Hip-Hop Garden - The aim of the programme is to connect people with nature through popular Hip Hop culture, which transcends language and cultural backgrounds. Hip Hop culture has many parallels with nature and its resilience and expression. The concept and example of the ‘rose that grew through concrete’ is a great way to demonstrate the resilience and power of both.

 

The programme is delivered using five elements; Wellbeing, Food, Hip Hop, Employment & Entrepreneurship, and Event Management. With 1,5,7 and 24 Week programs. 

Curated and delivered by the May Team with combined experience of youth and community engagement of over 60 years.  

 

The environmental sector is the 2nd least diverse only to farming.  Presently Environmental youth programs are delivered by large, white organisations without lived experience and simply reinforces racist concepts of dependency.  Environmental youth programs focus on the program outcomes or outputs rather than the wellbeing of its participants. Hip-Hop does not  

 

Each element of HHG provides practical, affordable, and collective solutions to live sustainably and challenge power structures that don't serve their interests aligned with U.N Sustainable Goals and Climate Emergency Declaration. They are all scalable and create legacy. 

 

Well Being addresses SDG No.3 

Ensuring healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages. 

 

Employment & Entrepreneurship addresses SDG No.1

End poverty in all its forms everywhere

 

Food addresses SDG No.2 

End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture. 
 

Learning about growing and cooking plant based food to improve their diets and the awareness it has on their bodies to reduce disease. 

 

Teaching growing and cooking skills (Plant based Food) to make money (Enterprise and employment). 40% of consumers say they want plant-based alternatives to meat and dairy, while per capita meat consumption is declining. Overall, the UK vegan food market is growing at a rate of 9.58%.

 

Use Hip Hop (HH) as framework to express their creativity through performance and lyrics. 

Community and Civic Up to 20 Stakeholders shall participate in the interactive workshop to promote debate around existing youth provision, challenge the pre conception of Y.P from Marcus Lipton and develop new partnership with the view to fund a fuller program of HHG at Marcus Lipton