Street Food Parties, our trial projects! The Community Oven owns converted horse box pizza ovens that tour Heathfield and the surrounding area as well as appearing at events and private occasions across Sussex. Damien came to Let’s Co-organise with the idea of helping people come together using food and he and Dot set up the CIC (Community Interest Company) in March 2017.

We started simple, running a competition to run street parties for residents that wanted to get to know one another, they were a great success with over 160 attendees in total. We are continuing to connect residents via requests collected by an ‘Ask and Offer’ board and will be organising more events of this kind in the new year. Our aim is to bring people together and reduce loneliness that often exists in our rural communities.

In September 2017 we helped a fantastic group of people run a #pizzaparty in the area behind their houses. They united several streets of residents, many who didn't know one another, and despite a bit of rain everyone had a really good time! We're keeping in touch and can't wait to see what they do next!

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