In this episode our speakers Sam Spong, John Ratomski and Jessica Prendergrast talk about pooling resources for community benefit in the distinct areas of football and a community arts and employment creation initiative involving biomanufacturing.
Sam and John are from Fans Supporting Food Banks who use creative tactics to organise foodbank collections at the West Ham and Charlton Athletic football stadiums. The response has been fantastic, with significant amounts of money, food and other basic provisions donated to Newham and Greenwich foodbanks in the UK.
Jessica along with others in 2013 set up Onion Collective CIC, a social enterprise, in Watchet, a harbour town in Somerset. She talks about how, following a successful community arts project, Onion Collective consulted the community about use of land when plans for a major development of flats fell through. As a result, a Visitor Centre and Boat Museum were created and later, working in partnership with Biohm UK they brought a biomanufacturing project to a closed-down mill in order to create local jobs.
Find out more about our speakers:
Fans Supporting Food Banks: https://economicinjustice.org.uk/fans-supporting-food-banks/
Onion Collective CIC: https://economicinjustice.org.uk/onion-collective-cic/
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The project is a collaboration between Journey to Justice (creator), Rainbow Collective (film and audio producers) and Vanishing Point Creative (web designers and developers). With thanks to all our participants, volunteers, economic injustice advisory group, partners, and funders (Matrix Causes, Garden Court Chambers, MSN Fund, Lipman Miliband Trust, Diana Whitworth CAF Trust, Heitman, Andreas Welter, Research Centre for Museums and Galleries (RCMG), donations, artist postcards, and walks).
