Southall Wellbeing Way – February Update and Opportunities to Get Involved

Get Involved

Let’s Litter Pick Southall 10am – 1pm Saturday 24 February & 23 March

A monthly canal side litter pick run with LAGER Can (Litter Action Group for Ealing Residents) held every fourth Saturday of the month.  Come and meet other local volunteers and spend sometime outside improving the environment for people and wildlife. All equipment provided and all ages welcome (children must be accompanied by a responsible adult). Full details and register here for Sat 24 Feb and here for Sat 23 March

Volunteer Walk Leader Training – 10am – 3pm Thursday 21 March

Join us as a volunteer walk leader to take people on walks along our waterways in Southall or across London.  Our walks are a great way of supporting people to be more active and enjoy the wellbeing effects of being by the water.  Full details and register here.

Become a Volunteer Lock Keeper – one day a week between April and October

We are recruiting for Volunteer Lock Keepers to help us at Norwood Top Lock (Hanwell Flight of Locks) on Havelock Road, Southall.  We are keen to recruit more people living locally and especially if you can volunteer on Thursdays or at the weekend.  If you are aged 18+, enjoy being outdoors, meeting new people and learning new skills this could be for you. Full training and support is given to enable you to give a friendly welcome to waterway visitors, assist boaters through the locks and help keep the lock areas looking great.  Full details and register here.

LetÂ’s Walk – Havelock Canal Walk – 11.30am – 12.30pm every Wednesday

Join our volunteer walk leader on a weekly walk (or you can just come once) for a circular canalside walk from Havelock Estate along the Grand Union Canal and past part of the Hanwell Flight of Locks to Glade Lane Canalside Park.  Full details and register here.

Jena – Floating Classroom Boat Renovation Volunteers

Join us to help restore Jena (photos below). If you like practical tasks such as DIY, painting or sanding then please do come and help us get Jena back on the water again.  We are also looking for a volunteer qualified electrician who could help us with installing some more power sockets on the boat.  Full details and register here.

Coming Soon

We are awaiting planning permission for the new Canalside Community Garden – we will be recruiting volunteers to help us develop and maintain this garden once approved.  We are also going to be planting trees and hedges in the first week of April  …more details to follow.

Southall Great Winter Canal Get Together Boat Trips  

Despite the cold weather we had over 35 people join us on our boat trips along the Grand Union Canal.  Everyone really enjoyed being on the water to view local wildlife and even take turns steering the canal boat.  Thank you to Hillingdon Narrowboat Association who provided the boat and the volunteers.

Jena – Floating Classroom & Volunteer Boat

Thank you to all our volunteers have been working throughout the recent months to renovate Canal & River Trust’s classroom boat.  Jena had been out of action as her hull had been damaged by a bike which had been dumped in the canal.  Once completed Jena will be a regular fixture in Southall for our volunteer events and also enable local schools to visit the canalside more often as Jena can be used as a canalside classroom. Jena will be fully accessible with a ramp and accessible toilet on board.  If you would like to join us a Jena volunteer please sign up here.

Planting

The canalside green space alongside Glade Lane Canalside Park and next to the canalside gym has been prepared to plant wild flower seeds to create a wildflower meadow similar to Bixley Fields which was planted last year.  A new rose hedge will shortly be planted within Havelock Green Space.