Pay It Forward

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By Ollie Nicholas
09/02/20

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In partnership with Hopeful Traders & The Canvas.

Contents

1. Pay It Forward

2. The Big Show: Pay It Forward

This Valentine's Day, buy someone in need a meal via The Canvas's Pay It Forward scheme. We've partnered up with The Canvas and social enterprise, Hopeful Traders to bring free meals to people in the most deprived borough of London, Tower Hamlets. This could truly be the most important meal that you will ever buy.

Subtitle

In partnership with Hopeful Traders & The Canvas.

Contents

1. Pay It Forward

2. The Big Show: Pay It Forward

This Valentine's Day, buy someone in need a meal via The Canvas's Pay It Forward scheme. We've partnered up with The Canvas and social enterprise, Hopeful Traders to bring free meals to people in the most deprived borough of London, Tower Hamlets. This could truly be the most important meal that you will ever buy.
1. Pay It Forward

We can all agree that Valentine's Day is an extremely superficial holiday, so we have decided to team up with Hopeful Traders and The Canvas to offer an alternative approach to celebrating the big day this year.

In this campaign, people can 'pay if forward' via our donations page to buy a Valentine’s meal for people in the most deprived borough of London, Tower Hamlets. All proceeds will go to The Canvas's pay it forward board, so that people in need can get themselves a meal and be able to enjoy it in the safe space of the cafe.

You can access our donations page here.

An estimated 320,000 people will be homeless in the UK this Valentine’s Day. Let's help these people out, and show love in the right way.

Thank you.

2. The Big Show: Pay It Forward

In this episode of The Big Show, Ollie is joined by Hopeful Traders Founder, Charlie Wright and artist, David Tovey to discuss the Pay It Forward campaign, relationships and love, and how we can help those that are affected by homelessness.

It was great to be joined by David, as we had an opportunity to hear about his experiences with homelessness. The loss of his health, his business, a relationship and a home left David Tovey feeling like he had little choice but to end his life. Thankfully a park attendant named Gavin stopped David and asked him what was wrong.

David has since exhibited in internationally recognised galleries such as the TATE Modern and TATE Liverpool, founded the ONE Festival of Homeless Arts and become a recognised social commentator and advocate for the homeless. David still finds the time to volunteer, teaching art at two charities including The Pilion Trust, who supported David when he came off the streets.

You can listen to our podcast in the player below.

  • Pay It Forward

Bibliography

Pay It Forward (hopefultraders.com)
The Canvas (www.thecanvascafe.org)

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The Canvas (@thecanvascafee1)
Hopeful Traders (@hopefultraders)
Charlie Wright (@charliepwright)
Ollie Nicholas (@ollienicholas)

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