Natural History Exploration of Streatham Common

Embrace Cooperation Ltd (www.myembrace.org) Heritage Lottery Fund grant funded community project promoting Streatham Common. The project highlights the history, environmental importance & recreational significance of the Common as a natural heritage site. The Project started in January 2008, running for a year and a half, the project aims include to creating long-term participation of the local communities in the conservation of Streatham Common.

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Friday, 17 April 2009

Picnics on Streatham Common

The project has organised picnics on the common for young adults from other Embrace Cooperation Ltd projects.

Embrace Cooperation Ltd

Embrace Cooperation Ltd is a non-profit organisation based in London promoting work placements, teacher/educator exchange schemes, personal development workshops as well as media (digital photography / video film) and environmental conservation work. We started as Embrace Unlimited - a volunteer organisation in 2000 and since October 2004 operate as a non-profit making company under the name Embrace Cooperation Ltd.

We work mainly with and for disadvantaged young adults and provide 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 in Europe and UK. 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 engages around 150 - 200 young adults every year through the provision of holistic projects, which bring together the skills and abilities of the young people with the opportunities Embrace can offer.

UK based environmental conservation project:
Embrace Cooperation Ltd received a Heritage Lottery Fund grant to run a community project promoting Streatham Common. The project highlights the history, environmental importance & recreational significance of the Common as a natural heritage site. The project started in January 2008 and will finish in June 2009. 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 Streatham Common by organising nature activities and working with local community groups. Embrace Cooperation Ltd would especially like to work with those local community groups and youth organisations which would not otherwise be involved in environmental conservation. The project so far has engaged with over 300 people, involving them in community environmental conservation events on Streatham Common.

UK based media projects:
Embrace did four media projects in 2008 with over 30 young adults (living in hostels; refugees; and those from housing estates and not in education, employment, or training). All projects focused on participatory media work using photography, graphic design and film to capture the creativity of the young people. The practical work gave them a chance to lose their inhibitions working with media equipment and also to use techniques such as story boarding, directing and editing in such a way which will make them applicable to their life. It also gave them the experience whether they really could see themselves starting an apprenticeship or work in the media industry as we facilitate visits to media colleges and film companies.

Embrace Cooperation Ltd is interested in working with other community groups and schools to develop new projects.

Contact Email: john.c@myembrace.org

Project Phone No: 0207 2749450

Project myspace page: www.myspace.com/streathamcommon

Natural History Exploration of Streatham Common

Friday, 17 April 2009

Picnics on Streatham Common

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