sustain the alliance for better food and farming

Community Food Projects: a directory

A directory of projects on the Food Poverty Projects Database

A PUBLICATION BY SUSTAIN: The alliance for better food and farming Community Food Projects: a directory of projects on the Food Poverty Projects Database

This directory lists over 260 community projects from the Food Poverty Projects Database. The database is managed by Sustain’s Food Poverty Network, in collaboration with the Health Development Agency.

Sustain's Food Poverty Working Party

Danilla Armstrong - Department of Health Jacqui Larder - East Lindsey Primary Care Group Audrey Bronstein - Oxfam UK Poverty Programme Heidi Livingstone - Health Development Agency Simon Bullock - Friends of the Earth Sarah-Jean Marie - Community Nutrition Group June Copeman - Nutrition and Elderly Health Education Tim Marsh - UK Public Health Association Unit Naomi Mason - Independent Kath Dalmeny - The Food Commission Mike Nelson - Family Budget Unit Liz Dowler - Department of Social Policy and Social Work, Aodhan O'Donnell - Health Action Zone, Northern University of Warwick Ireland Natasha Gowman - Independent Jillian Pitt - Food Standards Agency Bill Gray - Scottish Community Diet Project Maggie Sanderson - Caroline Walker Trust Robin Simpson - Independent Michael Green - Independent David Steed - Children's Society Jayne Griffiths - Food Standards Agency Wales Ruth Sutherland - Community Development and Health Baljinder Heer - King's Fund Network Ann Hobbiss - Bradford Food Network Aruna Thaker - Southwest London Community NHS Trust Colette Jones - British Heart Foundation Health Jacqui Webster - Food Standards Agency Promotion Research Group Sue Wilkinson - World Cancer Research Fund Professor Tim Lang - Department of Health Management and Food Policy, City University

Project Staff

Catharine Courtauld - Project Volunteer Food Poverty Project Officers: Annie Seeley, Lindy Sharpe, Courtney Van De Weyer, Victoria Williams

Acknowledgements

Special thanks to Gavin Dupee, Jeanette Longfield, Annie Seeley, Lindy Sharpe and Victoria Williams. Cover illustration by Sarah Courtauld. Designed by Gavin Dupee and Catharine Courtauld.

•II• Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming Community Food Projects: a directory

A directory of projects on the Food Poverty Projects Database

Compiled by Catharine Courtauld

January 2003

sustain the alliance for better food and farming

Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming •III• •IV• Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming Contents

Introduction ...... 1

Projects on the Food Poverty Projects Database England Bedfordshire, Bristol...... 5 Cheshire...... 6 Co Durham, Cornwall...... 7 Cumbria, Derbyshire, Devon...... 8 Dorset, East Sussex ...... 9 Essex ...... 11 Greater London ...... 12 Hampshire...... 18 Hertfordshire, Kent ...... 20 Lancashire ...... 21 Merseyside ...... 23 North Yorkshire ...... 24 Northamptonshire, Northumberland ...... 25 Nottinghamshire ...... 26 Oxfordshire ...... 28 Somerset, South Yorkshire ...... 29 Staffordshire ...... 31 Surrey, Tyne and Wear ...... 32 Warwickshire, West Midlands ...... 35 West Sussex, West Yorkshire ...... 37 Wiltshire ...... 39 Scotland Aberdeenshire, Edinburgh ...... 40 Glasgow, Midlothian ...... 41 North Ayrshire, North Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire...... 42 Wales Anglesey, Blaenau Gwent, Bridgend ...... 43 Caerphilly ...... 44 Cardiff ...... 45 Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion ...... 46 Conwy, Denbighshire ...... 47 Flintshire, Gwynedd ...... 48 Merthyr Tydfil ...... 49 Monmouthshire ...... 50 Neath Port Talbot, Newport, Pembrokeshire ...... 51 Powys, Rhondda Cynon Taff ...... 53 Swansea ...... 54 Torfaen, Vale of Glamorgan ...... 57 Wrexham ...... 58 Republic of Ireland Co. Meath, Co. Westmeath...... 60

Other useful contacts...... 61

Regional Development Agencies ...... 63

Strategic Health Authorities ...... 64

Alphabetical index of projects ...... 67

Index of projects by activity ...... 70

Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming •V• •VI• Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming Introduction

Welcome to Community Food Projects: a directory, the first printed directory of projects on the Food Poverty Projects Database. The Database is maintained by the Food Poverty Network, part of Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming, in collaboration with the Health Development Agency. It contains a great variety of projects, all working at the local level to improve access to healthy food for people on a low income.

The projects include food co-operatives, community cafés, school breakfast clubs, cooking clubs, food growing projects and farmers’ markets. This directory will be useful for anyone with an interest in local food initiatives, especially anyone running or trying to start a community food project. We hope it will encourage you to contact people already working in the field. We cannot over-emphasise the importance of networking and learning from other people's experience.

The directory gives an excellent overview of the huge range of projects currently running. We hope you will find the examples here inspirational, as well as useful in giving you the information you need. By reading the project summaries, you should get a feel for the amount of energy and imagination that goes into these projects.

We have also included a list of Regional Development Agencies, Strategic Health Authorities and the Primary Care Trusts within their remit, plus a list of other useful contacts.

What is the Food Poverty Projects Database?

The Food Poverty Projects Database was formerly called the Food and Low Income Database. It was launched in 1996 to enable people working on local food projects to find out about each other, make contact and pool experience in a way that had never been possible before. There are currently more than 267 community food projects on the database, from across the UK and the Republic of Ireland. Between them they carry out more than 700 activities, ranging from growing and selling food to cooking and eating it.

Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming •1• What is the Food Poverty Network (FPN)?

The Food Poverty Network exists to support local food projects, and campaign on their behalf for changes to government policy that would help to end food poverty. Food poverty can be briefly described as the inability to obtain an adequate, nutritious diet. It comes as a surprise to many people that even in the midst of the apparent wealth and abundance of our society, the effort to eat well and feed the family is a daily struggle for millions of people. The problems they face include insufficient funds, difficulty in reaching shops which sell appropriate, nutritious foods at affordable prices, and lack of time, skills or information. Food poverty can affect many people at some stage in their lives - for example adults and children living on benefits, lone parents, the elderly, the disabled, and students. The Food Poverty Network, whose members include members of local food groups, local authority workers, health workers, dietitians, nutritionists and researchers, works to raise awareness of these issues and campaigns for policy changes that would alleviate them.

Besides maintaining the database, the Network produces a quarterly members’ newsletter, Let Us Eat Cake!, which is also sent free to all projects on the database. It has also produced a range of publications (available to Network and Database members at a discount price), and organises local seminars to bring together people working on food-related issues in different regions.

Using the database online

The database can be accessed online at www.foodpovertyprojects.org.uk. Using the database online gives access to more information than is listed in this directory, including a list of any materials a project produces, project opening times, how many users it has, when it started and how it is funded, managed and evaluated. The information is also updated regularly, as new projects are added.

There are two main ways of searching the database: by location or project type. Searching by location allows you to find projects in a particular county, or in a particular type of location (eg all projects in inner cities). Searching by project type can either list projects by activity (eg all food-growing projects) or by type of user (eg all projects involving primary school children). Under the advanced search option you can carry out a more detailed search, for example by material type (eg all projects producing recipe books).

If you do not have access to the internet, and would like to see the latest entries on the database or obtain fuller details on a particular project, Sustain runs a telephone enquiry service on 020 7837 1228.

•2• Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming How To Use This Directory

We hope this directory will allow you to find out about initiatives in your region, so the projects are listed by county. However, there are also two indices at the back showing the projects listed alphabetically by name and by activity, so you can also find all the projects which include, for example, a breakfast club.

Each entry contains contact details, a summary of the project’s aims and activities, and user groups.

We decided not to include email contact addresses as, apart from the problems of junk email and viruses increased by publishing email addresses, they often go out-of-date when contacts change jobs. If you have access to the internet, you can see if the project you are trying to contact has an email by searching the online directory.

We have included only projects which are running at the time of going to press (February 2003). However, funding in this area is scarce and there is a high turnover of projects: you may therefore find that unfortunately some projects are no longer active. Please be aware, too, that this directory provides an overview of the different types of work going on, but is by no means a comprehensive list of all the projects currently active in the UK.

One of the most effective ways to learn about different types of work is through direct contact. Please do not hesitate to get in contact with any of the projects listed, to have a discussion or arrange to visit.

We hope you find the directory useful. Whatever your experience of using it, we’d like to hear from you. Any comments - positive or negative - will help us to improve future editions.

The Food Poverty Team Sustain: The Alliance For Better Food and Farming 94 White Lion Street London N1 9PF Tel: 020 7837 1228 Fax: 020 7837 1141 Website: www.sustainweb.org Email: [email protected]

Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming •3• •4• Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming Bedfordshire and Bristol England BEDFORDSHIRE Hartcliffe Health and Environment Asian Cookery Club Project Action Group

Contact Stephanie Cash Contact Wendy Harris Nutrition and Dietetic Service The Gatehouse Centre c/o Luton & Dunstable Hospital Hareclive Road Main Stores Bristol BS13 9JN Lewsey Tel 0117 946 5285 Luton LU4 0DZ Fax 0117 935 9863 Tel 01582 497 162 Fax 01582 497 361 This food co-op sells wholefoods, environmental products, and organic fruit and vegetables. The This is a cook and eat' project specifically aimed project also includes a nutrition and cooking at South Asian women. It focuses on adapting project, a community food-growing project and a traditional recipes to reduce fat and salt intake. market garden.

Activities Training Activities Growing food Nutrition/health education Information/advice/support Cookery class User Groups All Groups User Groups Black and minority ethnic groups

BRISTOL

Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens Oasis Cafe

Contact Jeremy Iles Contact Pat Biggs The Green House Southville Centre Hereford Street Beauley Road Bedminster Bristol BS3 1QG Bristol BS3 4NA Tel 0117 923 1039 Tel 0117 923 1800 Fax 0117 907 7198 Fax 0117 923 1900 Website www.farmgarden.org.uk A community cafe serving the general local community and users of the Southville Centre - A community gardening and city farming not specifically aimed at people on a low income. federation which supports existing community gardens or farms and advises people who are Activities Community café considering starting one. The federation User Groups All groups encourages food-growing and education projects to improve health and the environment. A project for growing food in schools was recently started.

