Between the 26th and 27th of June CO Ltd hosted their 6th annual national gathering of Community Organisers at Yarnfield park, a conference center based near Stoke on Trent. High Trees were able to take three local people, Dennis, Gloria and Nicholas, who have done some amazing work in the community along to spend two […]
Last weekend High Trees held a relaunch of our Adventure Playground, welcoming families – both new and existing users – and giving details of our upcoming summer programme. Over 100 people visited throughout the day, enjoying the free activities on offer and trying out the new facilities. For more information about our youth and family […]
To build on the foundational knowledge of Community Organising provided in our introduction to CO course IRMO asked us to deliver our Listening Skills for Community Organising workshop on Saturday the 30th of June. Some thoughts from the learners and pictures of the day are below: “I have learnt more about Community Organising and I […]
High Trees are very pleased to be able to offer employment support to an even wider selection of people. In addition to our current programmes, Power 50 which helps job seekers or those looking to improve their employment position in Lambeth and Wandsworth and Step-Up which works with those earning less than London Living Wage […]
High Trees were delighted to attend a Job Fair in the Lambeth Town Hall last week. It was a great chance to engage with job seekers from Lambeth and other agencies and advertise our activities, particularly our training courses and our Employment and Career service. We signed up 37 people to our Employment support programmes […]
Please join us on Saturday 30th June 2018 11-4pm for the Adventure Playground Relaunch (at Tulse Hill Adventure Playground Greenleaf Close SW2 2EY). There will be free Activities including sports, music, face painting a bouncy playground and much more. Free food will also be provided! The young people have been very creative preparing for the […]
This week our young people enjoyed cooking lessons at the Adventure Playground, they starting by choosing their recipe, looking at the ingredients needed, the steps to follow. They then made a pasta bake with fruit smoothies which were enjoyed by all!
Rosanna from the Baytree Center has been supporting our Social Action Hub Service Coordinator Graham to redevelop our volunteer processes over the past few months. Today Rosanna came up to High Trees to run our staff team through the new, improved processes and procedures to ensure that High Trees give volunteers the very best experience when they […]
The London Community Organisers Network met on Saturday the 16th of June to establish what the most important issues to the network are, how the network could better connect and how network members could more effectively look after their own well being whilst working in communities supporting social change. The network understands that change never […]
Our young people are enjoying the good weather, and the facilities at the Adventure Playground, including the new sports pitch. Come and join us on Tuesdays (ages 8-11) , Wednesdays (ages 11 – 16) and Thursday (ages 8 – 16) between 4.30 and 6pm – pop down and see us at Tulse Hill Adventure Playground, […]