Campaign for Change

Museum of the Home has a long history of using its collections and creative interactions to educate outside the classroom. Our Campaign for Change focuses on the issues which affect people’s experiences and ideas of ‘home’.

We are delivering on our ambition to live better together. Museum of the Home has a long history of using its collections and creative interactions to educate outside the classroom. Our Campaign for Change focuses on the issues which affect people’s experiences and ideas of ‘home’.

Through our pioneering Campaign for Change, we aim to become a leader in the sector as a campaigning museum for social justice causes that align with our core values. We do this by forming strategic partnerships with socially engaged organisations and community groups.

Between 2023/24 and 2027/28 we will:

Build belonging and tackle social isolation through regular, artist-led, free events for our local community (Free Tea Fridays)
Advocate for food equality across the UK, through our work with young people and sector partners. We will work with our partners Hackney Foodbank to deliver their service from the Museum and provide a space for the community.
Create a fairer, safer workplace and visit for all people who menstruate by gaining Bloody Good Employer accreditation.
Create space for activism through Home Truths talks, workshops and programming.

Free Tea Fridays

Through Free Tea Fridays, weekly opportunities for visitors to drop in and connect with others, and by curating an exciting programme

A person passing full paper bags to another person inside a kitchen

Food Equality

Advocate for food equality across the UK, through our work with young people and sector partners. We will work with our partners Hackney Foodbank to deliver their service from the Museum and provide a space for the community.

About Hackney Foodbank

Home Truths

Home Truths is Museum of the Home’s socially engaged initiative and commitment to discuss current issues of home and home beyond the physical space.

Bloody Good Employer

Create a fairer, safer workplace and visit for all people who menstruate by gaining Bloody Good employer accreditation.

Decolonisation

We will continue to advocate for and implement decolonising practice in the Museum’s organisation, curatorial processes, collections, programming and ways of working.

We are working to heal the rifts between the Museum and its communities caused by the presence of the statue of Robert Geffrye. We will continue to work with Voyage youth in residence, and with wider stakeholders to plan for the redisplay of the statue and give space to histories of colonialism and the home.

Read about the legacy of our buildings, which were built with money from Robert Geffrye's investments in transatlantic slavery, and how we rethink the ways we use the buildings.

Discovery Garden

Working with schools and families to promote urban planting and food growing as a sustainable practice. By co-creating a Discovery Garden on our grounds. Until 2025 we are working with two local primary schools to create a child-friendly green space, exploring soil health, seasonal planting, biodiversity, sustainable food production, and more. This garden will be a permanent legacy of the campaign.

Climate Action

Climate Action is taking a primary role in the Museum’s vision. We commit to being carbon neutral by 2040 - getting our own house in order and supporting audiences to reduce impact on climate and nature.

“Food can be such a powerful vessel for joy, independence and cultural connection. This has long been a core part of my work as a journalist and broadcaster, and so I'm really excited about working as an ambassador for Museum of the Home's Food Equality campaign to help explore these themes and raise awareness at a time when issues around food insecurity have never been more pertinent.”

- Jimi Famurewa - Broadcaster, Freelance Journalist, and Campaign for Change Ambassador

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