News - Richmond EAL Friendship Group

Upcoming events

Thursday 16th January 2025, 4-6pm

New Year Festive Fun Food Swap - ETNA Centre

Thursday 13th February 2025, 10.30am to 1.30pm

Healthy Eating Cooking Club - ETNA Centre

Thursday 13th March 2025, 10.30am to 1.30pm

Healthy Eating Cooking Club - ETNA Centre

Thursday 8th May 2025, 10.30am to 1.30pm

Healthy Eating Cooking Club - ETNA Centre

Thursday 12th June 2025, 10.30am to 1.30pm

Healthy Eating Cooking Club - ETNA Centre

Sunday 6th July 2025, 12-4pm

Languages Celebration Party - ETNA Centre

Recent news

Language Learning Outside The Mainstream

Chief Executive Ruth Durant presented the work of Richmond EAL in a session on language learning outside ‘mainstream’ contexts, organised by Dr Virginia Lam, University of Roehampton, as part of The Language Show 2024.

Healthwatch Richmond Visit September 2024

Suzanne and Katie visited our EAL class in Richmond and distributed their new edition of the very informative booklet with information about all the locally available health services. This was followed by a very useful Q&A session with the learners.

September Healthy Cooking Club

On Thursday 12 th September, we hosted the first EAL Healthy Cooking Club of the new school year. Sevdiye, a newly enrolled learner, cooked a wonderful healthy traditional Turkish recipe for the 16 participants plus the three Office staff.

Ham House Visit

25 learners were able to visit Ham House and Gardens last week due to the generosity of the National Trust allowing free entrance to us for the foreseeable future!

Languages Celebration Party

Our Languages Celebration Party was a lovely occasion with delicious food donated by the guests, charming items created by children with Sasa and Cornelia, wonderful Turkish traditional dancing with Eray Logo, singing in Tagalog by Tess (an ex learner) and to round up a delightful day, we had an amazing performance from the Connaught Opera!

Kew Gardens Visit - June 2024

We had a great trip to Kew Gardens with 19 participants speaking Cantonese, Arabic, Portuguese, Turkish, Quechua, Spanish, Ukrainian, Russian, Bashkir, Tatar, Bengali, Armenian, Japanese and Thai. We had perfect weather for a change!

June Marble Hill Walk & Talk

On 13th June, we started our Walk & Talk with a visit to Marble Hill House where we were pleased to receive the typed transcript of the introductory video which is always playing as we walk in…

June Walk & Talk

On 6th June we visited the Kitchen Garden at Marble Hill Park and Moon had her successful interview with Harrison (Manager) and now has received her uniform and started her volunteering post!

May 2024 Healthy Cooking Club

We all enjoyed three delicious Russian recipes prepared by Marina, Masha and Mariia.

Richmond May Fair

Our team of wonderful learners, trustees and volunteers set up and ran a stall at the May Fair selling great food prepared and donated by our learners and others.