Last weekend some friends and I walked to some nearby green space (Purdown in Bristol) to have a socially distant picnic. To celebrate the Great Get Together we will again be making the trip, inviting some of our neighbours to join us. We hope they will bring a picnic and Read more [...]

No one can win the war individually. It takes the wisdom of the elders and young people’s energy. (from the song Glory, by John Legend and Common.) I am a white British hetero-sexual middle aged man (I refuse to accept any older description than that!!). I am very aware of Read more [...]

Hello everyone! For this year’s Great Get Together, I’m sending postcards to the people in my area I know are self isolating. I know they are lonely and I’d like to do something to cheer them up…and maybe start a few pen pal relationships.

In Watford, we’re having a doorstep dance party on our street at 7pm on Friday, June 19th. We will play music really loudly and everyone on our street has committed to coming out to dance!

Hi Great Get Together! I’m new to N15. I moved house just before lock down so haven’t had a chance to really meet my neighbours. I felt for this year’s Great Get Together, I could do something delicious and simple to start building connection with them. I’m going to bake Read more [...]

Due to the Covid-19 lockdown, we have replaced our football training sessions with an online fitness programme that includes elements of football to continue to reach young people across Regents Park estate. Sessions are based around physical fitness, mental wellbeing and peer support. This online fitness programme allows our members Read more [...]

The coronavirus and the lockdown measures that followed put many well-needed charity sector services into a difficult position in terms of their provision. At C4WS we transformed the employability support run through Jobs Club to be able to function online and remotely. Jobs Club is designed to help the people Read more [...]

Our local community has been hit very hard by the Covid-19 pandemic and has drastically altered our project to one in delivering a range of emergency response services to our registered time bank members – local BAME families with children under 12 years of age who come from an immense Read more [...]

Our community has been hit very hard by the Covid-10 Pandemic and in particular those having to be shielded and seen as extremely vulnerable due to frailty, poor health and living alone often far from family and relatives. Our highly popular older people’s activity hub in Cumberland Market had to Read more [...]

It’s hard to find a street near me without a chalk rainbow or a game of hopscotch. And I love it! The Head of RE tells me that humans have marked their thoughts, dreams, maps, spells, poems, prayers and works of art on the ground for thousands of years. In 16th Read more [...]