Showing posts with label Edible Garden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Edible Garden. Show all posts

Wednesday 11 October 2017

Eggcellent chance to sponsor a chicken for Sufra Foodbank



Sufra NW London are launching an appeal for chicken sponsors having built new accommodation at St. Raphael's Edible Garden after local foxes  killed their previous flock.

This is their message:

Today we launch our Sponsor a Chicken Appeal! We're looking for 20 egg-lovers to donate £99 towards the purchase and up-keep of a chicken for one year.

For £99 we will give you:

1) The chance to name your chicken (Theresa May has been taken, but Boris Johnson is still up for grabs).


2) A framed photograph of your chicken to display on your mantle-piece.

3) An invitation to an omelette breakfast prepared by Dina using eggs supplied by your chicken especially for the occasion.

4) A private tour of St. Raphael's Edible Garden led by Sami.

5) ...and the opportunity to provide over 300 eggs each year to food bank guests who are reliant on Sufra NW London for emergency food aid.


To sponsor a chicken, please email Sami and the Youth Committee at youth@sufra-nwlondon.org.uk.

The Sponsor a Chicken Appeal is open to all - individuals, local companies and even groups of friends. If you can't afford £99 you can raise it through sponsorship by taking part in the...

Brent Interfaith Walk

We’d like to invite you to take part in the Brent Interfaith Walk on Sunday 29 October 2017. The event is an opportunity to show solidarity between faith communities and acknowledge the vital contributions that people of faith and no faith make to maintaining our service – all whilst walking off that extra slice of cake you shouldn’t have eaten the night before.

The route will commence at Sufra NW London and pass by different places of worship and religious significance in Brent, with a necessary toilet break at the Ace Café.

Whilst you’re welcome to just trod along with us, we also request that you collect sponsorship for the charity. If you raise £99 we will refund your registration fee. You can register here.

(The registration fee covers our costs, including a free t-shirt and an end of walk vegetarian buffet on St. Raphael’s Edible Garden.)

Tuesday 26 July 2016

Latest community news from Sufra Foodbank and Kitchen - get involved!

News from Sufra Foodbank

If you walk into Sufra over the next few weeks don’t be surprised to find groups of young people lounging in the foyer, raiding the fridge or hovering around the office.

This summer, we’ve truly embraced the hug a hoodie mantra - throngs of young people are volunteering for the charity in the office, warehouse and the garden. Although it does mean tolerating some questionable music blasting in the background (Hotline Bling is a particular favourite at the moment) there’s a real party atmosphere.

I’ve met some amazing young people in the last week. There’s 14-year-old Adam who knows how to code pretty much anything, 16-year-old Sami who can tell you everything about breeding quails and is insisting on setting up a chicken coop in the garden, 15-year-old Davina who taught herself Chinese (as you do) and 16-year-old Ibrahim (he’s the “runner” we spoke about last time) who turns out to be an amateur film-maker.

Summer BBQ on St. Raphael’s Estate
We’re opening up the party to the whole community!

This Saturday, 30 July, we’re throwing our third annual Summer BBQ for St. Raphael’s Estate. This year there will be no queues for burgers – Daniels Estate Agents have kindly donated a super industrial barbecue to mark the occasion. We just have to hope that Ahmed, Parminder and Iwona can cook 500 burgers in 3 hours!

Alongside the barbecue, Dina and Ros will be offering exclusive tours of St. Raphael’s Edible Garden, Brent Start will be running workshops on healthy eating, cake-decorating and puppet-making (which is what I’m looking forward to!). Ibrahim and Adam will be selling oreo and strawberry milkshakes.

Come along to savour our culinary delights and learn more about Sufra NW London.

Kew Gardens to Bournemouth

We’re really grateful to Brent Community Transport who sponsored two trips to Kew Gardens and Bournemouth for our food bank users, who would not normally be able to afford a holiday or a day out.

One very sweet lady was overjoyed after returning from Bournemouth. “It was great to have some time to forget about all the problems at home.” Very cute.

St. Raphael’s Edible Garden


If you haven’t been around to Sufra recently, you’ll be surprised to see how far the garden has come along! Yesterday I picked the first peach from our mini orchard – our first harvest. It was emotional. And rather bitter for my taste.

Over the next month we need some burly lads to dig out the pond. [Girls I think you can issue a challenge here MF] To be fair, it’s already been dug out. It just needs to be deeper. Come along on Sundays, between 10am and 2pm to help out. Sign up here.

Bottle Appeal

If you’re organising your own summer party, don’t forget to collect all your 2 litre soda bottles and drop them off to Sufra. So far we’ve collected over 100 bottles to build a greenhouse on St. Raphael’s Edible Garden, but we need over 1,500 to make sure the roof doesn’t leak!

Rui has been busy in the garden building the frame of the greenhouse, but the walls are looking rather bare. It’s a perfect excuse to overdose on sugary drinks.

Summer Academy

There are no spaces left (I did warn you to be quick), but if you want to sign up in advance for our Food Academy in September, download a Registration Form here.

Other Volunteering Opportunities:

This isn’t the most exciting role to be fair... We need some volunteers to do some data entry – there’s some with over 1,000 records to be input. I won’t try and sell it. Even I would struggle, despite all my talents. But if you want an invite to Nandos, drop me a line. You will have to work from the office, but we’re flexible on days/times.

If chicken isn’t your thing, or you’re vegetarian, you might want to sign up for our next supermarket collection.

It’s a bit early, but at least you can’t make the usual excuses of having planned a day out with friends. It’s Sat/Sun 3/4 September at Asda Park Royal. If you can flirt with customers, this is probably the right role for you. Sign up here.

And finally, I look forward to seeing you on Saturday.

Yours,


Mohammed S Mamdani
Director

Saturday 19 September 2015

Community rallies to Edible Garden cause on St Raphs


Delicious veggie food proved popular
It was a beautiful early Autumn afternoon for the Edible Garden event on St Raphael's estate this afternoon. The initiative by Sufra NW London Foodbank and Well London involves the creation of fruit and vegetable growing beds in a space previously used as an engineering yard. The soil is contaminated so everything has to be grown in imported soil in high containers.

The initiative involves a Food Growing Group and a Cooking Group. Plans for the space include a polytunnel and a pond (frogs are great for snaffling up slug and snail eggs).

Children planted some broad bean seeds and onion sets
Face painting was as popular as ever
Work continued on lining the pond with sand while children enjoyed playing

Plans for the site
'Give Together - Eat Together'