, Middx, HA9 9HD

2 Windermere Avenue, London, NW6 6LN

쏽 020 8908 5302 EMAIL

cllr.daniel.brown@brent.gov.uk

쏽 020 8964 0423

쏽 020 8937 1128 EMAIL

EMAIL

Shafique Choudhary

Ms Carol Shaw

LABOUR

LABOUR

LIBERAL DEMOCRAT

22 Paxford Road, Wembley, Middx HA0 3RQ

114 Olive Road, London NW2 6UU

Flat 7, Beechworth, 179 Willesden Lane, London NW6 7YZ

07944 209 496

EMAIL

MOB

07962 356 570

쏽 020 8958 8193

cllr.shafique.choudhary@brent.gov.uk

EMAIL

cllr.bhagwanji.chohan@brent.gov.uk

HARLESDEN

EMAIL

KENSAL GREEN

cllr.carol.shaw@brent.gov.uk

KENTON

Lincoln Beswick MBE

Claudia Hector

Reg Colwill

LABOUR

LABOUR

CONSERVATIVE

57a Harley Road, Harlesden, London NW10 8BA

c/o Labour Group Office, Brent Town Hall, Forty Lane, Wembley, Middx, HA9 9HD

Deputy Leader of the Conservative Group 81 Draycott Avenue, Kenton, Harrow, Middx HA3 0DD

쏽 020 8961 9018 EMAIL

cllr.lincoln.beswick@brent.gov.uk

MOB

07910 989 140

EMAIL

cllr.claudia.hector@brent.gov.uk

쏽 020 8907 0930 EMAIL

cllr.reg.colwill@brent.gov.uk

Helga Gladbaum

James Powney

Bhiku Patel

LABOUR

LABOUR

CONSERVATIVE

23 Dorchester Way, Kenton, Middx HA3 9RQ

59b Wrottesley Road, London, NW10 5UL

40 Wembley Park Drive, Wembley, HA9 8HA

쏽 020 8204 9437 EMAIL

쏽 020 8838 0834 EMAIL

cllr.james.powney@brent.gov.uk

MOB

07808 630 063

EMAIL

cllr.bhiku.patel@brent.gov.uk

cllr.helga.gladbaum@brent.gov.uk

Janice Long

Bobby Thomas

Arthur Steel

LABOUR

LABOUR

CONSERVATIVE

71 Hawthorn Road, London NW10 2LT

c/o Labour Group Office, Brent Town Hall, Forty Lane, Wembley, Middx, HA9 9HD

120 Draycott Avenue, Kenton, Middx HA3 0BY

쏽 020 8459 7435 EMAIL

cllr.janice.long@brent.gov.uk

MOB

07956 244 816

EMAIL

PRESTON

쏽 020 8909 1663 EMAIL

cllr.arthur.steel@brent.gov.uk

cllr.bobby.thomas@brent.gov.uk

QUEEN’S PARK

QUEENSBURY

Patricia Harrison

Michael Adeyeye

Sandra Kabir

LABOUR

LABOUR

LABOUR

102 Rosebank Avenue, Wembley, Middx HA0 2TP

11 Berens Road, London, NW10 5DX

134 Winchester Avenue, London, NW9 9TD

MOB

07709 968 810

EMAIL

MOB

07930 492 747

EMAIL

cllr.michael.adeyeye@brent.gov.uk

cllr.patricia.harrison@brent.gov.uk

쏽 020 8204 6632 MOB 07949 161 240 EMAIL

cllr.sandra.kabir@brent.gov.uk

Jean Hossain

James Denselow

Kana Naheerathan

LABOUR

LABOUR

LABOUR

121 Vista Way, Kenton, Harrow, HA3 0SJ

30 Montrose Avenue, London, NW6 6LB

3 The Grove, Kingsbury, Middx NW9 OTL

MOB

07801 265 945

EMAIL

cllr.jean.hossain@brent.gov.uk

MOB

07932 607 711

EMAIL

cllr.james.denselow@brent.gov.uk

MOB

07956 274 856

EMAIL

cllr.kana.naheerathan@brent.gov.uk

Harshadbhai Patel

Simon Green

Ramesh Patel

CONSERVATIVE

LIBERAL DEMOCRAT

LABOUR

Leader of the Conservative Group 11 Woodford Place, Wembley, Middx HA9 8TE

20C Winchester Avenue, London, NW6 7TU

c/o Labour Group Office, Brent Town Hall, Forty Lane, Wembley, Middx, HA9 9HD

쏽 020 8723 6871 EMAIL

JUNE 2010

cllr.mark.cummins@brent.gov.uk

cllr.judith.beckman@brent.gov.uk

Bhagwanji Chohan

MOB

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cllr.barry.cheese@brent.gov.uk