Activities Growing food Information/advice/support Transport/Delivery User Groups Low-income groups Homeless Single parents

Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming •5• Bristol and Cheshire

The Rock Community Centre Community Food Workers (Cheshire)

Contact Sue Hale Contact Lynzie Porteous St Peters Hall Highfield Hospital Ridingleaze Highfield Road Lawrence Weston Widnes WA8 7DJ Bristol BS11 0QF Tel 0151 495 2951 Tel 0117 938 4636 Fax 0151 495 2951 Fax 0117 938 4636 This project employs local residents trained as This project provides a community facility for the community food workers, who work with local people of Lawrence Weston. Activities are aimed people to overcome barriers to healthy eating at older and disabled people, and include a lunch through cook and taste sessions and food co-ops. club, a gardening club and a disabled youth club. Other activities will be developed depending on local needs. Activities Luncheon club User Groups Disabled Activities Cookery class Older people Food co-op User Groups All groups

CHESHIRE

Community Food and Health Programme Hattersley Market Garden

Contact Deborah Williams Contact Niamh Carey Centre for Health Promotion 4th Floor Cheethams Mill 188 Buxton Road Park Street Stockport SK2 7AE Stalybridge SK15 2BT Tel 0161 456 3101 Tel 0161 303 1336 Fax 0161 419 9499 Fax 0161 303 0985

This project aims to improve the health of the This is an organic food and plant growing project residents of Stockport through diet. The project’s on a housing estate. It sells vegetables and herbs activities include health promotion in schools, to the community and provides local community cafes, and support for producers, employment under the New Deal for markets and small and medium sized enterprises Communities scheme. to aid the local economy in areas of deprivation. The project also hopes to introduce a community Activities Training purchasing group. Based in the Primary Care Tool library Trust, the project works with health advisers, Food growing nutritionists and dietitians. User Groups All groups

Activities Community café Information/advice/support Nutrition/health education User Groups Low-income groups Practitioners/professionals

•6• Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming Co Durham and Cornwall

CO DURHAM

Hands on Health Courses Skerne Park Community Cafe

Contact Mo Dobbie Contact Dave Appleby Park House 1 Hammond Drive Station Road Skerne Park Lanchester DH7 0EX Darlington DL1 5TT Tel 01207 529 621 Tel 01325 464632 Fax 01207 529 619 Fax 01325 464632

This project plans to run cookery classes in all This community café offers cheap meals and areas of County Durham. snacks, provides a social meeting place and offers a catering service on a disadvantaged estate. A Activities Cookery class training budget is available for volunteers and User Groups Children staff. Low-income groups Learning disabilities Activities Community café Older people Breakfast club Food provision User Groups All groups

CORNWALL

Rossy Diner Trevithick School Breakfast Bar

Contact Diane Fraser Contact Stephanie Thomas Rossmere Centre Trevithick CP School Rossmere Way Mount Pleasant Road Hartlepool TS25 5EB Cambourne TR14 7RH Tel 01429 273 741 Tel 01209 713460 Fax 01429 405 989 Fax 01209 710028

This is a lunch time facility providing healthy This is a breakfast bar providing food during the food for children from nearby schools in a youth school term, for children and parents. centre during term time. Set up because during the school day children were mainly eating foods Activities Breakfast club high in fat, sugar and salt, such as chips, pastries User Groups Secondary school children & sweets.

Activities Community café Luncheon club User Groups Secondary school children

Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming •7• Cumbria, Derbyshire and Devon

CUMBRIA

Age Concern Get Cooking! Unstone Grange Organic Gardens

Contact Amanda Davis Contact Darrell Maryon 20 Spencer Street c/o Unstone Grange Carlisle CA1 1BG Crow Lane Tel 01228 536 673 Unstone S18 5AL Fax 01228 597 039 Tel 01246 412 344 Website www.unstonegrange.co.uk A cookery club for older people who have either limited skills or have lost the motivation to cook This project involves volunteers working together for themselves. two days week on the restoration and use of a kitchen garden and orchard. The weekly sessions Activities Transport/delivery involve learning sustainable and organic Nutrition/health education techniques. Herbs and seed are also produced Cookery class for a local seed bank. User Groups Older people Activities Growing food Food provision User Groups All groups

DERBYSHIRE DEVON

The Jericho Project Exeter Community Umbrella Ltd

Contact Rev. Christine Rowberry Contact Trevor Gardner The Geoffrey Allen Centre 3 Palace Gate Winster Mews Exeter EX1 1JA Gamesley Tel 01392 205 800 Glossop SK13 OLU Fax 01392 205 802 Tel 01457 868740 This is a food voucher scheme to help homeless This project runs a community cafe that people eat nutritious food by providing them promotes healthy eating, and a food co-operative with vouchers which can be exchanged for food supplying fruit and vegetables. The project also at local retailers, including a take-away, a provides supported employment, and sandwich bar and a day centre for homeless opportunities for training and community service people. This is part of a national scheme run by in conjunction with the local council. the Church National Housing Coalition (CNHC).

Activities Community café Activities Price discounts/vouchers Food partnership User Groups Homeless people Food co-op User Groups All groups Learning disabilities Older people Single parents

•8• Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming Devon, Dorset and East Sussex

DORSET

St Petrock's (Exeter) Ltd ACHIEVE Boscombe - Lunch Club

Contact M Gent Contact Mary Ann Roberts St Petrocks Centre IHCS Bournemouth University 10 Cathedral Yard Bournemouth House, Exeter EX1 1HJ Christchurch Road Tel 01392 422 396 Bournemouth BH1 3LG Fax 01392 439 758 Tel 01202 504 336

A resource, activity, training and resettlement This project provides weekly, cheap, two course project for homeless people in Exeter. The healthy lunches for families in temporary project also provides food, medical help, support accommodation - children's meals are free. and luncheon vouchers. Service users can also learn basic food preparation, food hygiene and team skills as well Activities Food provision as enjoying eating together as a family. Information/advice/support Nutrition/health education Activities Food provision User Groups Low-income groups Nutrition/health education Homeless people User Groups Children Women and children Homeless people Single parents

EAST SUSSEX

St Sidwells Centre Brighton Agroforestry Trials

Contact Tony Badcock Contact Pippa James St Sidwells Centre Flat 2 Sidwell Street 13 Windlernam Gardens Exeter EX4 6NN Brighton BN1 3AJ Tel 01392 491 300 Tel 01273 208 816 Fax 01392 498 174 Website www.stsidwells.org.uk This is a sustainable food production project, growing food-producing trees alongside annual This Healthy Living Centre includes a community vegetables using organic and permaculture cafe and training kitchen. The centre, which design. opened in January 2001, also provides healthy eating and cooking classes. The project focuses on Activities Growing food families, young people and older people in the Food provision local community. Transport/delivery User Groups All groups Activities Community café LETS User Groups Children Women and children Older people Single parents

Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming •9• East Sussex

Care Co-ops Community Farm Emmaus Brighton and Hove

Contact Michael Hamilton Contact Dominic Dring Stanmer Offices Emmaus, Drove Road Stanmer Park Portslade Lewes Road Brighton BN41 2PA Brighton BN1 9SE Tel 01273 412 093 Tel 01273 696 153 Fax 01273 415 018 Fax 01273 571 151 www.emmaus.org.uk/brighton.htm

The farm is used by people in the local This is a self-supporting community for people neighbourhood and people referred from social who have been homeless and unemployed. As services who have mental health problems and well as providing food, it recycles furniture, learning difficulties. The main activity is organic appliances, etc. The project is planning to food production, using a 'beneficial horticulture' develop medium-scale horticultural activities. supportive approach. Activities Community café Activities Growing food Growing food Nutrition/health education Community shop User Groups Black and minority ethnic groups User Groups All groups Women and children Homeless people Learning disabilities Unemployed Mental health users Homeless people

Centre Café Fresh Ideas Project

Contact Caroline Ridley Contact Sarah Davies Tim Jones House Food and Health Partnership Rochester Gardens Sussex Downs and Weald PCT Hove BN3 3AW 36-38 Friars Walk Tel 01273 205 214 Lewes BN7 2PB Fax 01273 205 371 Tel 01273 403 635

This is a café for people over retirement age. The This project aims to develop strategic and local project also organises talks and activities. food partnerships and provides support for local food projects, including cooking groups, lunch Activities Community café clubs, pre-school intervention and healthy eating, User Groups Older people kid's cafe, etc. It particularly targets low income groups.

Activities Training Community café User Groups Disadvantaged people Low-income groups

•10• Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming East Sussex and Essex

ESSEX

Becontree Organic Growers Association St John Ambulance Homeless Service (BOG)

Contact Charity Bevan Community Base Contact Barry Ian Watson 130 Queens Road Three Trees Brighton BN1 3XG 44 Gale Street Tel 01273 234 761 Dagenham RM9 4NH Fax 01273 234 851 Tel 020 8592 8941 Website www.communitybase.org/stjohn Mobile 07931 270119 Website www.sbbc.co.uk/resources/new_is/ The project aims to address inequalities in access PP94.htm to primary health care services. It provides health education and promotion for homeless people This community garden has reclaimed a derelict, and professionals working with them. Training in three-acre site. Workshops in techniques and nutrition education is a key component of this permaculture methods are given in exchange for project. There are also mobile primary health effort and work. The courses involve all members care units with health professionals, including a of the community. The project is also a regional dietitian. centre for Plant for a Future.

Activities Training Activities Training Nutrition/health education Composting User Groups Practitioners/professionals User Groups All groups Homeless people Refugees Students Ex-offenders

Whitehawk Community Food Project Bluebell Resource Centre (Stay & Play)

Contact Simon Powell Contact Julie Baker c/o 19 St Martins Place St John's at Highwoods Brighton BN2 3LE Community Centre Tel 01273 626 660 Highwood Square Highwoods The project seeks to increase awareness and Colchester CO4 9SR participation of local people in organic food Tel 01206 853 111 growing. It encourages active 'hands-on' involvement, coupled with informal teaching. The Stay & Play project offers basic cookery The key target audiences are families, children, lessons, which are aimed at parents and children, young people, unemployed and people on a low with a particular focus on low income. income. Activities Nutrition/health education Activities Training Cookery class Tool library User Groups Children User Groups All groups Black and minority ethnic groups Children Women and children Families Practitioners/professionals Low-income groups Single parents Unemployed Single parents

Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming •11• Essex and Greater London

St Anne's Fresh Food Fayre Cable Street Community Gardens

Contact Fay Mathers Contact J Sill Colchester Borough Council 101 Matilda House PO Box 331 St Katherine's Way Town Hall E1 1LF Colchester CO1 1GL Tel 020 7480 5456 Tel 01206 282968 Fax 020 7480 5456 Fax 01206 282916 This is a community garden where plot-holders The project provides catering and information to grow a wide variety of vegetables, soft fruit and statutory and voluntary groups, and is involved herbs for personal use and for friends, neighbours with selling fruit and vegetables on a local estate. and family. It is currently mobile but is hoping to acquire permanent premises. Activities Composting Growing food Activities Community café User Groups All groups Food provision Black and minority ethnic groups Information/advice/support Women and children User Groups Children Practitioners/professionals Black and minority ethnic groups Older people Women and children Secondary school children Learning disabilities Single parents Practitioners/professionals Ex-offenders HIV/Aids Older people Single parents

GREATER LONDON Community Nutrition Project: White Breakfast Clubs in London City Healthy Living Centre

Contact Lynne Tucher Contact Diana Hawdon London Borough of Hammersmith Shepherds Bush Healthy Living & Fulham Centre Town Hall White City Health Centre King Street Australia Road W6 9JU W12 7PH Tel 020 8753 3604 Tel 020 8846 6441 Fax 020 8753 3713 Fax 020 8846 6881

This scheme provides breakfast clubs in primary This nutrition project takes a community and secondary schools and schools for children development approach to encourage and enable with learning disabilities. local residents - including all age ranges and ethnic backgrounds, in particular groups who are Activities Breakfast club traditionally hard to reach - to improve their skills LETS for healthy eating. Possible initiatives may include Food provision a cook and taste group, discussion group, User Groups Primary school children displays, food co-ops and food provision. Children Learning disabilities Activities Community café Secondary school children Breakfast club Growing food

•12• Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming Greater London

Conservation and Urban Ecology Cultivating the Future

Contact Wanjiku Kamau Contact Caroline Fernandez Queen's Lodge Women's Environmental Network Queen's Wood PO Box 30326 42 Muswell Hill Road E1 1TZ N10 3JP Tel 020 7481 9004 Tel 020 8444 2604 Fax 020 7481 9144 Fax 020 8444 2604 Website www.wen.org.uk

This project involves renovation of a disused This project aims to encourage and develop food keeper’s lodge into an environmental and growing projects among ethnic minority women sustainable energy centre. There is an organic and school children. wholefood cafe where the aim is to grow much of the food. The project also aims to take an Activities Growing food educational approach to food growing. Information/advice/support User Groups Children Activities Community café Black and minority ethnic groups Composting Women and children Growing food User Groups Children Black and minority ethnic groups Women and children Practitioners/professionals Older people Single parents

Crisis Fareshare The Food Chain

Contact Peter Clements Contact Nicholas Fant Unit 1A 25 Bertram Street 175 Long Lane N19 5DQ SE1 4PN (only valid until April 03) Tel 020 7272 7272 Tel 020 7403 8588 Fax 020 7272 2273 Fax 020 7403 8656 Website www.foodchain.org.uk Website www.crisis.org.uk The Food Chain provides nutritional services to A national charity for single homeless people, people who are living with HIV & Aids as well as giving them access to a healthier diet by partners, carers and dependants. Services include distributing surplus, high quality, fresh food from Sunday meals, weekly grocery boxes and shops and restaurants to day centres and hostels. emergency hampers. One project is based in London and there are seven nationwide. Activities Food provision User Groups HIV/Aids Activities Food provision Transport/delivery User Groups Homeless people

Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming •13• Greater London

Foodlink Grazebrook Pupils' Treescape

Contact Victoria Taylor Contact Pat Gannon Croydon Health Promotion 9 Allerton Road 12-18 Lennard Road N16 5UJ Croydon Tel 020 8802 4002 CR9 2RS Tel 020 8680 2008 Ext 201 A project involving a "green gang" comprising Fax 020 8666 0495 primary school pupils, parents and local residents which explores many different methods for food The project aims to increase access to fruit and growing, including community vegetable vegetables in the Shrublands area by promoting production. growing activities and redistribution mechanisms. Activities Farmers market Activities Community café Composting Growing food Growing food Transport/delivery User Groups Primary school children User Groups Children Families Black and minority ethnic groups Secondary school children Low-income groups Women and children Single parents

Garrett Centre Community Lunch Green Ventures

Contact Julie Harris Contact Margaret Jailler 117 Mansford Street 41 Grosvenor Park Bethnal Green Camberwell E2 6LX SE5 0NH Tel 020 7729 1231 Tel 020 7703 1260 Fax 020 7729 1231 Website www.safetycat.org/green

This project provides weekly community lunches A box scheme providing organic fruit and veg, to improve access to healthy, cheap food for bread and eggs. The project’s main activity is a socially excluded people. It aims to consolidate home delivery service in Southwark and Lambeth, and improve the lunch provision. supplying low income groups in the local community, including those with special dietary Activities Luncheon club requirements and the housebound. User Groups Disadvantaged people Activities Growing food Food provision Transport/delivery User Groups Low-income groups Women and children

•14• Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming Greater London

Hackney City Farm Leaves of Life Health Promotion Project

Contact Dee Miller Contact Sherry Nicholls 1A Goldsmiths Row 28 Sandford Avenue Hackney Wood Green E2 8QA N22 5EH Tel 020 7729 6381 Tel 020 8881 8865 Fax 020 7729 6381 Fax 020 8881 8865 Website www.hackneycityfarm.co.uk Website www.leavesoflife.org

This is a city farm garden which grows This project organises health seminars, and runs vegetables, herbs and flowers using a varied monthly vegetarian and vegan cooking approach within the Hackney community and demonstrations to promote health and natural Tower Hamlets. It also has animals: sheep, pigs, living. This project also works with community calves, ducks, geese, turkeys, rabbits, guinea pigs groups in the centre of London. and chinchillas. Admission is free. Activities Information/advice/support Activities Community café Nutrition/health education Composting Cookery class User Groups All groups User Groups Black and minority ethnic groups Learning disabilities Practitioners/professionals Older people

Healing Gardens NCH (National Children's Homes)

Contact Barry Watson Contact Caroline Abrahams Groundwork Thames Valley 85 Highbury Park Colne Valley Park Centre N5 1UD Denham Tel 020 704 7000 Uxbridge Fax 020 7226 2537 UB9 5PG Website www.nch.org.uk Tel 01895 832 662 Fax 01895 833 552 Advice and support work on budgeting and Website www.groundwork.org.uk health matters in 450 local level projects, most of which are in family centres or community centres. This project aims to improve the everyday life of the chronically or terminally ill by making Activities Information/advice/support maximum use of the healing and spiritual User Groups Children qualities of gardens. Volunteers and beneficiaries work together.

Activities Growing food User Groups Chronically and terminally ill Disabled

Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming •15• Greater London

New Horizon Youth Centre Oasis Children's Nature Garden

Contact Pauline Roberts Contact Joanne Brown 68 Chalton Street 1 Aston House NW1 1JR Wandsworth Road Tel 020 7388 5570 Springfield Estate Fax 020 7338 5848 SW8 4ER Website www.newhorizonyouthcentre.org.uk Tel 020 7498 2329 Fax 020 7720 4276 This is a drop-in centre providing food and advice for homeless people. A nature garden for children, with organic vegetable and herbs plot. Activities Food provision Nutrition/health education Activities Composting User Groups Young people Growing food Homeless people User Groups Secondary school children

Newham City Farm Roots and Shoots

Contact Theresa Salmon Contact Linda Phillips Newham City Farm Vauxhall Centre King George Avenue Walnut Tree Walk E16 3HR SE11 6DN Tel 020 7476 1170 Tel 020 7587 1131 Fax 020 7474 4960 Fax 020 7735 0602

This project works mainly with families with Training for young people (aged 16-25) with young children (under 10), school groups and learning disabilities, using horticulture/woodwork adults with learning difficulties. The main as practical, transferable skills. activities are breeding and rearing livestock, growing vegetables and herbs and eggs, honey Activities Training production and manure. Growing food User Groups Black and minority ethnic groups Activities Composting Young people Growing food Learning disabilities User Groups Children Disabled Women and children Learning disabilities Secondary school children Single parents

•16• Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming Greater London

Simon Community Emergency Thrive, promoting therapeutic Nightshelter horticulture (formerly Horticultural Therapy) Contact Jonathan Burleigh PO Box 1187 Contact Nicola Reynolds NW5 4HW St Mary's Garden Tel 020 7485 6639 PO Box 13719 Fax 020 7482 6305 E2 8TB Tel 020 7739 2965 An emergency night shelter in a homeless Fax 020 7739 2965 community providing a warm meal for guests Website www.thrive.org.uk and workers. The project also organises tea, soup and sandwich runs and a street cafe. This is a garden project used for training and employment, rehabilitation, therapy and health Activities Community café for local people, disabled people and volunteers. Food provision It grows fruit, vegetables and herbs using both User Groups Homeless people organic and conventional methods.

Activities After school club Growing food User Groups Learning disabilities Practitioners/professionals Disabled Mental health users Older people

Small Change (East London) Tower Hamlets Food Co-ops

Contact Jowanna Lewis Contact Ros Thompson Global Action Plan Environmental Health, 8 Fulwood Place Environmental Protection WC1V 6HG Southern Grove Tel 020 7405 5633 Poplar Fax 020 7831 6244 Tower Hamlets E3 4PN This project works with primary schools to Tel 020 7364 6715 develop community awareness of and Fax 020 7364 6779 involvement in environmental issues including healthy eating. A pilot project works in four Two fresh fruit and vegetable co-ops providing schools in east London, with fruit tuck shops, weekly orders to black and minority ethnic resources for teachers and parents, plus cookery groups, the elderly, women and children, and skills. single parents. It is currently working on a food access project in a New Deal for Communities Activities Tuck shop area. Nutrition/health education User Groups Parents Activities Nutrition/health education Primary school children Food co-op User Groups Black and minority ethnic groups Low-income groups Women and children Older people Single parents

Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming •17• Greater London and Hampshire

Vauxhall City Farm Horticulture Project Hollybush Family Centre

Contact Amanda Rew Contact Mo Burns 24 St Oswalds Place Hollybush Family Centre SE11 5JE Hollybush Walk Tel 020 7582 4204 Hinton HR2 6AF Tel 01432 269 437 This is a food-growing project , producing fruit, vegetables, herbs and flowers for users of the Based in a family centre with a teaching kitchen group to cook and eat on site or take home with and community café, this project provides classes, them. The project targets refugees and asylum health education and information, advice and seekers. support. The aim is to improve the general health of families, and to help single parents with Activities Growing food parenting problems related to poverty and low Nutrition/health education income. User Groups Refugees Black and minority ethnic groups Activities Community café Growing food Information/advice/support User Groups Families Women and children Single parents HAMPSHIRE

Breaking the Cycle Northern Point

Contact Jennifer Davies Contact Ian Gilain Health Promotion Service 2 Spur Road Oatlands House Cosham Winchester Road Portsmouth PO6 3DY Southampton SO15 5NB Tel 023 9220 0413 Tel 023 8051 5202 Fax 023 8070 1489 A social club for people living in the Portsmouth area who suffer from severe or enduring mental This project was set up after research among local health problem (aged 16-64yrs). young South Asian women showed high rates of anaemia and low- birthweight babies. Locally Activities Food provision trained community food assistants raise User Groups Mental health users awareness of nutrition issues and increase people's knowledge and healthy cooking/eating skills through practical sessions, eg, shopping tours, cook and taste sessions, cookery clubs.

Activities Training Growing food Information/advice/support User Groups Black and minority ethnic groups

•18• Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming Hampshire

Central Point Roberts Centre

Contact Simon Summerill Contact Carole Damper 22-24 Kingston Road 84 Crasswell Street Portsmouth PO1 5RZ Landport Tel 023 9229 8791 Portsmouth PO1 1HT Fax 023 9229 8924 Tel 023 9229 6919 Website: www.rethink.org Fax 023 9234 6088 Website www.phagroup.org.uk/ This project runs a healthy living day centre for ECRobertsCentre.htm homeless single people aged 18-65 yrs. The centre provides accommodation and benefit This is a day centre, which provides food for advice, a healthcare surgery and subsidised families in crisis. It also runs literacy courses, lunches, as well as training in budgeting, cooking where a meal is also provided, and holds weekly and independent living skills. cookery classes.

Activities Food provision Activities Food provision Transport/delivery Transport/delivery Nutrition/health education Nutrition/health education User Groups Drug/alcohol abusers User Groups Women and children Learning disabilities Learning disabilities Mental health users Homeless people Homeless people Ex-offenders Ex-offenders Secondary school children HIV/Aids

St George's Beneficial Breakfast & Crisis Fareshare Southampton Homework Clubs

Contact Barry Gibbons Contact Jane Love 158 Windermere Avenue St Georges Beneficial C of E Millbrook Primary School Southampton SO16 9GA Hanover Street Tel 023 8051 1146 Portsea Portsmouth PO1 3BN This project redistributes surplus fresh foods Tel 023 9282 2886 (from retailers and supermarkets) to homeless Fax 023 9282 0179 projects. It also delivers to low-income groups. It works work with a team of volunteers, roughly A school club providing before and after school half of whom have been homeless themselves. care, for 12 children in the morning and 24 children after school hours. The children are Activities Transport/delivery supplied with breakfast and an afternoon meal User Groups Low-income groups and are encouraged to take part in preparing the Homeless people meals.

Activities After school club Breakfast club Cookery class User Groups Primary school children Low-income groups Single parents

Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming •19• Hampshire, Hertfordshire and Kent

HERTFORDSHIRE St Simon's Church Meals Provision Programme North London Organic Gardeners

Contact Louise Mant Contact Sue Campbell 95 Devonshire Avenue 48 Wellington Road Southsea Enfield EN1 2PG Portsmouth PO4 9ED Tel 020 8363 3643 Tel 023 9236 0109 A local group of Henry Doubleday Research This project provides meals at minimal cost three Association (HDRA) members and others who days a week (two lunches and one evening meal) meet to promote home growing of organic food, to low income groups and the homeless. particularly in schools, for shows and for other clubs. Activities Food provision Information/advice/support Activities Composting User Groups Drug/alcohol abusers Growing food Homeless people User Groups All groups Ex-offenders Single parents

KENT The Co-operative Bunch Fruit and Vegetable Co-op South Ashford Community Food Project

Contact Gulzar Sharif Contact Jilla Burgess-Allen Southampton Environment Centre Ray Allen Centre 14-15 Brunswick Place Stanhope Road Southampton SO15 2AQ Ashford TN23 5RN Tel 023 8033 6172 Tel 01304 828 707

This project is the umbrella organisation for two The project runs 'Healthy Eating on a Budget' fresh fruit and vegetable co-ops which run in courses. Participants prepare & eat a meal inner city Southampton. They sell seasonal fruit together each week and discuss cheap, healthy and vegetables at a reduced cost to members. food. The centre has a garden project (growing The project is open to all those living and sensory plants, fruit, veg & herbs) and is hoping working in the areas where the co-ops operate, to open a community café this summer. and the surrounding areas. It aims to improve access to fruit and veg, geographically and Activities Community café economically, for those living in deprived areas. Growing food Food Provision Activities Transport/delivery User Groups All groups Nutrition/health education Children Price discounts/vouchers Women and children User Groups All groups

•20• Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming Lancashire

LANCASHIRE

Bolton Community Nutrition Bolton's Food Co-ops

Contact Steffie El Hassan or Julie Holt Contact Steffie El Hassan Lever Chambers for Health Lever Chambers Centre for Health Ashburner Street Ashburner Street Bolton BL1 1SQ Bolton BL1 1SQ Tel 01204 360 094/5 Tel 01204 360 094/5 Fax 01204 360 098 Fax 01204 360 098 Website www.bolton.nhs.uk/Dietetics/ menupage.htm This is a network of volunteer-run co-ops providing weekly fruit and vegetables and This service uses trained community nutrition wholefoods. It is aimed at the elderly, low- assistants to work on local food and health issues. income individuals and families.

