Launching on Monday 18th January with a programme for Primary aged children designed to support them and you while schools are closed. The programme offers one lesson per day, Monday to Friday, for each year group. The content of lessons will be based on this term’s National Curriculum in Maths and Literacy. Lessons are taught in…
For the week of Thanksgiving, we interviewed Val Minor, the owner of Sheen’s fantastic American restaurant, Pickle and Rye, about her experiences of lockdown. The pandemic made her restaurant move online for home deliveries, with the restaurant closed and cancelling weekend brunches. But despair not: they’re planning to open at a new location in SW14,…
During these challenging times, our community has raised an astonishing £8,395 for the Roehampton Community Box Project (RCBP) and started 10 new street collections which regularly deliver food to RCBP. A group of local families living in and around East Sheen have been fundraising for The Roehampton Community Box Project (RCBP) which currently distributes boxes…
We at East Sheen Village would love to see homes, schools and offices in East Sheen illuminated with fairy lights as the nights are getting longer. Richmond Council has joined the #RichmondSparkle campaign encouraging residents to light up their homes, businesses and schools this winter to help spread some joy across the borough, according to…
As we near the (hopeful) midway point of what’s become known as ‘Lockdown 2.0’, East Sheen Village would like to thank all of our residents for not only keeping spirits along the Upper Richmond Road and Sheen Lane raised, but also for shopping local in these ‘unprecedented’ times – although how much longer we can…
Fitness has been temporarily forced back online for many of our local providers but they are all working incredibly hard to bring their classes to your home. If you’re already a participant then you’ll have details but if you feel like trying something new (what better time when no-one is looking?) or picking up where…
Sheen’s beloved party shop has been a favourite fixture of our high street for 12 years. We asked owner Adrienne D’Souza about the challenges the first lockdown posed for her business, and her strategy for trading safely in a pandemic. For now, they’re open online for click and collect and local delivery – ready to…
Our second interview in our lockdown series is with Magda Harrison, who owns the multi-award-winning small chain of Artisan coffee shops with her husband Edwin. They started out in 2011 by opening Artisan Putney, with locations in Stamford Brook, Ealing and East Sheen following later. The entrepreneur couple branched out by establishing the Artisan Coffee…
One of Sheen’s much-loved independent businesses, Pearson is officially recognised as the world’s oldest bicycle business: their Sutton branch was founded in 1860. Currently it is run by the fifth generation of the Pearson family, who strive to maintain the hard-won reputation established by their predecessors. Pearson Performance in East Sheen was set up in…
Brown Sugar Banana Scones recipe Day 100 of lockdown and I’m still baking. The Banana Bread frenzy has been and gone and I have the weight gain to prove it. But, as always, I still have at least a ton of brown bananas in my freezer/fruit bowl. Quite often recipes made to use up your…
