Mind, Body & Soul Food

Creating a Community Café and Therapy Garden at REIN’s youth/community Centre in Newham, to facilitate a social enterprise and deliver mindfulness, self-defence and raising awareness programmes.

Sorry this project was unsuccessful, we did not reach our fundraising goal.

£61,700
Raised of £110,156

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Geoffrey Greensmith - £50
7 years ago

Adelaide Silvain - £20
7 years ago

Aqua Legion - £150
7 years ago

Amina Ali - £50
7 years ago

James Parkinson - £10
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xnMuHsg9Hx V6coy7vfH0 - £50
7 years ago

Plaistow South Big Local (PSBL) - £10,000
7 years ago

Beverley Peterson - £25
7 years ago

Anonymous - £20
7 years ago

Rights and Equalities in Newham (REIN) is a local charity that has worked in Newham since 1975, we are an equalities organisation that works with young people and adults across Newham to challenge inequality and injustice.

REIN works in partnership with a number of organisations in Newham and in neighbouring boroughs, REIN also delivers youth projects and works with young people in our building based youth club setting, schools and also in community settings via our outreach and detached programme.

In response to a spate of shootings and knife attacks in Newham in 2016/17, REIN, along with the police, local council, parents, young people, schools, faith organisations and voluntary sector groups developed NCCA – Newham Community Call to Action – ‘the silence was deafening’ in that the community were scared and stunned but had not voiced their concerns. REIN and the police felt we needed an event to start a conversation and give voice to those who had been silenced by fear and concern and agree actions that each group or organisation could take forward to address a key issue that would be sustainable; over 250 people took part in the event, it also served to highlight the complexities involved in supporting young people to make different choices whilst safeguarding them against the risks of gang activity, gun and knife crime.

REIN has subsequently partnered with local organisations to deliver our RAP project –Raising Awareness Programme, a bespoke four, six and eight-week programme – for local secondary and primary schools, comprising of targeted discussion sessions with young people referred by the schools, Self-defence lessons to raise levels of confidence if confronted by a knife on the street and including focused, reality based conversations to enable young people to ‘Say No’ to the challenges on the streets.

REIN has also developed a pilot Safe Zones project, in partnership with PSBL and Local Trust, which has created a number of places of safety for young people in immediate threat of a street attack across Plaistow South.

This particular project will be a three way partnerships between REIN, PSBL and The Urban Mindfulness Foundation

Project Owner: Rights and Equalities in Newham The Project Owner takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.