UPCOMING EVENTS
Neighbourhood Nosh
We’re delighted to invite you to a progressive dinner party around Brook Green for the annual Neighbourhood Nosh!
The evening starts with a drinks party with prosecco and canapes, before you enjoy a delicious dinner cooked by your neighbours!
Booking in advance is essential. Click here for more information and to register. Suggested minimum donation of £75 per person.
For more information, please contact team@wlac.org.uk
Being a host is a fun way to support this vital local charity! Contact vickysixsmith@me.com if you’re interested in being a host!
Ford Ride London 2024 - Places available
Places available for Ride London 100
Join us for the ultimate London cycling challenge, with a stunning start along the Thames in Central London followed by a beautiful loop through pictuesque Essex villages and countryside.
Up to 10 places available. Please email team@wlac.org.uk for more information.
Champions for Children 2024
We are thrilled to once again be taking part in the Big Give Champions for Children Match Funding Campaign, organised and funded by The Childhood Trust.
During the two weeks of the campaign, watch your donations double when you support us online via the Champions for Children Match Funding Challenge. With the chance to raise up to £20,000, this is a fantastic opportunity to support local children and families.
Please save the dates, and look out for our emails closer to the campaign where we will share the specific match funding website details.
Lightning Talks
Join us for the sixth in our series of Lightning Talks - an evening of short talks on a variety of fascinating subjects, presented by passionate local experts.
This in-person event will take place at Kite Studios, located at 2b Bassein Park Road, London, W12 9RY, as part of the Askew Road Arts Week.
Don't miss out on this unique opportunity to hear captivating stories and gain new insights. Come and be inspired by the incredible talent and knowledge within our community!
Registration details will be available closer to the time. In the meantime, please contact megkaufman@hotmail.com should you have any questions about the evening.
Postcards Anon 2024
We are thrilled to let you know that our Postcards Anon exhibition will return this November, and we are now collecting artwork. Last year’s exhibition, held at Television Centre, showcased nearly 700 pieces of original postcard-sized artwork, and raised an amazing £11,250 for West London Action for Children's work.
Calling all artists - Can you create a piece of postcard-sized art for us - and ask your friends too!
- Artwork should be original (no copies, photographs or digital art), approximately 7"x5" or 6"x4", in any media and on any type of card. Artwork should be signed only on the back, to keep the piece "anonymous". We are able to send you blank postcards should you need them, so please don't hesitate to email postcards@wlac.org.uk.
Please send artwork to Postcards Anon, West London Action for Children, 15 Gertrude Street, London, SW10 0JN.
The closing date for artwork is Tuesday 29th October.
The exhibition will be taking place from the 19th - 22nd November, at Television Centre, White City, W12. Do come along to take your pick of original postcard-sized art. More details coming soon.
London Marathon
Take part in the world’s greatest road race!
Places have become available for this year’s London Marathon on Sunday 21st April.
If you, or someone you know, would like to join the WLAC team, please contact us at team@wlac.org.uk.
Lightning Talks
Please note, all seats at our evening of Lightning Talks at Kite Studios in aid of West London Action for Children, have now been reserved.
A series of short talks on a variety of fascinating subjects such as 'Colour', 'Swimming in The Thames, 'University Challenge' , 'Five Bricks' and more - presented by passionate local experts.
This in-person event will take place at Kite Studios, located at 2b Bassein Park Road, London, W12 9RY.
Don't miss out on this unique opportunity to hear captivating stories and gain new insights. Come and be inspired by the incredible talent and knowledge within our community!
The suggested donation for this event is £20 per participant.
Please contact megkaufman@hotmail.com should you have any questions about the evening.
'Mel Calman on Love, Rage and Neurosis’: Libby Purves in conversation with Stephanie and Claire Calman
We are delighted to invite you to a fascinating evening hosted by Olympia Auctions, in aid of West London Action for Children.
Well-known broadcaster, journalist and author Libby Purves OBE will talk to Stephanie Calman, a screenwriter and best selling author and her sister Claire Calman poet, writer and broadcaster about their father, the great irreplaceable cartoonist Mel Calman (1931 - 1994), discussing memories of their childhood and his work which will be on exhibition.
Best known for his pocket cartoons at The Times and The Sunday Times, Mel Calman was a greatly accomplished and highly successful cartoonist. He also worked for television, in films, publishing - including his own 20 books, and advertising. A staunch advocate of cartoons, he opened The Workshop in 1970 specialising in drawings, illustrations and cartoons which later became the Cartoon Gallery. He was also co-founder of the Cartoon Art Trust. Generous with his encouragement of other cartoonists, he helped a number find work and publishers.