cllr.james.allie@brent.gov.uk

cllr.harshadbhai.patel@brent.gov.uk

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MOB

07889 924 925

EMAIL

cllr.simon.green@brent.gov.uk

쏽 020 8204 5522 EMAIL

cllr.ramesh.patel@brent.gov.uk

brentCOUNCILLORS

Your new representatives DOLLIS HILL

DUDDEN HILL

FRYENT

Javaid Ashraf

Aslam Choudry

George Crane

LIBERAL DEMOCRAT

LABOUR

LABOUR

19 Debham Court, Pinemartin Close, London, NW2 6YX

92 Park Avenue North, London NW10 1JY

183 Abbotts Drive, Wembley, Middx HA0 3SH

MOB

MOB

07958 511 747

EMAIL

07958 732 384

EMAIL

cllr.aslam.choudry@brent.gov.uk

쏽 020 8931 6911 EMAIL

cllr.george.crane@brent.gov.uk

cllr.javaid.ashraf@brent.gov.uk

Jack Beck

Rev. David Clues

James Moher

LIBERAL DEMOCRAT

LIBERAL DEMOCRAT

LABOUR

84c Blenheim Gardens, London, NW2 4NT

18 Neasden Lane, London NW10 2TS

51 Medway Grdns, Wembley, Middx HA0 2RJ

MOB

쏽 020 8459 2167

07947 703 119

EMAIL

cllr.jack.beck@brent.gov.uk

EMAIL

cllr.david.clues@brent.gov.uk

쏽 020 8908 1992 EMAIL

cllr.jim.moher@brent.gov.uk

Alec Castle

Krupesh Hirani

Ruth Moher

LIBERAL DEMOCRAT

LABOUR

LABOUR

30 Carmel Court, Kings Drive, Wembley, Middx HA9 9JE

3 Ashcombe Park, London, NW2 7QU

51 Medway Grdns, Wembley, Middx HA0 2RJ

MOB

쏽 020 8908 9036 EMAIL

07886 939 295

EMAIL

cllr.krupesh.hirani@brent.gov.uk

쏽 020 8908 1992 EMAIL

cllr.ruth.moher@brent.gov.uk

cllr.alec.castle@brent.gov.uk

KILBURN

MAPESBURY

NORTHWICK PARK

Mary Arnold

Sami Hashmi

Eddie Baker

LABOUR

LIBERAL DEMOCRAT

CONSERVATIVE

37 Montrose Avenue, Queen’s Park, London NW6 6LE

13 Doyle Gardens, London NW10 3DB

75 Norval Road, Wembley, Middx HA0 3TA

MOB

쏽 020 8969 5309

07961 406 005

EMAIL

EMAIL

cllr.sami.hashmi@brent.gov.uk

쏽 020 8908 2062 EMAIL

cllr.eddie.baker@brent.gov.uk

cllr.mary.arnold@brent.gov.uk

Benjamin Ogunro

Chris Leaman

Margaret McLennan

LABOUR

LIBERAL DEMOCRAT

LABOUR

32 Stafford Road, London, NW6 5YY

Flat 6, Beaumont House, Park Avenue, London, NW2 5AP

Flat 6, Buxton Mansions, 74 Chapter Road, London NW2 5LL

MOB

07905 457 611

EMAIL

쏽 020 8451 4032

cllr.benjamin.ogunro@brent.gov.uk

EMAIL

cllr.chris.leaman@brent.gov.uk

쏽 020 8830 0850 or 07949 398 193 EMAIL

cllr.margaret.mclennan@brent.gov.uk

Tayo Oladapo

Hayley Matthews

Harihar M. Patel

LABOUR

LIBERAL DEMOCRAT

CONSERVATIVE

119 Kingfisher Way, London, NW10 8TQ

c/o Liberal Democrat Group Office, Brent Town Hall, Wembley, Middx, HA9 9HD

5 Canterbury Road, Harrow, Middx HA2 6AA

MOB

07960 980 231

EMAIL

쏽 020 8937 1133

cllr.tayo.oladapo@brent.gov.uk

EMAIL

STONEBRIDGE

쏽 020 8863 8733 EMAIL

cllr.hayley.matthews@brent.gov.uk

SUDBURY

cllr.harihar.patel@brent.gov.uk

TOKYNGTON

Ann John OBE

Mary Daly

Joyce Bacchus

LABOUR

LABOUR

LABOUR

Leader of the Labour Group 87 Meadowbank Road, Kingsbury, London NW9 8LJ

38 Northwick Avenue, Kenton, Middx HA3 0AB

59 College Road, Wembley, Middx, HA9 8RN

쏽 020 8205 5748

EMAIL

EMAIL

쏽 020 8930 9085

cllr.mary.daly@brent.gov.uk

쏽 020 8908 3461 EMAIL

cllr.joyce.bacchus@brent.gov.uk

cllr.ann.john@brent.gov.uk

Zaffar Van Kalwala

Paul Lorber

Muhammed Butt

LABOUR

LIBERAL DEMOCRAT

LABOUR

c/o Labour Group Office, Brent Town Hall, Forty Lane, Wembley, Middx, HA9 9HD

Leader of the Liberal Democrat Group 17 Stapenhill Road, Wembley, Middx HA0 3JF

Deputy Leader of the Labour Group 82 Monks Park, Wembley, Middx, HA9 6JQ

MOB

07940 786 023

EMAIL

cllr.zaffar.vankalwala@brent.gov.uk

쏽 020 8904 8434 EMAIL

cllr.paul.lorber@brent.gov.uk

쏽 020 8840 7116 EMAIL

cllr.muhammed.butt@brent.gov.uk

Colum Moloney

Chandubhai Patel

Ketan Sheth

LABOUR

LIBERAL DEMOCRAT

LABOUR

7 Kenneth Crescent, Willesden, London NW2 4PS

16 Copland Avenue, Wembley, Middx HA0 2EN

c/o Labour Group Office, Brent Town Hall, Forty Lane, Wembley, Middx, HA9 9HD

쏽 020 8450 8620 EMAIL

cllr.colum.moloney@brent.gov.uk

쏽 020 8900 1694 EMAIL

cllr.chandubhai.patel@brent.gov.uk

MOB

07999 524 239

EMAIL

cllr.ketan.sheth@brent.gov.uk

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WELSH HARP

WEMBLEY CENTRAL

WILLESDEN GREEN

Dhiraj Kataria

Emad Al-Ebadi

Ann Hunter

LABOUR

LABOUR

LIBERAL DEMOCRAT

8 Chestnut Grove, Wembley, Middx, HA0 2LX

c/o Labour Group Office, Brent Town Hall, Forty Lane, Wembley, Middx, HA9 9HD

c/o Liberal Democrat Group Office, Brent Town Hall, Wembley, Middx, HA9 9HD

MOB

07787 423 214

EMAIL

cllr.dhiraj.kataria@brent.gov.uk

MOB

쏽 020 8830 2152

07912 622 443

EMAIL

cllr.emad.alebadi@brent.gov.uk

EMAIL

cllr.ann.hunter@brent.gov.uk

Roxanne Mashari

Jayesh Mistry

Lesley Jones

LABOUR

LABOUR

LABOUR

c/o Labour Group Office, Brent Town Hall, Forty Lane, Wembley, Middx, HA9 9HD

3 Turton Road, Wembley, Middx HA0 2BS

6 Hamilton Road, London NW10 1NX

MOB

MOB

07984 970 752

EMAIL

쏽 020 8452 3086

07882 410 514

EMAIL

cllr.jayesh.mistry@brent.gov.uk

EMAIL

cllr.lesley.jones@brent.gov.uk

cllr.roxanne.mashari@brent.gov.uk

Habhajan Singh

Wilhelmina Mitchell Murray

Gavin Sneddon

LABOUR

LABOUR

LIBERAL DEMOCRAT

311 East Lane, Wembley, Middx, HA0 3LG

102 Abbots Drive, Wembley, Middx HA0 3SQ

7B Strode Road, London NW10 2NN

쏽 020 8904 0224 EMAIL

cllr.harbhajan.singh@brent.gov.uk

MOB

쏽 020 8357 2691

07974 190 849

EMAIL

cllr.gavin.sneddon@brent.gov.uk

EMAIL

cllr.wilhemina.mitchellmurray@brent.gov.uk

www.brent.gov/democracy

For surgery details you can also call the group offices: Labour 020 8937 1127, Conservative 020 8937 1110, Liberal Democrat 020 8937 1133 or log onto our website.

