West London Zone Chief Executive, Louisa Mitchell recognised in New Years Honours List

We are delighted that our Chief Executive, Louisa Mitchell, has been awarded an MBE in the New Year Honours List for 2024 in recognition of her “services to children and young people”. Read more

We made our target! The Big Give Christmas Challenge 2023

For the fourth year running West London Zone joined the Big Give Christmas Challenge, raising a whopping £100,000! Read more

West London Zone attends the Labour Party Conference

The WLZ team recently attended the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool. Read more about what we discussed with Labour politicians, policy influencers and stakeholders and our plans for the future. Read more

Inspiring young creatives – West London Zone and renowned artist team up for a special exhibition

West London Zone recently teamed up with the Maddox Gallery and acclaimed artist Ross Muir for his latest exhibition, The Bridge Home, which will be shown at their Westbourne Grove gallery until 22 October. Read more

West London Zone welcomes new Chief Delivery Officer, Andrew Oliva-Hauxwell

We are delighted to announce that Andrew Oliva-Hauxwell, previously Executive Director at Teach First, will be joining the West London Zone team in September 2023 as Chief Delivery Officer Read more

West London Zone wins the Social Value Award for Social Innovation: Partnerships

West London Zone is delighted to have won a Social Value Award 2023 in the Social Innovation - Partnerships category, for its social investment bond with Bank of America. Read more

Old Oak primary school win campaign for new facilities at Wormwood Scrubs park

Having supported the campaign for renovated facilities at a local Hammersmith and Fulham park, West London Zone is delighted that the Wormwood scrubs playpark has opened its gate with a new zipline and trampettes Read more

West London Zone hosts annual Delivery Partner celebration event

After a year of delivering specialist support in schools to young people on our programme, we hosted our annual Delivery Partner event to say thank you for their hard work and partnership. Read more

West London Zone holds an Insights evening at Westminster Foundation

West London Zone hosted an event at the Westminster Foundation to share insights and impact with key stakeholders, and talk about the experiences of the most recent cohort of young people on the programme. Read more

West London Zone joins the Big Give Christmas Challenge and raises £100,035

For the third year running, West London Zone participated in the Big Give Christmas Challenge 2022, raising a whopping £100,035. Read more

West London Zone raises £480,000 thanks to local fundraising event

We co-hosted a fundraising event on 27 September, raising an impressive £480,000, which will be match funded to total £980,000. This will go towards funding 32 new Link Workers and impacting 1,100 new children and young people in the area Read more

QPR in the Community Trust Partnership

We are thrilled to jointly announce a formal partnership between the QPR in the Community Trust and West London Zone which will launch this summer. Read more

Esiri Lawrence joins West London Zone as People and Culture Director

We are pleased to announce that Esiri Lawrence has joined the West London Zone team as People and Culture Director. Read more

Be | Shaping the Future UK Partnership

We are delighted to announce that we have been chosen by Be | Shaping the Future UK, as their Charity of the Year for two years with activities starting in the summer term. Read more

Greater Share Partnership

West London Zone is thrilled to announce that we are entering into a long-term partnership with a major new philanthropic entity called Greater Share. Read more

Joining Up Support

Learn about the WLZ model and how we join up support for children and young people. Read more

What do young people and families think?

Learn more about the results of our 2021 young people and families feedback survey. Read more

Measuring our academic impact with Analysis Group

Read about how the Analysis Group pro bono team helped us to design a new tool to better automate our academic analysis. Read more

Starcom UK Partnership

We are delighted to announce that a new corporate partnership with White City based global media communications agency Starcom UK will launch today. Read more

Learn more about the West London Zone Programme

Watch our new film on how the WLZ programme works, explained by young people, parents and Link Workers. Read more

West London Zone continues growth into new academic year

West London Zone is continuing to grow in 2021-22 in line with our 5-year strategy to support 3,000 children and young people a year by 2025. Read more

‘Our City’: growing up in West London

A new film project planned and produced by young people in our alumni group highlighting their experiences. Read more

Andrew Berwick joins West London Zone as Strategy and Impact Director

We are delighted to announce that Andrew Berwick, former CEO of The Access Project, will be joining the West London Zone team in September 2021 as Strategy and Impact Director. Read more

Champions for Children Summer Holidays Campaign

We reached our target! This funding will help us to provide additional support, trips and activities to young people over the summer holidays. Read more