Olympia Auctions are exhibiting Mel Calman's cartoons from 19th February - 1st March titled 'Mel Calman on Love, Rage and Neurosis'.
Doors open at 6.30pm. The In Conversation starts at 7pm finishing about 8pm. Drinks and nibbles will be served
Ticket priced at £20 can be purchased by clicking here.
Caterina Grewe Piano Recital
We are delighted to invite you to a very special evening of music, organised and hosted by Ravenscourt Park Preparatory School, in aid of West London Action for Children.
Caterina Grewe, Steinway Artist and Professor of the Royal College of Music, will give a masterful rendition of works by Schubert, Schumann and Medtner. All funds raised will go to WLAC.
Doors open at 6pm, concert starts at 6.30pm
Tickets £10 (Concessions available)
For more information and to register, please click here
An Evening of Bridge
Join us for a fun evening of Modern Chicago Bridge at Holy Trinity Church Hall, Brook Green on 24th January 2024, hosted by the Sixsmith School of Bridge.
There will also be a homemade two course supper and a bar serving white and red wine.
Brook Green Living Advent Calendar 2023
Starting on 1st December, volunteers around Brook Green will once again be helping the community to get in the Festive spirit with a community art project…
If you have enjoyed the Advent calendar, please consider making a small donation via the link above
Big Give Christmas Challenge
Donate between Tuesday 28th November - Tuesday 5th December on our Big Give Christmas Challenge web page, and see your donation doubled up to our target of £40,000, thanks to the kind generosity of The Childhood Trust and our pledge-givers.
ONE DONATION, TWICE THE IMPACT
The worsening cost of living crisis is having a devastating impact on the lives of so many local children and families . With your support, we can continue to offer free specialist counselling and therapy services to those most in need during this vital time. Help us to raise up to £40,000 to support local children, young people and families to face a brighter future.
"WLAC haven't just been helpful. They've been lifesaving"
Double your donation now by clicking here
WLAC Annual Meeting
Join us for our Annual Open Meeting on Tuesday 14th November 6-8pm at Riverside Studios near the Hammersmith Bridge.
We are delighted to be hosting a Q & A with guest speaker Phyllida Lloyd, Director of ‘Grenfell: In the words of survivors’.
This National Theatre play was written by Gillian Slovo and was delivered in collaboration with local community organisations. It ‘explores the courage and resilience of the survivors and their continued campaign for justice’. It is a verbatim play which means the words used were from the testimony of residents and aims to offer a voice to survivors of the fire.
Phyllida will talk about the production making process and the issues it raises.
You will also have the opportunity to meet the WLAC team and hear an overview of our work in the community.
The event is free to enter. If you would like to come along, please reserve a spot at Eventbrite by clicking here, or email team@wlac.org.uk.
Everyone welcome! We look forward to seeing you there.
WLAC Annual Quiz
The WLAC Annual Quiz was held in the Great Hall at St Paul's Girls’ School on Wednesday, 18th October 2023.
The suggested donation was £40.00 per head, which included a welcome glass of Prosecco.
Please click here for more information & to register
Thanks to our wonderful sponsors, Finlay Brewer, every penny you donate will go to support the amazing work of WLAC in helping local children and families.
Our grateful thanks to SPGS for hosting us.
Brian, Emma, Gilly, Hettie, Isabel, Jane and Vicky
WLAC Brook Green Events Team
Neighbourhood Nosh
A roving dinner party around Brook Green for our annual Neighbourhood Nosh
We’ll start the evening with a drinks reception at a stunning location on Brook Green, after which you’ll join your first hosts for main course before moving on to your second hosts for pudding!
Click here to register for this annual treat.
Champions for Children Match Funding Challenge
We are thrilled to once again be taking part in the Big Give Champions for Children Match Funding Campaign, organised and funded by The Childhood Trust.
During the two weeks of the campaign, watch your donations double when you support us online via the Champions for Children Match Funding Challenge. With the chance to raise up to £20,000, this is a fantastic opportunity to support local children and families.
Please save the dates, and look out for our emails closer to the campaign where we will share the specific match funding website details.
Postcards Anon
The exhibition will be taking place from the 21st - 24th March, at Television Centre, White City, W12. Do come along to take your pick of original postcard-sized art.
Private View
Tuesday 21st March, 6.30 - 8.30pm - Suggested donation £20 per person
Be the first to view the Exhibition whilst enjoying some refreshments
Click here to register for the event!
The exhibition and sale continues on:
Wednesday 22nd March, 10am - 6pm
Thursday 23rd March, 10am - 7pm
Friday 24th March, 10am - 12 noon
Entrance free at these times, and there is no need to register.
