Streatham Common Project

Embrace Cooperation Ltd (www.embracecooperation.org.uk) has received a Heritage Lottery Fund grant to run a community project promoting Streatham Common. The project will highlight 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.

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 interested in 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 15 years old) to work on this new 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. To get involved or find out more information about this project: Phone 02086701221/ 07984662996 or Email john.embrace@gmail.com.

New Streatham Common Project Blog Website http://streathamcommon.blogspot.com/