Spitalfields City Farm: Community Wellbeing Club

In 2022 I coordinated the Community Wellbeing Club project at Spitalfields City Farm, funded by the Mayors COVID Loneliness Recovery Fund. We worked with local community members who experience higher levels of isolation as a result of the pandemic or ill-health from long-COVID by engaging referred individuals in ecotherapy and horticulture tasks once-weekly as farm volunteers, and offering optional monthly art therapy classes and mindful movement classes facilitated by local practitioners. We also held monthly cook-ups as part of this project too, creating and eating dishes made from food we grew on the farm and donated by the food charities we partner with. Partner referrers included Tower Hamlets Libraries, Tower Hamlets Recovery College, Reset Recovery/Change Grow Live, Spitalfields Crypt Trust, Working Well Trust, Granby Community Hub, Osmani Centre, Linkage Plus, NHS Community Mental Health Teams, GP surgeries via social prescription programmes, NHS Mile End Hospital Community Disability Service, refugee groups run in Bethnal Green Library, older peoples services, and carer services.