UP FRONT
Fruit route
takes root
A new ‘fruit route’ will
eventually connect
two parts of
the borough,
as a group of
residents work
together on
planting a trail of
trees with the help of
the council.
Health on the cards
Remember playing Top Trumps in the school
playground? Well, now children can play using
cards with a healthy message.
More than two years ago, the council’s allotments
manager and its school health improvement
team joined forces with Ealing-based social
enterprise I Know Why It’s Yum, Mum to put on
various healthy eating workshops for pupils and pre-school
children, often at the allotments or during school visits.
The latest initiative has seen allotment plot holders help to illustrate
a pack of 30 educational playing cards for children to use, in
collaboration with Winning Moves, makers of Top Trumps.
The Hanwell and Norwood Green Orchard
Trail group is a community project started
by residents, supported and organised in
partnership with Ealing Council, to plant and
care for a trail of native fruit trees.
Natasha Gavin, founder of I Know Why It’s Yum, Mum, said: “Ealing
Council helped us to make this genuine set of limited edition fruit and
veg Top Trumps cards, to help children learn about how food grows
and how healthy fruit and vegetables are. We will be giving these
packs of cards to schools we visit.”
Initially, the group planted 40 trees in February
along the edges of the three Hanwell Meadows
next to the canal and, in subsequent years, it
plans to extend the trail along the canal in either
direction, linking Hanwell and Norwood Green.
Scores for the various foods are based on their nutritional values, with
relevant and interesting facts also inc luded at the bottom of each card.
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Closed down
A drugs den in Ealing was shut down after an
investigation by the council’s community safety
team and police officers.
Officers began investigating after complaints
from the tenant’s family. They were helped by
vital information provided by neighbours and
local businesses about anti-social behaviour
and disturbances linked to the flat. As well as
being granted a closure order by the court, the
police executed a drugs warrant and seized a
large quantity of class B drugs.
Cycling award
Ealing Council’s Bike Swap initiative has won the Modeshift
sustainable travel award for cycling.
Bike Swap, developed in partnership with The Bicycle Society,
involves parents and pupils exchanging bicycles they have
outgrown for suitably sized models. Bikes are dropped off at the
start of school, fixed by mechanics and then swapped after school.
The council teamed up with St Gregory’s RC Primary to trial
the Bike Swap, as part of a push to get more children to cycle
to school, and it has now introduced the scheme to a number
of other schools in the borough. To find out more email
[email protected]
St Gregory’s
School children
If you or anyone you know is suffering from
the effects of anti-social behaviour, contact the
council’s community safety team on 020 8825 7600
or visit www.ealing.gov.uk/crimeprevention
around ealing
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