Other Community resources
South Kent Mind runs two cooking sessions a week to support mood and improve skills for cooking on a budget: healthy baking; preparing and eating a low-cost lunch together. Weekly gardening club with a site at Park Farm, which aims to grows food used in the cooking sessions
Shepway Youth Hub - Grace Hill, Folkestone, CT20 1ET. Runs a free, rolling six-week programme of life skills sessions, including budgeting, cooking, and CV writing for those aged 11 to 18. Thursday 6pm to 7pm for ages 11 -13 and 7.30pm to 8.30pm for those aged over 14..
Folkestone Repairs Together - Holy Trinity Church Hall on third Sunday every month and Nepalese Community Centre, Baker Road, CT19 4NN, on fourth Sunday every month. 12.30pm to 2.30pm. Open to all. Budgeting advice, electrical repairs, sewing, technical support in a warm space with free lunch provided.
Hythe Environmental Community Group runs various projects in and around Hythe including community kitchen, gleaning of produce from local farms, distributed to Streetz2Streetz, Folkestone Women’s Refuge, KRAN, Action on Homelessness, Home Farm Trust and the Hythe Pantry and community fruit press available to borrow by anyone who wants to juice their fruit.
Email Custom Food Labs - A collaboration of local artists, activists, and environmentalists linked to various initiatives including Locavore and Kent Food Hubs. Partners with organisations to support social and therapeutic horticulture for people living with mental health issues or dementia.
Futures Café - 41A Guildhall St North, Folkestone, CT201EF. Tuesday 9.30am to11.30am. A safe space for female survivors of domestic abuse to meet over coffee and cake. Telephone 07773179082 or email mel.goodban@clarionhg.com