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…

