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Performing Arts in Ealing, On Your Bike!, Warren Farm and more...

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M e et t he Te a m Jamie Anson Designer & Writer

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I have worked in all sides of NP on and off for the last 3 years. I spend the winters following my huge passion for skiing, chasing my life goal of living in the mountains. I have spent years travelling around the mountains all over the world searching for a place that matches my simple criteria for settling down in.

I am looking for a town with lots of exciting things going on, a strong community spirit with a good splash of joie de vivre. Ealing is my benchmark of what I am looking for and the more I look for somewhere similar the more appreciative I am of our wonderful borough.

My latest contributions to NP are in writing business related articles which are designed to encourage growth and engagement of new businesses in our area. I am highlighting the exciting new ideas which can grow stronger communities and businesses. This has been inspired by the findings of my own business development while setting up a guidebook called Bobs Ski & Snowboard Guide (for the uninitiated and foolish) which is due for release in October on the iPad.

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The crumbling heritage buildings on the land require immense investment to repair and restore them. Recently a sell off of the small mansion and 0.8 acres of land as a private school on a 200 year lease was proposed. Fortunately the property developers pulled out but it seems similar deals will be needed to help finance restoration. Maybe it’s acceptable to sacrifice the small mansion in this way but hotel, catering or residential use would

A Voice for Performing Arts in Ealing

By John H ummerston, Chair of CEPAC

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Despite Ealing Council some years back expressing its wish for Ealing to be a ‘leading West London centre for the arts’ there has been no positive action from the Council to achieve this.

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By Eric Leach Gunnersbury Park is owned and managed by Ealing and Hounslow Councils and has a covenant from 1926 ensuring the land and facilities are for public and sporting use.

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Twitter.com/NeighboursPaper keep public access. Excluding the public, taking land and avoiding the clear legal Facebook.com/NeighboursPaper covenant that protects the park is not.

Email: editor@neighbourspaper.com We must be vigilant to ensure Gunnersbury Park is kept fully accessible Editors: Tom Whiting, Michael Holmes to the public. A Heritage Lottery Fund bid has begun to part finance restoration of Treasurer: Judy Breens the park, large mansion and museum.

This is great news but uncertainty remains Contact: Tom Whiting (020 8840 5740) over the small mansion and possible Council deals. There is a Friends group. Writers: Jamie Anson, Please give them your support.

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Independently of the Council, CEPAC – ‘Campaign for an Ealing Performance & Arts Centre’ – exists to encourage and nurture the community’s enthusiasm for the arts by pushing for a performing arts space in central Ealing. Such a facility would establish Ealing as a centre of excellence for professional and amateur music, drama, dance, film, comedy and other arts.

Cultural Quarter CEPAC is a member of the recently established Central Ealing Neighbourhood Forum (CENF), Ealing Arts + Leisure (EA+L) and of Save Ealing Centre (SEC) and together with the Ealing Civic Society, discussions have been held about what form of development should be encouraged within the Council’s proposed ‘Cultural Quarter’ behind Bond Street.

Land Securities, the Council’s preferred developer of the area, met with CEPAC and the other groups and listened to their ideas. LandSec’s draft project consisted of 13 restaurants, cafes and bars, about 150 flats and a 6-screen cinema, and their scheme was shown at a public presentation in the Broadway Centre. Residents and visitors understandably welcomed the prospect of a cinema being built in central Ealing, but there was also

much criticism about the lack of any cultural facilities which should have been insisted on by the Council’s regeneration team and planners.

By the time this article is published, an outline planning application will have been submitted by LandSec which will hopefully include a multi-purpose space with retractable raked seating for more than 300 or could be used for badminton or banquets. Other smaller spaces would be available for meetings, conferences and art & craft studios. In July these ideas were shown to LandSec and their architects indicating how this could be constructed immediately behind the old cinema façade, above one of the planned restaurants which could become a large arts café, easily accessible to users of the performance space. The café/restaurant would benefit from people using the Arts Centre which could host jazz and other music festivals, meetings, comedy evenings and conferences.

At Watermans in Brentford, the Royal Festival Hall and the Rose Theatre in Kingston, the film and performance spaces are also accessed

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through café and restaurant areas.

