Global Generation

Founded in 2004, Global Generation is an educational charity, which works together with local children and young people, businesses, residents and families in Camden, Islington and Southwark to create healthy, integrated and environmentally responsible communities. We offer practical experiences and employment pathways to young people, often from disadvantaged backgrounds, and give them the social, emotional and practical skills to make a difference in the world. Ecology, education and enterprise are at the heart of everything we do, and we have developed a wide range of educational programmes, all of which reflect our core value of: I, We and the Planet.

The Skip Garden, which is our homebase, is the largest of the 26 community and commercial gardens that we have co-created with local businesses, restaurants, schools and young people in and around  the King‚Äö√Ñ√¥s Cross Development site. Here we grow fruit and vegetables alongside our thriving caf‚àö¬©, where we serve nutritious, seasonal food. The caf‚àö¬© also offers work experience and employability programmes to those often marginalised by society, such as young people with special needs, the elderly and refugees. Our community outreach and development projects bring together local school children and business employees, vulnerable families living in the area and local volunteers. All of this helps to nurture a close-knit and collaborative community, which cares about its environment - and about the planet as a whole.