Granville Community Kitchen (GCK) is an ethical, sustainable, culturally diverse community food hub, offering food centred activities, services, education and training, that is accessible, family friendly and open to all. We place the most disaffected at the centre, co-creating a local response to social issues whilst building capacity and lifting voices to advocate for structural change at local, national and international level.
Founded in 2014 as a community response to the entrenched deprivation, disenfranchisement and ongoing fragmentation of the local community, GCK is a community-centred and rooted organisation. GCK is located in The Granville, a heritage building of local architectural, historic significance and treasured by the South Kilburn community as a home away from home. We became a Society for the Benefit of the Community in 2016. Our board of directors is primarily made up of South Kilburn residents and our co founders Leslie Barson and Dee Woods who have worked in The Granville for almost 30 years.
Our Vision
We work towards a world in which everyone has easy access to nutritious, sustainable, culturally rooted food. A world in which the GCK values of dignity, equity, justice and care inform every action. A world in which communities are interconnected and interdependent: working together, growing stronger, producing new possibilities and creating things which we couldn’t create alone. A world in which all communities thrive and are resilient from future shocks. A world where our work is meaningful, our work-lives are balanced, and we always have time for joy, play, learning and celebration.
Our Core Values
Good Food Ecologies Model
Granville Community Kitchen is reimagining our food system, co-creating a community of abundance, healing and resilience with eaters, farmers and food producers, chefs and food businesses, community organisations, academics and researchers. We call this vision of the future Good Food Ecologies model We are guided by the following principles in our work:
Our Areas of Work
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Building and Sustaining Community
Making Good Food Accessible to All
Building and Shifting Power and Influence
Creating Opportunities for Livelihoods in the Food System
Supporting Opportunities for Education and Learning