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At Ealing Broadway, supporting our community is incredibly important to us and we’re thrilled to announce our new charity partner for 2025: Home-Start Ealing.

Home-Start Ealing is a local organisation that’s part of the wider Home-Start UK network. Their mission is simple but powerful: to support families with young children who are going through challenging times. Whether it’s postnatal depression, bereavement, financial strain, or social isolation, their team of dedicated, trained volunteers offers vital emotional and practical support right from the comfort of a family’s home.

Each volunteer gives around two hours a week, helping parents build their confidence and resilience and create nurturing environments for their children. It’s compassionate, grassroots care and it makes a huge difference.

We’re incredibly proud to partner with Home-Start Ealing and will support them throughout the year with a series of fundraising events, awareness campaigns, and community-focused activities. From fun seasonal events to donation drives and everything in between, there’ll be plenty of opportunities for you to get involved and show your support.

Andrew Rollings, Centre Director at Ealing Broadway, shared:

“The work that Home-Start Ealing does to help local families is vital, and we want to go some way to help them continue reaching those who need it most. We’re always so thankful for the generosity of our visitors with our community initiatives”.

Caroline Chapman, Director at Home-Start Ealing, added:

“Support from organisations like Ealing Broadway, and its shoppers, is fundamental in helping us to reach more families across the borough and continue to provide them with the practical and emotional support when they need it most. We’re looking forward to working together to raise the all-important funds we need.”

We can’t wait to bring you on this journey with us. Keep an eye on our What’s On page, sign up to our newsletter and follow our social media channels for updates on how you can take part and support Home-Start Ealing.

Together, let’s help make a difference for local families who need it most.

Click here to learn about Home Start Ealing’s Easter Event at Ealing Broadway.

Storey, a new type of flexible workspace created for ambitious and growing businesses, has opened at International House, just four minutes’ walk from Ealing Broadway station.

Designed with your wellbeing in mind, it’s even got its own gardens – leafy and green, a perfect space to take a break in (or bring your laptop and do more work in!).  And it’s newly refurbished to make it light, airy and spacious. These are office spaces you’ll love to work in.

With shared facilities from phone booths to break out space, an impressive boardroom to secure, sheltered bike storage, International House has it all. And to make it easy for you, we have one all-inclusive rate that includes:

• Private, secure offices, accessible 24/7
• Rent, business rates and service charge
• 1Gbps fibre connectivity and wi-fi infrastructure , secure and fully backed up
• Reception service, community manager and on-site security
• Cleaning and maintenance
• Office furniture, including desk and chairs
• Shared kitchen with tea, coffee and hot chocolate
• Easy access to shared meeting rooms
• Showers, bike racks and on-site parking
• Direct access to shared gardens

International House is located at the award-winning Ealing Broadway, with more than 80 popular shops and restaurants and 50 acres of local parks on its doorstep.

For more information or a tour of the offices please visit storey.co.uk, or contact:

Amy Hockley

Leasing Director

[email protected]

Harry Pruden

Hanover Green

07721 128 796

[email protected]

The Ealing Broadway team are passionate and dedicated to ensuring customer service standards are at the highest possible level.

From the security teams to the Centre Management, we work hard to make sure our customers’ opinions are listened to and contribute to the running of things in all areas of the Centre.

It’s our goal to connect with each visitor, exceeding expectations by offering a wide selection of stores and an emotionally engaging marketing strategy that creates an exciting and memorable experience.

Primary school children from Woodlands Academy, West Acton Primary School and St John’s Primary School have attended a special storytelling session put on for them at Ealing Broadway which aims to help young people enjoy and fall in love with reading.

Organised as part of the Young Readers Programme, the National Literacy Trust has designed events to inspire children under the age of 11 to read in their spare time, and to see reading as a fun and creative activity. This program stems from a study that showed that reading outside of the classroom instigates higher reading levels within the class room. The event allowed the children who attend schools in Hanwell, Acton and West Ealing to hear stories from professional storyteller Alim Kamara. 

Andrew Rollings, centre director at Ealing Broadway, said: “Supporting local children and their families is so important to us and the Young Readers Programme is an integral part of this. We look forward to this brilliant initiative every year and have loved hosting children from West Acton Primary School, Woodlands Academy and St John’s Primary School at Ealing Broadway.”

During the event, children took part in a range of activities which also included a quiz at Ealing Central Library and were able to take home a book of their choice.

Since getting involved in the programme in 2011, Ealing Broadway has supported more than 2,300 school children and more than 6,950 books have been donated.

Jonathan Douglas CBE, chief executive of the National Literacy Trust, said: “Reading for enjoyment is proven to support mental wellbeing, literacy skills, and future success. Encouraging children to enjoy reading from a young age can have a measurable impact on the rest of their lives. But the sad reality is that 6% of children across the country don’t have their own book to read at home, and many don’t find reading enjoyable. Through the Young Readers Programme and the support of British Land, we are able to help so many more children have fun whilst reading outside the classroom, give them access to inspiring books and access to many benefits that they may otherwise be missing out on.”

One of our main priorities is to ensure our centre is as accessible as possible to all members of the public. We want all our customers to feel comfortable and at home here. Because of this, recent improvements have taken place to cater to the needs of our visitors and we now boast an increase in accessibility services such as baby changing and the introduction of the Changing Places facilities.

Furthermore, over 90% of our staff have received Dementia Friendly training, and are confident when putting it into practice, assisting our special needs customers in a caring, helpful and efficient manner.

Recent staff initiatives have also been introduced to increase the wellbeing of our employees in their workplace. This includes free fresh fruit and improvements to the staff room such as making the most of natural light. Social activities have also been organised; promoting team work, encouragement and importantly, friendship within the centre’s staff. 

Ealing Broadway is proud to continue to be a zero landfill waste Centre.

We are consistently exploring new ways of becoming even more environmentally friendly, and because of this, our general waste is sent to the MRF treatment plant to be recovered as electricity. It is solutions like these that allow Ealing Broadway to stay 100% landfill free. During 2017/18, the Centre changed over 3,000 of its light bulbs to LED lighting, which is a process that is scheduled to proceed throughout 2019/20. The updated LED bulbs enable Ealing Broadway to further achieve reduced energy consumption levels. 2019 is charged with ambition to further increase development within the recycling sector.

Ealing Broadway is now more environmentally friendly than ever before.

Here at Ealing Broadway we work with local charities Ealing Mencap, The Soup Kitchen, The Log Cabin and the Rainbow Trust.

Throughout the year, several awareness and money raising events take place in the centre. This is a great opportunity for our customers -and our staff to get involved in the community’s charitable foundations. 

We also work closely with universities, the centre having recently appointed a student ambassador from the University of West London. We felt it was important that the centre had a direct point of communication with its student population, beginning an efficient and friendly two-way conversation.

As well as this, Ealing Broadway will soon take part in the SMILE scheme, which will be held in the centre on behalf of the local children’s charity The Log Cabin. The aim of this project is to teach children with learning difficulties important life skills, such as shopping, and to teach them how to interact with the public in social spaces. Being at the centre of the local community, we are delighted to be able to host this event – an opportunity to become more accessible to our neighbourhood.