Good Causes

THE Mayor has requested people in the borough to come forward and help volunteer for charity at the upcoming match day at Stamford Bridge.

Councillor Alex Karmel, Mayor of Hammersmith & Fulham, is on the lookout for volunteers to help on March 13.

An estate agent, with branches across West London, has been nominated for its support of local organisations, schools and voluntary groups.

Robertson Smith and Kempson (RSK) based in The Broadway, Ealing, with branches in Ealing, Shepherds Bush, Northfields, Acton and Hanwell runs a Community Matters Programme which backs a range of events and projects, from fooball kit to fetes.
Nomination forms and categories in Gazette. Nominees can win up to £1000 and nominator could win £100.

RENOWNED British fashion designer Vivienne Westwood has designed a limited edition charity t-shirt in aid of Haiti which launched at Westfield today (Friday February 19).

In a joint venture with Fashion for Relief a dedicated pop-up shop was opened by R&B singer Lemar, at the White City shopping centre, where the exclusive clothing is being sold, for one weekend only.

A cancer care nurse, who helps terminally ill patients in the final days of their lives, is the first person to be nominated for our Pride in our People Awards 2010.

Olive Hoare, from Northolt, is one of nine Ealing Marie Curie Cancer Care nurses, who is also fronting the Gazette-backed campaign to raise £170,000 to improve services in the borough.A Marie Curie nurse for 13 years, Olive, 62, also worked at Meadow House Hospice. For all categories and nomination forms see the Ealing Gazette or send your nominations to jane.harrison@trinitysouth.co.uk.

AN events organiser has pledged to raise £20,000 for a breast cancer charity.

Joanne Shaw, 39, of Fulham, is planning a sponsored sky dive and a fabulous fundraising gala as a member of the Booby Birds. Ms Shaw of Cheryls Close, has joined the new Breakthrough Breast Cancer campaign to raise money for research.

A historic church in the centre of Hammersmith has been revealed for the first time in nearly four years following a massive refurbishment project.

The restoration of St Paul's in Queen Caroline Street cost £1.75m and was paid for entirely by selling advertising space on the outside - next to the busy Hammersmith flyover - while stonemasons carried out extensive repairs to the roof, walls and bell tower.

Amateur archaeologists have uncovered the first evidence of an iron age settlement on the foreshore of the Thames at Fulham.

Volunteers discovered the remains of a wooden post which is thought to date from around 500 BC - long before any previously known activity in the area.

Police are urging people to come forward with information about a grandfather missing for eight years who was known to frequent Shepherd's Bush.

Retired betting shop manager Don Banfield, 71, has not been seen since disappearing from his home in Harrow in May 2001.

People with a passion for recycling are being recruited to try to cut down the amount of rubbish thrown away on council estates.

Hammersmith and Fulham Council is looking for motivated recycling 'champions' to help promote the environmental benefits to fellow tenants and reduce the cost of sending waste to landfill - currently around around £1.4m a year.

Apprentice-style capers saw private medical staff take over a charity shop today (3) to try to raise as much as they could for charity in one day.

Six BUPA workers have taken on the running of the British Red Cross store in Shepherd's Bush Road, competing against teams in Greenwich, Eltham, Forest Hill and Barking before reconvening in the boardroom to find the winner.