HOME In BRIDPORT was founded in 2016 as a CIO, a charitable incorporated organisation. Its role is as a gentle support network with a belief in encouraging inclusivity and equity for and with communities through the use of arts, culture and the role of food in all its aspects, as a right and basic need in society.
The charity has few overheads, is run by volunteers, part of whose role is to raise funding to pay for the skills needed to develop the Edible Gardens and Allotment projects including workshops, events and opportunities for children and sometimes their families, in particular in the under-served areas of Skilling, and we hope at some point, in Court Orchard. The work is long-term and continuous and sometimes doesn’t happen through lack of funds but the commitment is solid and we hope that with renewed energy, and certainly more need, we will continue.
HOME is open to ego-free and trusting partnerships where the people we serve are the purpose of the work. We support the aims of Bridport Food Matters concerning food security who are urgently looking to adapting our local food systems to the needs of the Climate Emergency.
We, along with Opera Circus and Robert Golden Pictures, wish to extend our long term partnership with the new energy at Bridport Arts Centre, to link arts and cultural activities with the Edible Gardens and Allotment. The Gardens and Allotment already partner with AScape, who work on part of the St Mary’s Garden and MIND, who have started visiting the allotment. Their mission is to provide supportive socialisation for Autistic and/or socially anxious children and young people.
The charity has few overheads, is run by volunteers, part of whose role is to raise funding to pay for the skills needed to develop the Edible Gardens and Allotment projects including workshops, events and opportunities for children and sometimes their families, in particular in the under-served areas of Skilling, and we hope at some point, in Court Orchard. The work is long-term and continuous and sometimes doesn’t happen through lack of funds but the commitment is solid and we hope that with renewed energy, and certainly more need, we will continue.
HOME is open to ego-free and trusting partnerships where the people we serve are the purpose of the work. We support the aims of Bridport Food Matters concerning food security who are urgently looking to adapting our local food systems to the needs of the Climate Emergency.
We, along with Opera Circus and Robert Golden Pictures, wish to extend our long term partnership with the new energy at Bridport Arts Centre, to link arts and cultural activities with the Edible Gardens and Allotment. The Gardens and Allotment already partner with AScape, who work on part of the St Mary’s Garden and MIND, who have started visiting the allotment. Their mission is to provide supportive socialisation for Autistic and/or socially anxious children and young people.
Two of our volunteers, Robert Golden and Jonathan Scott are in conversation about ideas to broaden the use of the Allotment: to provide cookery and food events, music, the use of a food truck and the exploration of The Creative Rooms, for children to develop their creativity and homework.
We can only plan if we can dream and we can only turn dreams into reality if we are practical.
Our first objective is to sustain the projects mentioned on the ‘SO FAR’ pages.
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We will continue the creative workshops, offering places to more people and more workshop leaders.
The HOME IN BRIDPORT exhibition will be shown again in late September 2014 at the Sir John Colfox School in Bridport.
Below is some of the photographic work from the exhibition.
We will continue the creative workshops, offering places to more people and more workshop leaders.
The HOME IN BRIDPORT exhibition will be shown again in late September 2014 at the Sir John Colfox School in Bridport.
Below is some of the photographic work from the exhibition.
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More cookery and nutrition classes for young parents are to be given at Bridport Children’s Centre
beginning in the January 2018 and we are planning several large community events in which
catering will play a major role.
This will create part-time employment for three people.
More cookery and nutrition classes for young parents are to be given at Bridport Children’s Centre
beginning in the January 2018 and we are planning several large community events in which
catering will play a major role.
This will create part-time employment for three people.
From 2018, HOME has runs numerous cookery workshops after hours in St Mary's and during the summer to help local parents struggling with the problems of poverty and lack of education in food matters. HOME has also organised numerous food related festivals, hosting parents, teachers, members of the school's board, the Mayor and of course the children.
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Through the activities of the HOME team, contacts have been made in an area of the Skilling Estate called the Princess Road Flats. This is a depressed area of one of the poorest estates in the county. People have been encouraged by their participation in the film Homes for Heroes to become pro-active in developing changes where they live. The landlords have been responsive to the newly created dialogue between the tenants and themselves and have begun to help bring about the changes.
We are hoping this will lead to part time employment for several people.
Through the activities of the HOME team, contacts have been made in an area of the Skilling Estate called the Princess Road Flats. This is a depressed area of one of the poorest estates in the county. People have been encouraged by their participation in the film Homes for Heroes to become pro-active in developing changes where they live. The landlords have been responsive to the newly created dialogue between the tenants and themselves and have begun to help bring about the changes.
We are hoping this will lead to part time employment for several people.
Eventually the landlords backed out of their promises and commitments and refused to discuss other possibilities with the HOME group. But as you can read below, HOME has been able to help a group of families to establish a now viable allotment.
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As the Princess Road Community Garden develops HOME has assisted the community in its aims to improve the area and their own lives. People have been supported to learn new skills and encouraged to green other private and public areas, providing inexpensive or free fruit and vegetables for people to share. It is possible that this could lead to the creation of a small food stand using local unemployed cooks to utilise the garden’s food for snacks and ready prepared, nutritious, organic meals.
HOME will attempt to introduce retired people to read to local children, becoming mentors to help
the children and single parents. HOME would like to introduce hands on, in-the-estate cookery and food workshops
as an extension of the classes being held at St Mary's School.
As the Princess Road Community Garden develops HOME has assisted the community in its aims to improve the area and their own lives. People have been supported to learn new skills and encouraged to green other private and public areas, providing inexpensive or free fruit and vegetables for people to share. It is possible that this could lead to the creation of a small food stand using local unemployed cooks to utilise the garden’s food for snacks and ready prepared, nutritious, organic meals.
HOME will attempt to introduce retired people to read to local children, becoming mentors to help
the children and single parents. HOME would like to introduce hands on, in-the-estate cookery and food workshops
as an extension of the classes being held at St Mary's School.
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We will continually encourage St Mary’s Board of Governors and parents to take ownership
of the school's garden so that it is sustained within and by the community.
We will continually encourage St Mary’s Board of Governors and parents to take ownership
of the school's garden so that it is sustained within and by the community.
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We are planning to encourage interest in retraining local people by local people so carpenters, cabinet makers, plumbers,
electricians, handymen and women, gardeners, cooks and other skills can begin to create local work for themselves.
In the picture below, local parent/crafts-people helped to build a pizza/bread oven
in the school's garden.
We are planning to encourage interest in retraining local people by local people so carpenters, cabinet makers, plumbers,
electricians, handymen and women, gardeners, cooks and other skills can begin to create local work for themselves.
In the picture below, local parent/crafts-people helped to build a pizza/bread oven
in the school's garden.
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We will encourage the use of the local LETS system so that a small-scale estate based
exchange can be created, allowing more people to use what skills they have.
We will encourage the use of the local LETS system so that a small-scale estate based
exchange can be created, allowing more people to use what skills they have.
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HOME in conjunction with Transition Town Bridport have begun a new programme to encourage the school's children
to become more pro-active in caring for the garden while exposing them to the idea of enjoying and eating more greens.
This PEAS PLEASE project is proving to be successful in attraction more children to the garden.
HOME in conjunction with Transition Town Bridport have begun a new programme to encourage the school's children
to become more pro-active in caring for the garden while exposing them to the idea of enjoying and eating more greens.
This PEAS PLEASE project is proving to be successful in attraction more children to the garden.
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And so on as we continue to dream.