A Corris pub is running a series of monthly events in a bid to bring the community together and fight for social justice.

The Braich Goch Inn is holding a four part event series, Food for Thoughts, on the last Saturday of every month, until Christmas, to provide “opportunities to eat delicious food, share our experiences, and enjoy some live music”.

Food for Thoughts has been organised by a “collective of individuals from diverse backgrounds working towards social justice” - the Anne Matthews Trust.

Jeanette Gray, who is helping to coordinate the internships alongside the events, said: “We are developing Braich Goch as a community hub where people from the local rural community, and the refugee and migrant groups we bring into Braich Goch from towns and cities across Wales and the rest of the UK, can meet, share cultures, build relationships and foster understanding between communities.”

On Food for Thoughts, Jeanette added: “We are excited to share four monthly event which offer the opportunity to eat together and explore issues related to food sovereignty and food justice – both within the local context and from the international perspective.”

Food sovereignty is the right to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods.

The first Food for Thoughts event, which was on Saturday, 25 September, was a harvest celebration.

“We ate a delicious meal cooked from locally donated produce and watched a short documentary to help get the conversation started,” Jeanette said.

“We then broke into groups to discuss what food related concerns mattered to the people in the room. We brought these ideas together to inform our following events.

“We will next get together on the 30 October to explore the local context – a panel of farmers and people with knowledge of rearing and growing food in the area will help us understand what issues are most important to them.

“We will eat cawl and have music from Ossian Morris and Cynefin.

“Our November event is an opportunity to explore the migrant experiences in Wales. We hope to use food as a vehicle to talk about identity, belonging, land and becoming part of a new community. There will be Latin rhythms provided by our in house musicians and tasty Colombian food.

“December’s event will be action focused – drawing on what we have learnt in previous months, we will explore what we want to do next as a community.”

The events are being organised with the trust’s current interns, a small group of young people recently arrived in Wales.

Javier Sanchez, project co-ordinator at the Braich Goch, said: “The Anne Matthews Trust is currently running an internship programme, training three young adults from diaspora communities in Wrexham.

“We aim to train young people in how to run the Braich Goch centre for other young people and the wider community in general.”