Upcoming events

EAL Healthy Cooking Club - ETNA Centre (MAP)

Thursday 9th October 2025, 10.30am to 1.30pm

Thursday 13th November 2025, 10.30am to 1.30pm

Thursday 11th December 2025, 10.30am to 1.30pm

Recent news

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.

Many thanks to The National Lottery Community Fund for awarding us £20,000 on 15 November 2024.

Kiyomi flew back from Japan the day before cooking club bringing fresh ingredients from Tokyo for her delicious Okonomiyaki. 16 lucky learners were able to enjoy this healthy and popular recipe.

On a visit to Marble Hill House

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.

On Thursday 12th 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!