Showing posts with label Granville Community Kitchen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Granville Community Kitchen. Show all posts

Saturday 28 August 2021

Get behind the Granville Community Kitchen Triathlon Team fundraiser - if you can keep up with them!

 

The Granville Community Kitchen is so important to our local area that Oi, Michelle and Georgea wanted to raise awareness and funds for their work.

 

They have formed a Triathlon Relay team to train and take part in Blenheim Palace Triathlon on 11th Sept.

 

This involves training to do a 800 metres open-water swim (Oi), a 13km bike ride (Michelle) and 5.4km run (Georgea). They will be joined by an amazing 189 people from across our community, fundraising for vital local causes.

Please sponsor and encourage our team on this page

 


Granville Community Kitchen is run by the community for the community. The kitchen offer the South Kilburn community a place for repair, resilience, resistance and safety, while the Community Garden educates local people in how to grow food. The Kitchen also provides food aid to hundreds of people every week beyond south Kilburn.

 

More about the 189-strong Kensal Tri Team is HERE

Sunday 27 September 2020

Granville Community Kitchen to launch 'Good Food Box' scheme in Kilburn in October

 

Some of the produce will come from the Granville Community Garden

Granville Community Kitchen is bringing all the goodness of the farmers market to you from Ocober.  We are making healthy food affordable for everyone by working with farmers, market gardeners and food producers at home and abroad.

We are offering fresh, seasonal local food and ethically sourced produce from here and abroad to ensure every culture has access to food

The Good Food Box is a radical weekly veg bag scheme, run by Granville Community Kitchen. Every Wednesday we pack bags of fresh, organic veg ready to feed households all over Kilburn. We charge two different prices for our veg bags (depending upon your ability to pay) so that nutritious fresh veg is available to the whole of the community. We offer foods from your culture, allowing you to access veg appropriate to your culture. We make sure to buy more directly from farmers so that they are guaranteed a fairer price. Every pound you spend with us is an investment in your local community.

For information and to register  visit:

 http://granvillecommunitykitchen.org.uk/good-food-box/how-it-works/

Saturday 28 July 2018

'Talk & Walk' urban food growing spaces with Granville Kitchen today


'Talk and Walk' event at Granville Community Kitchen Urban Food Gropwing is holding this event today as part of London National Park City Week:


28 July 2018 2pm – 3.30 pm

Meet at the Granville 140 Carlton Vale, NW6 5HE

Granville Community Kitchen invites you on a tour of three inner city growing spaces where you will be able to get involved in growing activities. Granville Community Kitchen is a community-led initiative for the South Kilburn community to access healthy, affordable and sustainable food and grow community!

Monday 12 June 2017

Don't let them rip the heart out of South Kilburn - meeting Wednesday





From Granville Community Kitchen

 I am really sorry to tell you that the South Kilburn Trust and the RCKa Architects have 'responded'  to our outrage at the loss of the community Main Hall in Granville Plus Centre to a business hub. 
When the community  protested that it was losing the only large public space in the area, they have  responded by taking all the community space in the basement to  create a large 'event space there. 
This event space will have no kitchen. They say this can be hired by the community so is a 'community space'


THIS IS NOT COMMUNITY SPACE!


That means the community lose the Granville Community Kitchen (GCK) and all the other spaces in the basement. It is said the Community Kitchen can go in the 'living room'  kitchen on the ground floor. This space is open to anyone who comes into the building. This means that community groups, groups of parents and children, and vulnerable groups will have not have safe and dedicated space. Our children will not be allowed to be children with no space to play freely or safely. Anyone adult or child with lots of energy will have to be quiet and careful of their behaviour as they may disturb the business users. 

It means the needs of business users are placed first, over the community who have been using the building for generations!

Community users and Business users have different needs! They need separate spaces!

If the building loses it's sense of community purpose THAT IT WAS BUILT FOR it is no longer a community building!

The Mayor of London of London says that London is for All. He speaks of social integration and economic fairness. Where is the social integration in destroying the fabric of the Granville Community Centre and pushing the community out?  Where is the economic fairness if community is not given the opportunities to learn, to gather, to be supported, to express, to celebrate, to mourn? Economic fairness cannot be achieved without the social values that community bring.

Is this the legacy that the GLA, South Kilburn Trust and Brent truly want? One of reinforcing social inqualities? Of widening the gaps between the haves and the have nots? Of increasing social isolation of vulnerable people? Of not investing in the future of  our children and young people? Of having people go hungry? Of valuing money instead of people?

The Granville is the HEART of the South Kilburn community. Rip it out that heart and it dies!!


WE CAN STILL CHANGE THEIR MINDS!

What can you do?

Come to Granville, Carlton Vale, NW6 5HE
This Wednesday 14  June 
3pm - 8pm 

Voice your anger about this! Tell them you want seperate community spaces where we feel safe and that we control.. We want the  original purpose of the building prioritised and kept.

You will need to write it down but people will be there from GCK to help.

Please come and TELL YOUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBOURS to come too!

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You can find Granville Community Kitchen at
The Granville Plus Centre, Carlton Vale, NW6 5HE
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