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…
In today’s newsletter by Ruby Tandoh, perhaps you will decide if the Granville sits within London’s long tradition of charitable missions or if it breaks free of that mould. Either way, we should all be paying attention to the work Dee Woods and Leslie Barson are doing, somewhere just off Watling Street, where food is not something dictated on or…
Granville Community Kitchen (GCK), in the Granville Centre in Carlton Vale, has become a busy base of food deliveries for vulnerable people near and far. Once a week they provide hot meals which are delivered to families with a bag containing extra food aswell as toiletries and cleaning materials. “It’s not enough for a week on its own but it…
Over the past year, Mona Bani followed Dee Woods and Leslie Barson, co-founders of Granville Community Kitchen (GCK), as they reject the concept of food banks and now step up to meet demand during the lockdown. For so many, food is about survival and the number of people, right here in the UK, who even pre-COVID-19 had no food at all, was…
This film was made in Jan 16 at the event URBAN FEAST run by Granville Community Kitchen with the help iof the South Kilburn Trust. Over 300 people attended the day to visits stalls from local businesses as well as health and wellbeing activities and lots of children’s crafts!
This July, Brent Council cabinet decided to knock down both the Granville Centre and the Carlton. They are now ‘consulting’ on that decision. If this goes ahead, this will: X Destroy a heritage site in the area! The Granville has been serving the community for over 100 years and is one of the only community spaces left in South Kilburn.…
