Upcoming events

EAL Healthy Cooking Club - ETNA Centre (MAP)

Thursday 13th March, 8th May and 12th June, 10.30am to 1.30pm

Languages Celebration Party - ETNA Centre (MAP)

Sunday 6th July 2025, 12pm to 4pm

 

Recent news

Masha prepared a most unusual and delicious recipe for us called: 'Herring under a Fur Coat'! 16 enthusiastic learners attended this popular workshop.

Alison Greenwood enchanted us all with her workshop about her charity. She decorated the room with bunches of flowers from her garden and supervised a delightful meditation session which all 17 participants enjoyed.

39 learners and volunteers enjoyed fantastic weather and a wonderful visit to the Orchid Festival at Kew which this year celebrated orchids from Peru. We were all fascinated by the film describing the new method of botanical research using paramotorists to avoid damage to vulnerable plants. We spent the whole day exploring Kew Gardens and chatting to each other and making new friends.

Lee Barbieri once more delivered a useful presentation about the services which are offered by RHACC. He has offered to come again to give one to one advice to learners during our class.

On Wednesday 29th January, Valentina from CAR (Citizens Advice Richmond), gave us a talk about their services and handed out some leaflets.

We were delighted to receive two excellent and informative presentations this week by Michelle Wheeler from the Mulberry Centre.

Our New Year Festive Food Swap on 16th January was a very jolly occasion with wonderful food, which was all consumed with enthusiasm!

The curator of Museum of Richmond took 15 of us to visit this wonderful local gem.  Thank you Gary for the tour on your day off!

Here are some of our lovely WFSC Volunteers

A small group of us were invited to a nature journalling session at Kew Gardens where we foraged for a variety of fungi. We then dissected them and produced some excellent observational drawings and paintings.