Arts for all in Ealing An independent professionally-run Performance and Arts Centre would generate footfall, income and business as well as bringing civic pride to the heart of Ealing, and help achieve Ealing as a ‘leading West London centre for the arts’.

If Neighbourhood Paper readers are interested in contributing comments, ideas or time to CEPAC’s on-going arts campaign, please contact CEPAC on 020 8998 4465 or email info@cepac.org.uk

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Ealing Hospital We were back on the streets in April.

Over ten thousand Ealing citizens of all races and ages marched from Southall and Acton to Ealing Common where a medley of cross-party politicians and activists addressed us. My memory from all the rhetoric was losing 1000 hospital beds if we allow the health “bosses” their way in North West London. It’s much more than just downsizing Ealing and Charing Cross Hospitals to little more than poly-clinics and closing two additional A & Es. The total loss of services across the region would be frightening. Fortunately Ealing Council won an appeal to the Secretary of State Jeremy Hunt that there should be an Independent Review of the decision. Many people have phoned, written and been interviewed by the Independent Reconfiguration Panel this summer. A report is out mid September and a Government decision later.

High Speed Rail 2 Who would have thought that HS2 Campaigners and the Council could pull off such a victory? In April, HS2 recommended to the Secretary of State for Transport a nine-kilometre tunnel is built between North Acton and Northolt, linking to the West Ruislip tunnel proposed in the original plans.

This will make the longest tunnel on the route at 14km. It will remove all the blight caused by destroying swathes of North Ealing borough and rebuilding 20 road bridges.

We even saw NP’s very own Valerie Rudd on BBC news! Valerie writes: “After two years of local grassroots led activism, supported by our Council and the London Assembly, HS2 has not only admitted that we were right all along - a surface route would cause more disruption to traffic and blight to peoples homes, schools, businesses and Perivale Wood Nature Reserve but the tunnel will also be cost neutral and will take 15 months less time to construct than an over ground route!”

This is a fantastic win-win solution.

However, it does leave the question: How can HS2 professional engineers hold onto a fundamentally flawed scheme for two whole years and put locals through such a hard time?

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NHS Changes Who these new “bosses” are is a bit of a mystery. Primary and Regional Care Trusts/Health Authorities were abolished on April 1st. “Purchasing” health care is now theoretically in the hands of “Clinical Commissioning Groups” (CCGs) of which Ealing CCG is one. However it

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appears that the same NHSNW London Regional group has morphed into a Brent Ealing Hounslow and Hammersmith (BEHH) group with a £2million budget to manage the health care of 1.2 million people over 90 square miles. On April 25th we lost the vote in the House of Lords over Section 75 of the Health and Social Care Act regulations. One campaigner puts it this way “The Regulations just fill out what was already in the Act – a one way journey to a very different NHS – using market competition to allow greater entry of private providers, ending with a full economic market for our healthcare and a two tier service with top ups, charges and insurance; division and fragmentation.

Along the way the NHS, as a public

service based on the founding principles we all support, is destroyed.” Yet did we see one word of this momentous vote in the media? We did not. The lack of media coverage on NHS changes is tragic. We saw that doughty campaigner for the National Health Service, Dr John Lister say much the same in an April meeting in Acton. See www.healthemergency.org.uk and www.keepournhspublic.com.

Fortunately our Council is fighting to keep our hospital services and if necessary they will challenge the decision in court. A & E services are reaching crisis proportions and the Government has offered £500,000. This is a drop in the ocean since £20 billion “efficiency savings” are being sought.

Neighbourhood Forums Recently West Ealing Centre and Central Ealing Neighbourhood Forums were approved by Ealing Council to have designated Neighbourhood Forum status.

This means that local residents, businesses and voluntary groups can prepare legally binding neighbourhood plans under the Localism Act of 2011.

The two Forums request anyone who lives, works or has a strong interest in the designated area to join them and get involved. For more information see www.improvealing.com (Central Ealing) and www.wecnf.org (West Ealing) This gives us all a huge chance to really influence our neighbourhood.

Do please take the opportunity!

Schools in Ealing We’re all aware that the population of Ealing is expanding rapidly.

Primary schools are stretched to take ever-increasing numbers.

Drayton Green Primary will double in size, Fielding is to rise to over 800. St Johns West Ealing is due to have a new school in 2017 within the rebuilt Green Man Lane Estate.

