Branch News: Ealing

Easter Symbols and Their Meaning

Jacqueline at Ealing branch is celebrating Easter with a display of Easter symbols and their meanings. Many of the local children have been busy counting how many eggs they can see in the window. Whilst the adults have been reading the meanings and legends related some of the symbols of Easter....

Happy Mothers Day!

We are celebrating Mothering Sunday at Ealing branch by inviting the community in to write a message on a butterfly and hang it on our Mother’s Day Tree of Remembrance. Butterflies are deep and powerful representations of life. Many cultures associate the butterfly with our souls. The Christian religion sees the butterfly as a symbol of resurrection. Around the world, people view the butterfly as representing e...

Happy St Patrick’s Day from Ealing Branch

Ealing is celebrating St Patrick’s Day by displaying the Irish flag with the story of St Patrick and the legends that have been associated with him. We are just waiting for the sun to come out and shine through the lovely stained glass image in the window....

Hapus Dydd Gwyl Dewi! Happy St David’s Day!

Jacqueline at the Ealing branch would like to wish everyone a Hapus Dydd Gwyl Dewi! (Happy St David’s Day!). The Welsh flag makes a lovely backdrop to the beautiful vase of golden yellow daffodils, the message in Welsh and the legend as to why the leek and the daf...

Ealing’s Christmas Remembrance Tree

Here is the Remembrance Tree at Ealing branch with several messages for lost loved ones tied on by clients and passers-by....

Lodge Brothers Donate Hamper for The Grange Nursing Home Christmas Fair

Debbie at The Grange Nursing Home, Southall, receives this lovely Christmas hamper from Jacqueline at our Ealing branch, donated to them by the Lodge Brothers for their Christmas Fair...

Ealing Salvation Army’s Baby Bank

Lodge Brothers & Wickenden's Ealing branch arranger Jacqueline Oliver is supporting a new Salvation Army venture called the Baby Bank. This is a new initiative that Lieutenants Sarah and Craig have just started to develop. They are currently taking in donations of good quality second hand baby clothes and equipment ready for when the Baby Bank goes live in January. The Baby Bank will be available free of charge to an...

Lodge Brothers & Wickenden at the Meadow House Hospice Christmas Bazaar

Ealing Branch Arranger Jacqueline and District Relief Arranger Bernice put their baking skills to the test to support Meadow House Hospice Christmas Bazaar. They baked coffee and walnut cake, marble cake, lemon cake and fruit cakes and took them to be enjoyed by all supporting this event. As you can see from the message from the Voluntary Services Manager, Lynn, they were very well received: "OMG - Jacqueline the c...

Family Servicemen On Display At Ealing Branch

With the centenary of Armistice fast approaching Jacqueline has created a remembrance window display to commemorate this momentous occasion. Her window includes a painting of a spitfire flying over the poppy fields, flag and a stencilled border on loan from her colleague Bernice. The photographs are of Sergeant Richard Oliver and Private Barrie Oliver, Jacqueline’s late father in law and his father. Ealing resident...

World’s Biggest Coffee Morning – Lodge Brothers Ealing

Friday 28th September was the World’s Biggest Coffee morning to support Macmillan Cancer Support. So Jacqueline, our Ealing Funeral Arranger and Bernice, our District Relief Funeral Arranger, baked a range of cakes to donate to The Grange Nursing Home to help them raise funds. The Grange raised over £100.00 to give to the charity. ...