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

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!

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.