Residents are less happy with plans for a five-storey block with two floors given over for residential flats.

Information on location, play areas are all hazy so far. See: www.westealingneighbours.org.uk.

The Council also says that three new secondary schools are needed as by 2016 there will be a shortfall of 585 places, Ealing and Hanwell are worst affected. Twyford C of E High School has sponsored a new school in Greenford on the old Glaxo Smith Kline site. It will be called William Perkin C of E School after a local chemist who started a chemical dye factory in Oldfield Lane. Although a church school, it will be a Greenford neighbourhood school for all faiths and none and will open this September 2013. The Council say they seek a further school in Ealing, Hanwell or Acton as well as the planned Free School.

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Ealing Fields Free School I attended a packed meeting in Northfield Avenue in April and heard that local parents headed by an Educational Psychologist are planning this 840 pupil Comprehensive School in the historic Ealing Park House (formerly St Ann’s then King Fahad School).

Working hard to gain Government approval they hope to buy the building from the Saudi Royal Family.

So far the signs are good. There is huge support from local residents and Ealing Council. Under present Government rules the Council cannot set up a Local Authority school even if they want to. The meeting assured us pupil places would be open to all on a catchment area basis. It is hoped to open in 2015. For more information see: www.ealingfields.co.uk

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Where to find money to fund your Startup Business

by Jamie

Banks have closed the lending doors on new businesses and the old routes to business have dried up so how are so many businesses getting the money to get off the ground?

Crowd Funding Business start ups are starting to use ‘crowd funding’ as a source of finance. Crowd funding gets lots of people to contribute small amounts to help businesses obtain their funding goal. In return, investors get a share in the business or first release of the product sold.

Crowd funding suits those keen on a bargin or people who enjoy being able to spot potential and help it grow. The investments are very accessable and easy to understand as investors only need £5 to invest in some businesses which could help; for example launch a book or a community driven clothing brand launch.

Searching around Kickstarter.com or IndieGoGo.com can be just as fun and exciting as hunting around eBay. Investors like crowd funding because it brings them closer to what they are investing in. Businesses like crowd funding because they have investors who are able to give more value to the investment and are easier to talk to than banks and it also a way of getting very important pre-launch sales.

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A side step in crowd funding is to look for potential ‘angel investor’ people in the local area/subject community who have spare money to invest.

Typically these can be poeple who invest their money in shares/savings/ bonds. Investors are becoming more skeptical and less trusting of the banking and shares systems and investing in start-up businesses is starting to be more appealing because investors have more control over the impact their money has and it can bring in a much higher rate of return. These investments have the added bonus of being more exciting and can carry a feelgood factor.

Help from the Government Potential Example ‘Joe’ decides to open a photography studio business but needs £10,000 to help him get started. He can talk to people in his local camera club and offer a percentage of the company for £5,000. He could then run a month long crowd funding campaign aiming to get £5,000. By offering photo shoots for investments he is getting in much needed presales which gets his business rolling before its even started. New businesses have to inspire confidence in potential customers and having lots of business going through the studio from day 1 does a huge amount to inspire customer confidence.

Success in Ealing 62Films and Ealing Club CIC launched their Kickstarter campaign on 26th

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July 2013 to raise £6,000 for their film “SUBURBAN STEPS TO ROCKLAND the story of the Ealing Club”. At the time of writing, 5 days before the deadline they have raised £1,000 over their target! On running your own crowd funding camaign Alastair Young from Ealing Club CIC advises: 1) Be very confident in the project you are presenting and how it is presented.

2) Be realistic on the amount you expect to raise 3) Be sure to already have great interest in what you are doing - Strong Twitter and Facebook following helps.

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Investing in a business is a risky strategy for making money and investment amounts should only be the amounts the investors are willing to lose. The Government does help lower the risk of investing in start-ups through the Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme where investors in start-up businesses can get 50% income tax relief on the amount invested. In addition, investors making any capital gains (profit made from dividends or sale of shares) in 2013-14 get 50% capital gains tax relief if money made gets reinvested into the scheme.

