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Action Acton
16–18 Crown Street
London W3 8SB
Tel: 020 8993 9605
Fax: 020 8993 0998
Email: info@actionacton.com
Website: www.actionacton.com
A partnership of local residents, public agencies, businesses and community groups formed to regenerate Acton – that is, to make Acton a better place to live and work. This involves helping local people get jobs, improving standards in education, promoting economic growth and making the area safer and more attractive.

Acton Business Forum
Email: info@actonbusinessforum.net
Open to everyone who works in Acton, the ABF was established by local businesses to improve business prospects and the infrastructure in Acton. Membership is just £25 per year.

Acton Central Safer Neighbourhood Team
Provident House
23–31 King Street
London W3 9PLA
Landline/mobile: 020 8721 2921

The Safer Neighbourhood Teams have been established to deal with local issues and crimes that affect quality of life and to reassure residents. At present, the Acton Central team consists of:

• Sergeant Neil Mackintosh: E-mail: NeilAnthony.Mackintosh@met.police.uk
• PC Jon Marsden
• PCSO Navdeep Gosal
• PCSO Sarah Kearney
• PCSO Amandeep Kullar

Among the things that the team tackle are graffiti, abandoned cars, noisy neighbours, drunks and vandalism. They also work in partnership with the local authority and other agencies.

Acton Central Ward councillors
Acton Central Ward has three Labour councillors:

• Daniel Crawford
Tel: (020) 8992 9353
Email: daniel.crawford@ealing.gov.uk
• Abdullah Gulaid
Tel: (020) 8825 5173
Email: abdullah.gulaid@ealing.gov.uk
• Patricia Walker
Tel: (020) 8825 6377
Email: patricia.walker@ealing.gov.uk

Surgeries:
All councillors take part in the following:

• 1st Sunday of month (except August and December), 12.30–1.30pm, St Mary's Church, The Mount, Acton High Street
• 1st Saturday of month, 11am–12 noon, Acton Village Gardening Association, The Pavillion, Alwyn Gardens
• 2nd Saturday of month, 11am–12 noon, Friary Park Community Centre, Joseph Avenue.

All Acton Labour councillors (not just the ones from Acton Central ward) take turns to attend the following:

• every Saturday, 11am–12 noon, Ruskin Hall, Church Road.

Acton Community Forum
Hardy Court
112-114 Bollo Bridge Road
London W3 8DD
Tel: 020 8993 6158
Email: steve_acf@yahoo.co.uk or rachel_acf@yahoo.co.uk
The community organisation that runs the Acton Carnival and other events throughout Acton.

Acton History Group
Email: info@actonhistory.co.uk
Website: www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ajk/acton/page2.html
Are you interested in the history of your house, road, area or family? If so, join Acton's own local history society for entertaining meetings, workshops and talks, visits to sites of interest, and a scholarly yet readable biannual magazine. Annual subscription: £4 (single), £6 (couple).

Acton Re-use and Recycling Centre
See also 'Waste collections in Acton' below
Stirling Road
London W3 8DJ
Tel: 020 8993 7580
General waste can be taken here, and they will recycle most things – this facility is especially useful for large bulky items. However, no commercial waste is accepted and vans are banned! Open every day except for Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year's Day.

actonW3.com
Email: editor@ActonW3.com
Website: www.actonW3.com
This community website – 'run for and by local people' – has up-to-date news about Acton. To participate fully in the forum and receive a weekly email newsletter, become a member - it's free.

APPLE (Acton Play Projects and Leisure Events)
ART BLOCK
Acton Park
East Acton Lane
London W3
Tel: 020 8743 6133
Email: vicki@appleplay.freeserve.co.uk
Website: www.apple-play.com
The CCA's chosen charity, which aims to 'enrich the lives of children and young people living in areas of high poverty and social exclusion by providing free and open access to creative recreational and educational opportunities'. Based in Acton Park, they run play clubs at local schools and at the ART BLOCK throughtout the year. The kids who go to APPLE are always the stars of the Acton Carnival and the Winter Festival.