Activities Information/advice/support Activities Food co-op Nutrition/health education User Groups Families User Groups All groups Older people Practitioners/professionals Homeless people

Bolton Gathering of Organic Growers Bolton's Growing its own Food

Contact Jenny Hall Contact Jenny Hall Bolton Wildlife Project Lancashire Wildlife Trust Blackburn Road 125 Blackburn Road Bolton BL1 Bolton BL1 8HF Tel 01204 397 800 Tel 01204 361 847 Fax 01204 397 800 The project consists of a network of organic growers' groups, including Farnworth and We provide suppport to community groups Kearsley, Halliwell, Westhoughton, Women’s growing their own organic food in "community Group Nai Zindagi, Great Lever, Oldhams Estate, allotments". People work the land together and Heaton, Johnson's Fold and Breightmet. share the produce. Anyone is welcome, and some projects target particular groups such as the Activities Composting socially excluded, children and ethnic minorities. Growing food There are currently 11 projects in Bolton, one in User Groups Low-income groups Salford and two in Wigan.

Activities Growing food Food Co-op User Groups Children Black and minority ethnic groups Women and children Learning disabilities Older people

Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming •21• Lancashire

MegaBite South and West Lancashire Food Bank

Contact Tara Guha Contact Linsey Pavsic Churches' National Housing 49 Westgate Coalition Sandy Lane Centre Central Buildings, Oldham St Skelmersdale WN8 8LP Manchester M1 1JT Tel 01695 555717 Tel 0161 236 9321 Fax 01695 558073 Fax 0161 237 5359 This is a food bank which tries to prevent waste This project co-ordinates food voucher schemes in the food industry by distributing surplus to for homeless people in the UK. Food outlets people in need through voluntary organisations. where vouchers can be exchanged include day It is an environmentally friendly, free method of centres, where client groups can also access disposal of surplus products. support services. Activities Food provision Activities Price discounts/vouchers Transport/delivery User Groups Homeless people Food bank User Groups All groups Disadvantaged people Low-income groups

Werneth and Freehold Organic Herb Offshoots and Vegetable Project

Contact Richard Jones Contact Matt Favier 65 Berry Street Groundwork Oldham & Rochdale Burnley BB11 2LF The Environment Centre Tel 01282 430 433 Shaw Road Fax 01282 430 432 Higginshaw Website www.communigate.co.uk/lancs/ Oldham OL1 4AW offshootsgardenburnley Tel 0161 624 1444

This is a community garden designed on This is an organic herb and vegetable project permaculture principles, producing organic food providing practical advice on organic gardening, in polytunnels and greenhouses. It also has a and on how to grow and use herbs and community compost site and alternative energy vegetables. The target audience is Asian women systems. The project is linked to a community and community groups in the Oldham area. resource centre and aims to develop a community cafe. Activities Tool library Growing food Activities Community café Food provision Growing food User Groups Black and minority ethnic groups Food provision Women and children User Groups All groups Single parents Mental health users

•22• Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming Lancashire and Merseyside

MERSEYSIDE

Westhoughton Food Co-op Food Works - Abercromby

Contact Alan Brown Contact Shirley Judd 5 Snydle Close Abercromby Health Centre Westhoughton Grove Street Bolton BL5 3EP Liverpool L7 7HG Tel 01942 841 356 Tel 0151 708 9370 Fax 0151 709 6725 This project provides affordable wholefoods to disadvantaged groups and holds cooking Community food workers work with local groups demonstrations. It encourages people to grow to promote better nutrition, increasing cooking their own food by providing support and skills & knowledge of healthy eating. The project training. targets the general community, plus single parents and hard to reach groups, eg, asylum Activities Growing food seekers and the homeless. Food co-op User Groups All groups Activities After school club Nutrition/health education Cookery class User Groups Refugees Women and children Homeless people Single parents

Local Food Links (with Netherton World of Food Project Feelgood Factory)

Contact Steffie El Hassan Contact Pamela Mitchell Lever Chambers Centre for Health Netherton Feelgood Factory Ashburner Street 32 Marian Square Bolton BL1 1SQ Netherton Tel 01204 360 094/5 Liverpool L30 5QA Fax 01204 360 098 Tel 0151 330 5811 Fax 0151 330 5820 Multi-cultural cooking festivals and workshops. This project promotes healthy eating and Activities Cookery class encourages development of community-led food User Groups All groups initiatives, including food growing, a community Black and minority ethnic groups cafe, cookery classes, mother and baby weaning activities and heart disease prevention.

Activities Community café Growing food Nutrition/health education User Groups Mothers and babies Parents Young people Women and children Older people

Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming •23• Merseyside and North Yorkshire

Tots' Plots Healthy Tuck Shop, Cleveland

Contact Jeff Hughes Contact Wendy Martindale Centre for Sustainable Living Dental Dept c/o Manor Trust Building Guisborough General Hospital 79 Gorsey Lane Northgate Wallasey CH44 4HF Guisborough TS14 6HZ Tel 0151 639 2121 Tel 01287 284 000 Fax 0151 639 0090 Fax 01287 610 508 Website www.cesul.org.uk This project organises healthy tuckshops in local This project aims to promote healthier eating and primary schools, to increase knowledge of increase vegetable consumption among children healthy eating. It comes under the umbrella of in Wirral. It involves mini allotment schemes for the Lifestyle Health Link project. children under five, in nursery schools, play groups and primary schools. Activities Tuck shop Nutrition/health education Activities Growing food User Groups Primary school children Nutrition/health education User Groups Primary school children Pre-school children Low-income groups

NORTH YORKSHIRE

East Cleveland Good Grub Clubs Lifestyle Health Link

Contact Frank Blenkey Contact Frank Blenkey c/o Lifestyle Health Link, Co-op building Co-op building High Street High Street Loftus Loftus Saltburn-By-The-Sea TS13 4HW Saltburn-By-The-Sea TS13 4HW Tel 01287 640 809 Tel 01287 640 809 Working through self-help groups, this project This project aims to promote healthy eating to aims to encourage a healthy lifestyle by providing people on low incomes by demonstrating how to knowledge, skills and, where appropriate, cook economical, healthy foods that are low in accredited qualifications. It also supports other fat and high in fibre. It comes under the umbrella local projects, and is the umbrella organisation of the Lifestyle Health Link project, with clubs in for Good Grub Clubs in the area, which operate Skinningrove, Carlin How, Brotton and Loftus. from the East Cleveland villages of Skinningrove, Carlin How, Brotton and Loftus. It also supports a Activities Training training group, Tastie Bites, and Walkie Talkie, a Tuck shop healthy walking group. Nutrition/health education User Groups Parents Activities Nutrition/health education Families Cookery class Women and children User Groups Women and children Older people Older people Single parents Single parents

•24• Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming North Yorkshire, Northamptonshire and Northumberland

South Tees Food Project Kingswood Community Cafe

Contact Fiona Taylor Contact Ken Campbell Clinical Nutrition & Health Kingswood Neighbourhood Centre Promotion, Guisborough General Alberta Close Hospital Corby NN18 9HU Northgate Tel 01536 743 854 Guisborough TS14 6HZ Fax 01536 743 854 Tel 01642 284 074 Fax 01642 284 085 This community cafe provides accredited training in basic catering to local residents and young The local health trust has set up Good Grub clubs people with learning difficulties. The client group in the most disadvantaged areas, delivering includes single parents, elderly, unwaged and low nutrition advice in a practical way. Clubs are income families. open to all and have resulted in a positive change in behaviour, as well as skills development Activities Community café through training, employment, project Information/advice/support development and sustainability. Nutrition/health education User Groups Women and children Activities Community café Learning disabilities Food partnership Unemployed Growing food Older people User Groups Children Secondary school children Black and minority ethnic groups Single parents Women and children Learning disabilities Practitioners/professionals Homeless people Older people Single parents

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE NORTHUMBERLAND

Daily Bread Wholefood Co-operative Ltd First Step Organic Vegetable Growing

Contact John Clarke Contact Sandra Morland The Old Laundry 34 Grainger Park Road Bedford Road NE4 8SA Northampton NN4 7AD Tel 0191 226 1213 Tel 01604 621 531 Fax 0191 238 6160 Fax 01604 603 725 Website www.firststepne.org.uk Website www.dailybread.co.uk This project provides multi-racial organic This is a small co-op which stocks a range of vegetable growing for women. foods and also caters for individuals with special dietary requirements. Activities Growing food Nutrition/health education Activities Food provision User Groups Women Food co-op Black and minority ethnic groups User Groups All groups Women and children

Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming •25• Northumberland and Nottinghamshire

Kids' Cafe Network Food For Fun

Contact Nicola Matthewson Contact Deanna Thrall Thomas Gaughan Community Mansfield District Council Centre Civic Centre Yelverton Pottery Bank Chesterfield Road Walker NE6 3SW Mansfield NG19 7BH Tel 0191 224 2349 Tel 01623 463 183 Fax 0191 224 2349 Fax 01623 463 900

This is a partnership between local volunteers and This project aims to raise awareness of food agencies to highlight the importance of healthy through fun activities, such as food tasting nutritious food for children and young people. It sessions, looking particularly at low-cost nutritious organises activity sessions. foods for children's lunch boxes.

