Joanna Biddolph
@joannabiddolph.bsky.social
Conservative councillor for Chiswick Gunnersbury ward (Hounslow borough). Set up the Chiswick Shops Task Force to champion Chiswick's retail, hospitality and service business economy. Promoted by Joanna Biddolph, 433 Chiswick High Road, W4 4AU
Business rates to be abolished by an @Conservatives government. Huge news. Tories understand business and know that the business rates tax is unfair. Businesses need to thrive: taxed on success, not taxed for taxation's sake. #retail #hospitality #shoplocal and support #IndieChiswick
October 6, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Business rates to be abolished by an @Conservatives government. Huge news. Tories understand business and know that the business rates tax is unfair. Businesses need to thrive: taxed on success, not taxed for taxation's sake. #retail #hospitality #shoplocal and support #IndieChiswick
Residents and businesses in #Chiswick need its post office to re-open. So do customers who come from other areas because its services are so extensive. Banking hub, travel money, Drop & Go, emergency passports, car tax, more. Please sign the petition: change.org/p/reopen-chi...?
June 11, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Residents and businesses in #Chiswick need its post office to re-open. So do customers who come from other areas because its services are so extensive. Banking hub, travel money, Drop & Go, emergency passports, car tax, more. Please sign the petition: change.org/p/reopen-chi...?
Super article about the Chiswick Repair Cafe. I've been several times and am a very happy customer. Delicious cakes to eat, and a chance to meet locals, while waiting your turn. So lucky to have such a brilliant initiative in #Chiswick. archive.ph/7DEYb www.telegraph.co.uk/family/life/...
The repair cafés fixing communities – plus how to ‘make do and mend’ at home
Voluntary initiatives like the Chiswick Repair Café in west London are helping to reduce waste, share skills and bring people together
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June 11, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Super article about the Chiswick Repair Cafe. I've been several times and am a very happy customer. Delicious cakes to eat, and a chance to meet locals, while waiting your turn. So lucky to have such a brilliant initiative in #Chiswick. archive.ph/7DEYb www.telegraph.co.uk/family/life/...
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May 24, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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This is so life affirming. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
Lost wallets in Belfast: Does being happy make you more honest?
The BBC's Mark Easton tests the theory that happier people do good things like returning lost property.
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March 20, 2025 at 2:17 PM
This is so life affirming. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
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March 20, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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On Tuesday the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions confirmed major cuts and changes to disability benefits.
Let’s look at what this might mean for specific benefits ⬇ 1/11
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March 20, 2025 at 1:50 PM
On Tuesday the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions confirmed major cuts and changes to disability benefits.
Let’s look at what this might mean for specific benefits ⬇ 1/11
Let’s look at what this might mean for specific benefits ⬇ 1/11
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Thanks @fionamathews.bsky.social for her fab talk on the conservation of mammals last night. The audience was fully engaged in what she had to say. Time to respect nature as part of our community.
March 19, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Thanks @fionamathews.bsky.social for her fab talk on the conservation of mammals last night. The audience was fully engaged in what she had to say. Time to respect nature as part of our community.
It's not just cost 'it's the hassle that parking causes too: 62% of drivers say the lack of parking availability and parking restrictions are putting them off" and "82% ... believe councils should help to save the high street by offering free parking." www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/a...
Expensive parking is killing our high streets
A study from the AA and a report from Direct Line have both found that parking fees are a key reason why people aren't going shopping on the high street.
www.thisismoney.co.uk
March 1, 2025 at 11:48 PM
It's not just cost 'it's the hassle that parking causes too: 62% of drivers say the lack of parking availability and parking restrictions are putting them off" and "82% ... believe councils should help to save the high street by offering free parking." www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/a...
Setting off to meet residents of Syon & Brentford Lock ward, supporting Mike Dennis our @conservatives.bsky.social candidate in the by-election on 6 March. Residents hugely critical of the damage the Labour government is doing to this country and of the incompetence of @hounslowcouncil.bsky.social.
February 23, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Setting off to meet residents of Syon & Brentford Lock ward, supporting Mike Dennis our @conservatives.bsky.social candidate in the by-election on 6 March. Residents hugely critical of the damage the Labour government is doing to this country and of the incompetence of @hounslowcouncil.bsky.social.
