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>Releasing potential in individuals and communities

  MK Christian Foundation is a local charity working with people and communities of all faiths and none. Everything we do is about releasing potential
  in individuals and communities. The heart of our work is delivered through a family of social enterprises that seek to enable young people
  and communities to live full and healthy lives. Whether it's selling bio-diesel at our recycling project; serving healthy food prepared in one of
  our community cafes; helping young parents to develop parenting skills; selling vegetables on our urban farm or designing leaflets to promote
  a local community project, we want people to be learning and growing and participating in the postive transformation of our communities and society.

Crowds flock to Urb Farm opening

May Day was a very special day for the Foundation this year as we formally opened the Urb Farm, our
horticultural social enterprise at the heart of
Wolverton. This project is a wonderful expression of our values and aspirations with its focus on health, community and the environment and it was
rewarded with a suitably wonderful opening.

After many years of thinking and planning, talking and working by many within and beyond the Foundation, we felt we’d reached the point to publicly launch the project. The ceremonial ribbon was, quite appropriately, cut by the young members of the Growing People team who have worked so hard through wind, rain, snow and quite literally ice, to get the Urb Farm up and running.

The party mood was increased the day before the opening by news of planning permission for a building for the Urb Farm. We’ve dreamt for many months of a building which offers a learning area, a small café - where food from the Farm could be cooked within minutes of coming out of the soil - and a shop to sell local produce. With the generous support of q2 architects an innovative straw bale building with living roof has been designed and we are now on the hunt to find some funding to realise this dream.

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Our Growing People team were also recently rewarded with a trip to Raymond Blanc’s gardens at Le Manoir aux Quat’ Saisons. Following M. Blanc’s visit to us last September, when he demonstrated healthy cooking using fresh Urb Farm produce, he was so impressed he invited us back to Oxfordshire.

When cooking with us in September, M. Blanc made one of our Think Food Team his
sous-chef for the day and also offered some of our young people work experience
placements at his Central Milton Keynes restaurant, Brasserie Blanc. If you’re not a luddite and want to follow the activities of the Urb Farm, you might like to become a friend on Facebook. The opening of the Urb Farm also provided a showcase for the creativity of a number of our other social enterprises.

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