“An inner city oasis – a community garden and centre where people grow and learn together taking care of each other and the environment.”

What we do.

People from all cultural and diverse backgrounds participate and enrich our activities.

Families with young children mostly living in flats with no gardens meet and learn together through play.

Holiday, after-school and weekend programmes provide out door, creative and social activities for chi

ldren (Kings Cross has a higher than the national average number of children under 16)

We were awarded a Growing Schools Garden award for work with local primary schools.

Our volunteer and training programme helps people learn new skills, provides opportunity for social interaction and out door exercise as well as offering horticultural training for adults with learning difficulties.

Environmental and food growing sessions encourage and develop awareness of organic methods and composting.  Bangladeshi women and older people as well as families participate growing their own food.

Our recently refurbished 5-a-side pitch provides programmes to improve health and well-being for

young people as well as generating vital revenue from hiring.

Camden Council have announced that we will be receiving transitional funding from the People’s Fund.  This will enable us to pay our Sports Development Worker for 1 year so we can develop an income maximisation strategy from our sports pitch.  There is also funding for a development officer to map out and implement a strategy to develop a new building that can be used as an indoor venue, larger than we currently have, including offices, changing facilities and a cafe.  In the future, this will enable us to generate more funds.

This will go a long way towards ensuring our organisation can survive in this challenging financial climate.   We still need to continue raising funds in order to provide activities and facilities to benefit our local community.

To donate on line click on the link below 

http://www.thebiggive.org.uk/

Or you can donate by sending charity e cards to friends and colleagues by clicking on the link below

www.charitecards.com/calthorpeproject

What’s New

 3 weeks of Zumba – January 17, 24 and 31st, 6.30-8pm  £18.

This is an introductory course and we will begin another series of sessions in March.

Cooking Course – starts January 16th, 10-1pm.

This 10 week course costs just £25 (you can pay in 2 installments of £12.50).  Learn to cook mouthwatering dishes from a professional chef.  Contact the office for more details or to sign up.

Textile Bank

Help us turn unwanted clothes into cash.  We now have a textile bank located in the garden near the sports pitch.  Feel free to deposit any reusable clothes such as belts, shoes, hats, boots, dresses, shirts etc.  We will receive 50p per kilo so the more the merrier.

Christmas Auction – Many thanks to everyone who came along to bid for one of the 40 items in our auction.  We raised £1200 which is the most we’ve ever raised at a fundraising event. 

We are grateful to the following companies for their support:

• OPM
• Chime Communication
• The Harrison
• The Food Bazaar
• Lumen Cafe
• Ciao Bella
• Konditor & Cook
• Strada, Brunswick Centre
• Majestic Wine
• Kevin Nugent, Leyton Orient FC
• Joy, Brunswick Centre
• River Island, Brunswick Centre
• EMI
• Hammersmith Apollo

Plus local residents and well wishers.

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White Christmas