FiSH
FiSH started in Mortlake and East Sheen through the local churches in the early 1960's. Barnes FiSH followed a year later. In 2000 the two schemes amalgamated to make a bigger stronger organisation, with a salaried co-ordinator and an office base. As a voluntary community care scheme it has thrived and with your help will continue to go from strength to strength. Since our simple beginning we now have seven hundred clients and two hundred volunteers.

The modern acronym stands for:

  • Friendship
  • independence
  • Support
  • Help
The FiSH offices are in the Barnes Green Centre beside Barnes pond. Fish' n' Chats, our social outreach programme, is in the Sheen Lane Centre (next to the library) on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays (but not the first Friday in the month) 10.15am - 12.30pm. You will also find a library, a Citizen's Advice Bureau and the GP surgeries within the Sheen Lane Centre. The area covered by FiSH is shown in the map below. Click on FiSH by the pond for the detailed location map.
Area covered by FiSH Location of FiSH