Who we are
Dwellbeing Shieldfield is a welcoming community group and co-operative for people of all ages and backgrounds. We share life together, support our neighbours and celebrate our community. We enjoy regular social events and educational activities such as group walks, coffee meet-ups, planting and growing food, youth activities, and making improvements to our neighbourhood. Our aim is for community members to play an active role in shaping life in Shieldfield.
Our aims
Our aim is for community members to play an active role in shaping life in Shieldfield.
We share our knowledge about the issues and challenges that affect our neighbourhood and work collectively to find alternative ways of organising, learning and solidarity. Through these actions we embrace a joyful community spirit that can lead Shieldfield (and other neighbourhoods like it) toward self-reliance, interdependence, and flourishing.
What we do
We organise social events and workshops to support community members to play an active role in shaping life in Shieldfield. Much of what we do is about sharing skills and learning from each other.
We run regular intergenerational activities for members to keep in touch and share wisdom, kindness, struggles and solidarity. All of our activities are Covid-secure and follow the latest government guidelines. Our programmes include Shieldfield Youth Programme, Flourishing Together (our social programme) and Shieling Programme (our activities related to growing food and public space improvements).
Members who would like to play a more active role can join the Stewards (what we call our Directors) or a Working Group.
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Our people
Staff
Programme Worker - Hannah Marsden (on Family leave until January 2024)
Administrator and Communications - Edyta Czarnecka
Community Bee - Kaltouma Hassaballah
Youth Worker -Precious Oluleye
Organisational Development Worker Member - Mandy Robinson
Seasonal Worker - Ishrat Chowdhury
Seasonal Worker - Tigist Belew Tegegne
Stewards
Val Middleton
Colin Gray
Ed Laschet
Sue Richardson
Helen Simmons
Andrew Wilson
Zainab Ghurair
Shieling Working Group
Sarah Bird
Ahmad Hasan Karkoura
HarperPerry Architects
Helen Lunn
Kaltouma Hassaballah
Lydia Hiorns
Mahamat Younis
Ikbal Berk
Maria Hussaini
Sophie Stanton
Helen Lunn
I have lived in Shieldfield for 22 years.
I am originally from London.
I enjoy music and drama and writing and reading and good food and being silly and many things besides.
I like being part of Dwellbeing because it connects me with neighbours and enables me to work creatively with other people with the aim of our mutual flourishing.
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