Stories From the garden
Lost water species: Remembering together
I have always felt relaxed near water and while being in the sun surrounded by unfamiliar smiles, water always gave me the sense of happiness. I didn’t care about my hair getting wet as I was laughing and serene.
Eating staff lunch together
The Paper Garden has been growing in its new home over the past year which has come with challenges and rewards. One of the most important factors in keeping the garden growing and the community classroom walls rising has been the fact that every day the whole team sits together and shares lunch.
Stories of place: Through the winter and into spring
Our work with Afghan refugees continued through the winter months. Working with a new, smaller group of Afghan men, some of retirement age, having left families and successful lives behind in Afghanistan, trying to adjust to a new world. In this way, the sessions took the shape of a men’s wellbeing group, supporting them to integrate and connect outside the hotels, slowly meet new groups and communities, or venturing out with greater confidence.
A Waste Free World
As part of the Youth Food & Climate Ambassadors' programme, Kathryn and Abena set them the task to share what they've learnt and been inspired by. They created their own social action projects and the speech below is by Zara, which she shared in front of 100 of people at her Jack Petchey SpeakOut Challenge.
Months in the growing garden and rising classroom walls
The build of the new Paper Garden is underway. In the summer Keltbray stripped the metal walls of the giant old shed, leaving a frame for us to grow a new garden in.