CARA: Creffield Area Residents' Association
PO Box 54939
London W3 9YU
Email: caraealing@yahoo.com
Website: www.caraealing.org
Covers the area from Ealing Common Station to Acton, north of the Uxbridge Road.

Ealing Gazette
Website: www.ealinggazette.co.uk
Tel: 020 8579 3131

Ealing Civic Society
Email: info@ealingcivicsociety.org
Website: www.ealingcivicsociety.org
Works to preserve and improve the borough of Ealing, in the following areas: conservation, green spaces, licensing, design, heritage, planning, regeneration, streetscape, transport.

Ealing Council
Perceval House
14/16 Uxbridge Road
London W5 2HL
Tel: 020 8825 5000
Website: www.ealing.gov.uk

Ealing Freecycle
Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ealingfreecycle
Open to all who want to 'recycle' that special something rather than throw it away. Whether it's a chair, a fax machine, piano or an old door, feel free to post it. Or maybe you're looking to acquire something? You can post requests, too.

The Kids' Cookery School
107 Gunnersbury Lane
London W3 8HQ
Tel: 020 8992 8882
Email: info@thekidscookeryschool.co.uk
Website: www.thekidscookeryschool.co.uk/
Great charity that runs events and classes where children learn about new ingredients and equipment, and are encouraged to touch, smell and feel different foods.

Mill Hill Park Residents Association
Website: www.millhillpark.com
Covers the Mill Hill Park conservation area plus nos 63-79 Gunnersbury Lane.

Save Ealing's Streets
Tel: 020 8997 5414
Email: ealingstreets@btopenworld.com
Website: www.ealingstreets.org
Was the chief opposition to the West London tram.

Transport for London
19th floor
Portland House
Bressenden Place
London SW1E 5RS
Tel: 0870 850 0643
Email: westlondontram@tfl.gov.uk
Website: www.tfl.gov.uk/westlondontram

Waste collections in Acton
See also 'Acton Re-use and Recycling Centre' above
To enquire about any sort of waste collection, ring Ealing customer services on 020 8825 6000 or visit www.ealing.gov.uk/services/recycling.

Refuse collections

• Domestic waste is collected from residents weekly in sacks (which you must buy yourself) or in communal bins on estates. Bags should be placed outside by 7am on the day of collection.

Green box recycling

• To get a free green plastic recyling box, ring Ealing customer services on 020 8825 6000. NB: it takes 5–7 working days for a box to be delivered (and you may have to order it more than once ...).
• You can send the following for recycling in your box: glass bottles and jars (rinsed out); food and drink cans (rinsed out and flattened); newspapers, magazines, cardboard, catalogues and junk mail; aerosols; foil (clean); textiles (in bag to keep dry); shoes (in pairs); car and household batteries; Yellow Pages.
• You cannot send for recycling: plastic items, Pyrex, broken glass, drinking glasses or window glass.
• Green box collections are carried out weekly on a different day from the general refuse collection. To find out your day of collection, contact ECT Recycling.

Garden waste collection

• Garden waste will only be collected by the council if it is in special pink hessian bags. These are free and you can order them by ringing ECT (the organisation that has the contract to deal with the council's rubbish) on 020 8813 3193/3194.
  
• Garden waste is collected every week throughout the year on the same day of the week as the green box and food waste. To find out your day and week of collection, contact ECT Recycling.

Food waste collection

• All food waste will be collected if it is in the special bin provided by the council. Put this outside alongside your green box (see above) by 7.30am on your day of recycling collection.
• The following food waste will be collected: cooked and raw food; meat and fish (including bones); vegetable and fruit peelings; egg shells; dairy products; tea bags and coffee grounds.
• Your bin will not be emptied if it contains any non-food waste items such as carrier bags, packaging, pet litter or faeces, or other general waste.
• Please line your food waste bin with newspaper, not plastic bags. Plastic cannot be composted and will contaminate the load. Your bin will not be emptied if plastic bags are used.