For more than 40 years, GCDA has been helping people reach their full potential through community hubs, free training programmes, enterprise support and food projects. We’re now opening a new fully accessible hub in central Greenwich, creating a vibrant space available to everyone.   To do that, we hope to raise £10,000 through our first-ever crowdfunding campaign … [Read more...]

We’re incredibly proud to be launching our GCDA artist residency programme for local creatives from the African and Caribbean diaspora.   With the support of funding from Royal Borough of Greenwich, we’ll be offering three residencies to artists and makers who’ll each benefit from a rolling exhibition across three GCDA community venues, paid workshop opportunities, a selling … [Read more...]

Call out for surplus food If you are a food business, food production, hospitality, market trader or organisation And find yourself throwing away surplus food fit for human consumption Then let GCDA know here and we may be able to collect it to redistribute to community food projects Fill out this short form to let GCDA if you have or know of any Surplus click … [Read more...]

The 1st August sees the start of World Breastfeeding Week, with a focus on helping support women to breast feed. GCDA has always been infant feeding friendly, and we want to do even more to help support women to breast feed their babies and children in comfort and confidence. We will soon be putting up posters in all of GCDA’s venues to let people know we are there to help and … [Read more...]

There is no better way to shop for fresh sustainable produce or taste exciting new dishes than at an open-air market. Not only that, but traditionally, many new businesses cut their teeth on market stalls and go on to develop in exciting new directions. GCDA has been involved in running markets and supporting new market-based businesses for decades, and we are extremely proud … [Read more...]