Power to the People.

We do lots of different sorts of community organising. All of it includes a key call to action at its heart - to make a positive change whilst empowering community members to participate and lead.

All of our work in this area has included some fundraising. Our most recent projects have been with our local primary school and their parent and teacher association and charity, Friends of Redlands. These have been: the Early Years Foundation Stage Playground renovation; and the work we’re doing as crowdfunders for a major appeal in aid of library books and resources for the school (which includes a special comedy gig featuring and curated by Sara Pascoe).

Bringing Nature to an Urban Space.

It started with a chat with a local teacher about lack of green space in a small one-form entry primary school, and a real need for accessible, curriculum-appropriate exciting and sustainable equipment for children at their beginning of their educational journey.

Three years later, we’ve raised £36k to build a whole new playground for the children ages 4-6 years old and built spaces for the children across the whole of the primary school (ages 4-11 years old) to grow vegetables, and have access to pockets of green space despite being in a built up urban environment. We worked with the delightful Green Play Project to create and install the playground, and the founder of and gardener in Erleigh Road Community Garden to find the trees and plants that would work in the limited space. The school community was canvassed to identify what herbs and plants had significance for their families and heritage, too.

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