Community Overview
Ealing is home to a rich network of active civic societies, historic conservation trusts, neighbourhood associations, and environmental campaigns. These volunteer bodies champion resident interests, scrutinise council planning decisions, organise community festivals, and protect local parks and green spaces.
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Ealing Civic Society
Established in 1967, Ealing Civic Society works to preserve and enhance the quality of the built environment and open spaces across the borough. It reviews hundreds of planning applications annually, awards Green Plaques to historic local buildings, and campaigns for sustainable town planning.
Pitshanger Community Association (PCA)
The PCA champions the distinctive character of Pitshanger village, Pitshanger Park, and the bustling local shopping parade. It coordinates major community festivals including Party in the Park and Light Up the Lane, maintains close links with the Safer Neighbourhood team, and distributes a quarterly journal to over 4,000 homes.
Brentham Heritage Society
Brentham Garden Suburb is a nationally celebrated co-partnership estate of 560 homes founded in 1901 under Arts & Crafts architectural principles. The Brentham Heritage Society works with residents and the council to protect its conservation status, publishes historical monographs, and celebrates the annual Brentham May Day festival.
West Ealing Neighbours (WEN)
An active grassroots residents' organization dedicated to revitalising West Ealing Broadway and surrounding residential streets. WEN campaigns on shopping centre regeneration, manages the monthly community produce market, coordinates litter cleanups, and presses for effective fly-tipping enforcement.
Creffield Area Residents' Association (CARA)
CARA represents householders residing across the residential streets between Ealing Common Station and Twyford Avenue. The association monitors local planning developments, promotes street tree protection, and liaises with ward councillors on traffic safety.
Walpole Residents' Association
One of the longest-established resident representative associations in Ealing. Walpole Residents' Association advocates for residential quality of life around Walpole Park, Lammas Park, and South Ealing, representing residents on the Ealing Centre Partnership on planning, licensing, and town centre masterplans.
Hanger Hill (East) Residents' Association (HHERA)
HHERA protects the architectural integrity and residential amenity of the 1930s Haymills Estate conservation area. The committee enforces estate covenants on external building modifications, highway verges, and anti-social parking.
Five Roads Forum
Created as one of the UK's first pilot HomeZone schemes, Five Roads Forum fosters a pedestrian-friendly, safe environment across five residential streets in West Ealing. The forum organises communal street gardening, street play sessions, and social history projects.
Ridley Avenue Residents' Association (RARA)
RARA unites neighbours on Ridley Avenue, combining an active residents' association with an accredited Neighbourhood Watch scheme. Focuses on street safety, communal vigilance, and liaising with the local police Safer Neighbourhood team.
Save Ealing's Centre (SEC)
Save Ealing's Centre is an alliance uniting 27 local residents' associations and civic societies across Ealing. Formed to defend the historic architectural scale and identity of Ealing town centre, SEC scrutinises major commercial developments, public realm schemes, and high-rise planning applications.
Ealing Friends of the Earth
The official borough local group for Friends of the Earth England, Wales & Northern Ireland. Active on clean air monitoring, defending metropolitan open land, supporting community energy, and pressing the borough council to deliver on its climate emergency targets.
Ealing Passenger Transport Users' Group (EPTUG)
Formed in 2001, EPTUG represents passengers using buses, London Underground lines, National Rail, and the Elizabeth line throughout the London Borough of Ealing. The group meets regularly with TfL planners and rail operators to advocate for reliable timetables, station step-free access, and passenger safety.
Ealing Cycling Campaign (ECC)
The local borough group of the London Cycling Campaign. ECC campaigns for high-quality protected cycle lanes, safe junction designs, Low Traffic Neighbourhoods, School Streets, and residential cycle hangars to make cycling safe and accessible for people of all ages and abilities.
Ealing 135 Group
A volunteer-led charitable network run by and for local parents and carers of children from birth to age five. Ealing 135 organises weekday stay-and-play drop-ins, park playdates, family social events, and seasonal parties, providing a warm, supportive network for young families.
Ealing Talking Newspapers
A dedicated registered charity staffed by approximately 50 volunteers who record and distribute free weekly audio editions of local newspapers and community news for blind, visually impaired, or print-disabled residents across Ealing, Hanwell, Acton, and Greenford.
Ealing Credit Union (London Mutual)
A community-owned financial cooperative operating as an ethical, member-led alternative to commercial high-street banks and predatory lenders. Offers competitive savings accounts, affordable personal loans, and payroll savings schemes for residents and workers in Ealing.
Ealing National Childbirth Trust (NCT)
The local branch of the UK's leading charity for parents. Provides evidence-based antenatal classes, feeding support, nearly-new baby and children's gear sales, and peer support walk-and-talks for expectant and new mothers and partners across the community.
Hanwell and Northfields Rotary Club
Part of Rotary International, uniting professionals and community-minded volunteers to undertake local humanitarian and philanthropic projects. Supports local food banks, youth leadership programs, community festivals, and international disaster relief.
Neighbours' Paper
An independent, voluntary community publication produced quarterly by local residents in central Ealing. Provides a grassroots platform to discuss neighbourhood issues, publicise society activities, review planning matters, and preserve local social history.
Ealing Common Branch Labour Party
Represents Labour Party members and supporters living within the Ealing Common ward. Members discuss local council policy, organise community campaigns on ward issues, and participate in local governance.
Central Ealing Neighbours (CEN)
The statutory Neighbourhood Planning Forum designated under the Localism Act for Central Ealing. CEN authored the statutory Central Ealing Neighbourhood Plan, giving residents direct legal weight in planning policies, town centre conservation, and public realm improvements.