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Dollis Hill

Tokyngton

Dudden Hill

Wembley Central

Willesden Green

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Let talents flower Wonderful gardening is being put forward for the Brent in Bloom competition this month.

Now is the season for gardeners and the green-fingered to take up their trowels and sharpen their secateurs. Brent in Bloom is back.

The annual competition, run by Brent Council to applaud amateur gardeners and to raise awareness about our local environment, is open for entries from 1 June with the deadline on 25 June. Anyone can put forward their best gardening whether it is a window box, hanging baskets outside a shop, or displays in a front garden.

Brent in Bloom 2010 has seven separate categories: front garden seasonal planting, front garden permanent planting, container planting, business and public premises, shared gardens, school gardens and a neighbourhood award.There will also be an outstanding achievement award from the judges to one excellent gardener.

The neighbourhood category is for small, resident-led groups which are just starting to ‘green up’ their local areas by improving their streets, gardens and open spaces.

“Brent in Bloom is the first stage for the borough to enter two competitions run by the Royal Horticultural Society.”

Judging will be in the first two weeks of July and judges will be looking for design, colour and plant quality when giving out their marks.There is a trophy and gift vouchers to be won in each category. Last year NW2 Residents’ Association won the neighbourhood award, BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir the business category, and Wembley resident John Philippou was first

in front garden permanent planting.

Brent in Bloom is the first stage for the borough to enter two competitions run by the Royal Horticultural Society: London in Bloom and Britain in Bloom. Britain in Bloom is judged over two years with the regional category winners in year one becoming finalists in the national competition the following year. London in Bloom is one of the eighteen regional heats. Last year Brent won a Silver Gilt Award in London in Bloom. This year we want Brent to win a London gold and make the Britain in Bloom finals in 2011.

To help, the Brent competition is embracing the society’s theme of local roots to encourage more community involvement in our neighbourhood category. The award ceremony for Brent in Bloom will be held in October.

John Philippou in his Wembley garden, picture by Isabelle Plasschaert.

To enter download an application form from www.brent.gov.uk/parks call 020 8937 5619 or contact Brent in Bloom Competition, Brent Council Parks Service 660 Harrow Road, Wembley, Middlesex HA0 2HB.

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CELEBRATE CARERS WEEK MONDAY 14 JUNE

Brent Carers Week launch Carers are invited to attend the launch of Brent Carers Week, activities including: workshops and information stalls, dancing and therapeutic taster sessions.

10am-3.30pm,The Crown Moran Hotel, 142-152 Cricklewood Broadway, London NW2 3ED TEL 020 8795 6240 email@brentcarerscentre.org.uk Gym, sauna & steam WOMEN ONLY 11am-2pm Bridge Park Hi-lo aerobics 9.30-10.30am Pilates 10-11am Body condition WOMEN ONLY 10.30-11.30am Over 50+ workout 1.30-3pm Yoga 6-7pm Pool 12noon-6pm Health suite 6.30am-12noon & 1-4pm Willesden Sports Centre Ballroom dancing 2.30pm-1.30pm Active life 1-3pm Pool 12noon-7pm Aquafit 12.30pm-1.30pm Vale Farm Sports Centre, Watford Road, HA0 3HG Tuesday 15 June CV workshops for carers 2-4pm Harlesden Library Plus, Craven Park Road, Harlesden NW10 TEL 020 8937 3570 CV workshops for carers 3.30-5.30pm Preston Library, Carlton Avenue East, Wembley Middx TEL 020 8937 3510 Street dance (16+) 7.30-8.30pm; Gym, sauna & steam 11am-2pm Bridge Park Pilates 11am -12 noon Active life 1.30-2.30pm Charteris Sports Centre Hatha yoga 7-8am Body condition WOMEN ONLY 1-2pm Pilates WOMEN ONLY 2-3pm Body conditioning 8-9pm Pool 12noon-6pm Health suite 6.30am-12noon & 1-4pm Junior Harpers (11-17yrs gym) 4-5pm Willesden Sports Centre Aerotone 9.45am-11am Pool 12noon-4pm Legs, bums & tums 7.30-8.30pm Vale Farm Sports Centre

A week of free activities for Brent’s carers 14-20 June 2010 WEDNESDAY 16 JUNE Flower arranging 10am-12noon Barham Park Library, Harrow Road, Sudbury Middx TEL 020 8937 3550 barhamparklibrary@brent.gov.uk Mid week burner 12.30-1.30pm Gym, sauna & steam 11am-2pm Bridge Park Yoga introduction 7.15-7.30pm Yoga 7.30-8.30pm Charteris Sports Centre Body conditioning 9.30-10.30am Body balance 10.30-11.30am Aqua (50+) 12.30-1.30pm 50+ workout 1.30-3pm Body balance 6-7.15pm African dance 7.30-8.30pm Pool 9am-6pm Health suite 6.30-12noon & 1-4pm Willesden Sports Centre Low impact & tone 9.30-10.45am Body Pump 11am-12noon Pool 12noon-4pm Movement & dance 1-2.30pm Vale Farm Sports Centre

All events need to be booked in advance – please book early to avoid disappointment.

To make a booking call 020 8937 3673/4051 or email carersweek@brent. gov.uk unless otherwise stated in the listing.

For more information contact Fay Austin on 020 8937 4051.

