Charity/voluntary

Age Concern will be holding a Christmas bazaar at Feltham Lodge on Saturday November 28.

The charity will be holding the annual event at its home in Harlington Road West between 12.30pm and 2.30pm.

Anyone wishing to donate goods for sale can drop them in at Feltham Lodge or call 020 87515829.

A Christmas bazaar will be held at Marjorie Kinnon school in Bedfont on Saturday November 28.

All are welcome at the school in Hatton Road between 2pm and 4.30pm. Entry costs 50p, with all proceeds going towards trips for the children with learning difficulties who attend the special school.

A fun day at Frank Towell court in Feltham brought smiles to the faces of residents who had never met before.

Tenants brought some good old-fashioned community spirit to the Glebelands Road estate last week, enjoying a bouncy castle, teacups, a raffle, tombola and face painting.

About 50 people who live in the flats attended the first event of its kind and were treated to cuisines from all over the world by their neighbours.

An information day for disabled adults will take place at Hounslow Council civic centre on Friday September 11 between 11am and 3pm.

The council and representatives from the voluntary sector will be on hand to give advice about service that are available and to find out what services the people of Hounslow would like introduced.

For more information visit www.hounslow.gov.uk, email disabilitymatters@hounslow.gov.uk or call 020 8583 3164.

A blood donation session will be held at Feltham assembly hall on Monday September 7.

Anyone can give blood at the Hounslow Road hall between 10am-12.30pm and 2pm-4pm.

Brentford football coaches gave tips to tiny tots at Southville Community Centre last week.

The sessions were part of two weeks of activities on the Bedfont estate which were attended by over 70 children.

Parents were given the opportunity to relax with lunch and a head massage while their children took part in activities including street dancing, cheerleading and football.

Birds in Bedfont Lakes Country Park have received a boost in the form of a new tern raft.

The floating platform, which is anchored to the lake bed, provides shelter for terns to nest and offers them protection from predators.

Friends of Bedfont Lakes applied to the Thames Community Foundation for funding for the new raft as previous rafts has been damaged beyond repair.

They hope it will increase the number of birds in the park, attract more visitors and improve the ecology of the area.

Families and charities are being urged to boycott this year's Bedfont Country Fair in protest at a hike in prices.

Visitors will be charged for admission for the first time in the event's 15 year history, while charities are being put off holding stalls by £25 charges.

John Laing - the company which runs Hounslow's leisure services on behalf of the council - said the charges of £2 per person and £25 per charity stall are needed to stop the event making a loss.

Feltham Rotary Club has delivered over 600 illustrated dictionaries to Year 5 children in schools throughout Feltham, Bedfont and Hanworth.

Over the last two weeks, local Rotarians visited 10 schools in the area and gave each child a dictionary to keep as part of a Rotary international literacy scheme.

Last Wednesday they visited Victoria Junior School in Feltham where Rotarian Daphne Cass assisted by Rosemary Gibbs distributed the dictionaries at a school assembly that coincided with a Class 5 concert for parents.

The dictionaries have been provided by the Rotary Club of Feltham from funds raised locally through a grant from The Office of the Third Sector managed by the Thames Community Foundation.

Scientists are looking for Hounslow pensioners to take part in a study of the exercise in the over-65s.

Research staff at University College London are appealing for volunteers to take part in a six month programme of exercise in a bid to promote activity in older people.