Kay Stone
Kay ensures children have breakfast and a good start to their day. She supports food and clothing banks and families who have arrived from wars in their own countries to begin a safe life here. She supports young mums with everything they need for their babies, and the homeless to get shelter/provisions.
She helps those who need help to do shopping, and cooks for families of terminally ill parents. She also helps support the community café to bring people from every walk of life together.
Her drive is contagious, and she has been described as “a true angel”.
Brentford Voice
Brentford Voice lives, breathes and champions Brentford. It launched the Brentford Canal Festival in 2022, and helped relaunch and revitalise the Sunday and Seasonal Markets.
Brentford Voice is a vital liaison between local people and developers. It holds regular events to give residents a chance to shape the future of the area.
St Paul’s Church – for both its Eco Church and Spire Café
St Paul’s Eco Church has achieved Silver Eco Church status for the way it shows care for the environment, through use of its buildings and land and encouraging the local community to live more sustainably.
St Paul’s Spire Café is loved by all, as are its monthly eco gardening workshops, monthly Clothes Repair Café and its much needed support to residents of all ages, including a youth club and a football social club.
Janet McNamara
Janet loves working with people. She is an excellent speaker, a founder member of the Hounslow Heritage Guides and has led countless historical walks around Brentford.
She researched and wrote the first Boston Manor House guidebook, has been a volunteer at Chiswick Library’s Local Studies Department, and is a trustee of the local charity the Thomas Layton Trust.
Judith Rubra
Judith is one of Abundance London’s most dedicated volunteers. Always willing to help, she turns up to work in many of their various gardens and gets stuck in to often thankless tasks like watering new plants and removing bindweed.
Judith helps at three different gardens every week and she is always cheery and helpful, punctual and enthusiastic. She is a truly committed volunteer.
Marion Pike
Marion is a very caring person whose kindness is always appreciated as she provides support and help for people with social, physical and mental issues.
She has worked tirelessly for over 30 years organising activities across the borough for Hounslow Seniors Trust.
She organises cultural visits, classes, trips and many craft activities, all of which have fostered enriching, social interaction.
The AKAAL: Community Project
Over the last 10 years AKAAL has been at the centre of the Convent Way community. Starting with a weekly coffee morning, it now puts on a wide range of activities for residents each week.
They are committed to bringing the community together, creating bonds and preventing loneliness and isolation. The value they bring was clear from the testimonials in the nominations they received.
Rachel Doherty
Rachel is the driving force behind Creative Spaces London, organising creative opportunities for young people, women and the wider community to bond, build capacity, confidence and skills, while having a lot of fun along the way.
Rachel supports wellbeing by really listening to and understanding the people that she works with. She is also a valued partner in the Heston West Women’s employment project, helping support women into work.
Valdemar de Sousa
Valdemar provides free football training to children from deprived areas of Feltham and runs Feltham Town FC, a local grassroots football club which recently won the men’s league cup. It has now grown to include four youth teams, with children as young as two years old.
Valdemar’s leadership and compassion make him an inspirational figure in the borough.
Ellen Murray
Ellen leads monthly Singing for the Brain sessions - an initiative by Alzheimer’s Society UK.
Ellen’s calm, respectful approach creates a space which makes the sessions - at Age UK Hounslow’s Dementia Station and designed for people living with dementia - feel welcoming and inclusive. The sessions offer a friendly atmosphere that sparks recognition, encourages people to join in, and helps them feel more present and connected to those around them.
Angela Parton
Angela is a key community leader in Feltham, and her work for Friends of Feltham Green and the Freddie Mercury Memorial is well known world-wide.
Angela is kind, caring and extremely knowledgeable about greening and community investment. She has raised vast amounts of money to support the renovation and is excellent at bringing people together. In Feltham you can see the change that Angela and her team have achieved.
Ilays
Ilays have been supporting the most vulnerable Hounslow residents for many years and truly understand the issues faced by our diverse communities.
Their work addresses mental health, social isolation, health inequality, digital exclusion and community cohesion and their services are shaped and often led by the communities they support.
Anthony Stokoe
Anthony is a tenant on the Heston Farm Estate who has been actively involved in the Heston TRA for many years, providing support to the community. While he has previously been Chair of the TRA, his current roles as the Chair for the Residents Voice scrutiny board and as a TRA project administrator see him acting as a ‘critical friend’ to the housing management service, providing a range of projects to inform tenants and bringing about positive changes to the estate.
He has supported work to recruit and develop tenant representation on the estate, enabling tenants to be involved in the development of services, include a sensory garden.
Antro Reegan Antony Muthu
Antro helps neighbours and supports them. He is a good advisor, quietly changing the world around him through selfless service, dedication and compassion.
He makes a lasting impact on the community and his presence, kindness and service uplift and inspire everyone.
