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WCU Biodiversity and Food Waste Project
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WCU Biodiversity and Food Waste Project
By Westminster Children's University
We propose to run an ongoing schedule of weekend ,holiday and term time outreach starting in October 2021 and being continually sustained throughout the new academic year and onward into and past 2022
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This project will be launched during October and be based at Queen’s Park Primary school ; it will bring together stakeholders from across the local area (church St)with charities like ourselves (Church Street Community Cha) providing ongoing offers of experiences through volunteering and educational experiences based on biodiversity, sustainability and care for our local environment. This project will run throughout the next academic year and continue to offer experiences through our stakeholders on an ongoing basis. It is a direct response to the food crisis brought about by the recent pandemic and we have already repurposed 70 Tons of wastage of food as a result. We have set up local planting in our community gardens (where we volunteer) and within our own school site; we propose to bring together stakeholders to continue to offer and repurposed (waste) food and land (100M2); educating people about the impact of food waste and general waste on the environment..
What we'll deliver:
- A rolling cycle of the above actions
- 10 workshops on-site over holiday period from 9:00-3:00
- 2 community litter picks in July
- 20 Weekly food deliveries
- Support for wider community
- 5 Assemblies across partner schools
- 4 Weekly deliveries to local charities
- Community volunteering and gardening sessions
- Food referral service with QPCC
- Mentoring and wellbeing support for students
Why it's a great idea:
Intended to bring benefits across-the-board to stakeholders and participants, in the first instance this project will directly benefit those who are facing difficulty in the present circumstances .It will provide a network of support offering coaching and mentoring as well as food poverty relief. The most vulnerable members of our community will receive direct support in the form of deliveries and donations. The Project, being a community based concern, means that it will also build cultural capital and strengthen bonds already brought about by the work already undertaken. By creating pathways for outside providers and corporate businesses to offer outreach and educate students and community members The Project will also be a useful tool for businesses hoping to engage directly with the local community as well as meeting CS requirements. Often corporate organisations provide us with amazing offers, they report that they find it very difficult to directly access.
Steps to get it done:
- Coaches Trained
- Food Repurposed
- Plants Planted
- Sessions delivered
We are aware of the negative stigma wrongly attached to accessing what is sometimes considered "free food" through projects such as ours. We, believe in educating young people early in the environmental impact of our actions regarding food and land they see the benefit of reusing resources which otherwise go to waste It is vital that our young people understand the results created by the processing of waste and waste food By looking at repurposing food and land to prevent negative outcomes we are able to reduce the stigma /difficulty in accessing such resources in general. This is particularly important as we are aware that there is a great need for additional spaces and food ,as we have seen through direct requests and signposting that has come to us for such support through the recent crisis. We believe that by actively taking measures to reduce this as a community we can make a positive difference to the amount of waste/pollution occurring locally , encouraging sustainability.
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Location City of Westminster
About the space
The land rejuvenated will be in W104NB volunteers from Churchh Street Community Champions and Queens Park W104DQ will facilitate
Council
City of Westminster
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2 people liked WCU Biodiversity and Food Waste Project8 months ago
How will the money be spent?Total £14,871
Costs Breakdown
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Gating
£7,410
34%
Staffing for holiday
£5,000
11%
Supplies for gardening
£1,680
Overfunding
This project is enabled for overfunding. If the project hits its funding goal before the end of the campaign period, any extra funds raised will be spent (in order of priority) on:
- Repurposing recently donated waste land
- Gating donated waste land
- Buying Mini Bus
Total £14,871
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Westminster Children’s University is an aspirational and extracurricular project created in response to the desire to provide free aspirational and educational opportunities for the young people of London. The project seeks to engage young people in activities that will help them transition from primary to secondary school and then maintain the positive trend in transition to further education.
We have been fortunate to have been in operation over the last three years in central London, engaging and supporting cooperate partners and schools. Our project is in direct response to the challenges and needs of London’s inner-city schools and students. Our aim is to provide free access to educational and cultural opportunities within London to ensure that all young people have the opportunity to access the widest scope of culture and experience possible regardless of financial limitations. We offer a wide range of opportunities for schools engaging in the project and run regular annual graduations and events to promote networking and partnership for the professionals involved in Westminster Children’s University.
To meet this end, we work with our partner University, Westminster University, to invite young people onto campus to meet with students and educators and take part in fun and engaging activities so that they can physically experience university life and interactions and therefore envisage themselves there too. We hold annual graduations so that adults and children can experience the joy of achieving and graduating while raising the profile of extracurricular activity and further education.
We achieve this by negating the need for financial stability to access cultural, educational and developmental opportunities available to young people and their local community. We seek to offer opportunities for young people to experience the world of wider work and culture in order that they may engage and connect with professions disciplines and creative arts in ways
that they may not otherwise have the opportunity to do.
Project Owner: Westminster Children's University The Project Owner takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.