THURSDAY 17 JUNE

FRIDAY 18 JUNE

Gym, sauna & steam WOMEN ONLY 11am-2pm Bridge Park Hatha yoga 9.30-11am, 6.30-7.30pm Body condition WOMEN ONLY Pool 9am-6pm Health suite 6.30am-12noon Health suite 1-4pm Health suite WOMEN ONLY 5-9.30pm Junior Harpers (11-17yrs gym) 4-5pm Willesden Sports Centre Complete workout 9.45-11am Active life 9.45am-12noon Pool 12noon-4pm Vale Farm Sports Centre Entertainment day 10am-4pm Asian People Disability Alliance, Alric Avenue, London NW10 CONTACT Sheila Karania TEL 020 8902 2136 carersproject@hotmail.com Pampering day 10am-4pm Elders Voice, Mortimer Road, London NW10 TEL 020 8206 7511 elainef@eldersvoice.org.uk Reflexology / Indian head massage 10-12noon Town Hall Library, Brent Town Hall,Forty Lane, Wembley Middx TEL 020 8937 3500 townhalllibrary@brent.gov.uk Reflexology / Indian head massage 1.30-3pm Willesden Green Library TEL 020 8937 3400 willesdengreenlibary@brent.gov.uk

Watercolour taster session 10-12noon Willesden Green Library TEL 020 8937 3400 willesdengreenlibary@brent.gov.uk Gym, sauna & steam WOMEN ONLY 11-2pm Active life 50+ 3-4pm Bridge Park Active life OVER 50S CLASS 3pm-4pm Charteris Sports Centre Pilates 10-11am Body Condition 10.30-11.30am Aqua (50yrs+) 12.30-1.30pm Pool 9am-6pm Health Suite WOMEN ONLY 1-4pm Willesden Sports Centre Pilates 8-9am Yoga 10-11am Pool 12noon-4pm Aquafit 12.30-1.30pm Vale Farm Sports Centre Afternoon matinee cinema ONLY 10 SEATS AVAILABLE Tricycle Theatre, Kilburn High Road, London NW6

VENUES Bridge Park Community Leisure Centre, Harrow Road, London NW10 ORG Charteris Sports Centre 24-30 Charteris Road, Kilburn NW6 7ET Willesden Sports Centre Donnington Road, Willesden NW10 3QX Vale Farm Sports Centre Watford Road, HA0 3HG Willesden Green Library Centre High Road, Willesden, London NW10 2SF

www.brent.gov.uk/carersweek

SATURDAY 19 JUNE Weekend burner 10-11am Belly dancing 11-12noon Bridge Park Pilates introduction 9.15-9.30am Pilates 9.30-10.30am Charteris Sports Centre Hatha yoga 12.15-1.45pm Pool 8am-6pm Health suite 8am12noon Drop in girls basketball (5-16yrs) 1-3pm Junior Harpers 4-5pm (11-17yrs gym) INDUCTION NECESSARY

Willesden Sports Centre Pool 8am-6pm Vale Farm Sports Centre

SUNDAY 20 JUNE Legs, bums & tums 10.30-11.30am Bridge Park Body condition 11am-12pm Drop in trampolining (16-18yrs) 9-10am Adult drop in trampolining 10-11am Pool 8am-6pm Pool WOMEN ONLY 6-8pm Health suite 8am-12 noon Health suite WOMEN ONLY 6-8pm Aqua WOMEN ONLY 6-7pm Willesden Sports Centre Pool 8am-4pm Yoga 9.15-10.45am Vale Farm Sports Centre

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Brent Carers’ Week will be saying thank you to people who look after others by offering them a break, courses and activities in June. Words by ORLA SEDZE.

For many, a baby is a life changing experience, but for Kieran O’Donnell the birth of his youngest son Jack gave his life a new direction.

Jack, who is now six, was diagnosed with cerebral palsy soon after birth, meaning he has limited movement in both his arms and legs and uses a standing frame or wheelchair to get around. For Kieran, it meant giving up a high-profile career in recruitment in central London so that he could look after Jack full-time. Kieran and his wife became two of the estimated 20,000 people in Brent who are carers.

“I became a carer to Jack when he was a little older and had become quite heavy,” explains Kieran. “We have to lift and carry him a lot, we live in a flat and

Brent Carers’Week to offer advice and support to those who care for young people.This month from June 14-20, Brent Council has helped to organise Brent Carers’Week, offering free classes, trips, walks and talks especially for carers.The activities are free, but places are limited so you must book to attend the events. If necessary, Brent can arrange for someone to care for your friend or family member while you take part in an activity.

“I wasn’t aware of the support services that were available and I would encourage carers to seek out this information and come along to carers’ week,” Kieran added.

For more information on Brent Carers’ Week contact 020 8937 4300 or to join 1 Voice, visit www.1voicebrent.com

he’s a big boy so it’s not easy, I also help him get dressed.

“Having Jack had a dramatic influence on our life. My job is to mainly support Jack’s movement and physical needs.

Whoever you’re caring for you want the best for them. At the end of the day I’m Jack’s dad and I will do anything to make sure he has the best in life whether that’s services, support or opportunity.”

Having Jack has brought a new focus to Kieran’s life and he recently set up 1 Voice, a parent and carer forum in the borough that works with Brent Council to promote the wellbeing of disabled children, young adults and their families and carers. Last year 1 Voice attended

Kieran and Jack O’Donnell.

Pictures by Carmen Klammer.

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Invest in your community Brent Council is now inviting applications from voluntary and community groups to undertake community engagement and leadership initiatives and capacity building projects aimed at the Muslim community in Brent. .

Brent Council funds a wide range of projects benefiting the borough’s diverse communities but this particular government funding is available to the Muslim community. As part of the third round the council will award funding for projects that can clearly demonstrate how they will work with at least one of the following groups: • Mosques • Muslim parents

• Somali community • Afghan community

• Revert community • Muslim women

The closing date for applications is 30 June 2010.

For an application pack or further information please contact Mustafa Field on 020 8937 1099 or email mustafa.field@brent.gov.uk or Amanda Lee on 020 8937 1069 or email amanda.lee@brent.gov.uk

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Amazing

War-Dens In 1937 the Second World War was looming. Hitler’s Luftwaffe had dropped high explosive and fire bombs on civilian areas during the Spanish Civil War. Ernest Trobridge, an architect who lived at Hayland in Kingsbury at the time, turned his thoughts to how local people could be protected from air raids.

So, early in 1938 he applied to Wembley Council for permission to build houses in Slough Lane ‘incorporating the WAR-DEN fortified garage’. Though never built, they show another facet of his extraordinary ideas.

The plans were for a pair of semi-detached houses, which would be built above and around a reinforced concrete capsule.

Normally, this would provide a garage for each house, but in wartime it would be converted into an air-raid shelter for 80 people. Canvas seats, like upright deckchairs, would be lowered on frames from the ceiling.