Mangal Singh Chudha
Mangal is devoted to ensuring that the Heston and District Community Centre is a thriving and welcoming centre at the heart of the community. It hosts activities for all ages, delivered by numerous volunteer-led organisations.
Mangal is central to making it all happen and is also actively involved in running Asian Elders (a retired members association), providing exercise classes, talks and health walks to support the wellbeing of older men.
Brindar Kaur Mann
Brindar has transformed the Heston Farm Estate Community Centre into a hub for the wider community. She has been a linchpin on the Heston Farm estate, keeping the Heston Farm community centre open and well-run, bringing together local community groups and services to respond to residents’ priorities.
Thanks to her dedication and leadership, the centre hosts a full weekly programme of activities, including a foodbank (which she helped set up and continues to coordinate), a youth club, adult wellbeing and refugee support groups, boxing sessions, yoga, Zumba classes, and TRA meetings. She has also opened the space to other community groups, services, and partners across Heston.
Carmen Balza
Carmen Balza does transformative work with Autism Hounslow—a grassroots group led by autistic adults and parents/carers, and has played a dynamic role in shaping Hounslow Council’s 5-Year All-Ages Autism Strategy.
Carmen leads a Book Club, LGBTQ+ group, Women’s Group and Games Night, with compassion, intelligence, a fierce dedication. She creates inclusive spaces where autistic people and carers connect and thrive. Carmen ensures transparency and accountability in local services.
Hounslow Wellbeing Network
Hounslow Wellbeing Network has grown immensely in the past 18 months, gaining over 1,500 service users from January to July alone.
They provide 21 activities on average each week for residents across the borough. Community Teams and residents have nothing but positive things to say about the Network, the things they have done and the impact the service has on the lives of so many Hounslow residents.
Kadime Jata
Having founded SFIDA in 2009, Kadime has tirelessly supported Kosovan, Albanian, Gorani and Macedonian people in Hounslow ever since.
Each year she supports up to 2000 people by being a cultural and emotional bridge, addressing domestic violence, social isolation, language barriers and vaccination myth busting. She has worked with Hounslow Council to support housing appointments and with the NHS to support cancer screening awareness in the community.
Narinder Kaur Bakhshi
Narinder has been an influential member of the community for years. She has run community fundraising and played crucial roles such as being the first female Sikh registrar, acting as a School Governor at The Heathlands School for over 32 years and as a Hounslow Library volunteer from 2015-20.
She is also a volunteer judge, head judge and judge trainer for a regional, nationwide and international public speaking competition for youths of the Sikh community. She also volunteers on The Standing Advisory Council on Religious Education (SACRE) for Hounslow Council.
Narinder played a crucial role in the visits of Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh to the Sikh temple in Hounslow in 2004, and the now King Charles and Queen Camilla's in 2006.
Can You Challenge
Can You Challenge (CYC) football training creates a positive, supportive environment where kids can develop both on and off the pitch.
Coach Khalid and his team of young dynamic football coaches run sessions in Inwood and Feltham Parks which are free and open to all, breaking down barriers to participation and ensuring every child feels valued. CYC uses football to teach powerful lessons about resilience, respect, and teamwork - skills that benefit young people far beyond sport.
Let’s Go Outside and Learn
Let’s Go Outside And Learn work with diverse and often marginalised communities, including refugees, people with physical and mental health issues and others that feel excluded from outdoor spaces.
They encourage people into these spaces through a wide range of nature- based activities and introduce residents to valuable community assets, fostering a renewed and deepened appreciation for the nature and wildlife right on their doorstep. This in turn improves the value of the spaces themselves and the quality of life for the people engaged.
BEfriend
BEfriend’s important work makes a huge difference to people in Hounslow, matching volunteers with socially isolated people in the community, to help those who may otherwise see no one all week. The core befriending project supports people who are isolated and sometimes housebound, while Linked Minds supports people who are isolated because of a diagnosed mental health problem. Since bringing their service to Hounslow two years ago they have supported over 175 socially isolated residents to connect with their community and make new friends.
Zoe Antoniades
Zoe Antoniades generates a love of reading and creative writing and motivates thousands of children of all abilities and backgrounds to read and write for pleasure.
Through her highly relatable and accessible series of books - Cally & Jimmy - Zoe has engaged with an astonishing range of libraries, community centres, book festivals, creative writing competitions, dozens of Hounslow’s primary schools and our own Summer of Culture.
Kimberly Rodrigues
Kimberly Rodrigues, the choir leader at St. Vincent de Paul Parish, Osterley, leads inclusive choirs that welcome youngsters, and adults of all ages. She creates a joyful space where everyone feels valued, building community through music and inspiring others with her energy, empathy and vision.
Through her tireless work that reflects her dedication and compassion, preparing materials, mentoring singers and fostering connection, Kimberly makes an outstanding voluntary contribution as a young leader with remarkable maturity.