We look forward to seeing you
We are still collecting artworks for the exhibition
Artwork must be original, sized 6”x4” or 7”x5” and signed only on the back.
Please send artwork to Postcards Anon, West London Action for Children, 15 Gertrude Street, London, SW10 0JN.
The closing date for artwork is Friday 10th March.
In Conversation with Alex Manolatos
In the Greco-Roman world, bathing was a communal activity and it seems apt that this pastime recently became the focus of attention of London-based artist Alex Manolatos, himself of Greek origin. Manolatos was a regular swimmer at the Chelsea Swimming Baths during his school days. Returning forty years later and now a regular again, he has been inspired to paint disparate people gathered in this unique environment, capturing or hinting at their fleeting interactions. The noisy outgoing world we jostle in for our place turns introspective with silent inferences, set in a swimming pool.
Finding truth in human behaviour is pursued in all Alex Manolatos' works. Alongside pictures of Pool Life, are paintings and drawings inspired by the artist’s own ‘Memories’, the second part of the exhibition title. Manolatos’ sensitive nature picked up on the erosion of familial relationships during his childhood, and the paintings are like instant kodak photographs of objects or scenes retrieved from memory and cast with looming shadows of unease. As he says ‘children are much cleverer than we think.’
There will be an In Conversation between Alex Manolatos and author and journalist Emma Crichton Miller on the Thursday 7th February, to raise funds and awareness for West London Action for Children. In it the artist will be discussing his childhood through his art.
You can register for the event by clicking here.
Please email Antonia Grace for further information: antonia.grace@olympiaauctions.com
An Evening of Bridge
Join us for a fun evening of Modern Chicago Bridge at Holy Trinity Church Hall, Brook Green on 1st February 2023.
There will also be a homemade two course supper and a bar serving white and red wine.
Score cards and pens will be provided but please bring cards.
Prizes for the winners and for the first Grand Slam bid and made!
Chiswick Baroque
We are delighted that Chiswick Baroque are fundraising for us at their Advent concert which will be a programme of traditional, ancient and contemporary pieces all appropriate to the season. Please join us for an afternoon of beautiful music.
Big Give Christmas Challenge
Between Tuesday 29th November - Tuesday 6th December, have your donation to WLAC match funded when you donate via the Big Give Christmas Challenge 2022.
ONE DONATION, TWICE THE IMPACT
The ongoing effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, in addition to the worsening cost of living crisis is having a devastating impact on the lives of so many local children and families . With your support, we can continue to offer free specialist counselling and therapy services to those most in need during this vital time. Help us to raise up to £40,000 to support local children, young people and families to face a brighter future.
"WLAC haven't just been helpful. They've been lifesaving"
SAVE THE DATES:
Donate between Tuesday 29th November - Tuesday 6th December on our Big Give Christmas Challenge web page, and see your donation doubled, thanks to the kind generosity of The Childhood Trust and our pledge-givers.
More information coming soon.
WLAC Annual Quiz
We are delighted to announce the return of the WLAC Annual Quiz to its traditional home of the Great Hall at St Paul's Girls' School. Our quizmaster will be the incomparable Jon Bird.
Please grab some friends, bring along a scrumptious picnic supper and join us for an evening of brainteasing fun.
Suggested donation of £40 per head which includes a welcome glass of prosecco. Tables of 8.
Please click here for more information & to register.
London Marathon
Take part in the world’s greatest road race!
WLAC have four places available in the London Marathon 2022. If you, or someone you know, would like to join the WLAC team, please contact us at team@wlac.org.uk.
Big Give Champions for Children Match Funding Challenge
Watch your donations double when you support us online via the Champions for Children Match Funding Challenge. With the chance to raise up to £20,000, this is a fantastic opportunity to support local children and families.
Click here to donate via our Champions for Children match-funding campaign.
Neighbourhood Nosh in Brook Green
We are thrilled to announce the resumption of the Neighbourhood Nosh!
It will take place around Brook Green on Wednesday 11th May from 7pm
Start the evening with Prosecco and canapés in a beautiful local house, and afterwards enjoy a delicious main course and a lovely pudding course, courtesy of your local generous hosts.
To reserve your spot, please click below to visit our registration page and make a donation - we suggest a minimum of £50.00 per head.
www.justgiving.com/fundraising/wlacbrookgreenneighbourhoodnosh2022
West London Action for Children Bridge Tournament
This year’s Tournament will once again take place online following last years highly successful tournament.
Starting on Monday 31st January, there will be one round played each week and this year we are also running a plate competition for those who are knocked out in the first round, guaranteeing everyone at least two games.
