Council achievements

We are committed to fostering thriving, healthy households

Take a look at our achievements supporting thriving, healthy households.

Adults

• Hillingdon Advice Partnership was commissioned to provide health and wellbeing advice and support services to residents.
• The council held its first Age-Friendly Festival, a celebration of our older residents, featuring a series of events in libraries and community venues offering free activities, information and support.

Children and young people

• Support for children with SEND was expanded, with the delivery of new facilities at Meadow High School and work progressing to provide 90 additional places at a satellite site in Harefield.
• The council refreshed its Local Offer for children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) to make finding support simpler and clearer.
• Hillingdon was ranked first in west London on National Offer Day for offering 91 per cent of parents their first choice primary school.
• 6 new residential homes for local children were built so they can remain in the borough close to family and friends.
• The council recruited 11 new foster carers following the launch of a new support package in 2024.
• 9 outstanding residents were celebrated for their dedication and the difference they make to children's lives at the 2025 Foster Carers Appreciation Awards. 
• 2 of our children and family social workers won Social Worker of the Year Awards.
• Our annual Kids in Care Awards (KICA) ceremony celebrated the outstanding accomplishments of care-experienced children and young people in Hillingdon. Around 400 children, carers and friends attended, with a record number of nominations at 927.
• Since the launch of our Hillingdon Youth Offer, 56% more children and young people are accessing the programmes on offer for all.
• We supported more than 3,700 families to look after their children’s teeth, hosting more than 700 sessions to provide information, advice and fun activities.
• A new child weight management programme ‘Xplore’ was introduced in collaboration with the council’s leisure centre provider Greenwich Leisure Limited.
• 5,101 children took part in this year’s Summer Reading Challenge which had a nature theme, with 2,468 completing and 18 receiving special awards.
• Our Holidays Activities and Food programme benefited 5,600 children.
• Playday returned to Hillingdon Athletics Stadium offering activities including BMX, basketball, cricket, tennis, sandpit play and arts and crafts to 2,000 attendees.
• HS2 amenity funding was used to create a new clubhouse for 2nd Ickenham Scout Group.

Leisure and health

• The council formally completed its new state-of-the-art Platinum Jubilee Leisure Centre in West Drayton, which expands the borough’s exceptional leisure and fitness offer. The 6,488 square metre venue is the council's fifth sports centre and has a 25-metre swimming pool, teaching pool, splash pad with flume (the first in the borough), health and fitness suite with a steam and sauna cabin, aerobics and spin studios, two-level soft play area, sensory room, clip and climb zone with nine walls, large sports hall, rooftop five-a-side 3G football pitch, and café area.
• Working with community partners, the council continued to offer warm welcome centres across the borough, giving residents a free hot drink, companionship and a range of activities throughout the winter.
• We celebrated the 10th anniversary of Hillingdon Dementia Action Alliance,  founded to improve the lives of residents living with the condition and their carers, and a Hayes resident who benefits from the council's range of support for those living with dementia accompanied the England football team onto the pitch for 1 of their friendly matches.
• More than 200 people attended the council’s first crime writing festival featuring some of the country’s top authors.