LTN and parking fines to go up by £30: It's another attack on small businesses in town centres, too. Shops, cafes, restaurants and service businesses all need parking to be affordable and plentiful otherwise their customers will drive away: www.telegraph.co.uk/money/sadiq-...
Sadiq Khan launches another attack on London drivers
War on motorists worsens as Labour mayor approves ‘unjustifiable’ price increases
www.telegraph.co.uk
February 23, 2025 at 12:11 AM
LTN and parking fines to go up by £30: It's another attack on small businesses in town centres, too. Shops, cafes, restaurants and service businesses all need parking to be affordable and plentiful otherwise their customers will drive away: www.telegraph.co.uk/money/sadiq-...
"The hospitality sector is the third-largest employer in the UK and 40% of this workforce is aged under 25." "Working in a bar or pub was once a rite of passage, yet here we are taking crucial jobs away from young students." Closures will increase loneliness, too: www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2014...
Rachel Reeves must act to save pubs... but there's little concern in Westminster
Rising energy costs, taxes and a lack of support are pushing the nation's pubs to the brink, with 9,000 at risk of closure this year... and we'll all lose out in the long run.
www.express.co.uk
February 19, 2025 at 2:32 PM
"The hospitality sector is the third-largest employer in the UK and 40% of this workforce is aged under 25." "Working in a bar or pub was once a rite of passage, yet here we are taking crucial jobs away from young students." Closures will increase loneliness, too: www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2014...
Not only retailers. Hospitality businesses have been raided, too, and tell me they have had their worst January trade for years, not including tough times during Covid. Please, if you can, eat, drink and shop locally. #shoplocal and support #IndieChiswick
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M&S boss says retailers being 'raided like piggy banks'
Stuart Machin says the sector is facing a wave of tax rises and the government needs to
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February 9, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Not only retailers. Hospitality businesses have been raided, too, and tell me they have had their worst January trade for years, not including tough times during Covid. Please, if you can, eat, drink and shop locally. #shoplocal and support #IndieChiswick
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Struggling with your mental health? Actor Steve McFadden is phenomenal as @bbceastenders Phil Mitchell as he sinks into depression and experiences psychotic symptoms. Do read the sensitive summaries from @samaritans.bsky.social @mindcharity.bsky.social Rethink and CALM www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
EastEnders to air mental health storyline for Phil Mitchell
The storyline will follow Phil, and the characters closest to him
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January 26, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Struggling with your mental health? Actor Steve McFadden is phenomenal as @bbceastenders Phil Mitchell as he sinks into depression and experiences psychotic symptoms. Do read the sensitive summaries from @samaritans.bsky.social @mindcharity.bsky.social Rethink and CALM www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
Public loos: I've been banging on about this for years. We need more public loos. I know residents of #ChiswickGunnersbury ward who limit the time they spend shopping, and who dehydrate before going out, for fear of needing a loo. Councils have much more to do: fitzrovianews.com/2025/01/20/n...
Nearly 100 public toilets closed in London over ten years says Age UK - The Fitzrovia News
Almost 100 of the capital’s public toilets have closed over the last ten years, according to new research by Age UK London.
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January 22, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Public loos: I've been banging on about this for years. We need more public loos. I know residents of #ChiswickGunnersbury ward who limit the time they spend shopping, and who dehydrate before going out, for fear of needing a loo. Councils have much more to do: fitzrovianews.com/2025/01/20/n...
Setting off for a (rather muddy) walk in Brentford finding out what is needed to manage flooding - this year's brief for the @LBofHounslow scrutiny panel on housing and environment. Fascinating insights from local residents including boat dwellers. @LandscapeThames #Brentford
January 17, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Setting off for a (rather muddy) walk in Brentford finding out what is needed to manage flooding - this year's brief for the @LBofHounslow scrutiny panel on housing and environment. Fascinating insights from local residents including boat dwellers. @LandscapeThames #Brentford
A third parking story today: The AA warns: “The cost of parking, as well as ease of payment, has an impact on consumers and they will ‘vote with their wheels’ if they deem the price too expensive, or a hassle if they can only pay via an app or by phone'.”: archive.ph/dI359
December 8, 2024 at 9:15 PM
A third parking story today: The AA warns: “The cost of parking, as well as ease of payment, has an impact on consumers and they will ‘vote with their wheels’ if they deem the price too expensive, or a hassle if they can only pay via an app or by phone'.”: archive.ph/dI359
1/2: Two parking stories in one day. First, the revelation that Rudolph received a fine when parking the sleigh during the #Christmas lights switch-on in #Chiswick - the parking app failed - and Scrooge's rules prevail. www.chiswickw4.com/default.asp?...