There are prizes for winners and runners up and for outstanding slams and penalty scores! The prizes are kindly provided by the joint sponsors, the Sixsmith School of Bridge & Finlay Brewer.
For more information, and to register for the event, click here.
Chiswick Baroque presents Music for Advent and Christmastide
A programme of seasonal vocal music solo to 5 part, Medieval to Modern with carols old and new including music by Lassus, Eccard, Praetorius, Foster, Macmillan and Harper Traditional pieces and Spirituals
CHISWICK BAROQUE
ROS KEATING - soprano
GILLIAN PILLANS - soprano
SHELLEY SMITH - alto
JEAN PAUL SINCLAIR - tenor
OLIVER HINTON - bass
Director Celia Harper
Interval refreshments available.
Tickets £10 bookable via https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/holyinnocentsw6/t-rmdqpe or available on the door.
Proceeds to West London Action for Children
The Brook Green Living Advent Calendar
On each day until Christmas Eve, one or more Advent Windows will be opened, creating a trail of thirty illuminated Advent Windows around Brook Green. Windows will be lit up from approx. 5pm for a few hours each night until December 30th.
Those who enjoy the trail are invited to make a small donation to WLAC by text or on our website.
‘BGADVENT’ to 70460 to donate £2 | ‘BGADVENT’ to 70470 to donate £5
Big Give Christmas Challenge
Between Tuesday 30th November - Tuesday 7th December, have your donation to WLAC match funded when you donate via the Big Give Christmas Challenge 2021.
ONE DONATION, TWICE THE IMPACT
The last 18 months has had a devastating impact on the lives of many local children and families. With your support, we can continue to offer specialist counselling and therapy services to those most in need during this vital time. Help us to raise up to £40,000 to support local children, young people and families to face a brighter future.
"WLAC have been like a window of light. In a very dark place"
SAVE THE DATES:
Donate between Tuesday 30th November - Tuesday 7th December on our Big Give Christmas Challenge web page, and see your donation doubled, thanks to the kind generosity of The Childhood Trust and our pledge-givers.
Click here to visit the Big Give website to double your donation
WLAC Annual Quiz
Come and join us at our WLAC Annual Quiz for an evening of fiendish fun for the brain.
Gather a team of six – either in your home or virtually. We will then connect you with your team, and with us, through the magic of Zoom on the evening.
Please register by clicking on the link below. We look forward to seeing you there.
Postcards Anon
The exhibition and sale of postcard-sized art returns this Autumn
Join us as we reprise our Exhibition and Sale of postcard-sized original pictures, donated by celebrity artists and talented supporters.
For the eleventh year we are delighted to exhibit and offer a collection of original works of art, signed only on the back, created and donated by supporters of West London Action for Children – some famous, some not so famous! The pictures will be available for a suggested donation of £25 each.
Private View:
Tuesday 9th November 6.30 to 8.30pm
Suggested donation £15 per person
Come and view the exhibition whilst enjoying some refreshments. You will also have the opportunity to make a donation for the pictures. With luck (and some judgement) you might go home with a collectors’ item! More than ten items have also been kindly donated for an auction during the Private View.
To register to attend the Private View, please click here
The Exhibition and Sale of pictures will continue:
Wednesday 10th November - 10am – 8pm
Thursday 11th November 10am – 7pm
& Friday 12th November 10am – 12pm
Entrance free
All money raised from the event will go directly towards the work of West London Action for Children thanks to the kind sponsorship of Philip Wooller.
For more information or if you have any questions, please contact the office at:
Postcards Anon,
West London Action for Children,
15 Gertrude Street,
London, SW10 0JN
020 7352 1155 / 07525 781 373
team@wlac.org.uk
If you are an artist and would like more information on how to submit your artwork, please click here.
A note about Covid-19
It is still important to consider any risk of Covid. If you or a member of your household gets symptoms of COVID-19 in the lead up to the event you must not attend.
Attendees are expected to follow Government guidance regarding COVID-19 when attending the event, including safe distancing and wearing masks.
We are putting extra measures in place around COVID-19. However, it is impossible to fully remove all risk. By entering this event, you have carefully considered your options and are completely comfortable with the risks associated with COVID-19. By your deciding to attend this event, WLAC shall not be liable in any way or in any circumstances for any illness or injury suffered by any individual in connection with this event.
Summer Lunch Series
For our seventh, and final, Summer Series webinar we welcome Anne Longfield, Children's Commissioner for England, who will be in conversation with the BBC's Katie Razzall, discussing some of the key issues currently facing England's children.
Click on title for more information.