UP FRONT: FUTURE EALING
Website packs
a punch
The Bubble website has been updated to make it easier to find out how you can
do something good for your local area, reports Deborah Dickey. And volunteers
recently used it to help a community boxing club get up and running.
B
ubble – at www.
dosomethinggood.org.uk –
champions local, grassroots
projects, helping to connect
people with groups working hard to
make their bit of the borough a better
place to live.
And now, as part of the council’s
Future Ealing programme, Bubble has
been enhanced. It now hosts information
on the many ways that residents can get
involved, even if they do not have time
to make a regular commitment.
With council budgets under more
pressure than ever before, and the
borough’s government funding cut
by 64%, even small actions such as
recycling one more thing, or walking or
cycling over short journeys instead of
driving, can help us all.
A CHAMPION EFFORT
Bubble also provides community groups
a way to find volunteers, or to pull
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support together for a local project; and
it helps residents to find opportunities to
get involved in these projects.
One such project was a boxing club,
which finally moved into a permanent
home in July after nine years without
one. James DeGale, IBF world super
middleweight champion (pictured
above), was there to celebrate. It was
achieved thanks to the help of local
people who volunteered through
Bubble – as well as support from two
of the council’s ward forums, Sport
England and Actonians sports club;
and sponsorship from Powerday.
The renamed Powerday Hooks
Amateur Boxing Club has moved into
a building in Popes Lane, Acton, that
needing converting. Volunteers were
needed to muck in and get their hands
dirty to get the work done.
You can read the full story on the
boxing club at ealingnewsextra.co.uk/
features/hooks-boxing
‘BIG OR SMALL, IT ALL COUNTS’
Councillor Julian Bell, leader of Ealing
Council, said: “The Bubble website is
about pulling together in one place
lots of ways that local people can make
a real difference.
“You might be surprised at how easy
it is to do your bit. Big or small, it all
counts. And if you are part of a local
group and want people to be part of it,
go on to Bubble and upload your project
so other people can hear about it.”
Go to Bubble at
www.dosomethinggood.org.uk to
take a look at what you could do.