Activities Community café Activities Food provision Information/advice/support Nutrition/health education Nutrition/health education Cookery class User Groups Primary school children User Groups Children Children Women and children Young people Learning disabilities Families Homeless people Single parents Older people Single parents

NOTTINGHAMSHIRE

Back to Roots Allotment Project Food Initiatives Group - FIG

Contact Shayasta Tas Contact Lauren Kinnersley Radford Health Centre Groundwork Greater Nottingham Ilkeston Road 35-37 St Mary's Gate Radford Nottingham NG7 6BB Nottingham NG7 3GW Tel 0115 979 9227 Tel 0115 942 0360 Fax 0115 950 9997 Fax 0115 942 2672 Website www.foodfig.org.uk

This project aims to reduce diabetes among This is a local partnership linking food, health members of the Asian community by promoting and the environment. It runs a local food healthy eating and physical exercise. network, publishes a newsletter, and has a small grant scheme for food projects. It also researches Activities Growing food food security and works strategically on Nutrition/health education developing local food policy. User Groups Black and minority ethnic groups Activities Food partnership User Groups Disadvantaged people

•26• Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming Nottinghamshire

Health Development Nottingham Homelessness Project

Contact Teresa Jackson Contact Sue Smith Groundwork Ashfield & Mansfield Nottingham Community Health Cattlemarket Tavern 261 Beechdale Road Nottingham Road Nottingham NG8 3EY Mansfield NG18 1BJ Tel 0115 942 6000 Tel 01623 635 334 Fax 01623 427 352 This project produced a survival guide, 'Eating Well When Homeless'. Although the pack is no This project supports community allotments, longer available, the project can still provide healthy eating in schools and an educational basic information, including some recipes. project linking farms and schools, called The Food and Farming Challenge. Activities Information/advice/support User Groups Homeless people Activities Growing food Nutrition/health education Food co-op User Groups All groups Children

Health Development in Newark/ Sherwood Radford Bottle and Dummy Dump

Contact Jabran Ahmad Contact Jenny Seth Groundwork Ashfield & Mansfield Radford Heath Centre The Cattlemarket Tavern Ilkestone Road Nottingham Road Radford Mansfield NE18 1BJ Nottingham NG7 3GW Tel 01623 635 334 Tel 0115 9420360 Fax 01623 427 352 Fax 0115 942 2672

This project consists of community gardens and This is a campaign to stress the dietary, dental, composting groups, and plans to link with other speech and language implications of extended projects, including health walks (group exercise bottle and dummy use. Expert advice is at hand, for cardiovascular disease). and there are prizes for children who dump their dummies. The project has produced an award- Activities Growing food winning leaflet used in Nottingham health Nutrition/health education centres. Cookery class User Groups Children Activities Information/advice/support Women and children Nutrition/health education Ex-offenders User Groups Mothers and babies Older people Pre-school children Single parents Low-income groups Women and children

Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming •27• Oxfordshire

OXFORDSHIRE

Church of God of Prophecy - Soup Oxford Food Hygiene Cooking Skills Kitchen Course

Contact Mrs Smith Contact MaggieDent 4 Kelburne Road Health Promotion, Cowley Oxford City Council Oxford OX4 3SJ 3rd Floor Tel 01865 772479 St Aldates Chambers St Aldates This is a soup kitchen providing meals for Oxford OX1 1DF homeless people in the Asian culture centre once Tel 01865 252373 a week on Wednesdays. Fax 01865 252344

Activities Food Provision This project provides one day courses giving a User Groups All groups certificate in basic food hygiene. It is run through Homeless people the Environmental Health Department. Free Single parents places are provided for charities and voluntary organisations. The project also intermediate and advanced courses. Community Caterers' Network Activities Nutrition/health education Contact MaggieDent User Groups All groups Health Promotion, Women and children Oxford City Council Single parents 3rd Floor St Aldates Chambers St. Aldates Rainbow House Drop-in Centre Oxford OX1 1DF Tel 01865 252373 Contact Isabelle Tams Fax 01865 252662 Wesley Memorial Church New Inn Hall Street Regular meeting place for those involved in Oxford OX1 2DH providing low or no-cost foods. Included in the Tel 01865 243216 network are 3 family centres, 3 homeless centres, Fax 01865 247706 2 day centres for minority ethnic older people, 1 day centre for children/carers and 2 community A voluntary organisation which gives valuable cafes. work experience in a warm and friendly environment to people from all walks of life. Activities Community Café Food Partnership Activities Food provision Growing food Information/advice/support User Groups Black and Minority Ethnic Groups Nutrition/health education Low-income groups User Groups Families Women and children Learning disabilities Learning disabilities Single parents Practitioners/professionals Homeless people Older people Secondary school children Single parents

•28• Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming Somerset and South Yorkshire

SOMERSET SOUTH YORKSHIRE

Balsam Project Crisis Fareshare South Yorkshire

Contact Sue Place Contact Kathryn Elliott The Balsam Centre Unit 19 Balsam Park Grange Lane Wincanton BA9 9HB Industrial Estate Tel 01963 31842 Carrwood Road, Stairfoot Fax 01963 31857 Barnsley S71 5AS Tel 01226 213 255 This is a community development organisation Fax 01226 213 282 bidding to become a Healthy Living Centre, Website www.crisisfareshare.co.uk which will include a community cafe. The project includes a pilot organic food co-op for people on Crisis Fareshare collects surplus food from low incomes or with mental health problems. retailers and other food outlets in refrigerated There are also therapeutic horticulture projects. vans and redistributes it to 35 projects for disadvantaged people in South Yorkshire. Activities Composting Growing food Activities Food provision Nutrition/health education Transport/delivery User Groups Disadvantaged people Nutrition/health education Young people User Groups Disadvantaged people Women and children Black and minority ethnic groups Learning disabilities Families Mental health users Disabled Ex-offenders Homeless people Single parents Ex-offenders Older people Southside Food Co-op Single parents

Contact Viv Talbot Envolve Fruit and Vegetable Distribution Green Park Station Network Green Park Road Bath BA1 1JB Contact Alison Johnson Tel 01225 787 924 Sheffield Wildlife Trust HQ Fax 01225 460840 37 Stafford Road Sheffield S2 2SF This co-op sells vegetables, fruit & eggs to Tel 0114 263 335 members at cost price. The project also offers a Fax 0114 263 4345 £2.50 mixed bag of fruit & veg, most of which is grown locally. It works closely with local This project was set up to provide local shops community projects such as nurseries, community with fresh fruit and vegetables. It currently centres, sheltered housing, etc. The project runs supplies five small shops, two sandwich shops, basic cookery sessions, targeting young people. three youth clubs, two school tuck shops, and older people who meet at a community centre. Activities Transport/Delivery The project also grows some vegetables, though Cookery Class most produce is bought wholesale. Food Co-op User Groups Single parents Activities Growing food Women and children Food provision Older people Nutrition/health education User Groups All groups

Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming •29• South Yorkshire

Green Peppers Heeley City Farm

Contact Columba Timmins Contact David Gray 108 Heavygate Road Richards Road Sheffield S10 1PF Sheffield S2 3DT Tel 0114 266 1411 Tel 0114 258 0482 Fax 0114 271 6039 Fax 0114 255 0244 www.heeleyfarm.org.uk Linking food growing to food tasting and a healthy diet. Includes fruit/vegetable tasting at Heeley City Farm is a community based and led each meeting and simple growing projects training, employment and youth project (potatoes, strawberries and beans for example). employing 33 people, mostly local and Aims for education through activity. The target previously unemployed, on a range of audience is school pupils at Key stage 2 (8-11 environmental food and farming based year olds). enterprises. The project has a community café and also runs organic gardening classes, Activities Growing food horticultural training. Nutrition/health education User Groups Parents Activities Community café Primary school children Food partnership Practitioners/professionals Growing food User Groups All groups

Heeley Community Allotment Project Healthy Bites Food Co-op & Café (previously Heeley Health Project)

Contact Lorraine Headen Contact Zoy Greaves Athersley Cares Heeley Green Centre St Helen's Church Hall 344 Gleadless road, Heeley Laithes Lane Sheffield S2 3AJ Athersley, Barnsley S71 3AF Tel 0771 771 858 Tel 01226 779444 This is a community allotment project where local This is a food co-op and community cafe run by people come together 1 or 2 days per week to 9 volunteers whose activities are aimed at people grow food organically, learn horticultural on low incomes. There is a creche facility for the techniques, widen taste experiences, and find out volunteers whilst working at the project. how to use different vegetables and herbs.

Activities Community Café Activities Growing food Nutrition/Health Education Food provision Cookery Class Nutrition/health education User Groups Children User Groups All groups Women and children Women Single parents Low-income groups

•30• Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming South Yorkshire and Staffordshire

LEAF (Local Enterprises Around Food) STAFFORDSHIRE

Contact Rose Tanner Healthy Tuck HAZ Project Community Room Southey Library, Moonshine Lane Contact Marie Barley Sheffield S5 8RB Directorate of Health Promotion Tel 0114 245 0200 79 London Road Stoke ST4 7PZ This community group promotes healthy eating Tel 01782 400545 and growing in North Sheffield. Initiatives include Fax 01782 745107 Cooking on a Budget and a community allotments project. It aims to involve local This project aims to improve access and people/groups in community development. availability of healthier foods and drinks in primary school tuck shops. The schools chosen Activities Community café are those where pupils have high rates of tooth Breakfast club decay. The approach used is based on the health Food partnership promoting schools scheme. User Groups Primary school children Children Activities Tuck shop Women and children Food partnership Learning disabilities Nutrition/health education Practitioners/professionals User Groups Primary school children Mental health users Children Ex-offenders HIV/Aids Older people Stoke Community Foods Single parents Contact Ann Collett Arch Day Centre Positive Health Action Through 53 Regent Road Gardening & Environmental Hanley ST1 3BT Development (PHAGED) Tel 01782 266 016 Fax 01782 265 336 Contact Duncan Rhudd Dearne Valley Community This is a food delivery service, providing non- Mental Health Team, perishable foods and fresh fruit and vegetables to 16 School Street, people on low incomes and homeless people. Oakfield The food is delivered two days after being Barnsley S73 9ET ordered. Tel 01226 752839 Activities Food provision The project aims to develop a disused piece of Transport/delivery land for food growing by a group of mental Nutrition/health education health service users. Initially the food will be User Groups All groups consumed by the group, but the intention is to Children develop other land and grow vegetables for other Low-income groups marginalised groups. Homeless people Ex-offenders Activities Growing food Older people Nutrition/health education Single parents User Groups Mental health users

Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming •31• Surrey and Tyne and Wear

SURREY Cornerstone - Benwell Christian Shop Project African Community Involvement Association Contact Kit Tapscott 64 Armstrong Road Contact Mohammed Kikambi Benwell Eagle Court Newcastle Upon Tyne NE4 7TU 224 London Road Tel 0191 2260941 Mitcham CR4 3HD Fax 0191 238 6426 Tel 020 8687 2400 Fax 020 8646 4363 This is a Christian drop-in centre with a community cafe. The project is targeted at This is a support programme to improve the general members of the community, and quality of life for black and minority ethnic promotes cooking skills. groups living with HIV/Aids in London. It provides advice on healthy eating, assistance with Activities Community café shopping, meal preparation in people's homes, Luncheon club and is planning a delivery service. The project Information/advice/support also provides information and organises peer User Groups Women and children support for users. Ex-offenders Older people Activities Community café Secondary school children Information/advice/support Single parents Transport/delivery User Groups Black and minority ethnic groups HIV/Aids

Drift Permaculture at Scotswood TYNE AND WEAR Community Garden

Community Regeneration Trust N.E. Contact Ken Bradshaw (formerly Cleadon Community Project) John Marley Centre Muscott Grove Contact Ian Stimpson Newcastle NE15 6TT 3 Robinson Street Tel 0191 200 4706 South Shields NE33 4PR Fax 0191 200 4729 Tel 0191 424 5460 Fax 0191 427 7709 This food-growing project promotes cooking and www.crtne.org.uk gardening skills to encourage project users to learn how to cook the food they grow. The This project runs a food co-op supplying fruit and project aims to involve children, students, the veg to the elderly, gives free fruit to school clubs unemployed, the elderly and people with and others in need, runs cookery classes for learning disabilities. young single parents, and is starting an organic allotment. It also provides job creation and Activities Training training. LETS Growing food Activities Breakfast club User Groups Children Growing food Black and minority ethnic groups User Groups Disadvantaged people Learning disabilities Children Students Older people Unemployed Single parents Older people

•32• Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming Tyne and Wear

East End Community Health Project Food Initiatives North Tyneside Cooking Pack

Contact Kath Bell Contact Anita Attala c/o East End Community Health Sir GB Hunter Memorial Hospital Project The Green Yelverton Crescent, Pottery Bank Wallsend NE28 7PB Newcastle upon Tyne NE6 3SW Tel 0191 220 5945 Tel 0191 276 0595 Fax 0191 220 5946

This is a community development project This is a resource pack for practitioners/ consisting of research into food choice in east professionals wanting to run Get Cooking sessions Newcastle. It runs three food co-ops in for people on low incomes, including homeless community settings and five healthy tuck shops in people. There is also information on food primary schools. It also works with parent groups hygiene and how to obtain funding for courses. in schools on food issues. Initially the target audience was elderly, but now covers all ages. Activities Information/advice/support Nutrition/health education Activities Community café User Groups Families Luncheon club Women and children User Groups Parents Learning disabilities Primary school children Practitioners/professionals Older people Homeless people Older people Single parents

Newcastle Nutrition Community Northern Initiative on Women and Dietitians Eating

Contact Louise Smith Contact Anne-Marie Norman Royal Victoria Infirmary 2nd Floor Queen Victoria Road 1 Pink Lane Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE1 4LP Newcastle NE1 5DW Tel 0191 282 5930 Tel 0191 221 0233 Fax 0191 282 4419 Fax 0191 221 2669 www.newcastlefood.co.uk This project exists to offer support and Five community dietitians, nutrition workers and therapeutic group work to people (primarily a food initiative co-ordinator work on a range of women) who have difficulties with food and community food initiatives, targeting groups in around food issues. disadvantaged areas. There are a range of activities, including Food and Play for children, User Groups All groups and Get Cooking for young people and families. It has links with food co-ops and kids cafes.

