Be Enriched, a South London Food Charity, visited the Good Food Box project in April. Recently Helen and Simon, our Food Bus team members, visited Granville Community Kitchen in South Kilburn to learn more about their model of providing affordable and nutritious food to the community. GCK have been pioneering a self-sustaining model that promotes food sovereignty, which is the…
A Taste of the Granville is a documentary film that GCK collaborated with Yarrow Films. A collaborative arts project that resulted in a documentary film and dinner event that celebrated the legacy and positive impact of the Granville Community Kitchen on South Kilburn Estate. The event featured five courses, each served with a short film screening. All short films were…
Farmerama Radio is an award-winning podcast sharing the voices behind regenerative farming. They are committed to positive ecological futures for the earth and its people, and they believe that farmers of the world will determine this. By giving producers a voice, they hope to rejuvenate the confidence and vibrancy of farmers and rural communities and demonstrate how their decisions affect…
Granville Community Kitchen is investing in the health of its community through a veg box scheme that makes fresh, seasonal, localised and culturally significant food affordable for everyone. Ceire Carey finds out more about Good Food Box. The building itself, known as The Granville, is an historic, brick building in South Kilburn. A place for local residents to meet, it was also…
The leaking concrete towers of South Kilburn have been replaced with mansion blocks clad in now-ubiquitous Mystique bricks. Will they succeed where other attempts at regeneration have failed? “You could spill a bucket of water on the 10th floor,” says Leslie Barson, who has worked on the estate for 29 years, running a home education centre and community kitchen, “and someone…
A look back at the 2017 episode recorded at Granville Community Kitchen with Leslie Barson and Dee Woods. While Leslie and Dee prepared a community meal of Peruvian inspired pork stew, beans, rice and salad they shared how their work addresses fundamental and system issues of oppression, poverty, land use, farmers’ rights and the environment. And there’s an update from…
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Resurgence & Ecologist spoke to co-founder and ‘actionist’ Dee Woods about what resilience means to her and the Granville community. Granville Community Kitchen is a community hub that organises food-centred activities for residents in South Kilburn, an area in north-west London once known for its high levels of crime and poor housing. Since 2014, the kitchen has grown from serving…
Leslie said: “Our numbers are going up and up. I get texts saying ‘I need food’ – really heartrending messages.” Granville Community Kitchen has begun providing food for residents once again after an outbreak of Covid-19 forced it to close for a week. The kitchen, in Carlton Vale, is run by volunteers and acts as a food hub for the…
Joe Bastable interviews Leslie Barson to discuss food aid, social housing issues and gentrification in London and across Britain. ” I met Leslie after doing a food collection in North West London with the North London Communist Party Branch, to donate to Granville Community Kitchen. Upon speaking to her I quickly learned that she is incredibly knowledgeable on both housing…