Trobridge’s design had the thickness of concrete – the recommended protection from 250kg bombs – and some unique features. There were two slabs of concrete above the shelter, separated by a bed of packed sand. The sand was held in place by safety valve brickwork, which would have collapsed if the house took a direct hit, cushioning the slab’s descent onto

Ernest Trobridge designed homes with special air-raid shelters as well as his well-known thatched houses and flats resembling castles, says PHILIP GRANT.

the roof of the air-raid shelter capsule below. Beneath the floor of the shelter there would be two further rafts of concrete, each separated by shock absorbing foundations.

Another feature in the design was a ventilation system. It used the chimney stacks for flue inlets with fans which would deliver fresh air into the shelter, while other flues would take away stale air. This system would have been a life-saver in the case of a gas attack.

Trobridge’s plans were eventually approved.

He calculated that the extra costs of building the fortified garage could be funded by the homeowners and local people who wanted to use the shelter in time of war paying a yearly rent per seat.

It may have been difficulties in arranging finance which stopped these two houses from being built.

Trobridge also applied in May 1938 to add a fortified garage to his own home, with a thatched roof on top of the concrete. However, like his earlier plans the 40 person air-raid shelter at Hayland, for his family and neighbours, was never built.

To see the designs visit ‘Ernest Trobridge: Visionary of the Suburbs’ at Brent Museum in Willesden Green Library Centre until 19 September, call 020 8937 3600.

Right: elevations of the houses with the proposed shelters and, below, some text from Trobridge’s notebook. Pictures courtesy of Brent Archives.

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The active course

Children taking part in the Brent MEND scheme, pictures by Isabelle Plasschaert.

Fun exercise classes, recipe tasting and a supermarket tour are among the activities young people and their families can enjoy on the Brent MEND programme which aims to help overweight and obese children.

Local youngsters aged between seven and ten, and their families, are now wanted for a free ten-week course, starting on 19 July, and future programmes. The scheme, funded by Brent Council, NHS Brent and the Big Lottery Fund, aims to get the whole family making healthier choices.

Parents are offered support and advice on everything from bullying to diet and personal development at the two-hour sessions which are run twice a week by MEND trained nutritionists, sports coaches and other health professionals. Participating families get fruit and vegetable vouchers, funded by ASDA, to help make healthier choices more affordable.

Cynthia Chellar and her seven-yearold daughter, Jade Harris, have made big changes to their eating habits since completing the course. “Shopping takes ages now because we like to read the labels on food together,” said Cynthia.

“Jade is very keen to make sure she gets

Youngsters are getting fitter and healthier thanks to the Mind, Exercise, Nutrition, Do it (MEND) programme in Brent.

Words RACHEL GARDNER five pieces of fruit or vegetables a day. She loved the exercise part of the programme.

At first she would be red-faced when she’d finished but by the end of ten weeks she was skipping through the exercises.”

Brent Council’s Child Health Support Officer, Marimba Cameron, helps coordinate the MEND programme in the borough. She said: “Rather than telling families what to do, the course lets them make informed choices about their lifestyles and gives them the confidence to make improvements to their diet, fitness levels and overall health.”

Families receive continued support to help them sustain the changes they have made during the ten-week programme.

Activities include swimming lessons, a term’s attendance at SportsCoach, leisure centre visits, and healthy cooking workshops. If you live in Brent and have children aged seven to ten who could benefit, you might be eligible; however, you need to commit to a two-hour session twice a week and a parent or carer must accompany each child.

Places are first come, first served.

Call Marimba on 020 8937 3055 email her marimba.cameron@brent.gov.uk or visit www.mendprogramme.org for more.

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What’s going on…

The essential guide to music, drama, sport, workshops and much more. Find out what’s going on in Brent during June 2010. To get your event listed email tbm@brent.gov.uk or telephone 020 8937 1068.

CHILDREN AIR CADETS Mon and Thurs 7pm 406 Squadron Willesden 020 8451 0406 ARTALIKE Sats 10am term-time; Sats 10am-noon ARTTEEN 7-14 £5, Kensal Rise 07946 755 847 ART CLASSES Mini Picassos for children aged 4-6 yrs and 7-11yrs; toddler Picassos 15 months-3 yrs, Gracelands Cafe, Kensal Green 07903 638 817 BRENT MUSEUM 1-6 June relics’ trail – pick up a trail sheet outside the museum; find the objects and get a certificate; 1 June 2pm4pm Trobridge Streetscapes use drawing techniques to create a 3D street scene, booking essential; 2-4 June 10am12noon Three Little Pigs storytelling, collage and model-making inspired by nursery rhymes and fairytales, booking essential. Brent Museum Willesden Green Library Centre 020 8937 3600 emma.tutton@ brent.gov.uk

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DANIEL’S DEN Mons 1pm-3pm, Thurs 9.30am-11am, 11.30am1pm, Tues 10am-noon St MIchael and All Angels Church, Hillside, StonebrIdge, Fris 9.30am11am, 11.30am-1pm St Michael’s Church Hall, St Michael’s Ave, Tokyngton Tues, 1pm-3pm, Gladstone Park Primary School, Dollis Hill www.danielsden.org.uk DRAMA WORKSHOPS Sats 7-16 yrs Duddenhill Centre, NW10 07958 653 725 11TH BRONDESBURY GUIDES Tues, 6pm for girls aged 10-14 in Willesden 07810 653 225 FAWOOD CHILDREN’S CENTRE Mons, Tues & Fris 9.30am-11.30am under 5s pop in and play, Weds 9.30am-11.30am childminder’s network, Fawood Avenue NW10 020 8965 9334 FOREST UNITED Suns 10.30pm-12.30pm football for girls and boys aged 6-10; all standards Tenterden Sports Ground near Preston Road Tube www.forestunited. co.uk/home 07778 859 159 FRENCH CLASSES Weds, Thurs after-school in Kensal Rise ages 5-11; 07753 693 720 GIRLS’ BRIGADE Weds 5.15pm-8.30pm for five-year-olds and upwards, Queensbury Methodist Church, Beverley Drive 07961 321 237 LONDON IRISH MUSIC SCHOOL Sats, traditional Irish music for under 14s; Oliver Goldsmith Primary, 020 8205 7231 MINI-SOCCER Suns Year 3 9.45am10.45am Year 4-Year 6 10.45am-12noon Uxendon Manor School, Vista Way, Kenton, 6 weeks £30, call George Lappas 07957 229 518

