About Us

'FiSH Neighbourhood Care - It's a Lifeline' is a 9 minute video that shows how, as a FiSH volunteer, you can help your community.

'It's a Lifeline' video on Youtube

FiSH is run by part time paid staff based at Barnes Green Centre, over 200 volunteers use their time and expertise to help and enable people living in Barnes, Mortlake and East Sheen. Paid and voluntary bus drivers take and collect users on outings, events and shopping trips. The committee provide the governance and specialist knowledge to keep FiSH funded and operational

Here in the office

Jenny in the FiSH office
Jenny Hughes
FiSH Director
David Leftwich Driver Terry Humphrey Phillida in the FiSH office Leslie in the FiSH office
David Leftwich          Terry Humphrey      Phyllida Cornfield       Leslie Spatt    
            Driver                   Driver               Transport Enterprise    Office assistant                                         Scheme co-ordinator

FiSH Executive Committee
As at November 2011
Chair: Margaret Harrop
Hon. Secretary: Margaret Saunders
Treasurer: John Wilson

Committee Members: Sue Boyd (co-opted)
Catherine Dewe-Mathews
Rachida Ez-Zihi
Penny Kegerreis - Deputy Chair
Nigel Newby - Director of RaKAT (co-opted)
Kit Peck (co-opted)
Rev. Graham Pulham
Kathy Willman

Jean Lewis - Vice President
Veronica Schroter - Vice President



The Annual Report outlines the wide range of services and activities offered by FiSH during the previous year, see it on the Contact Us page.

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FiSH part-founder featured in BBC Domesday Reloaded Project

What is Domesday? In 1986 the BBC launched an ambitious project to record a snapshot of everyday life across the UK for future generations. A million volunteers took part… Now, 25 years later you can explore the archive online, see the pictures, update the information and make your mark on this fascinating record of our collective history.

Here is an entry from http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday/dblock/GB-520000-174000/page/10 about Social Services in SW14.

We interviewed Mrs Bown, the organiser and part-founder of a 'good neighbour' scheme called FISH. The aim of the scheme is to help plug some gaps in the official provision of care by the Social Services. In an emergency, she can find volunteers to provide transport to clinics and hospitals, collect pensions, shop etc.for people who are housebound and helpless.The scheme was started 22 years ago (1964) by a group of Christians from the Parish as a deliberate effort to live their christianity in the community. It was the second in Britain, and the first ecumenical one, involving all the Christian churches of the parish. Mrs Bown herself is well aware of the problems ill health can bring: she suffers from Multiple Sclerosis and is confined to a wheelchair.

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