I honestly don’t understand why.
As I said earlier, I think it's insulting. Being poor is a demoralising experience in and of itself but even more so when your community is full of offers and opportunities which would cost your entire weekly food budget.
I thought it was to give them jobs.
There are children in the area who will not eat lunch for the next two weeks because it's half term and their families struggle to feed them without school lunches. Food poverty.
The Brixton pound cafe is the one place in Brixton where people can afford to eat and socialise regardless of their income as customers choose what they pay. I think that makes it a valuable part of our community. It’s not a commercial business it’s a social enterprise and if they can raise money from the richer residents of Brixton, with the intention of feeding any profits back into their worthy enterprise then that’s got to be a good move. Short of piling the poor into ghettos physically apart from the rest of the community, there will always be the issue of poorer residents having to walk past rows of businesses selling stuff they can’t afford. It’s the way the world is, and that’s the reason many of us are socialists hoping to change the whole system. Picking on the one business in Brixton that really does offer food at a price everyone can afford seems a bit mean to be honest. The cooking classes are a fundraiser for migrants so I hope they charge as higher prices as they can get the customers to pay. That is generally the idea with fundraising activities.
And that about wraps it up. Or should, anyway.
I've said I have good will for them and have interpreted their community ethos quite accurately, I haven't made any condemnation of them so I really don't think I'm picking on them. I'm allowed to have a critical opinion though aren't I? Allowed to point out that the irony of a community resource for affordable food hosting unaffordable cookery classes in a borough with food poverty is faintly insulting.
Well done for your characteristically selective quoting
Why not contribute something positive then and make things better?
Hosting unaffordable cookery classes but providing hot meals for what ever your pockets can afford. No other business in Brixton allows the customer to set the price paid. Of course you’re allowed a critical opinion, but don’t try to paint this worthy enterprise as somehow part of the gentrification problem. They are part of the solution as they are taking money from the wealthier customers to subsidise the poorer ones. You should be picking on the profit chasing chains that offer nothing to those on limited incomes other than unaffordable products and minimum wage jobs
The capacity at your fundraiser would have been far greater than places at the cookery session, therefore allowing a few in for free wouldn’t have the same detrimental impact on funds raised that allowing even 2 or 3 free places on the cookery session would have had.
Again, NO ONE has ever suggested that anyone should ever be let in for free at this cookery session. But for the reasons already explained, I feel that one or two concessionary rates for locals on benefits would have been more appropriate given the high cost of the event, the nature of the venue and the area it's in, where some people are struggling to survive.
Really not interested in pursuing this pointless line of enquiry.
It was my suggestion to include at least one or two concessionary rates for the reasons I have stated many times. Seeing as they're not offering any such rates, there is absolutely no point me dreaming up suggested rates for your pointless titillation.
