Clapton Commons
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Clapton Commons builds community and enables action in our neighbourhood
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https://www.claptoncommons.org 14-03-2018 13:25:34
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Inspiring gathering last night of a broad range of local stakeholders engaged in #TheCommonRooms at Clapton Commons to look at how we continue to build a community hub that relfects residents passions, interests and needs but also unlocks resources from the local neighbourhood.
To everyone celebrating in Clapton and Stamford Hill, Hackney, London and around the world: Eid Mubarak #EidAlFitr2024 from us all at Clapton Commons
Looking forward to welcoming our first guests to the opening of the #CommonRooms at Hendrik Wittkopf tonight. The scene is set for a great evening of celebration, food, drinks, speeches and networking. #WeWelcome
Good to be at the Southbank Centre tonight for the launch of London Mayor Sadiq Khan launch of his book ‘Breathe - tackling the climate emergency’. A great conversation about climate politics & the leadership needed to bring about effective action to tackle the #ClimateCrisis .
Thanks Chris Lawrence for an inspiring and engaging conversation about #communitybuilding #socialcare #communityorganising and the practice of ‘re-neighbouring’.
Inspiring & engaging event hosted by Trust for London at Toynbee Hall in conversation with Matthew Desmond about his new book Poverty, By America. He powerfully spoke of the aim & vision must be to reach zero poverty. A critical challenge for all. Peter Brierley Shami Chakrabarti
Happy #Purim to all of our Jewish friends and neighbours. Interlink Foundation Shomrim (Stamford Hill) Pinter Trust
Providing a #WarmWelcome space for people to come to is more than just about some soup & a cuppa, it’s about neighbourhood, relationships and building a network of support to create resilient communities that can withstand challenges like the #CostOfLivingCrisis #WeWelcome
We joined residents and councillors including Carole Williams Caroline Woodley and others with Hackney CVS at a vigil for Brianna Ghey this evening on the steps of Hackney Town Hall. We stand in solidarity with the trans community impacted.
Today on #HolocaustMemorialDay Clapton Commons stand with our neighbours to remember and grieve for and reflect on the millions of Jews and others murdered in the Holocaust, under Nazi Persecution, and in the genocides which followed in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur.
We gathered, told stories of the lives of ordinary people living extraordinary lives, remembered, held silence in the street for the annual street memorial to mark #HolocaustMemorialDay Thank you Sam Pallis Ifraah (she/her) Humaira Garasia anyasizer & Rabbi Gluck William Taylor