Kundakala
@KundakalaOrg
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Social enterprise that runs tailoring and employability programmes to enable women to become financially independent professional seamstresses 📍🇬🇧🇮🇳
London/India
Joined July 2021
COME AND SUPPORT US AT OUR MARKET STALL TOMORROW AND DAY AFTER. Some Kundakala Collective members will be selling their products - do come and encourage them! We will also be selling products made in our programmes and all income from this will be used to fund further work.
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On Friday the Kundakala Alterations & Repairs service was at the Barnet Repairs cafe in the Barnet & Southgate campus. Members of the Kundakala Collective (our graduates who've now started to earn an income) performed repairs for the community. Here is a happy customer:
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So delighted to see Kundakala featured by East End Review in an article about the Mayor of London award that we won for Outreach and Engagement of Adults into Learning: https://t.co/NDOPUXmgAx Looking forward to rolling out more of our programmes in the New Year. #kundakala
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Our yoga t-shirts are back by popular demand in some new (very exciting!) colours. A perfect Xmas present for the yoga enthusiast in your life (this could even be you!). Do head over to https://t.co/3u63TF1ZFY to get yours today! Income generated is used to fund our programmes.
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This Christmas buy social and help support a woman through her journey on our programmes. Head over to https://t.co/hc5vNG41dB
#kundakala #buysocial #xmas
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We are honoured and delighted to have Places for People as Silk partners in our Threads of support initiative. They have supported us in multiple ways. Please visit https://t.co/YhKcXSFJax for more information.
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We are back in Hays Galleria at the Winter by the River market this year. The Kundakala Collective - a group of women who've started to earn an income through skills gained via our programmes - will be selling products that they've made. Do come and support us. #kundakala
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Every year we rely on funding to run our programmes in the community and empower 50+ women a year on the journey to financial resilience. In this month of giving do consider helping us via our Threads of support initiative. More info is on our website: https://t.co/YhKcXSFJax
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On Monday this week, we were delighted to be visited by our dear friend Cllr Carole Williams (@welovehoxton) at Pembury Community Centre, Hackney. Accompanying her was the Mayor of Hackney, the CEO, and Cllr Sarah Young. Our participants enjoyed meeting and talking with them.
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Another graduation (our fourth in the last couple of months!), another cake, and another set of 10 participants who have taken home brand new machines. Most of our participants do not wish to be photographed, but here are some who don't mind being featured. #kundakala
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We are delighted to launch our new Make and Mend programme in Hackney. This is funded by Hackney MATCH and we will be using sewing to promote positive mental health outcomes. #kundakala
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Our Hackney Make and Mend cohort is getting ready to graduate on Wednesday the 26th. They've come far as is evidenced by this beautiful top made my one of our participants. #kundakala #makeandmend
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We are looking for a volunteer photographer (or two!) to come into our Islington sessions for an hour twice a month to take photos of our work. The sessions will be run on Mondays from 2pm to 4pm and are at Holloway Park, Parkhurst Road, N7 0NU. Email info@kundakala.org
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We are still basking in the warmth and encouragement that we received at City Hall for the @mayoroflondon Adult Learning Awards last night. Here are some moments from the evening #MOLawards
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KUNDAKALA IS THE WINNER OF THE MAYOR OF LONDON AWARD FOR OUTREACH AND ENGAGEMENT OF ADULTS INTO LEARNING! The awards ceremony is going on at the moment, please click on the link to watch the YouTube live stream. Photos to follow tomorrow. https://t.co/9XLve4YFU5
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What a lovely and warm graduation ceremony we had yesterday for our Lambeth/Southwark Make and Mend cohort! Smiles, laughter, cake and a brand new sewing machine to take home! #kundakala #makeandmend
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A couple of weeks ago we were at Brent Cross Town offering our repairs services as part of the Circular Economy Week. Here is a happy customer! #kundakala #kundakalacollective #repairshop
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Kundakala is so delighted to be featured in Simply Sewing – the UK’s number 1 sewing and dressmaking magazine. After months of planning, the article speaks about our journey from inception to today. We also provide a guide to making a yoga props bag by repurposing a saree.
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"Good morning, everyone. Today I opened the new sewing machine. It’s also the first day I used it to sew clothes in my house. Thank you so much to all the teachers.❤️❤️❤️❤️' - recent Kundakala graduate from our Camden cohort
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