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Cococollective We run ITAL COMMUNITY GARDEN, a new Afro diaspora led community garden using our heritage esteem

A reminder that health equity starts in the community 🧡Through Cultural Health Champion Training, we’re equipping reside...
20/05/2026

A reminder that health equity starts in the community 🧡

Through Cultural Health Champion Training, we’re equipping residents to become screeners, detectors, interveners, and advocates for better community health, while reconnecting with medicinal herbs, alternative therapies, and growing whole foods from the soil 🌱

Next training:
📍 Saturday, 23rd May

Can’t make May? No sweat! New dates have been added:
📍 Saturday, 7th June
📍 Wednesday, 24th June

Sign up via the “Cultural Health Champion” link in bio or here:
CulturalHealthChampionTraining.eventbrite.co.uk

Coco Collective Health Equities Team 🧡

We’re bringing the community together for a day of food growing, plant-based cooking, wellness & good energy at the gard...
15/05/2026

We’re bringing the community together for a day of food growing, plant-based cooking, wellness & good energy at the gardens ✨

Expect:
🌱 Gardening activities
🥗 Vegan cook out vibes
🌞 Wellness & community connection
🩺 FREE blood pressure & kidney disease checks
🎶 Good energy + good people

Big love to for collaborating with us and supporting this event as part of City Splash Week 🌿

📍 Ital Community Gardens, Bellingham
🗓 Sunday May 24
⏰ 12PM–4PM

Come spend the day grounding, nourishing yourself & building community with us 🌻


Breaking bread with these beautiful people after hours of digging, weeding and sowing seeds is one thing, but learning t...
12/05/2026

Breaking bread with these beautiful people after hours of digging, weeding and sowing seeds is one thing, but learning that many of their friends are being diagnosed with high blood pressure in their 20’s and 30’s is heartbreaking 💔

What could be causing this? Systemic racism, we know is the No. 1 driver for health inequalities and stress among black and brown people, but what about climate anxiety, food insecurity, economic disadvantages- multiple levels of deprivation?

And so we’re lowering the point of entry into our Ital Community Drop- in Clinic and Plantain Programme: 👇🏾👇🏾

If you’re in your 20’s and above, we invite you to have your blood pressure checked in our gardens.

Drop in anytime between 12pm & 2pm Wednesdays & Sundays or stay on to garden with us for some physical excercise 💪🏾 🧡🪏

We are an Afrikan-diaspora-led garden space rooted in community, care, and collective wellbeing. But, our gates are open...
09/05/2026

We are an Afrikan-diaspora-led garden space rooted in community, care, and collective wellbeing. But, our gates are open to all who move with the spirit of Ubuntu: “I am because we are.” 🧡

One moment you’re shovelling woodchip together, the next you’re sharing stories about home, learning about each other’s relationships with food, plants, and ancestry.

In the first photo, we represent roots and connections stretching across Japan, Jamaica, India, Trinidad & Tobago, and Germany. 🇯🇵 🇯🇲 🇮🇳 🇹🇹 🇩🇪

Different backgrounds, shared purpose 🌍
Come grow with us.

Our opens days are Sundays & Wednesdays
11AM - 3PM





This is what community looks like 🌱🧡People showing up for themselves and for each other.Building, planting, laughing, co...
05/05/2026

This is what community looks like 🌱🧡

People showing up for themselves and for each other.
Building, planting, laughing, connecting.

Thank you to everyone who came out and poured into the space, it’s because of you that the gardens continues to grow and thrive.

And big smiles to the young ones who helped sow seeds 🌿✨

We go again this Wednesday at our Bellingham gardens.
Join us from 11AM - 3PM
Ital Community Gardens - Bellingham
The black gate next to,
75 Firhill Rd, SE6 3SE

Sad reality. BLACHIR affirms systemic racism as the number 1 driver for health disparities within our Global Majority c...
30/04/2026

Sad reality. BLACHIR affirms systemic racism as the number 1 driver for health disparities within our Global Majority communities.

