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Directory
Victor Adegbuyi victor@newhamunion.org Victor is concerned with the housing crisis in London and the post 2012 Olympics legacy. He is based in Newham and works on various housing related projects. Toby Laurent Belson hello@brownbaby.co.uk brownbaby.co.uk miscworld.com samplism.com Brownbaby was set up to design, develop and run Arts & Humanities projects that explore, acknowledge and promote the reality of mixing and to serve the communities in which mixing occurs. Although the term ‘mixing’ comes to mean miscegenation, here it also means the act of people living together, side by side, as equals and in peace. Robin Brown, Grand Union Alliance grandunionalliance.wixsite.com grandunionalliance@gmail.com The Grand Union Alliance (GUA) is a network of resident and community groups, voluntary organisations, individuals and small businesses from Hammersmith and Fulham, Ealing, Brent and Kensington and Chelsea, focused on trying influence plans for large scale development in Old Oak and Park Royal. It wants to see plans developed that will sustain existing communities and enhance what
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local people currently value in their neighbourhoods. The GUA is currently supported by Robin Brown of Just Space. Eileen Conn info@peckhamvision.org @peckhamvision peckhamvision.org community shop: Holdrons Arcade Peckham Vision is a citizens’ action group. We work for an integrated town centre linking past, present & future for the benefit of all. We believe democracy needs informed and effective citizen participation. Peckham Vision has an extensive on-line presence with frequent news up-dates through the website, social media and emails. Our community shop, in Holdron’s Arcade, 135a Rye Lane, SE15 4ST, is open Saturdays 2-5pm. Information displays and exhibition every day. Granville Community Kitchen in South Kilburn @GranComKitchen granvillecommunitykitchen. wordpress.com Granville Community Kitchen is a community led initiative to develop a food hub that would enable the South Kilburn community to access healthy, affordable and sustainable food through a variety of food related activities. Phone/Text Dee on 07543824439
Christine Goodall, HEAR Equality and Human Rights Network christine@hearequality.org.uk @HEAR_Network HEAR acts as a strong pan-equality voluntary and community sector voice, knowledge base and source of expertise on equality issues. Its work centres on the principle that people with direct experience of discrimination are best placed to shape strategies to achieve equality. Richard Lee Just Space richardlee50@gmail.com @justspace7 Just Space is a London wide network of voluntary and community groups working together to influence planning policy at the regional, borough and neighbourhood levels. It grew from sharing information, research and resources on the Further Alterations to the London Plan in 2007. The Just Space ethos is one of grass-roots networking, informing and supporting local communities so that their contributions to planning policy are empowering and effective.
Sona Mahtani, Director Beyond Just Now beyondjustnow@gmail.com @mahtani Beyond Just Now works with a diverse range of organisations and regional networks to support them achieve their goals. Particular interest in community networks, community centres and hubs, supporting plans for income generation, and getting better at what they do best – community development. Trustee of London Sustainability Exchange. Mama D, Community Centred Knowledge communitycentredknowledge @gmail.com @indigenousknow Community Centred Knowledge is a participant centred approach to learning and exploration combining the arts and sciences of open and grassroots learning spaces, so as to recognise the agency of the everyday, yet often marginalised, worlds of both the human and more than human. Drawing from cultural representations such as immersive theatre, Ubuntu, wisdom tales of the Maafa, shamanism, proverbs, nourishment insights and the technologies of the everyday, Community Centred Knowledge works at and with the multiple scales of the community to facilitate learning, sharing and teaching as an aid to being
