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Streatham Common Natural History Exploration Project
Embrace Cooperation Ltd (www.myembrace.org) has received a Heritage Lottery Fund grant to run a community project promoting Streatham Common. The project highlighting the history, environmental importance & recreational significance of the Common as a natural heritage site. The Project started in January 2008 and running over the next year and a half, the project aims to create long-term participation of the local communities in the conservation of Streatham Common.
The project aims to raise awareness of the environmental importance of the Streatham Common by organising nature activities and working with local community groups. Embrace Cooperation Ltd would especially like to work with local black and ethnic minority community groups and youth organisations. The project's myspace web page www.myspace.com/streathamcommon.
As an integral part of Embrace’s mission, the project will provide placements for young adults, which will compliment their education & professional interests. It is hoped that the projects’ activities will foster interaction between all age groups. The History of the Common will also be researched using Lambeth archives and material published by Streatham Society. The project will also be organising oral history interviews, where the work experience placements will interview and video older members of the local community about their memories of the common.
The project will finish with a multimedia exhibition that will showcase videos, photographs and celebrate the natural heritage site. A booklet and website (which will include facts on flora and fauna, and the recreational history of the site) will also be produced. Schools, tourists, & visitors will be able to use this resource for educational visits to the site.
Embrace is working with local community groups, youth centres, training centres, secondary schools and colleges on this project. Embrace is also looking for volunteers and placement students (over 11 years old) to work on this project. Anyone taking part will gain a wide range of skills and experience, including skills in media, environmental conservation, research, administration and many other areas.
We are currently developing new environmental conservation projects with local community groups, schools, environmental organisations and youth groups in south London. Were interested in making links with other groups in order to develop new community & environmental conservation projects.
Embrace Cooperation Ltd works mainly with and for disadvantaged young adults and provides a variety of services that enables them to integrate and perform well in mainstream society. Embrace does this through a number of learning schemes, including arts, media, personal development, placements, exchange programs and environmental conservation projects.
Embrace runs projects both in the UK and Europe, our main objective is to support those with the least opportunities, so that they improve the quality of their life and contribute to self-sustaining communities. Embrace has a lot of experience of successfully applying for grant funding and successfully managing community projects both in UK and Europe.
Including London based projects like media (video / digital photography) projects and our current environmental project on Streatham Common.
To get involved, find out more information about this project or Embrace Cooperation Ltd: Phone 02086701221/ 07984662996 or Email john.embrace@gmail.com.
