Growing organic food, promoting healthy eating, permaculture design, sharing skills, changing lives, transforming communities. Bonny Downs Community Association’s Food Growing Project is a community food growing and healthy eating promotion scheme striving to improve the quality of life of residents in Newham. The project aims are to:
> Provide a community disconnected to food growing with opport
unities to grow their own produce.
> Improve the quality of life of residents living in the deprived location of East Ham and surrounding areas.
> Re-connect and educate people about the value of food growing and local food.
> Encourage local people to adopt healthier lifestyles through educating about the benefits of balanced diets.
> Promote social cohesion through bringing together local people from any gender, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation or cultural background.
> Reduce isolation among local residents, particularly older people and disadvantaged children and families, through creating opportunities for excluded residents to build supportive friendship networks.
> Provide local residents with opportunities for skills development, training, confidence building and the chance to actively effect change in their community by helping to drive forward a local initiative.
> Lessen the environmental impact of a local community cafe and catering training project by reducing the number of food miles.
> Establish a sustainable enterprise project through the scheme. Bonny Downs Community Association (BDCA) is a dynamic charitable organisation rooted in the vibrant but deprived area of East Ham, London. During the past twelve years we have extended our remit to become a multi-purpose organisation delivering a range of specialist projects which support vulnerable, isolated and disadvantaged local residents. Our motto is ‘changing lives, transforming our community’ and our mission is to work for a WHOLE community by providing exceptional activities, services and facilities that promote Wellbeing, Hope, Opportunity, Love and Encouragement. The Well Community Centre,
49 Vicarage Lane,
East Ham,
London,
E6 6DQ
Tel: 020 8586 7070
Fax: 020 8586 7102
Email: [email protected]
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