Activities Community café Food partnership Growing food User Groups Sure Start Black and minority ethnic groups Women and children Older people Single parents

Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming •33• Tyne and Wear

Nutrition Skills Training for Volunteers and Development Workers Playworkers Pack

Contact Anita Attala Contact Brenda Milsom Sir GB Hunter Memorial Hospital Sir GB Hunter Memorial Hospital The Green The Green Wallsend NE28 7PB Wallsend NE28 7PB Tel 0191 220 5945 Tel 0191 220 5945 Fax 0191 220 5946 Fax 0191 220 5946

Accredited courses on nutrition and how to run This is a resource pack for play-scheme and youth cooking groups for volunteers, development club leaders to address issues around food and workers and practitioners/professionals who then nutrition in a fun and interesting way. The pack disseminate the information to local groups. is used with secondary school children attending out-of-school clubs. Activities Information/advice/support User Groups All groups Activities Information/advice/support Practitioners/professionals Nutrition/health education User Groups Secondary school children

Oakleigh Gardens Porlock Nursery

Contact Lionel Hehir Contact Lionel Hehir Groundwork South Tyneside Groundwork South Tyneside The Eco Centre, Windmill Way The Eco Centre, Windmill Way Hebburn NE31 1SR Hebburn NE31 1SR Tel 0191 428 1144 Tel 0191 428 1144 Fax 0191 428 1155 Fax 0191 428 1155

This vegetable-growing project has recently This project, growing soft fruit, vegetables and achieved organic status. It is situated close to a bedding plants, provides placements and work housing estate, and provides work experience for experience for volunteers, including those with local community volunteers. mental health problems, and is also used by schools. The food grown is mainly organic. Activities Growing food Food provision Activities Growing food User Groups All groups Food provision User Groups All groups Children Learning disabilities Mental health users

•34• Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming Warwickshire and West Midlands

WARWICKSHIRE Community Family Initiative (formerly Bath Place Community Café Healthy Mothers & Babies)

Contact RichardClark Contact Vicki Fitzgerald Bath Place Community Venture Fernbank Surgery Bath Place 508-516 Alum Road Leamington Spa CV31 3AQ Birmingham B8 3HX Tel 01926 338421 Tel 0121 685 6723

This project aims to promote healthy eating and This project promotes health for women and pre- encourage volunteering in low-income school children, with a strong emphasis on communities. It also aims to be an educational nutrition education through advice to individuals group. and group activities.

Activities Community café Activities Information/advice/support Breakfast club Nutrition/health education Cookery class Cookery class User Groups All groups User Groups Mothers and babies Black and minority ethnic groups Pregnant women Women and children Black and minority ethnic groups Learning disabilities Families Homeless people Women and children Older people Single parents Secondary school children Single parents

Food Net Project WEST MIDLANDS Contact Eleanor McGee Age Concern Lunch Centre Dietetic Department Fernbank Medical Centre Contact Kenneth Buckler 508-516 Alum Rock Road 50 Lower Hall Lane Ward End B8 3HX Walsall WS1 1RJ Tel 0121 678 3872 Tel 01922 638 825 Fax 0121 678 3859 Fax 01922 615 713 This project aims to prevent coronary heart This is a community cafe/lunch club providing disease by promoting healthy eating. It runs lunches for elderly people in Walsall. practical cookery sessions, has links with and supports food growing and buying schemes, and Activities Community café works with food retailers. Luncheon club User Groups Older people Activities Breakfast club Growing food Nutrition/health education User Groups Children Black and minority ethnic groups Women and children Practitioners/professionals Homeless people Ex-offenders HIV/Aids Single parents

Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming •35• West Midlands

From Concrete to Coriander Growing Opportunities

Contact Irena Iwegon Contact Veronica Barry CSV Environment Ideal For All St. Peter's College, Saltley Independent Living Centre Birmingham B8 3TE 100 Oldbury Road, Smethwick Tel 0121 328 3400 B66 1JE Fax 0121 322 2008 Tel 0121 565 7925 Website www.csv.org.uk Fax 0121 565 7964

The project involves growing vegetables on This project seeks to promote independence and allotments and running a community garden at healthy living through sustainable horticulture Small Heath Park. The project is an all-women's and food projects, with a focus on the needs of group, and includes a food co-op and catering as disabled and excluded people. Two projects are well as healthy lifestyle activities. being established - Malthouse, a therapeutic horticulture project, and Salop Drive, a food- Activities Community café producing market garden. Growing food Nutrition/health education Activities Food partnership User Groups Black and minority ethnic groups Growing food Women and children User Groups Disadvantaged people Practitioners/professionals Learning disabilities Older people Practitioners/professionals Single parents Disabled Mental health users Older people

Local Organic Agricultural Facilities Get Cooking - Stowbridge (LOAF)

Contact Trish Bussell Contact Paul Mason Dudley Health Improvement Wolverhampton Environment Team, Shousters House, Centre, Westacre Crescent, Ridge Hill, Brierley Hill Road Finchfield Stourbridge DY8 5ST Wolverhampton WV39AY Tel 01384 244 489 Tel 01902 766 199 Fax 01384 755 594 Fax 0121 530 5501

The project focuses on cooking in the community, This project uses greenhouses at the new concentrating on fish, fruit and vegetables within environment centre to grow fruit and vegetables priority neighbourhoods. using organic methods. The food is then supplied to local communities through food co- Activities Food Provision operatives. The project encourages the long-term Nutrition/health education unemployed to grow and distribute the food. Cookery class User Groups All groups Activities Community café Low-income groups Food partnership Growing food User Groups Low-income groups

•36• Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming West Midlands, West Sussex and West Yorkshire

WEST SUSSEX

North Solihull LETSystem Chichester Christian Care Association

Contact Valerie Egan Contact Michael Jones 14 Arran Way St Joseph's Smithswood Hunston Road Birmingham B36 0QG Chichester PO20 1NP Tel 0121 770 8889 Tel 01243 537 934 www.wmlets.org.uk Fax 01243 839 214

This is a Local Exchange Trading System (LETS) Aims to help people on low incomes and the where members exchange skills and services with homeless by offering food, shelter, advice and each other. Food is not currently an important support, and helping to finding accommodation. aspect, but may develop into one later. The The project also runs a new day centre in Bognor project targets a general audience. Regis, open three days a week.

Activities LETS Activities Food provision Information/advice/support Cookery class User Groups All groups User Groups Learning disabilities Homeless people Ex-offenders HIV/Aids

WEST YORKSHIRE Wolverhampton Food Co-ops Umbrella Ltd All Hallows Community Cafe Project

Contact Melanie Heywood Contact Ray Gaston 92 Stanley Road All Hallows Vicarage Wolverhampton WV10 9EL 24 Regent Terrace Tel 01902 556 632 Leeds LS6 1NP Fax 01902 556 632 Tel 0113 242 2205 Fax 0113 225 2125 A project to support and develop food-related enterprises, fresh food co-ops and healthy eating This is a community cafe providing affordable, in Wolverhampton. The project is open to nourishing food. It is open on Wednesdays and anyone, particularly those on low incomes. Thursdays from 9am to 3pm. The ethos of the project is to feed the mind, body and spirit. Activities Growing food Food co-op Activities Community café User Groups All groups Information/advice/support Low-income groups Nutrition/health education Unemployed User Groups Low-income groups Women and children Homeless people Older people Secondary school children Single parents

Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming •37• West Yorkshire

Calderdale and Kirklees Food Futures Foodworks

Contact Anna Watson Contact Pam Walters c/o Health Promotion Unit Action for Health Princess Royal Health Centre Whiterose House, West Parade Greenhead Road Wakefield WF1 1LT Huddersfield Tel 01924 213 163 HD1 4EW Tel 01484 344 286 Foodworks is a Neighbourhood Renewal Fund Fax 01484 344 281 project designed to tackle community food issues www.foodfutures.org.uk in the Wakefield district. It is led by a team of community food development workers. So far the This project aims to bring together local farmers, work has included teaching cooking skills to community groups, retailers, health officers, and children and adults, forging direct links between local authority officers in order to develop food producers and consumers, setting up sustainable local food initiatives. Funding is projects in schools, and working with health available for community groups in disadvantaged visitors and Sure Start. areas. Activities Community café Activities Food partnership Breakfast club Growing food User Groups All groups Nutrition/health education Mothers and babies User Groups Black and minority ethnic groups Primary school children Single parents Low-income groups Older people Women and children

Community Action Little London (CALLS) Vegetable Garden Project Gardening for Health

Contact Jenny Whelan Contact Shahnaz Begun 2 Lovell Park Hill Bradford Community Environment Leeds LS7 1DF Project Tel 0113 225 2591 Unit 14, Carlisle Business Centre, 60 Carlisle Road This project aims to grow vegetables, fruit and Bradford BD8 8BD herbs for the local community, including the local Tel 01274 223 236 primary school in Little London, using mainly Fax 01274 223 353 organic methods. A food-growing project to reduce coronary heart Activities Training disease in Bangladeshi communities across Growing food Bradford. The project involves Bangladeshi Food provision women in food growing on community User Groups Primary school children allotments. Children Black and minority ethnic groups Activities Growing food Information/advice/support User Groups Black and minority ethnic groups Low-income groups

•38• Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming West Yorkshire and Wiltshire

WILTSHIRE

Riddings Garden Project Food Bank

Contact Shirley Brown Contact Patrick Woodward 7 Browning Road PO Box 2020 Deighton Salisbury SP4 6RF Huddersfield HD2 1HU Tel 01722 411 244 Tel 01484 519 694 Fax 01722411 244 Website www.trusselltrust.org The project runs a community café and aims to establish a fruit and veg co-op. This project collects dried and canned food and distributes it to individuals, families or institutions Activities Community café for short-term crisis intervention. Food provision User Groups All groups Activities Breakfast club Low-income groups Food provision User Groups People in crisis

Urban Oasis & Tropical Allotments Get Cooking! (Wiltshire)

Contact Anthony Milroy Contact Stephen Webster Arid Lands Initiative Wiltshire Health Promotion Service Macpelah Works, Burnley Road Greenways Centre Malmesbury Rd Hebden Bridge HX7 8AU Chippenham SN15 5LN Tel 01422 843807 Tel 01249 454270 Fax 01422 842 241 Fax 01249 454271

This is a food-growing partnership between a The project ran a training course for low-income, ethnic minority Asian community practitioners/professionals to run Get Cooking and an international environmental organisation classes and provide nutrition and health involving children, the unemployed and the education. The training resource pack is still general community. available, and some cookery classes are still running. Activities Growing food User Groups Children Activities Nutrition/health education Black and minority ethnic groups Cookery class Low-income groups User Groups Practitioners/professionals Women and children

Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming •39• Aberdeenshire and Edinburgh

Scotland Calder Food Co-operative Contact Senga Nightingale ABERDEENSHIRE Calder Community Centre 9 Calder Park Now You're Cooking - Aberdeen Edinburgh EH11 4JN Tel 0131 453 2654 Contact Caroline Comerford Fax 0131 453 2654 Health Promotions 181 Union Street This food co-op aims to improve access to and Aberdeen AB11 6BB supply of groceries and fresh fruit and veg to the Tel 01224 589 901 elderly, the homeless, single parents, HIV/Aids Fax 01224 840 953 sufferers and people with learning disabilities. www.health-promotions.com Activities Transport/delivery This project is a practical food skills course Food co-op targeting those living on a low income. The User Groups Learning disabilities course comprises eight sessions, each lasting two Homeless people hours. HIV/Aids Older people Activities Nutrition/health education Single parents Cookery class User Groups Children Women and children Learning disabilities Homeless people Older people Single parents Edinburgh Community Food Initiative

Contact John Brennan EDINBURGH 22 Tennant Street Edinburgh EH6 5ND Barri Grub - Edinburgh Tel 0131 467 7326 Fax 0131 467 7325 Contact Marilyn Beagley Health Hut Using a community development approach, the 3 West Pilton Park project aims to encourage and support Edinburgh EH4 4EL community food initiatives which improve Tel 0131 332 0871 people's access to a balanced diet. It serves eight food co-ops in deprived areas throughout This award-winning project encourages and Edinburgh, in addition to several short-term promotes healthy eating by providing cookery projects. The initiative also houses Snack Attack, a skills and information on healthy eating. scheme providing fruit to primary schools.

