Growing Connections: Guide to an inclusive and welcoming community garden

This guide outlines the principles to age-friendly and inclusive volunteering, shares best practice and provides a tool to self-review community food projects’ inclusivity. Growing Connections is a project of Sustain, funded by the Centre for Ageing Better and DCMS through the Age-friendly and inclusive volunteering programme.

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Food Co-ops Toolkit

This guide covers:

Introduction to the guide and project
Core values
Principles
- Be flexible and responsive.
- Help people feel enabled and supported.
- Be sociable and connected.
- Make people feel valued and appreciated.
- Make things meaningful and purposeful.
- Make use of strengths.
Acknowledgements
Inclusivity self-review

Covid-19 Update

Growing Connections: Guide to an inclusive and welcoming community garden
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03/08/2020
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