We are a housing co-operative and a peace and environment centre in a busy part of multi cultural Coventry. We have been here since January 1999 and combine campaigning on peace and environmental issues with practical projects such as our cycling centre and WorldWise which is a global citizenship project employing two amazing workers, Alan and Andrea. We also have community space which others can use. We hold activity week-ends on he first full weekend of every month when we welcome volunteers - it's a great time to visit. For more information see About Us.
what is Coventry Peace House?
Submitted by penny on July 2, 2007 - 5:33am.LETS 20th birthday celebration
Submitted by penny on July 2, 2007 - 4:48am.On Saturday May 10th at the Peace House we are holding a special birthday celebration for the 20th anniversary of Coventry LETS (Local Exchange and Trading Systems) from 11am until 3pm. There will be lots of activities and of course delicious food. You can make new friends, find out more about LETS and perhaps join up so that you too can trade your special skills without the hassle of money. There are LETS groups all over the country. It's such a great idea.
cycle technicians needed!
Submitted by penny on April 13, 2007 - 7:43pm.
Riders from the G8 bike ride outside Coventry Cycling Centre
We are looking for keen cyclists who are good at cycle maintenance to help us at Coventry Cycling Centre which is based at the Peace House. People give us bikes they no longer need and we repair them and sell them on cheaply to local people. We have a great team of 5 volunteers but we need more! At the moment we are open most Tuesdays and every other Saturday morning, but we would like to be open longer. We have a good supply of donated bikes - they just need your expert hands! Please contact Penny on 02476 664616 if you are interested in joining the team.cookery classes start May 3rd
Submitted by penny on April 13, 2007 - 7:20pm.
Alex at the recent U8 conference held at Warwick University
Our spring cookery classes start May 3rd - see cooking with Alex. A few places are still available. Why cookery? Well food is important to us and because we believe it is unnecessary to kill and eat animals we are vegetarian. Some of us are vegan which is more logical. In January 2007 we launched Delicious and Nutritious, a catering social enterprise which both demonstrates how great vegetarian food can be and enables people outside the labour market to use their valuable skills in a useful way. For a minimum of 15 people we provide delicious vegetarian food using locally sourced and fairly traded ingredients where possible. We also provide hard plastic dishes, plates and glasses which we take away to wash to avoid the waste of disposable items and we deliver it all in an electric van.You can see the winter menu 2007/8 by clicking on the side panel. Summer menu any day now! The cookery classes came out of requests from our customers.
Statelessness - the quiet torture of belonging nowhere
Submitted by penny on February 19, 2007 - 6:06am.We are currently writing a book and starting a campaign on statelessness, with both a global focus and a British focus. Globally there are millions of people who are denied the right to work, who have no identity documents, who may be born and die in refugee camps. In Britain there are hundreds of thousands of people who are denied basic human rights and have been told to go back to their country but are unable to do so. They are criminalised by the system with many serving increasingly long prison sentences for working illegally to survive. The book will be launched during Refugee Week in June in a park at night.
space for new members
Submitted by penny on November 6, 2006 - 7:29am.We have space for some new people to live here at the Peace House. If you would like to live in a small, active community, get in touch and we can arrange a visit. We prefer you to work part time in paid employment in the local community so you have enough money to pay the rent (which is low) and enough energy to get involved in the peace and environmental projects we run here. It's a great place to live and inspiring people to live with from all over the world. We take it in turns to cook, we have a big back garden, two wood burners and no television. See more about membership in the side menu - there is even a poem to entice you!
I Came Here For Safety
Submitted by penny on July 19, 2006 - 4:02pm.The reality of detention and destitution for asylym seekers
You can read and print the whole book online for free (Acrobat required). Please share this with your friends and family!
‘Destitution: The state of being extremely poor and lacking the means to provide for oneself....’
- Oxford English Dictionary
Preface
This book was published in Refugee Week June 2006. The current asylum climate is therefore of that time but many of the issues are much more lasting than the latest Immigration Act.
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