Journal

19 March 2024
Members of Haverstock's team sitting at a table in a warehouse decorated with paper bunting and paper lampshades.

Away Day – Hackney School of Food

Hackney School of Food is a Community Interest Company that works to teach local communities essential life skills including planting, growing and cooking.

Sharing learning with children, parents and underprivileged communities supports their local food system and widens access to healthy, culturally diverse and nature-friendly food, offering them practical ways to improve their health and the world around them.

23 March 2023
Two people working in an allotment.

Our Barn

Our Barn Community is an amazing charity, set in the beautiful National Trust Osterley Park. Our Barn is a community-based charity providing learning, life skills and social interaction for young people aged between 16 to 35 with learning disabilities or autism. They are a ‘bridge’ between formal education and adult life for young people with special needs.

Our Barn have an incredible garden and allotment at Jubilee Lodge which provides life skill and social activities to the young people there.

20 February 2023
A group of people posing in front of a shopwindow.

Interestingly Different

Interestingly Different are a social enterprise who sell beautiful gifts and household goods produced by partners who employ people with learning difficulties, autism, disabilities or life challenges. They wanted to create a place to showcase the wonderful products made by their trainees to be front and centre in their community.

Our studio worked with their team to design and build their new shop to display these wonderful products.