EastSheenMatters

November 2025 Another Convoy is driving to Ukraine.

Donation needs to All Saints Church or Christ Church in Christchurch Road or St. Mary the Virgin in Mortlake High Street by 2 November 2025

Personal Care

Hand creams, wet wipes, shampoos, gels – Not second-hand

Health

Multivitamins (e g  Amazon Multivitamins, 1xyear supply at approx £17)

Painkillers (Ibuprofen / Paracetamol)

Wheelchairs

Medical consumables (new and unopened only)

Electronics

Lighting, Tools & Equipment

Power banks (for mobile phones)

Head torches

Batteries (e g  AA / AAA)

DIY sets (e g  Amazon DEKO Tool Kit Set Box 62 Piece Home Repair at £18 99) Jackery 1000 v2 Portable Power Station for electricity (Amazon £404–£449) Generators (petrol based) 

No longer needed laptops – fully operational with good memory capacity

Warmth and Sleeping

Bed linen (sheets / duvet covers) – old or new, for local charities preparing camonets

Sleeping bags (dark colours) – clean and good quality only if second-hand 

Yoga mats (for sleeping on, dark colours) 

Men’s thermal underwear and warm socks (preferably new – can be bought cheaply on Amazon, Decathlon, Lidl, etc ) 

Fleece sweatshirts with zippers (new or washed, neatly folded, and good quality if second-hand) 

Warm blankets – no duvets 

Hand and foot warmers

Important

Strictly NO clothes for women and children, or office/party wear.

There will not be space for Zimmer frames in the November convoy.  

For second-hand items – in respect to our volunteers and recipients in Ukraine and their time, please kindly donate only clean, washed, and neatly folded items.

Deliver to the back of All Saints Church, East Sheen Avenue, London SW14 8AT.

Deadline 2 November 2025

Would anyone on here be willing to help as a marshal for the town Act of Remembrance 11am on Sheen Lane on Sunday 9th November 10:30am – c11:30am

The role involves wearing a hi viz jacket, assisting with the barriers for the short time the road is closed and having an eye to crowd control. Full briefing beforehand but not an arduous role.

The East Sheen Sgt, PCs and PCSO also help so there is police presence but some extra hands are helpful as the event has grown in recent years.

Any help is much appreciated.

More information from The Team Rector of the parish Revd Jonathan Haynes
e: vicar.cces@gmail.com

Michel the Cheese is back.

Je vous attends (ou attend). Cash only

Every year we have a Remembrance Service in the heart of East Sheen starting at 10.50am in time for the 2-minute silence. This year it is on Sunday 9 November.

Every year the number attending has grown to last year near 1,000. It has been especially good to see large numbers of Scouts, Cubs and Beavers parading. Local groups are also represented.

But we would like  as many veterans as possible joining in the parade. It doesn’t matter how little service you might have done in the armed forces, cadets, reserves, national service, you will be very welcome. 

If you can come, then please fall in at 1030am in the car park next to the Sheen Lane Health Centre. Beret/cap/medals if you can but no problem if you can’t.

If you want to know more then contact Alastair Grant on 07946 701 057.

The author of EastSheenMatters is Richard White, a retired solicitor who has lived in East Sheen for over forty years. He is a former Judge in the Special Educational Needs and Welfare Benefits Divisions of the Tribunal Service. He is a trustee of the child welfare charity, the Michael Sieff Foundation, and a member of the Advisory Board at the Centre for Inclusive Education. He has written numerous works on child law.

Richard is a member of the committee of the Mortlake with East Sheen Society (MESS), although this blog is entirely independent of MESS. He has given talks on the local history of East Sheen and Mortlake, including at the Barnes Home Guard Club, where he has been a member for thirty years.

The blog seeks to provide an independent, politically unaffiliated, news, opinion and information outlet for East Sheen and Mortlake to ensure that there is informed discussion of decisions which affect residents. The blog also publicises local events of interest. Subscribers will receive an email when a post is published and will have the opportunity to comment on the website.

A better Sunday morning. But which poor s*** are suffering today?

Or perhaps they have noted our complaints and flown higher?

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If you lodge a complaint you might be lucky enough to get reports on noise but they are for 2024.

They tell us nothing about why it has been so much worse recently.

Many of you may know of car theft from driveways locally. Most recently two in Richmond Park Road. In that context – and see advice at the end of this post.

The ringleaders of a “highly sophisticated” car theft gang who stole 107 high-value vehicles worth more than £2m over an eight-month period have been jailed at Southampton Crown Court.

The gang stole cars mostly from driveways while their owners were asleep.

The gang used signal boosters to trick keyless ignition vehicles that the key fob was close by so it could be unlocked and ‘signal jammers’ to prevent vehicles from being locked in the first place, with the owner unaware the key fob had not worked.

They would then “return in the middle of the night to drive the unlocked cars away,” a Hampshire Constabulary spokesman said.

They took the cars, 76 of which were stolen from addresses in Hampshire, 28 from Dorset and three from Wiltshire, between February and October 2023, to a “chop shop” to be stripped for parts.

The makes included Land Rover, Range Rover, Jaguar, Mercedes, Audi, Bentley, Lexus, Hyundai, Citroen and Ford as well as motorcycles and Ford vans containing thousands of pounds worth of tools.

The ringleaders were jailed for 56 months and 64 months respectively at Southampton Crown Court on Thursday. They were both convicted of conspiracy to steal motor vehicles, conspiracy to handle stolen goods, and possession of criminal property.

Advice from local Neighbourhood Watch:

General suggestions include:

hard-wired (ethernet) instead of WiFi data transfer models;

local (in camera) storage;

overlapping CCTV coverage (eg a high mounted overview CCTV device that includes the key approaches to supplement a doorbell camera;

security lighting as a deterrent.

All that said though, obviously there is extra cost and hassle if aiming for full ‘belt & braces’ surveillance, so any CCTV at all, or other security, still reduces risk. And as always with this crime type: if you have a vehicle of similar model, consider any additional security precautions as sometimes these criminals target a particular model for a while. Today’s model was a white iX Sport BMW EV.

With thanks to Andy Lindesay