Clubs/societies

A prize is on offer for the 1,000th person to talk part in a series of guided walks around Paddington.

Walking tours of the Paddington area have been taking place throughout the year, organised by Paddington Waterside Partnership and Paddington BID.

A new £4.5m eco-friendly sports and community centre was officially launched in Little Venice.

Westminster mayor Cllr Duncan Sandys opened the Little Venice Sports Centre, in Crompton Street, and Olympic silver medal winner Mark Richardson and cycling Olympic hopeful Dani King attended the event on Saturday.

Budding singers are invited to try out for a new community choir in North Paddington.

A taster session of the Harrow Road Community Choir will be held at Paddington Academy, in Marylands Road, on December 2.

A fresh lick of paint has brightened up part of the Queen's Park library.

On Thursday, the newly-refurbished Queen's Park learning centre, in Fourth Avenue, was officially unveiled by local author and journalist Melissa Benn, daughter of politician Sir Anthony Wedgwood Benn.

Super slimmers from Bayswater are set to part in a world record-breaking birthday party on Thursday.

Members of the Bayswater Slimming World group, who meet at Pickering Hall, on the Hallfield Estate, are hosting a 1969-themed party in celebration of the 40th anniversary of Slimming World.

Budding sports men and women are invited to get active with a free open day in Queen's Park tomorrow (Friday).

The event, held at Moberly Sports Centre, in Kilburn Lane, is set to encourage Westminster residents with disabilities to take part in a wide range of sports on offer across the borough.

An exhibition of photographs will be on display at Maida Hill Market until the end of the month.

A series of photographs entitled 'Close ups on nature', by former W9 resident Caroline Stone, can be seen at the Maida Hill Gallery, near the junction of Harrow Road and Fernhead Road.

Computer training sessions held in Marylebone this summer were so popular they are to be repeated.

The workshops begin at Marylebone Library, in Marylebone Road, on September 10, with a class for absolute beginners.

Queen's Park library has celebrated children's reading this summer by running more than 29 events.

Children have made arms and armor to ready themselves for battle at the library, at the junction of Harrow Road and Fourth Avenue, as well as relaxing and watching a film while a henna artist covered them in designs.

The best front garden in North Paddington belongs to Joan Charman, it was officially announced.

The keen gardener, of Portnall Road, picked up the hotly-contested award for 'best front garden' in the Harrow Road area for the sixth year in a row.