For 18-30s there is the Startup Loans company and the Princes Trust Enterprise Programme who can provide startup capital and support. www.startuploans.co.uk and www.princes-trust.org.uk Tweet us @neighbourspaper

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Locals Legally Challenge Warren Farm Development Plans

By Tom Whiting Local residents from the Hanwell Community Forum have served legal papers on Ealing Council in a bid to put a halt to their redevelopment plans for Warren Farm Sports Site and turn it into a QPR Training Academy and Community Facility.

Warren Farm is a 60-acre site accessed via Windmill Lane in Norwood Green, in Metropolitan Open Land designated as Community Open Space, and is within the Brent River Park Nature Conservation Management Area.

There are currently 16 pitches available to the community to book for clubs, schools and tournaments, with a further six cricket pitches and eight outdoor netball courts. There are a number of poorly maintained single storey buildings, including a dilapidated changing room. The site itself has a general air of disuse and neglect.

The site also houses a day nursery and is used by a model aircraft flying club, as well as horse riders, local walkers and various regional sports clubs and schools.

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as their preferred partner to develop Warren Farm for use as a ‘Category 1 Football Training Academy and Community Facility’. The Club plans to surround the entire site with an eight-foot high security fence, with two-thirds of the land designated for club-only use, including new buildings, and ten new full-size pitches.

Community facilities would be restricted to the remaining one-third of the site, and would comprise a single-storey building incorporating changing rooms and showers, plus eleven halfsize pitches. The redevelopment would also add over 300 permanent car parking spaces. Work was due to start next year but may now have to be postponed pending the result of the legal challenge.

No rental income for the lease It appears that Ealing Council are gaining no rental income from QPR for the lease. The Club itself have indicated that they will invest in the region of £30 million into the redevelopment of the site.

QPR as preferred partner Back in May, after approving the marketing of a maximum 200 year lease of the site and a consultation process, Ealing Coucil announced they had selected QPR football club

According to Carolyn Brown, Chair of Hanwell Community Forum: ‘The council is basically giving away to a commercial organization a valuable piece of public land that should be open to everybody.’

Other local residents however have welcomed the news of redevelopment, saying that the improvements to the sporting facilities and general cleaning up of the site are well overdue.

NP invited Ealing Council leader Julian Bell to share his views on Warren Farm and the deal between the Council and QPR, but he declined to comment.

What local residents want This is a valuable and valued area of protected Metropolitan Open Land and the least that local residents and users of the site should expect is some form of transparency in how the deal between the Council and QPR came about, and long-term guarantees that the facility will cater to the sporting and social needs of the community, After all, that’s the whole point of a so-called ‘Community Facility’!!

The current plan for redevelopment of the site can be seen at www.pam. ealing.gov.uk/portal/servlets/Appli cationSearchServlet?PKID=156419.

To oppose the plans, see the online petition available to sign at: www.gopetition.com/petitions/ save-warren-farm-ealing-asgenuine-undeveloped-metro.html

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Highways Update by

Sometimes you have to break the habits of a lifetime. I have used the new roundabout outside the Police Station in Acton four times now and it’s great. It was so easy that I forgot those endless queues of yesteryear. I haven’t tried it on my bike yet. Tell us what you think.

Culmington Road West Ealing Centre Neighbourhood Forum (WECNF) successfully fought off a proposal to make life really difficult for motorists, cause congestion and waste 1000s of litres of fuel. Have you noticed the Uxbridge Road building site opposite Ealing Fire Station? This will be A2 Dominion’s seven storey new HQ. Their builder (Wilmott Dixon) wanted to close Culmington Road for up to 18 months. The council agreed closure of northbound traffic but after protest, WECNF’s own proposals were adopted and two-way traffic will continue throughout the build period. Pity we were never party to the discussions that informed this U-turn as they were held in secret. However that, saving the heritage granite kerbstones and the protection of jobs nearby was a win. Sadly we were caught napping when mature trees adjacent to the site were felled and disappeared.

More difficult is the plan for the West Ealing Crossrail station on other side of the tracks to Waitrose. It isn’t easy to put forward proposals to ease the difficulties this will cause. There are problems like no drop-off and pick-up bays. Planners

include taxi ranks that are OK for some but for most of us, drop-off and pick-up bays are just the ticket. Pity transport planners don’t like ‘em.

