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The Good Gym visits Bromley-By-Bow

June 10th, 2009 Ivo

Phillip Raymond at Bromley-By-Bow

We visited the Bromley-By-Bow centre yesterday and left incredibly inspired. The centre combines a multi-faith chruch, a garden, a nursery and a health centre with a long list of social enterprises all in the same locality. Its the essence of partnership and integration that is so exciting about how the centre works, because its so closely integrated with so many aspects of the community; gardening, pottery, play areas, cafes- the place has very little problems with crime and its easy for services to refer to each other and provide real holistic care. Ruth Roberts took us on a fascinating tour of the centre and Ivo and I left feeling very excited.

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