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Bristol Charity Advent Calendar 2021, day 3: Grassroot Communities
The South Feast Pantry food bank started on Thursday at the family room near the reception at Bridge Learning Campus in Hartcliffe.
A student from any year at the school who needs a helping hand with food or hygiene products can come along and say hello, with one token enabling five items a week.
It’s just one initiative supported by Grassroot Communities which operates primarily but not exclusively in south Bristol.
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Grassroot Communities is guided by the professional principles and practices of youth and community work, and influenced by the positive impact of nature, to deliver a wide variety of innovative school, youth and community led projects.
“We engage, challenge and inspire young people and others in their neighbourhoods to be the changes they want to see, improving quality of life and creating real social change.”
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A session at the end of November in St Augustine’s Park in Whitchurch showed the variety of Grassroot Communities’ work: featuring basic lessons in how to make vocal beat loops alongside fire safety and how to keep warm, with toasted marshmallows for all participants.
Other work sees them finding sponsors so that a young person can attend a weekly boxing session over the course of a year.
Young leaders Reegan and Ella can be paid £30 each every week for the three hours they deliver, with the aim to make the youth-led Hartcliffe Community Boxing Club become more sustainable.
“Detached youth work can be a thankless task at times,” Grassroot Communities wrote recently on Facebook.
“However, it makes all the difference to those young people still out on the streets all year round.
“Please spare a thought for those youth workers and young leaders out in all weathers handing out hot chocolate, having a chat and engaging and supporting in whatever way suits best.”
For more information, visit www.facebook.com/grassrootcommunities
Main photo: Grassroot Communities
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