Uxbridge Road Plans We have the results of the Uxbridge Road W13/W7 “1c Corridor Consultation”. I have real problems with initiatives like this. Plans are hatched in a hefty tome called a LIP (Local Implementation Plan) document and are mysteriously consulted on (we’re told). We who live here are excluded at the formative stage. Proposals derived from LIP are sent to TfL (Boris). They are approved and returned with cash for the work. Plans are presented in a glorified marketing exercise (LBE call it a consultation). Luckily the punters like the pictures and agree. Work will proceed soon on projects that aim to “fix” (non-existent?) problems. Proposals include raised pedestrian crossings, 20mph speed limits, raised side road treatments and “urban realm

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lesson you will have explained the Highway Code, about priority and ‘who goes first’. There are even family training lessons available to build up skills for all and minimise risks.

There are lots of space-saving cycle storage solutions around – racks that suspend from walls or ceilings, for example. Shopping areas, stations and some estates have secure bike parking. Folding bikes are available and second-hand bikes are affordable from a local bike shop. For more information see the Ealing Bike Hub, www.ealingbikehub.co.uk.

Cycling’s great for getting around Ealing and enjoy shopping, working and its many parks and open spaces.

If you want to learn to ride, need road confidence or aren’t sure if your bike is safe to ride – and you live, work or study in Ealing –cycle training or cycle maintenance is available for only £5 thanks to a subsidy from Ealing Council.

Commuting to work If you commute, you could cycle to work, part of the way or to a station at first – building up confidence slowly. Why not sign up to cycle training? A ‘journey buddy’ – a cycling instructor – cycles with you on the route. He or she will help you navigate around any difficult roads such as multi-lanes or big roundabouts.

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Ealing has made a bid to TfL for £38,000,000 to make Ealing into a mini Amsterdam. This is another “tablets of stone” initiative to improve canal journeys in Ealing.

Sorry cycling improvements. Watch this space. More next time!

Cycling is good for your health, great exercise, and saves money on transport. You can get from A to B quickly (sometimes it’s faster to cycle) and it’s good fun!

Cycle Training UK hold cycle training sessions at Southall Park, Gunnersbury Park or Wood End Recreation Ground.

According to Jean Mowbray, ‘We work 1-to-1 or in a group, with children and adults, providing skills needed for cycling. We help newcomers, whatever the age, to learn; we also have bikes that adults can use.’

Visit Dr Bike Need a check on your bike? You can bring your bike to one of the regular Dr Bike sessions for a ‘health check’ on your tyres, brakes and

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gears. Sessions are held as follows: Hanwell Clock Tower (Station Rd/ Cherington Rd) 1st Saturday every month 14:00 to 17:00 Acton Market (outside Morrisons) 2nd Saturday every month 14:00 to 17:00 Melbourne Ave (next to West Ealing Library) 3rd Saturday of the month 14:00 to 17:00 Southall Park (next to tennis courts near Boyd Avenue entrance) 4th Saturday every month 14:00 to 17:00 Greenford Town Centre (Oldfield Lane/Ruislip Rd corner) 5th Saturday every month from June 14:00 to 17:00 (29/06/13, 31/08/13, 29/03/14) Haven Green (Ealing Broadway Cycle Hub) Last Thursday every month 16:00 to 19:00

Cycle Maintenance Courses Introductory and Basic Maintenance one day courses run regularly in Ealing at Acton Vale Community Centre – and they’re free if you live, work or study in the local area! See www.cycletraining.co.uk.

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improvements”. Another proposal is one block of eight parking bays in the Uxbridge Road whereas nearby Leeland Terrace could have yellow lines removed and replaced with 50 safe parking bays. There is a real need for more parking near the shops in West Ealing and these proposals have missed this opportunity. Of course WECNF have told them but will they listen?

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Global Award for Greenford Charity In NP59, I wrote about the activities of the charity Operation Wellfound, its global impact and the zeal by which the organisation keyed into the objectives of the Millennium Development Goals, officially established in the year 2000, known as the ‘Millennium Declaration’. All 193 United Nations member states, at the time, and at least 23 international organizations agreed to achieve the following eight goals by the year 2015: 1. Eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, 2. Achieving universal primary education, 3. Promoting gender equality and empowering women, 4. Reducing child mortality rates, 5. Improving maternal health, 6. Combating HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases, 7. Ensuring environmental sustainability, and 8. Developing a global partnership for development.

contributed to a project singlehandedly in another village in Burkina-Faso.