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MONKEY MUSIC Thurs children aged 3 months – 3 years; St James’s Church Centre, Stanley Avenue, Alperton www.monkeymusic. co.uk 01895 674 587 MUM AND TODDLER Thurs 10am-12noon, Preston Mall Community Centre, Kenton £2 020 8204 1148 PARENT AND CARER TODDLER GROUP Thurs 9am-10.30am 50p Barham Primary, Danethorpe Road, Wembley 020 8902 3706 PARENT AND BABY WALK Tues, 10.30am Roundwood Park, NW10 07958 292 524 PIONEER EXPLORER SCOUTS Weds 8am-10pm for 1418 years, Stember Hall, Leighton Gardens, NW10 01582 703121 SEA TRAINING CORPS Thurs 7.15pm-9.15pm Sea Pirates 7-9 yrs; Thurs 7.15pm-9.15pm juniors; Mons and Fris 7.15pm-9.30pm Sea Cadets; Mons and Fris 7.15pm-9.30pm Marine Cadets; youth group for boys and girls, Cool Oak Lane, NW9 020 8205 4492 www.seacadet.org 7TH BRONDESBURY BROWNIES Tues 6pm for girls aged 7-10 in Willesden 07810 653 225 SING AND SIGN CLASSES Mon-Fri, for babies 6-18 months. Willesden Green & Kensal Rise 07790 955 576 SOCCER TRAINING Fris 6pm-8pm, for children, first session free Capital City Academy NW10 mdipaola@ cyworks.co.uk SPLASH FOOTBALL Sats 10am-12pm, ages 5-15. Claremont High School, Claremont Avenue, Kenton, £30 for 5 weeks 07863 165 737

WILLESDEN DISTRICT SCOUTS Groups throughout Willesden for young people aged 6-18, adult volunteers needed 0208 459 3737 enquiries@willesden scouts.org.uk

COMMUNITY ART AUCTION 8 June 6-10pm Special Yoga Centre, Wrentham Avenue, NW10 contemporary art auction for charity 020 8968 1900 emmacrawford@ specialyoga.org.uk WEMBLEY AND DISTRICT SCOTTISH ASSOCIATION 7 June AGM, 14 June annual dinner Church of the Ascension, Wembley 020 8866 2841 BRENT AND HARROW NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WIDOWS 8 June 8pm games evening, 22 June 8pm restaurant dinner evening call Rhona, 76 Marlborough Hill, Harrow 020 8969 3198 BRENT VOLUNTEER CENTRE 2 June 4pm-8pm ‘Match, Munch, Mingle’ for people who want to volunteer and voluntary organisations; Scout House, Strode Road, Willesden 020 8438 1531 MIDDLESEX ITEC GCSE Tuition in Math/English/Science for 14-19 years call Middlesex ITEC 020 900 0505 MOSAIC Weds, for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender young people aged under 19 07931 33668 NORTH WEST LONDON LESBIAN AND GAY GROUP Mons 8.30pm, Tenterden Sports Centre, Preston Road, Wembley 07941 707 884 OVER 50S DISCUSSION GROUP Tues 11am-12.30pm The Gallery, Willesden Green Library 020 8452 8739

PAPILLON Weds 11am-1pm drop-in advice for survivors of childhood sexual abuse; particular support for people of African and Afro-Caribbean heritage; Chalkhill Community Centre, Chalkhill Road, Wembley 07594 795 266 papillon8@rocketmail. com ST LUKE’S HOSPICE 11 June 10.30pm Ladies’ Midnight Walk, starts Harrow Leisure Centre with warm-up; nine-mile route through Harrow Weald, Stanmore, Kingsbury and Kenton.

Entry £20 includes T-shirt and breakfast midnightwalk@stlukes-hospice.org 020 8382 8023 27 June Swimtastic at David Lloyd Health Club, Sudbury; swim up to 40 lengths in an hour; prizes, entry £7 adults, £4 concessions, £20 for a team of 4 020 8382 8018 jvshah@ stlukes-hospice.org SUMMER FAIR 27 June 12noon-4pm Mapesbury Dell Summer Fair featuring wildlife animal show, tombola, food and drink, barbeque, entrance Hoveden Road, off Walm Lane, NW2 www.mapesbury-dell .org 020 8438 2958.

TAMIL READING GROUP 12 June 2.30pm-4pm Brent Town Hall Library 020 8937 3500 UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE Courses, talks and workshops 020 8933 7558 www.brentu3a.org.uk VOCALITY WILLESDEN COMMUNITY CHOIR Mons 8pm-10pm, open to all; first session free, singing gospel, African, pop and more, Willesden Green Library Centre, Space 2 (upstairs), 95 High Road, Willesden, NW10 call Catherine Dyson 07985 094 322 catherine@vocalitysing ing.co.uk www.vocality singing.co.uk WILLESDEN GREEN WRITERS GROUP Thurs 8pm-10pm Willesden Green Library Centre www.willesden greenwriters.com WOMEN’S POETRY GROUP 16 June 7pm led by published writer and performance poet The Hub, All Souls Church Hall, Station Road, Harlesden 07896 366 485 ursulatroche@yahoo.co.uk

WOMEN’S INSTITUTE NORTH WEST LONDON 3 June 7.30pm upstairs North London Tavern, 375 Kilburn High Road NW6 nwlwi@hotmail.com BIG TIDY UP 13 June help clean up the Cricklewood neighbourhood, organised by North West Two Residents’ Association 07786 194 948 northwesttwo@ googlemail.com KING’S HALL COMMUNITY CENTRE 19 June 2pm-4.30pm traditional summer fete; cream teas, raffle, tombola, games and fun for all ages 155 Harlesden Road, Willesden 020 8459 3487 OPEN DAY 19 June 11am-4pm St Michael’s The Archangel Church, St Michael’s Avenue, Tokyngton; photos and church history, refreshments call Reverend Peter Harnden 020 8902 3290

CRAFT FLOWER ARRANGING Weds, 8pm Kingsbury Horticultural Association, The Pavilion, Old Kenton Lane Allotments 020 8205 3457 WEMBLEY QUILTERS 11, 25 June 7.30pm9.30pm, Perivale Community Centre, Horsenden Lane 020 8902 9934