And our solution is to bridge clinical practice with community-led health care with models that work for our indigenous communities: alternative therapies, medicinal herbs and putting hands in soil to grow whole foods.

We’re also training up local residents to become their own detectors, interveners, and screeners of these conditions for preventative community health.

To join the next training sessions, May 2nd & 23rd, sign up here: https://CulturalHealthChampionTraining.eventbrite.co.uk

or via the “Cultural Health Champion” link in bio!

Coco Collective Health Equities Team 🧡

Weeds with purpose 🌿Nettles are one of the many plants growing freely in our garden with real benefits, supporting circu...
28/04/2026

Weeds with purpose 🌿

Nettles are one of the many plants growing freely in our garden with real benefits, supporting circulation, reducing inflammation, and nourishing the body with essential minerals.

Relearning the value of these plants is part of reclaiming our relationship with the land and our health. The land is always speaking — we’re just learning how to listen again.

Thank you Famka , for the hand-drawn Neetle Art. We have a lot of nettles to harvest right now! 🌿

Join us in the gardens! 🧡
Ital Community Gardens - Bellingham
Every Sunday & Wednesday
11am - 3pm

What some call weeds… we call medicine 🌼🌿Dandelion is often overlooked, but its potassium content may help with reducing...
24/04/2026

What some call weeds… we call medicine 🌼🌿

Dandelion is often overlooked, but its potassium content may help with reducing blood pressure. Some say it’s a natural diuretic as well.

Rich in vitamins A, C, and K, dandelion supports liver health, aids digestion, and helps the body detox naturally. Even the roots, leaves, and flowers carry healing properties.

This is what we mean when we say the land provides, if we know how to listen.

The gardens are currently bursting with dandelions. Come by to help with harvesting and take some home!
🌱 Volunteer with us every Wednesday & Sunday
⏰ 11AM – 3PM
🧡Bring the whole family

Health doesn’t happen in isolation 🌱✊🏾We’ll be attending the Black Mental Health Conference, where the Coco Collective H...
21/04/2026

Health doesn’t happen in isolation 🌱✊🏾

We’ll be attending the Black Mental Health Conference, where the Coco Collective Health Equities Team will be offering blood pressure checks and speaking about our Plantain Programme.

🔗 Free entry via RSVP linked in bio as Black Mental Health Conference.

High blood pressure is not just about diet; it’s shaped by systemic stress, daily pressures, and the isolation many in our communities experience.

Because mental wellbeing and physical health are deeply connected…Through the garden, we create space to breathe, connect, and find calm through collective activity and shared purpose.

Visit our Ital Community Drop-In Clinic:
🩺 Free health screenings with licensed practitioners in a natural setting
🕚 Wednesday & Sunday | 12PM – 2PM
📍 Ital Community Gardens - Bellingham
The black gate next to 75 Firhill Rd, SE6

Come reason with us, check your health, and learn how we’re building new pathways to care 🧡

The weather tried it… but we didn’t stop 🌦️🌱Giving thanks to the young ones who responded to our family day call-out and...
18/04/2026

The weather tried it… but we didn’t stop 🌦️🌱

Giving thanks to the young ones who responded to our family day call-out and sowed Jamaican cucumbers, beetroot, sweetcorn, French beans, and a variety of tomato seeds.

Whilst the adults were fixing the canopy, some sowing seeds, turning soil, building out flower beds, and breathing new life into the space.

This week, we’re proud to be part of Good to Grow Week by 🌍
✨ Our highlight days:
📍 Wednesday April 22
📍 Sunday April 26

Ital Community Gardens - Bellingham
The black gate next to,
75 Firhill Rd, SE6 3SE

We’ll be continuing with seed sowing and landscaping our flower beds—so come get your hands in the soil with us.

This is more than a garden. This space is for us to heal, reconnect, and resist through growing our own.

🔗 For more info & how to volunteer click Good to Grow Week linked in our bio.

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