Activities Transport/delivery Activities Transport/delivery Nutrition/health education Nutrition/health education Price discounts/vouchers Food co-op User Groups All groups User Groups Primary school children Children

•40• Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming Glasgow and Midlothian

GLASGOW Healthy Castlemilk

Cambuslang Health & Food Project/ Contact Jacqui McGinley Research & Evaluation 22 Arnprior Quadrant Castlemilk Contact Lynn Brennan Glasgow G45 9EY Unit 5, BBRC Tel 0141 6342679 57 Belmont Road Cambuslang G72 8PG A community health project to develop initiatives Tel 0141 641 6777 around food poverty and health (such as cookery Fax 0141 641 3777 classes) with existing groups and service providers. This is a community health project in Cambuslang and Rutherglen, an area granted social inclusion Activities Information/advice/support partnership status. Current projects include food Nutrition/health education co-operatives and an oral health programme. Price discounts/vouchers User Groups All groups Activities Growing food Drug/alcohol abusers Information/advice/support Women and children User Groups All groups Secondary school children Children Single parents Young people Older people Single parents

MIDLOTHIAN

Govan Healthy Eating Project Gorebridge Food Co-op

Contact John McKechnie Contact Cathy Hamilton c/o Concierge Brown Building 59 Iona Court, Govan 80 Hunterfield Road Glasgow G51 2XU Gorebridge EH23 4TT Tel 0141 445 2329/1200 Tel 01875 823 922 Fax 0141 445 2742 Fax 01875 823 922

An urban programme to support, establish and This is a small fruit, veg and dried goods co-op develop initiatives such as a community café and run by two part-time workers, providing food to shop, cookery classes, a food co-op and a food members. The co-op currently has five venues in partnership. The project addresses food poverty Midlothian and delivers to primary schools, for school pupils, students and homeless people. nurseries, the elderly as well as a breakfast club and an after school club Activities Community café Food partnership Activities After school club Growing food Breakfast club User Groups Women and children Transport/delivery Students User Groups Children Homeless people Women and children Older people Learning disabilities Secondary school children Older people Single parents Single parents

Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming •41• North Ayreshire, North Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire

NORTH AYRESHIRE RENFREWSHIRE

Community Food Workers FRESH LOAF (Ferguslie Research Enquiry into Shopping & Health Local Contact Jane Jackson Organisation Around Food) Aryshire Central Hospital Kilwinning Road Contact Annette Beattie Irvine KA12 8SS Fresh Loaf, 1 Lyon Road Tel 01294 323130 Foxbar Fax 01294 312446 Paisley PA2 0NA Tel 0141 889 2455 The project provides training and support for sessional community food workers. This project is a voluntary food issues group which is involved in community development. Activities Information/advice/support Cookery class Activities Food partnership User Groups All groups Food provision Community shop User Groups All groups Children Women and children Practitioners/professionals Older people Single parents

NORTH LANARKSHIRE Renfrewshire Food Federation - Craigneuk Food Co-op Scotland

Contact Josephine Cope Contact Doreen Polson 53 Meadowhead Road Foxbar Rivers Community Building Craigneuk Spey Avenue Wishaw ML2 7UX Paisley PA2 0PA Tel 01698 359068 Tel 01505 814953 Fax 01698 375 122 This is an umbrella organisation for community This is a community-based food co-op, which is food groups throughout Renfrewshire. They use open three days a week. It offers a delivery the community development model working in service to the elderly and housebound. It also partnership with all social inclusion groups in the runs a low-cost cuisine competition. area.

Activities Food provision Activities Food provision Food co-op Food co-op User Groups All groups Transport/delivery Older people Nutrition/health education User Groups Children Women and children Practitioners/professionals Older people Single parents

•42• Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming Anglesey, Blaenau Gwent and Bridgend Wales

ANGLESEY

Farmers' Market Network (Rhwydwaith Marchnad Ffermyr Cyf) Fruit Tuck Shops - Ebbw Vale

Contact Joanna Robertson Contact Shan Hamer c/o Tyddyn Adda Blaenau Gwent Health Promotion, Llanddaniel Fab, Gaerwen Ebbw Vale Hospital Ynys Mon LL60 6HB Hillside Tel 01248 490578 Ebbw Vale NP23 5YA Tel 01495 302121 The farmers' market network aims to develop Fax 01495 303887 sustainable/organic practices based on the principle of "local food for local people". The This project involves school fruit tuck shops set up producers bring their own produce for sale direct by teachers through the Welsh National Healthy to the public, the produce is free from plastic Schools scheme. Set up in primary schools, with packaging and has a low food-mile count. As well fruit delivered through either a local grocer or as contributing to the local economy, the market school catering supply service. encourages environmentally friendly production practices and is open to all local farmers. Activities Tuck Shop User Groups Primary school children Activities Farmers market Children Food provision Food co-op User Groups All groups

BLAENEAU GWENT BRIDGEND

Cwm Harry Land Trust Bridgend Farmers' Market

Contact Richard Northridge Contact Mike Pett Lower Cwm Harry 21 Sycamore Close Tegynon Litchard Newtown SY16 3ES Bridgend CF31 1QS Tel 01686 650231 Tel 01656 658 963 Fax 01686 650606 Website www.bridgendfarmersmarket.co.uk Website www.cwmharrylandtrust.org.uk This organisation runs monthly markets selling This is a community composting scheme in locally produced food. conjunction with a community-supported agriculture scheme. Vegetables and soft fruit are Activities Farmers market grown for local people and ex-offenders working Food co-op on a smallholding. User Groups All groups

Activities Growing food User Groups All groups Ex-offenders

Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming •43• Bridgend and Caerphilly

CAERPHILLY

Food Fuel Feel Good Project

Contact Rosalyn Williams Contact Janet Carr Ogmore Centre Trust Derwendeg Primary School Main Road Hengoed Road Ogmore-by-Sea CF32 0PW Cefn Hengoed CF82 7HP Tel 01656 880646 Tel 01443 813138 Fax 01656 881091 Fax 01443 813274

This is a residential education centre providing This project runs Get Cooking! - practical hands- courses for the arts, sports and education to on cooking sessions for 9-11 year olds. The children from deprived areas. It provides sessions involve preparing a healthy meal, healthy, balanced meals throughout the courses cooking and eating it together. Support has been and includes nutrition education. provided by Gwent Health Promotion and the school dental service. Activities Growing food Information/advice/support Activities Growing food User Groups Children Food provision User Groups Primary school children Children

Local Foods for Local People (Bridgend) Ready Steady Cook!

Contact Natasha Lade Contact Annette Barrett Planning Services, Civic Offices Lewis Girls School Angel Street Oakfield Street,Ystrad Mynach Bridgend CF314WB Hengoed CF82 7WW Tel 01656 643179 Tel 01443 813168 Fax 01656 683190 Fax 01443 862538

This is an allotment- and school-based project to This project is targeted at secondary promote growing and consumption of local foods schoolchildren (aged 11-18). The Ready Steady by local people. It is part of a wider project with Cook! club aims to promote healthy eating a farmers' market, breakfast clubs and tuckshops. through a weekly cookery club. The project also includes the establishment of an organic garden Activities Breakfast club and an orchard growing fruit & veg. Food partnership Growing food Activities Growing food User Groups All groups User Groups Secondary school children Children Learning disabilities Ex-offenders

•44• Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming Cardiff

CARDIFF

Get Cooking! (Cardiff) Riverside Real Food Market

Contact Rhian Connick Contact Steve Garrett NFWI Wales Office 35 Beauchamp Street 19 Cathedral Road Cardiff CF11 6AX Cardiff CF11 9HA Tel 02920 227982 Tel 029 20 221712 Fax 02920 216318 Fax 029 20 387236 Website www.riversidemarket.org.uk

Fun cookery classes available to children, the This is a community market selling local produce. elderly, ex-offenders, women and children, single It was developed from a local festival, and parents and people with learning disabilities. provides an outlet for small-scale local producers. It has increased access to healthy food for the Activities Information/advice/support community in the disadvantaged area of Nutrition/health education Riverside. It also runs an ESF-funded local food Cookery class poverty project. User Groups Women and children Learning disabilities Activities Food provision Ex-offenders User Groups All groups Older people Secondary school children Single parents

Heartlink St Mellons Healthy Living Project

Contact Debbie Lavelle Contact Shirley Doyle Heartlink Project 1 Newent Rd Marine Chambers St Mellons Anson Court Cardiff CF3 0BL Atlantic Wharf Tel 02920 417332 CF10 4AL Fax 02920 417339 Tel 02920 444 410 This is a five-year, community-based project This is a three-year project which works to which is using a community development prevent diabetes and coronary heart disease in approach to develop a nutrition strategy for St black and ethnic minority communities in south- Mellons. The project targets all sections of the east Cardiff. Training is carried out with the community, including a large percentage of Primary Care Trust and clinics, and screening and young people (under 25s). information days are held in temples and community centres. The project aims to work in Activities Training partnership with communities to make simple Community café changes. The project is working closely alongside Breakfast club the local Healthy Living Project and Barefoot User Groups Children Workers. Black and minority ethnic groups Women and children Activities Training Single parents Information/advice/support Nutrition/health education User Groups Black and minority ethnic groups Practitioners/professionals

Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming •45• Cardiff, Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion

CEREDIGION

Sure Start Midwifery Project, Ely Aberystwyth Farmers' Market

Contact Nichola Michele Saunders Contact Jan Fenner c/o Parkview Health Centre EDUT, Lisburne House Cowbridge Road Terrace Road West Ely CF5 5XE Aberystwyth Y23 2AG Tel 02920 576087 Tel 01970 633 066 Fax 02920 576087 Fax 01970 626 566

This is a multi-disciplinary project involving a A monthly farmers' market selling locally midwife working with vulnerable groups to produced food to the community, and helping provide antenatal outreach, to reduce the local producers to sell direct to the public and number of low birthweight infants. The midwife offer added value, quality and freshness. It also promotes good nutritional practices, including provides the opportunity for producers and meal planning and budgeting. customers to interact and get advice.

