We are pleased to announce corporate sponsorship of local Leith charity 'Earth in Common'. Five minutes walk from our Edinburgh office, it was important to the team to give back to our local community whilst also supporting an organisation with great green credentials.
The charity started as a movement of Leithers reclaiming common good land to make healthy food and nature accessible to ourselves and our children. For the first years of existence, known as Leith Community Crops in Pots. Now they are Earth in Common, based at Leith Community Croft working more broadly to tackle a broken food system, climate change and social inequality locally, nationally and internationally.
Building community and food growing are at the core, however, to realise these ambitions they have developed a number of initiatives, most notably the Urban Croft model. Their integrated vision of urban crofts can help generate community solidarity and wellbeing, strengthen the local economy, and contribute to community wealth building and skill-training. They aim to share this idea with communities across Scotland to help them reclaim derelict urban green spaces to establish urban crofts as together, we believe empowered urban communities could play a vital part in our move to food sovereignty.
The charity is especially close to home as our Operations Director was there when it all started, helping to clear the wasteground, unearthing such treasures as an old Sega Megadrive!