The past recipients of the Energy Award include, Kofi Annan, Michail Gorbachev, Maneka Gandhi, Ahok Khosla, Aamir Khan, amongst other notable personalities. The award was presented in June 2013 to the Charity, to its founder Mr Howard Measham.

What is Operation Wellfound?

Since 2008, Operation Wellfound has been focusing efforts in subSaharan Africa, determined to make a world of difference and contribute to the transformation of humanity via its mission and guided by two fundamental principles: A) To provide fresh, clean drinking water and hygienic sanitation to people in desperate need, irrespective of their religious beliefs, race or gender.

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donations are spent directly on projects. Donations will never be spent on administration.

The Charity works in partnership with local organisations and communities, so as to empower people out of poverty; independently and sustainably. The formation of water and sanitation committees brings together representatives from the local community for the postmanagement challenges of projects.

Sustainability is the key The strategy is to teach people to look after themselves and maintain their own facilities. These procedures are in place to ensure the sustainability of the projects. The long-term development of a community is achieved by their own progression once their basic needs have been met.

To support the charity, visit www.operationwellfound.org.

O lde E aling R evisited How well do you know Ealing Borough? Neighbours’ Paper has dipped into the archives and uncovered a treasure trove of memorable photos of what our town centres, high streets and thoroughfares looked like in the days of black and white. There’s even a recent photo here of a famous borough landmark.

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Answers: 1) Station Parade, Ealing . 2) B rent B ridge, Hanwell; West Ealing; 3) Goldsmiths’ Almshouses, Acton (recent photo); 4) Lido Cinema, 5) Ealing B roadway, looking east; 6) St Mary’s Road, Ealing;

As a testimony to my write up then, the Energy Globe Award has nominated the Operation Wellfound Charity for global recognition in the provision of water to the world’s rural communities.

Recently, the Charity partnered the congregants of Praise Terbanacle, Perivale led by Pastor Femi Popoola to raise £3,000 for the provision of water and toilet facilities in a village in Burkina-Faso named Kogdasuli. This amount was matched by another congregant, Lola Shoetan who also

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MA k e r !

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I am a sport maker myself and I look forward to following on from the great experience I had as a Games Maker last summer.

So what is a sport maker I hear you ask?

Their energy brings inspiration, support and provides skills to others. Passionate about sport, the makers help the whole thing possible. With about 40,000 Sport Makers across the nation, the UK‘s true sporting heroes carry on the Olympic spirit which fuelled London 2012.

You too can make sport happen.

Whatever sport captures your interest and if you are aged 16 plus, there’s no hurdle to stop you.

So why become a sport maker? Well, there are lots of reasons. Sport needs people like you to drive behind every medal winner. Giving up your time to help others reach their dream will be more than rewarding. And

behind every sporting event are volunteers, like the Games Makers, who help make them happen.

These are the true sporting heroes.

As a Sport Maker, you will keep the flame alive and be part of the official London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic legacy, carrying the excitement and enthusiasm for sport inspired by the Games long into the future. Furthermore you’ll play more of the sports you enjoy. It’s a chance to keep active through sport and to help others get involved too.

Through Sport Makers, you can give something back to your community by helping more people play sport.

Furthermore you’ll feel a great sense of achievement for your efforts. It will also be a chance to learn new skills and make new friends. As a Sport Maker, there are lots of enhancements to add to your CV. We’ll hook you up with sporting organisations and clubs and you’ll meet other Sport Makers - some of whom will find lifelong friendships among the rewards.

We love to recognise our Sport Makers with great sporting prizes. So stay vigilant and at your event, you might meet an Olympian! Once you’ve recorded 10 hours, you’ll get a message of thanks from a British Olympic great and a personal certificate proving that you’re a true sporting hero.

How do I become a Sport Maker?

See www.sportmakers.co.uk if you’re 16 and over let them know your details by creating your own online profile where you can book on to an event, find sporting opportunities and record your hours. This does not commit you to anything; it simply means the Sport Makers team can send you relevant information including details of special offers and prizes for Sport Makers.

Now that’s an incentive. So come on, become that overall hero and become a Sport Maker!

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