Hands of Hope Charity - Community Hub - School Survey

Our goal is to reconnect people with where their food comes from, teach them how to grow and cook healthy, nutritious food and use this process to ultimately tackle some of the biggest health and social issues facing us in the 21st century including Childhood Obesity. Our aim is to improve health and well-being as well as community cohesion, whilst protecting our environmental heritage.

We have recently acquired a derelict walled kitchen garden and 18 adjoining acres in Hawkhurst, West Kent, which will be restored, regenerated and developed as an innovative “Community Hub” facilitating not only the production of fruit and vegetables within the restored 2 acre walled kitchen garden but including a Victorian Glass House, a Cooking School and Training room. As well as a valuable education resource centre, the site will support community projects, employment engagement activities, volunteering and community events too.

Projects facilitated from Hawkhurst specifically developed for schools will include cookery lessons, growing lessons and nutrition; the site will also offer areas of free-play and an onsite Forest School. Our aim is to educate in a positive, fun and interactive way, providing each child with the necessary tools and skills to enhance their understanding of where our food comes from, how to cook it and valuable insights into healthy nutritional practice that they can retain for life. Programmes will be developed in collaboration with established organisations with a track record of expert provision in the education sector.

The development of the site will only happen if there is a genuine need and we are therefore reaching out to schools throughout Rother, Hastings and West Kent in the first instance, to get your input with regards to the types of facilities and services you would like to see at the site.

We would therefore appreciate if you would complete the survey.

All information is gathered in the strictest confidence and should take no more than 10 minutes.

Take survey

See the Hands of Hope Charity website for more information

Contact Details

Hands of Hope Charity
Telephone: 01424 834768
Email: info@hohcharity.co.uk