Our Values

We seek to awaken ourselves and our communities to the historical and current realities of how we grow, distribute, cook, eat, and recycle food, and we are committed to exploring future possibilities that challenge these realities. We believe in the critical role of food sovereignty for liberation, and aim to provide ample, accessible opportunities to feed each other often and well.

We prioritise goods, services, activities, and organisational practices that celebrate, embrace, and honour our local Walthamstow community, giving extra care and attention to migrants, refugees, and those who are part of a Global Village. Whenever possible, we choose suppliers, partners, and collaborators based locally and in the UK who share our commitment to serving and invigorating local social bonds and connections.

We value and dignify people, the Earth, and social purpose when we choose how to distribute and use our time and resources. We are committed to collectively learning and practicing mutual aid, participatory governance, interdependence, accountability through transparency, and economic solidarity in our conduct as an organisation.

How we engage

Access to healthy, local food should be a right, not a privilege determined by geography or income.

We want to show how accessible, affordable, and climate friendly good food can be. We have so many ideas for creating a vibrant, prosperous, and diverse sustainable food economy, and we're so excited to try all of them. Therefore we warmly welcome anyone and everyone drawn to our mission, vision, or values to join us on this adventure by visiting our space in Walthamstow, or by getting in touch with questions, ideas for collaborations, and other offerings.

Achieving true change in the food system requires a comprehensive, systems-based approach that acknowledges the interconnectivity of diverse food issues. This transformation relies on collaboration among local communities, organisations, and individuals across all aspects and levels of the food system, working together toward a shared vision and actionable plan for sustainable, inclusive food access.

At Pulse & Pickle, we seek to build a social and solidarity economy -- so while we're excited to be in community with anyone who shares our values, our circles of care describe who we prioritise when offering extra support.

Our innermost circle holds sacred space for elevating and centering the voices, perspectives, and needs of migrants, refugees, and members of the Global Village -- those whose heritage and connections to loved ones bridge modern geo-political boundaries. This means that serving, supporting, and empowering members of these communities -- regardless of the location or status of their current residency -- is our top priority.

Our next concentric circle of care embraces the local Walthamstow community -- regardless of age, body size, visible or invisible disability, ethnicity, sex characteristics, gender identity and expression, level of experience, education, socio-economic status, nationality, personal appearance, race, caste, color, religion, or sexual identity and orientation. When it comes to our geographically local community, we aim to be as inclusive as possible.

And finally, we are eager to showcase events, projects, and communities that celebrate and cultivate indigenous and/ or collectivist ways of knowing and living -- again, regardless of the location or status of their current residency.

These concentric circles of care describe how we prioritise when allocating our surplus as an organisation, and guides our decision-making when we design systems of economic solidarity (i.e. sliding scale payment tiers).

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