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.…