DANCE ADULT BEGINNERS BALLET COURSE Until 14 July Weds 6.30pm-7.30pm The Corrib Rest, 76-80 Salusbury Rd, NW6 6PA 07956 260 108 www.balletforyou.co.uk ADULT STREET DANCE Tues, 7.30pm-8.30pm, £5.15 New Bridge Park Centre, Stonebridge 020 8937 3730 BALLROOM AND LATIN DANCE Mons 7.45pm Fris 7pm, Weds 7.45pm (salsa), Thurs 7.45pm (tango) Arthur Murray Dance Studio, 242 Kilburn High Road 020 7624 3331 www.dance-arthur murray.co.uk CLUB CEROC Tues 8pm-11pm entry £7 plus £3 lifetime membership and a free beginner’s DVD Brent Town Hall, Forty Lane, Wembley HA9, www.clubceroc.com 020 8933 4350

TIMEout BELLY DANCING Mons 7.30pm-8.30pm (beginners), 8.30pm9.30pm (improvers) £48 for 6 weeks £8 drop-in Fitness First 492-498 High Rd, Wembley, www.hayaam.com 07855 362 849 Tues 8.30pm-10pm NY Pilates Studio, Lonsdale Rd NW6 020 7372 3490 Sats 2pm-3pm 105 Salusbury Road NW6, £7 per lesson or £50 for 8 sessions to be used within 3 months eliftarakci@yahoo.co.uk BOLLYWOOD AND SEMI-CLASSICAL INDIAN Suns 11.15am-12.15pm Fitness First 197 Alperton Road 07930 593 988 rupal@classic-creations .info LINE DANCING Fris 6.15pm-7.15pm, free, beginners, Chalkhill Community Centre, 113 Chalkhill Road, Wembley 020 8976 1099 SALSA Mons, 7.30pm-8.30pm Mambo City salsa at £6 St Joseph’s Social Club, Empire Way, Wembley salsa@mambocity.co.uk Fris 7.30pm-8.30pm Willesden Sports Centre Thurs 8.15-9.30pm £4.50, Vale Farm Sports Centre 07961 281 989 Thurs 8pm-midnight, salsa and social dancing with Latin Flavors at Peri Peri Sports Bar, £5 Wembley Park Drive info@latinflavors.co.uk SELF EXPRESSIVE DANCE Tues 8pm-9.30pm, £7.50, Holy Innocents Church Hall, Bacon Lane 020 8205 6751 SEQUENCE AND TEA DANCING Mons Tues 2pm-4pm £1.50 all ages welcome King’s Hall Community Centre 155 Harlesden Road, Willesden 020 8459 3487

DRAMA CHAMELEONS Mons and Thurs 8pm, amateur dramatics Neasden Methodist Church, NW10 07968 965 038 DRAMA WORKHOUSE Tues & Weds 8pm-10pm for adults Dudden Hill Centre, NW10 07958 653 725 MADHATTERS Weds 8pm amateur dramatics, Stables Arts Centre, Gladstone Park, Dollis Hill Lane.

020 8452 5239

ENVIRONMENT BARNHILL CONSERVATION GROUP 6 June 10am Summers Croft, meet at Pilgrims Way; 13 June 10am Hay Meadow survey, meet at Bush Farm; 20 June 10am Hay Meadow survey and orchard, meet at Bush Farm; 27 June 10am Hay Meadow survey and Gotfords Pond, meet at entrance to Fryent Country Park 020 8206 0589 www.bhcg.ik.com KENSAL RISE MARKET Sats, 10am-5pm, outside Minkie’s Deli, Chamberlayne Road, NW10 07807 057 808 KINGSBURY WALKERS Weds 1.55pm, Meet Bush Farm, Slough Lane and Salmon Street junction 020 8907 2836 WELSH HARP CONSERVATION GROUP 13 June 10am walk to discover nesting terns, wildfowl and butterflies in the breeding season 020 8447 1810

EXHIBITIONS ARTISAN 4-26 June Weds-Sats 11am-5pm ‘Journey’ photography and mixed media exhibition by Margaret Cooter and Tony Wallis inspired by Arizona, Holy Island and other faraway places; 80 Harlesden Road, NW10 www.artisan80.com 020 8451 6315

BRENT MUSEUM Until 16 Sep ‘Visionary of the Suburbs’ life and work of the architect extraordinaire EG Trobridge, Willesden Green Library Centre, Willesden High Road 020 8937 3600 BRENT ARTISTS REGISTER Until 18 June ‘Flick’n’Click Art’ artworks inspired by film posters; 23 June – 15 July ‘Work, Rest and Play’ GCSE artwork by Queens Park Commmunity School pupils TheWall@ TheGallery; The Gallery Willesden Green Library Centre 020 8459 1421 info@brentartists resource.org.uk STABLES GALLERY Until 6 June Wembley Art Society members’ show, Gladstone Park, Dollis Hill Lane 020 8452 8655

LOCAL HISTORY BRENT MUSEUM 24 June 6.30pm ‘Neo-Tudor-on-Sea: The Creation of Thorpeness’ Alan Powers from the University of Greenwich presents the history of Thorpeness, Suffolk, contemporary with the work of Ernest Trobridge.

Brent Museum, Willesden Green Library Centre 020 8937 3600 WEMBLEY HISTORY SOCIETY 18 June 7.30pm ‘Showbiz Brent’ by Terry Lomas St Andrew’s Church Hall, Church Lane, Kingsbury 020 8205 3263 WILLESDEN LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY 16 June 7.30pm annual general meeting and slide show or film about Willesden Scout House, Strode Road NW10 020 8965 7230 cliffwadsworth@ btinternet.com

MUSIC GUITAR LESSONS Mon-Sun, Kensal Rise all levels welcome, £25 per hour. Contact Udi 07528 016 583, www.udiguitar.com Mon-Sun Kilburn and Queens Park, all levels welcome, guitar, music theory; £20 per lesson, call Irene 07948 430 282 JAZZ Suns 8pm-10pm, Hugo’s, Lonsdale Road, Queen’s Park www.jazz7.co.uk 020 7372 1232 PIANO LESSONS Mon-Sun, all grades from beginner to advanced, £20 per hour, Cricklewood, call Edgardo Plasencia 020 8450 1067 SUFI DRUMMING Sats 11.30am-1.30pm £5, eight years and above, Chalkhill Community Centre 07954 601 372 www.silkroads.co.uk

SPORTS & LEISURE BRONDESBURY BOWLING CLUB Evenings and daytime including free tuition, Chatsworth Road 020 8438 0302 BROTHERS PEARSE CAMOGIE CLUB Ladies’ hurling club, all levels welcome, call Mary Cahill 07904 685 276 CENTURY BOWLS CLUB Indoor and outdoor bowls, free coaching available, social actitivities, Logan Road, Wembley 020 8904 3261

