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

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.

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.

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. 

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!

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!

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!

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…

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!

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

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.