Ealing Wildlife Group (EWG)
A volunteer-run conservation charity with thousands of members protecting and enhancing wildlife across Ealing. EWG spearheads the celebrated Ealing Beaver Project at Paradise Fields, installs barn owl and bat boxes, runs nature walks, and monitors urban biodiversity.
Clean Air for Ealing (CAfE)
An independent citizen-science network campaigning to reduce toxic air pollution across the borough. CAfE conducts community nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and PM2.5 diffusion tube monitoring around schools and busy high streets, presenting data to council committees and TfL.
Ealing Transition
Part of the worldwide Transition Towns movement, inspiring and empowering community action for a low-carbon, resilient future. Ealing Transition runs community repair cafes, local food growing projects, permaculture workshops, and community energy initiatives.
Friends of Walpole Park
A dedicated volunteer group supporting the preservation, heritage planting, and ecology of Walpole Park, the historic grounds of Sir John Soane's Pitzhanger Manor. The Friends run volunteering gardening sessions, tree planting, and ecological surveys.
Hanwell Community Forum
The representative umbrella forum for residents, traders, and community organisations in Hanwell. Champions local civic amenities including the Brent Valley, Hanwell Clock Tower, Hanwell Community Centre, and Hanwell Carnival (London's oldest annual carnival).
Ealing Community Transport (ECT Charity)
A pioneering social enterprise and charity founded in 1979 providing safe, accessible door-to-door transport (PlusBus) and community minibuses for older people, residents with disabilities, and voluntary groups who cannot access mainstream public transport.
Ealing Foodbank
Part of The Trussell Trust network, providing emergency food parcels, compassionate support, and practical welfare debt advice to local individuals and families facing financial hardship across eight centre hubs in Ealing, Hanwell, Acton, and Greenford.
Key Civic & Heritage Societies
Long-standing borough-wide and village institutions shaping local civic life.
Ealing Civic Society
Established in 1967, Ealing Civic Society works to preserve and enhance the quality of the built environment and open spaces across the borough. It reviews hundreds of planning applications annually, awards Green Plaques to historic local buildings, and campaigns for sustainable town planning.
Pitshanger Community Association (PCA)
The PCA champions the distinctive character of Pitshanger village, Pitshanger Park, and the bustling local shopping parade. It coordinates major community festivals including Party in the Park and Light Up the Lane, maintains close links with the Safer Neighbourhood team, and distributes a quarterly journal to over 4,000 homes.
Brentham Heritage Society
Brentham Garden Suburb is a nationally celebrated co-partnership estate of 560 homes founded in 1901 under Arts & Crafts architectural principles. The Brentham Heritage Society works with residents and the council to protect its conservation status, publishes historical monographs, and celebrates the annual Brentham May Day festival.
West Ealing Neighbours (WEN)
An active grassroots residents' organization dedicated to revitalising West Ealing Broadway and surrounding residential streets. WEN campaigns on shopping centre regeneration, manages the monthly community produce market, coordinates litter cleanups, and presses for effective fly-tipping enforcement.
Save Ealing's Centre (SEC)
Save Ealing's Centre is an alliance uniting 27 local residents' associations and civic societies across Ealing. Formed to defend the historic architectural scale and identity of Ealing town centre, SEC scrutinises major commercial developments, public realm schemes, and high-rise planning applications.
Ealing Friends of the Earth
The official borough local group for Friends of the Earth England, Wales & Northern Ireland. Active on clean air monitoring, defending metropolitan open land, supporting community energy, and pressing the borough council to deliver on its climate emergency targets.
Ealing 135 Group
A volunteer-led charitable network run by and for local parents and carers of children from birth to age five. Ealing 135 organises weekday stay-and-play drop-ins, park playdates, family social events, and seasonal parties, providing a warm, supportive network for young families.
Central Ealing Neighbours (CEN)
The statutory Neighbourhood Planning Forum designated under the Localism Act for Central Ealing. CEN authored the statutory Central Ealing Neighbourhood Plan, giving residents direct legal weight in planning policies, town centre conservation, and public realm improvements.
Ealing Wildlife Group (EWG)
A volunteer-run conservation charity with thousands of members protecting and enhancing wildlife across Ealing. EWG spearheads the celebrated Ealing Beaver Project at Paradise Fields, installs barn owl and bat boxes, runs nature walks, and monitors urban biodiversity.
Ealing Foodbank
Part of The Trussell Trust network, providing emergency food parcels, compassionate support, and practical welfare debt advice to local individuals and families facing financial hardship across eight centre hubs in Ealing, Hanwell, Acton, and Greenford.
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Residents' & Neighbourhood Associations
12 GroupsHyper-local community bodies representing residents on planning, traffic calming, conservation area preservation, and neighbourhood amenities.
Civic & Heritage Societies
1 GroupsBorough-wide organisations dedicated to architectural conservation, heritage plaque commemorations, and strategic planning scrutiny.
Campaign, Environment & Transport Groups
7 GroupsGrassroots alliances advocating for sustainable public transport, clean air, road safety, cycleways, and climate emergency action.
Community Networks, Family & Welfare Societies
9 GroupsVolunteer-run support networks, parenting groups, disability charities, ethical finance cooperatives, and service clubs.
Neighbour Net maintains this directory as a free public service for voluntary associations, residents' groups, environmental campaigns, and community societies operating across Ealing. If you represent an active local association and would like your details added, updated, or linked, please get in touch with our editorial desk.
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- Regular meeting schedules or upcoming public assemblies
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