FUN AND FITNESS Tues 8pm-9pm ladies only all levels exercise class; £4 Kingsbury Baptists Church hall, Slough Lane, NW9 07944 523 260 LADIES KEEP FIT Weds 7.30pm-8.30pm Mandhata Centre, 20a Rosemead Avenue, Wembley 07930 593 988 rupal@classic-creations .info PILATES Mons 7pm-8pm, Sats 10-11am Living Well Health Club, Wembley Plaza Hotel, Empire Way, £5 07903 937 909 PRESTON PARK BOWLS CLUB New members welcome, free coaching and loan of bowls Preston Park Recreation Ground, Carlton Avenue East 020 8933 9358 020 8427 1590 QUEENS PARK HARRIERS Tues & Thurs 7pm-8pm, Willesden Sport Centre www.queenspark harriers.org.uk SHORINJI KEMPO MARTIAL ART Tues 8pm-9.30pm Church of Ascension, The Avenue, Wembley; Fris 7.30-9pm at St Erconwald’s Church Hall, 112 Carlton Avenue East, Wembley 07404 039 087 SOUTH HAMPSTEAD TENNIS CLUB Mon-Sun experienced players welcome; looking for players to play in top divisions of Middlesex League and Cup, Milverton Road Brondesbury, NW6 webmaster@southhamp steadtennis.net call Cynthia Felix 07540 609 641 SUDBURY COURT BADMINTON CLUB Thurs 8pm-10pm, The Mall, Kingsbury 020 8904 6698 TAEKWONDO Mons 7pm-9pm, Sat 10am-11am Holy Innocents Church Hall, Bacon Lane Kingsbury 07799 546 428 TAI CHI Tues, 6.30pm-8pm beginners, 8.30pm-9pm advanced, St Anne’s hall, 125 Salusbury Rd, NW6 07939 043 580 Weds, 1.30pm-2.30pm, £2 over 55s, beginners, gentle movements (health questionnaire must be completed first) Fitness First, Kingsbury 07957 185 367

TAEKWONDO Tues 6pm-9pm, Thurs 6-7.30pm, Ealing Road Methodist Church 07832 447 763 Mons 6.30pm-8pm, Weds 6.30-8pm, Cardinal Hinsley School NW10 07832 447 763 WEMBLEY AND SUDBURY TENNIS AND SQUASH CLUB Social and competitive play; active juniors, Sylvester Road, off Harrowdene Road.

020 8998 3677 020 8902 8098.

WEMBLEY CRICKET CLUB Men’s, boys’ and girls’ cricket teams, coaching for girls and boys Sats 10am-11am at Oakington Manor School, Wembley 020 8902 6096 020 8904 2644 WOODCOCK PARK BOWLING CLUB Weds 6pm for new and seasoned bowlers, free coaching, Woodcock Park, Kenton 020 8907 2701 YOGA Mons-Suns beginners and advanced classes in hatha and dynamic flow yoga; pre and post natal and children’s classes; Special Yoga Centre 2a Wrentham Ave, Kensal Rise, 020 8968 1900 www.specialyoga.org.uk Mons 6.30pm-7.30 pm, Thurs 7-8pm, Sun 1112noon, special Jan course £60, drop-in £10 Gladstone Community Centre, 162 Anson Road 07901 650 763 Mons 1pm-2pm, Sats 910am, £2,50 per lesson Dudden Hill Centre, Dudden Hill Lane, NW10 020 8459 1107 Weds 10.30am-12.30pm Dudden Hill Community Centre, 19 Dudden Hill Lane, NW10 bhakti yoga free classes, call Karano 020 8450 9603 07913 897 406

VISUAL ARTS ART CLASSES until 29 June Tues 7pm9pm (half-term 1 June) drawing and painting with water-based materials for all, over 15s, £24 concessions or £28.

Classes at Brent Artists Resource, Willesden Green Library Centre, call Mary Treherne after 12noon 020 8141 6367

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VENUES BRENT MUSEUM BRENT MUSEUM High Road NW10 020 8937 3600 museum@brent.gov.uk BRENT ARCHIVES Ist Floor, Willesden Green Library Centre, NW10 020 8937 3541 archive@brent.gov.uk PAUL DAISLEY HALL Forty Lane, Wembley, Middx HA9 Box Office 020 8937 6206/6203 STABLES GALLERY ARTS CENTRE Gladstone Park, Dollis Hill Lane, London NW2 020 8452 8655 Thursday – Sunday 11am-6pm TRICYCLE THEATRE CINEMA AND GALLERY 269 Kilburn High Road,London NW6 Theatre Box Office 020 7328 1000 Cinema Box Office 020 7328 1900 Disabled access to auditorium and cafe induction loop in auditorium Minicom 020 7625 5105 WEMBLEY ARENA Box Office 0870 060 0870 www.livenation.co.uk/wembley

LIBRARIES Barham Park Library Harrow Road, Sudbury, Middx 020 8937 3550 barhamparklibrary@brent.gov.uk Cricklewood Library 152 Olive Road NW2 020 8937 3540 cricklewoodlibrary@brent.gov.uk Ealing Road Library Ealing Road, Wembley, Middx 020 8937 3560 ealingroadlibrary@brent.gov.uk Harlesden Library Plus Craven Park Road, Harlesden, London NW10 020 8937 3570 harlesdenlibrary@brent.gov.uk Kensal Rise Library Bathurst Gardens, NW10 020 8937 3660 kensalriselibrary@brent.gov.uk Kilburn Library Salusbury Road, London NW6 020 8937 3530 kilburnlibrary@brent.gov.uk Kingsbury Library Plus Kingsbury Road, Kingsbury, London NW9 020 8937 3520 kingsburylibrary@brent.gov.uk Neasden Library Plus 277 Neasden Lane, London NW1 020 8937 3580 neasdenlibrary@brent.gov.uk Preston Road Library Carlton Avenue East, Wembley, Middx 020 8937 3510 prestonlibrary@brent.gov.uk Tokyngton Library Monks Park, Wembley, Middx 020 8937 3590 tokyngtonlibrary@brent.gov.uk Town Hall Library Brent Town Hall, Forty Lane, Wembley, Middx 020 8937 3500 townhalllibrary@brent.gov.uk Willesden Green Library High Road, Willesden, London NW10 020 8937 3400 willesdengreenlibrary@brent.gov.uk THE BRENT MAGAZINE

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