CAD-HR
Building Resilience Through Childminding
We support uneducated and unemployed migrant communities to become Ofsted registered childminders through training and ongoing support.
Edible Rotherhithe
Food growing and Forest School development at Surrey Square School
132 children across 3 terms will learn how to grow their own food, develop skills, caring for the natural environment using the Forest School approach to outdoor learning, which builds self-esteem and confidence, and improves the children’s health and wellbeing.
Elmington Community Gardens
Elmington Community Food Growing
Through free workshops and community gardening sessions we plant and maintain food growing sites around the estate. Fruit and vegetables are freely available for any member of the community to harvest as they desire.
The Psychosynthesis Trust
Exploring Anxiety Project
The project supports people experiencing anxiety to explore it through a relational approach, using nature and community. It enables people to have a greater understanding of their symptoms and how to manage them, whilst accessing the health benefits of being in nature at local community gardens or social farms in and around SE1.
Ignite Hubs
Creating Future Digital Whizzes in Southwark
Our project inspires and equips children and young people with valuable coding and STEM skills to access digital careers and be future ready.
Lung Theatre
Across 24 performances and engagement activities at the Southwark Playhouse, audiences of over 4,100 people will experience the premiere of ‘The Children’s Inquiry’- a collaborative new musical co-created by looked after children. This bold project shines a light on a forgotten community, telling their stories in their own words.
Power2
Teens and Toddlers
Teens and Toddlers empowers young people to become mentors and role models to younger children. Through this programme they improve their confidence which allows them to develop vital skills relevant to education and future employability, enhance their communication abilities, gain work experience and achieve a recognised qualification.
Sculpt
Igniting Futures
Power Up is an employment support programme working with young people aged 14-16, experiencing significant socio-economic disadvantage. Through a six-week placement and continued follow up support we build essential skills, confidence and knowledge while challenging traditional stereotypes of what can be achieved and what is possible.
PG Time Bank
Based on the Kingswood estate, Southwark, we bring people together to share time and skills. As an asset based approach we improve wellbeing. Our group activities support creativity and wellbeing whilst also building connections. The skill exchanges connect the community and enable people to coproduce services for and by themselves.
Camberwell After School Project
Volunteering Work Experience Placement
This programme offers 12-week placements, 3 days a week, to 10 unemployed Southwark residents aged 18 and above. Participants will gain practical experience working with children aged 2 to 11 in a childcare setting, aimed at enhancing their employability prospects.
The Purple Ladies
Move Share & Exchange
This programme provides weekly physical and creative activities towards improving the well-being of residents living in and around the Cossall estate. It is followed by a social cafe offering a healthy home-cooked lunch and a skill exchange platform.