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INTERVIEW .......................................... MYbrighton: Jo Wren Co-founder of The Grow Project Are you local? Yes… I wasn’t born here, but I came down to Sussex University and did about a year and a term of European Studies and French. I wasn’t really cut out to be a student, so I left – which didn’t turn out to be a bad thing, really. And then I just stayed down here. I’ve been in <strong>Brighton</strong> longer than I’ve been anywhere else. What do you do? I run a small charity that I cofounded back in 2011 called Grow. It’s a project that helps people with mental health issues, using nature as therapy. We are surrounded by the most amazing countryside and I think a lot of people have trouble accessing that, especially if they’ve got mental health issues. We take people out into the glorious countryside around <strong>Brighton</strong> and connect them back with nature, and hopefully inspire them to use it as a kind of wellbeing tool. We work out at a National Trust property near Devil’s Dyke called Saddlescombe Farm. Where it’s situated, you’re almost in a bowl, so you feel like you’re held - everyone feels that when they get there. We do a range of activities: walking, conservation work, foraging, whittling, shepherding (there’s a tenant sheep farmer there called Roly, who’s just amazing, who takes us out and lets us work the sheepdogs). It’s an incredible experience, and something that people wouldn’t normally get the chance to do. Where’s your favourite place to go in <strong>Brighton</strong>? I would always have said the seafront, but I’m spending so much time in the Downs at the moment and I just love it. We are so blessed to have a mixture of the sea and the countryside, so either one of those places I guess. Where do you like to eat? One of my favourite little places is Unithai just up the road from me. It’s a little Thai kitchen and they do really amazing food, really good value, and you just sit at long tables all together, and it’s so unpretentious, it’s great. And The Foragers – I discovered that the other day – they do a fantastic roast. What do you like most about <strong>Brighton</strong>? Geographically, its location with the Downs and the sea and the city; you can be out on the Downs in the morning, down on the beach in the afternoon and you can go and watch some world-class dance in the evening. I love that. And I love the fact that you could walk down the road dressed in a Superman outfit with a rat on your shoulder and no one would bat an eyelid. I think the generosity of spirit and openheartedness and open-mindedness of <strong>Brighton</strong>, that you can be ‘other’ in <strong>Brighton</strong>, and be accepted much more easily than you would in other places. It feels like a bubble, but it’s a very nice bubble to be in. Where would you live if you didn’t live here? I honestly don’t know of anywhere that I would want to live more. I often toy with the idea of going somewhere west… but then I go down to somewhere in the West Country and you can’t walk out in the middle of the night and buy olives if you want to, and I don’t often want to do that, but I’d like to have the choice. I love lots of other places in the world – I think I’d like to do that six-months-somewhere-hot-inthe-winter thing, but I’d always come back to <strong>Brighton</strong>. Interview by Rebecca Cunningham growingwellbeing.org.uk ....25....
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