Project Description
Wellcome rolls up its Community Action sleeves to help local projects for a fourth year.
Wellcome Community Action is a team volunteering campaign created by Wellcome in 2016 to support & establish relationships with grassroots projects local to their London office.
Wellcome Community Action is now in its fourth year and in 2019 took place between the Monday 1st – Friday 12th July, staff from across Wellcome formed teams and helped 11 fantastic projects. From painting to gardening to cooking dig into the impact and stories below…
Highlights from last year
Watch this video to review the fantastic projects that were supported last year
Stories from supported projects
Nestled in the heart of Somers Town the Story Garden has begun to take root. Global Generation's newest meanwhile space [...]
It was a beautiful sunny day when we started on Tuesday 2nd July, and entering the garden it was clear [...]
We were delighted to welcome a wonderfully enthusiastic and hard working team from Wellcome as part of their Community Action [...]
There were also some awesome stories generated from the participating projects of the Wellcome Community Action Summer Season campaign. Have a [...]
Wellcome have put together this short video which highlights some of the community give back that their organisation has been [...]
Over forty people came to help at the Cecil Sharp House Permaculture Garden from the Wellcome Trust over 3 days [...]
The Third Age Project is a popular local older people's charity that challenges the public's attitude towards being old. 6 [...]
The #WellcomeCommunityAction campaign came to a triumphant conclusion on Tuesday with the annual celebration event, which recognised the volunteering exploits [...]
The tenants at Centre 404's Leigh Road project were extremely happy to welcome a team of 17 volunteers form the [...]
On the 12th July 15 volunteers took it upon themselves to help The Food Chain to prepare lunch for the [...]
Project champion Agnes Nilan came along to our kitchen on June 27th for an initial meeting with me and our [...]
On what was a gloriously sunny afternoon last Thursday, I paid a visit to Centre 404's Leigh Road site to [...]
As part of the #WellcomeCommunityAction volunteer campaign I made a brief visit to Poetry in Wood, a social enterprise based [...]
Wellcome have put together this short video which highlights some of the community give back that their organisation has been [...]
Growing Story Garden
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Wellcome CAW 2017 video