December 8, 2024 at 4:52 PM
1/2: Two parking stories in one day. First, the revelation that Rudolph received a fine when parking the sleigh during the #Christmas lights switch-on in #Chiswick - the parking app failed - and Scrooge's rules prevail. www.chiswickw4.com/default.asp?...
For children aged five to 11: Do join in with the #Chiswick #Christmas scavenger hunt looking for unexpected things in shop windows to win prizes incl dinner for two at Sam's Kitchen, vouchers in many shops, and ice creams. Children are loving the fun and parents are chattering about the prizes.
December 5, 2024 at 12:07 AM
For children aged five to 11: Do join in with the #Chiswick #Christmas scavenger hunt looking for unexpected things in shop windows to win prizes incl dinner for two at Sam's Kitchen, vouchers in many shops, and ice creams. Children are loving the fun and parents are chattering about the prizes.
All dressed up and ready for your #Christmas shopping spree in #Chiswick. Two sparkly trees: one at the top of Turnham Green Terrace lit with 4,500 lights provided by Wheelers; one on Chiswick High Road lit with white lights and baubles provided by Hounslow council. #shoplocal support #indiechiswick
December 4, 2024 at 11:58 PM
All dressed up and ready for your #Christmas shopping spree in #Chiswick. Two sparkly trees: one at the top of Turnham Green Terrace lit with 4,500 lights provided by Wheelers; one on Chiswick High Road lit with white lights and baubles provided by Hounslow council. #shoplocal support #indiechiswick
Fabulously classily Christmassy as usual from La Trompette on Devonshire Road. I can't walk along without stopping to read the menu, a moment of pleasure in a busy day. #Christmas #Chiswick #hospitality #shoplocal
December 4, 2024 at 11:50 PM
Fabulously classily Christmassy as usual from La Trompette on Devonshire Road. I can't walk along without stopping to read the menu, a moment of pleasure in a busy day. #Christmas #Chiswick #hospitality #shoplocal
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Orders in the Very British Problems shop come with a free Christmas card for a limited time only, use code BRITISHXMAS at checkout 🎁
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December 4, 2024 at 9:55 PM
Orders in the Very British Problems shop come with a free Christmas card for a limited time only, use code BRITISHXMAS at checkout 🎁
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Fab #Christmas lights switch-on in #Chiswick with an exuberant, fun singalong led by Chiswick School choir. Father Christmas officiated with the help of a reindeer. Thanks to Chiswick Lighting, M&S, Sainsbury, Tesco for mince pies, choc teacakes, chocs and to Wheeler's for a sparkly tree on TGT.
November 19, 2024 at 11:07 PM
Fab #Christmas lights switch-on in #Chiswick with an exuberant, fun singalong led by Chiswick School choir. Father Christmas officiated with the help of a reindeer. Thanks to Chiswick Lighting, M&S, Sainsbury, Tesco for mince pies, choc teacakes, chocs and to Wheeler's for a sparkly tree on TGT.
Christmas is coming to #Chiswick with a fun scavenger hunt for five to 11 year olds. Look for unexpected things in shops to try to win one of over 50 prizes for the family. Happy hunting! 🎄🎁🎅 More info: www.chiswickw4.com/default.asp?...
November 19, 2024 at 4:49 AM
Christmas is coming to #Chiswick with a fun scavenger hunt for five to 11 year olds. Look for unexpected things in shops to try to win one of over 50 prizes for the family. Happy hunting! 🎄🎁🎅 More info: www.chiswickw4.com/default.asp?...
The Ask for Angela scheme is a crucial safety net for anyone who feels vulnerable on a night out. It is shocking to know that in some pubs the posters are meaningless, raising expectations and giving false comfort. Tory cllrs in Hounslow want it to be strengthened: www.chiswickw4.com/default.asp?...
November 18, 2024 at 11:33 PM
The Ask for Angela scheme is a crucial safety net for anyone who feels vulnerable on a night out. It is shocking to know that in some pubs the posters are meaningless, raising expectations and giving false comfort. Tory cllrs in Hounslow want it to be strengthened: www.chiswickw4.com/default.asp?...