Together

Together provides a range of community, life skills and employability activities in a relaxed environment supporting people learn new skills, understand their rights, and make new social circles. Everyone’s welcome!

Activities include free café, cultural trips, creative writing classes, crafts and support to fill in online forms. We signpost onto other Pecan services and partner organisations to ensure all needs are met.   

Pecan's 35th birthday breakfast

Café and Warm Space

Opening Times: Mondays and Thursday from 10am-3pm (closed on Bank Holidays)
Venue: Pecan, 121a Peckham High Street SE15 5SE

Together Café, 1-3pm Monday and Tuesdays: Enjoy warm soup and a bread roll, hot drinks, and snacks. Join in with arts and crafts, board games and group discussions and pick a book or magazine to read. 

We offer a range of activities, support, and advice: employment, life skills, hobbies, wellbeing, and community. 

* We are an Inclusive venue and a Breastfeeding Friendly venue 

Donate Online

While Together is a free service for its members, there are still staff and administration fees to pay. If this project interests you and you want to support it.

Workshops, Drop-ins and Updates

Black History Month

We will be marking Black History Month in October, including a collaboration again with Bold Tendencies. 
For further information, please contact Vashti: together@pecan.org.uk
 

Thursday 17 October | 12-3 pm
Black History Month Quiz: In partnership with Ngozie Okorie, Founder of They Can I Can Too.

Monday 21 October | 12-3 pm

Bold Tendencies | Echoes of Baldwin, Writing Corner Creative writing inspired by the work of James Baldwin, led by Bold Tendencies Creative Learning Facilitator, Alfiah Brown.

Tuesday 29 October | 11-1 pm

Bold Tendencies Collage Workshop Inspired by the theme of reclaiming narratives participants delve into the past, present, and future creating a personal and group collage using a combination of paper, photographs, and textural elements.

Thursday 31 October | 11-1 pm

Adinkra Arts Collective Creative Writing: Led by Kunga founder | Adinkra Arts Collective. Around the theme of ‘Reclaiming Narratives’. An informal and interactive writing workshop explores taking you on a journey of reclaiming your story.

Thursday 31 October | 2-4 pm

Book Group, Owning the Narrative Led by Kunga founder | Adinkra Arts Collective. Homage to acclaimed Caribbean writers from the past. A reflection on the collective works of Black voices. Reading extracts from The Lonely Londoner by Samuel Selvon, Six Stories and an Essay by Andrea Levy, and Propa Propaganda by Benjamin Zephaniah.

Friday 1 November | Shorts 12-1 pm & Feature 2-4 pm
Film Screenings. Selection of Black filmmakers. Film shorts by Cecille Emeke, Adeyemi Michael, Comfort Arthur, and a feature ‘Gone Too Far’ by Destiny Ekaragha. Presentation and Q&A by Kunga | Adinkra Arts Collective
 

Together Café

Together Community Café and Warm Space is open Mondays and Tuesday from 1-3pm. All Welcome. For further information, please contact Vashti: together@pecan.org.uk

Creative Writing

Writing for Wellbeing #6
Mondays from 9 September – 14 October | 10.30am-12pm

Writing for Wellbeing #7
Mondays from 11 November – 16 December | 10.30am-12pm

Creative Writing with Wordsmiths: During this 6 week Writing for Wellbeing group facilitated by Naomi at Wordsmiths, you will be guided through structured writing activities and games to enable you to create and share a mixture of fictional and true stories based on your own experiences and ideas.

Bread and Salt

Autumn Term: Bread and Salt re-starts Fridays from 13 September – 18 October

A FREE drop-in on Fridays (term-time) at Pecan Together Cafe 9.30am-12noon. Particularly welcoming asylum seekers from the Middle East and North Africa. Some members of the team speak Arabic and Kurmanji Kurdish. We emphasise friendship and a safe space to relax, with opportunities for English conversation, games and crafts. (This is not an advice session or a formal English class). 

Further Information

Finally, we want to hear from you: what employment and other support would you like to see delivered by Pecan? 

Please email together@pecan.org.uk  

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