As we continue Honouring Our Communities and exploring The Things That Make Us, Us, today we’re looking beyond what is on the plate to the stories held within it, and how something as everyday as food can quietly carry a community’s history from one generation to the next.

This week, our Honouring Our Communities journey moves from the people who create communities to the culture that grows between them, exploring how shared experiences gradually become connected to identity and carry meaning from one generation to the next.

This week, we’ve been celebrating the people at the heart of our communities and exploring how their influence can grow through the relationships they build, the experience they share and the belief they place in others.

As we continue Honouring Our Communities, we’re taking a moment to notice the people whose influence often happens quietly in the background, and to consider why recognising their contribution while it is still happening can become an important part of the community story itself.

As we continue Honouring Our Communities, we’re exploring how experience travels between people and across generations, gradually becoming part of a shared understanding that can make an unfamiliar path feel a little clearer for those walking it next.

As we continue Honouring Our Communities, we’re looking at the people whose leadership develops naturally from being part of the communities they care about, and how that influence can continue through others long after the original moment has passed.

As we continue Honouring Our Communities, we’re exploring how the belief in each other travels between people and how the encouragement we once received can eventually become something we pass on, creating an influence that can reach through a community.

Today, as we continue Honouring Our Communities, we’re exploring what it means to occupy space and the role our communities can play in helping us recognise that we have every right to be there.

This week, as we continue Honouring Our Communities, we’re celebrating the people at the heart of them and the influence that can grow through seemingly small acts over time.

As we continue Honouring Our Communities this October, we’re looking at the stories that become part of our shared history and why making space for them matters.

As we continue Honouring Our Communities this October, we’re exploring how these different connections shape who we are, what we carry with us and what we eventually pass on to others. Read the full blog to discover why the communities we become part of leave their mark on us, just as we leave our mark on them.

As we continue the Black History Month theme of Honouring Our Communities, we’re exploring what transforms a collection of people into something that feels like ours, and why those connections continue to matter so much.

Join us throughout October as we share the stories, experiences and everyday moments that remind us just how much community matters.