Activities Nutrition/health education Activities Farmers market User Groups Mothers and babies Growing food Pregnant women User Groups All groups Women and children Children Single parents Women and children Older people Single parents

CARMARTHENSHIRE

Antioch Food Project John 14:10

Contact Deborah Chapman Contact Jackie Harris Antioch Centre 14 Marine Terrace Copperworks Road Aberystwyth SY23 1AZ Llanelli SA15 2NE Tel 01970 617080 Tel 01554 758080 Fax 01554 741674 This is a café serving the general public but primarily supports the homeless and people with A small, community project which distributes drug/alcohol related issues. A broad range of food parcels to the socially disadvantaged and food is available. people on low incomes. Recipients are identified through social workers, health visitors, church Activities Community café and community members. Food parcels are made Price discounts/vouchers up and distributed to those in need. User Groups Women and children Learning disabilities Activities Food provision Homeless people User Groups All groups Ex-offenders Drug/alcohol abusers HIV/Aids Families Older people Women and children Single parents Ex-offenders Older people Single parents

•46• Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming Ceredigion, Conwy and Denbighshire

Lampeter Food Festival Ysgol Tan Y Marian Breakfast Bar

Contact Hazel Thomas Contact Glenda E Hughes 17 Harford Square Ysgol Tan Y Marian, Lampeter SA48 7HE Swn Y Don Road Tel 01570 423981 Llysfaen, Old Colwyn Fax 01570 422133 Colwyn Bay LL29 9LL Tel 01492 517060 The Lampeter Food Festival aims to provide a shop window for Welsh food products and to The project provides a daily breakfast to junior boost local food and farming by increasing school children. It is supported by parent awareness of the range and quality of locally volunteers. It came about following a recent produced foodstuffs. survey showing around half the pupils were not eating any breakfast. It aims to be self-sustaining User Groups All groups in the future.

Activities Breakfast club Growing food User Groups Children

CONWY DENBIGHSHIRE

Colwyn Bay Farmers' Market Denbigh Market

Contact Gavin Hughes Contact Sue Heygarth c/o Bayview Shopping Centre Economic Regeneration Team Seaview Road, Colwyn Bay Trem Clwyd, Ruthimol Conway LL29 8DG Denbigh LL15 1QA Tel 01492 531 764 Tel 01824 708 083 Fax 01824 531 596 This is a monthly market which came about to The farmers' market brings together local farmers assist in the regeneration of the town centre, and to sell meat, veg and other local produce directly was developed with support from a local business to local people, working towards reducing food group. It sells local produce such as yogurt, miles. It allows farmers to add value to their cheese, other homemade produce, gifts and bric- produce, and consumers to ask about production a-brac. and get a direct answer. Activities Farmers market Activities Farmers market Food provision User Groups All groups User Groups All groups

Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming •47• Denbighshire, Flintshire and Gwynedd

Fruit Days S.N.A.G. (Schools Nutrition Action Group), Mold Contact Rhadri Evans Ysgol Y Llys Contact Kathy Flint Princes Avenue Alun School Prestatyn LL19 8RW Wrexham Road Tel 01745 853019 Mold CH7 1EP Tel 01352 750755 This is a fruit tuck shop in a primary school Fax 01352 707131 selling a variety of fruit to 4- to 11-year-olds. It is open during morning break times twice a week A working group of staff, parents, governors, and aims to encourage healthy eating. The caterers and students are looking at improving school also runs a breakfast club daily. the provision of healthier food in the school. Among other initiatives, it will introduce snack Activities Breakfast club bags and healthier choices in vending machines. Food provision User Groups Primary school children Activities Food partnership Children Food provision Nutrition/health education User Groups Children

FLINTSHIRE GWYNEDD

Age Concern Gwynedd & Mon Lunch Heart of Flintshire Clubs

Contact Lee Parry-Williams Contact Audrey Jennings Social Inclusion Unit Ty Seiont Flintshire County Council, St Helens Road County Hall Caernarfon LL55 2YD Mold CH7 6NB Tel 01286 677711 Tel 01352 701 431 Fax 01286 674389 Fax 01352 701 490 www.age-concern-gwynedd-a- mon.sagenet.co.uk This project takes a community development approach to tackle the problem of coronary. This project runs lunch clubs for the over-60s, heart disease. The project will focus on lifestyle providing a three-course meal and an issues of smoking, exercise/physical activity and opportunity to socialise in various venues (village healthy eating. It targets two deprived halls and hotels) in Gwynedd and Anglesey. populations within the county of Flintshire. Activities Food Provision Activities Nutrition/health education User Groups Older people User Groups All groups

•48• Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming Gwynedd and Merthyr Tydfil

Caffi Blas Y Waun Llysiau Lleu

Contact Menna Jones Contact Ben Gregory Antur Waunfawr Cymdeithas Tai Eryri Bryn Pistyll, Waunfawr Ty Silyn Caernarfon Penygroes LL54 6LY Tel 01286 650721 Tel 01286 881588 Fax 01286 650059 Fax 01286 881141

This is a community-based work experience and Llysiau Lleu is a community project which works training project, involving people with learning with people, especially those on low incomes, in disabilities. A café and healthy living project is Dyffryn Nantlle, Gwynedd. The aim of the part of a wider environmental project, including project is to encourage more organic vegetable recycling, a nature park, a nursery and craft work. growing in people's own gardens, as a means of promoting healthier eating and physical exercise. Activities Community café Growing food Activities Growing food Food provision User Groups Low-income groups User Groups Children Women and children Older people

MERTHYR TYDFIL

Cymdeithas Tai Eryri Aberfan & Merthyr Vale Y & C Project

Contact Dewi Llwyd Evans Contact Ian Benbow Ty Silyn Trinity Chapel Penygroes LL54 6LY Merthyr Vale CF48 4RS Tel 01286 889212 Tel 01443 692 020 Fax 01286 881 141 Fax 01443 692 904 Website www.taieryri.co.uk Website www.telinco.co.uk/aberfan

Cymdeithas Tai Eryri is a housing association This is a community regeneration project which operating in Gwynedd and Anglesey. It is has developed a community café, youth clubs, involved in a variety of anti-poverty and social and an after-school club, and also provides IT inclusion projects in disadvantaged areas, and in training. researching the provision of cheaper services and products to its tenants, including food and Activities Community café energy. User Groups All groups

User Groups All groups

Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming •49• Merthyr Tydfil and Monmouthshire

MONMOUTHSHIRE

Fitness & Health Day Get Cooking! (Gwent)

Contact Ann Evans Contact Heather Hyrapiet Ysgol Santes Tudful Rebrac House Queen's Road Llandogo NP25 4TW Twynrodyn CF4 Tel 01594 530116 Tel 01685 722212 Fax 01594 530116

This project promotes healthy eating and The project runs cookery courses which teach encourages participants to try sports. The school basic food preparation and how to eat well on a also has a fruit tuck shop run by three pupils. low budget. The project aims to improve health through a better diet and provides social Activities Growing food interaction in the community. Food provision User Groups Children Activities Nutrition/health education Cookery class User Groups Children Women and children Learning disabilities Homeless people Older people Single parents

Healthy Eating - Llandogo Primary Slim Swim Healthy Eating Course School

Contact Malcolm Ward Contact Mrs G Roberts Health Promotion Department, Llandogo Primary School Merthyr Local Health Holmfield drive Mountain Ash General Hospital, Llandogo NP25 4TJ Mountain Ash Tel 01594 530388 CF45 4DE Tel 01685 872411 This project involves school children in growing Fax 01443 473133 food, and provides nutrition and health education to get children to think about what Slim Swim aims to help women overcome weight they eat and have a more balanced diet. It also problems through healthy eating advice, exercise uses break surveys and assemblies to get the and a fitness programme. It provides a three-day message across. course training leisure and education professionals and community volunteers to run Activities Growing food the healthy eating component. User Groups Primary school children

Activities Nutrition/health education User Groups Women and children

•50• Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming Monmouthshire, Neath Port Talbot, Newport and Pembrokeshire

NEWPORT

South East Wales Association of Primary and Community Care Nutrition Farmers Markets Project, Newport

Contact Stephen Shearman Contact Glenys Phelpstead Rose Cottage Newport Local Health Group Watery Lane, Llanishen Wentwood Ward, Chepstow NP16 6QT St. Cadoc's Hospital Tel 01600 860 730 Caerleon NP18 3XQ Tel 01633 436 216 This project co-ordinates local farmers' markets, Fax 01633 436 229 helping to develop the local food economy, as well as supporting farm diversification. It is also The project aims to reduce the incidence of involved in developing a direct marketing coronary heart disease risk factors in the local structure. population through the promotion of good nutrition. This will be achieved by developing a Activities Farmers market new partnership between those involved in food Growing food and nutrition, focusing on coronary heart disease Transport/delivery where there is evidence of deprivation or social User Groups All groups disadvantage.

Activities Food partnership Nutrition/health education User Groups Black and minority ethnic groups Women and children Homeless people Older people Single parents

NEATH PORT TALBOT PEMBROKESHIRE

Neath Cancer & Nutrition Project Funky Food Project, Pembrokeshire

Contact Amina Jamal Contact Lynne Perry Health Promotion Service Pembrokeshire Health Promotion Suite C, Britannic House, Centre, Penffynnon Britannic Way, Llandarcy Hawthorne Rise Neath SA10 6EL Haverfordwest SA61 2AZ Tel 01792 326516 Tel 01437 766119 Fax 01792 326501 Fax 01437 767529

This is a project on cancer & nutrition which A multi-school School Nutrition Action Group started in October 2001. It works with target (SNAG) has been formed involving four primary groups in communities throughout Neath and schools. Pupils survey & discuss with their peers plans various activities such as a community café possible alternatives that they would like to see and nutrition & health education. to the lunch time meal provided at school.

Activities Community Café Activities Food provision Growing food Nutrition/health education Transport/delivery User Groups Primary school children User Groups Women and children Older people

Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming •51• Pembrokeshire

Get Cooking - Pembrokeshire Playtime Snacks Award

Contact Rebecca Rees Health Promotion Service, Merlins Court Contact Lynne Perry Winch Lane Pembrokeshire Health Promotion Haverfordwest SA61 1SB Centre Tel 01437 771 233 Penffynon, Hawthorne Rise Haverfordwest SA61 2AZ This is a partnership project encouraging parents Tel 01437 766119 of children and young people to prepare and Fax 01437 767529 cook healthy, nutritious meals. It trains workers in health education and nutrition to run courses. This project consists of fruit tuck shops in schools, and also encourages fruit provision from home Activities Growing food for primary school children. Awards are given for User Groups Children the type of tuck provision, food from home, or Women and children both. Training is provided for school staff. Single parents Activities Tuck shop Nutrition/health education User Groups Primary school children Practitioners/professionals

Pembrokeshire Food in Mind

Contact Pete Irvine Statement on Food & Health in Schools Old Wool Market Quay Street Contact Lynne Perry Haverfordwest SA61 1BG Pembrokeshire Health Promotion Tel 01437 769982 Centre, Penffynnon Hawthorne Rise This is a user-led lunch club, aimed at those with Haverfordwest SA61 2AZ mental health problems, working together to Tel 01437 766119 provide a nutritious meal one day a week. Fax 01437 767529

Activities Food provision This is a publication including aims, objectives, User Groups Low-income groups action plans for schools on food and health in the Mental health users curriculum, food safety, snack provision, drinks and vending, and school meals. It uses a whole school approach, and targets all schools in Pembrokeshire.

Activities Nutrition/health education User Groups Children

•52• Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming Powys and Rhondda Cynon Taff

POWYS RHONDDA CYNON TAFF

Brecknock Farmers' Market Arts Factory

Contact Fiona Jones Contact Christine Pring Neuadd Brycheiniog Unit 11 Cambrian Way Highfield Industrial Estate Brecon LD3 7HR Ferndale CF43 4SX Tel 01874 612 276 Tel 01443 757 954 Fax 01874 612 339 Fax 01443757525 Website www.artsfactory.co.uk This market enables local producers to sell their produce to visitors and townspeople, promoting This is an award-winning community home-produced meats, fruit, vegetables, juices, organisation, aiming to build a stronger cakes, bread, chutneys, etc. community through enterprise schemes, skilling . local people and providing facilities. Activities Activities Farmers market include arts, job search and advisory services. User Groups All groups Various food activities are planned.

Activities Nutrition/health education Cookery class User Groups Low-income groups Learning disabilities Homeless people Ex-offenders

Open Door Family Centre Cwmparc Community Café

Contact Jane Steedman Contact Jackie Prosser Howell Drive CCWA Parc Hall Welshpool SY21 7AT Parc Road Tel 01938 556 238 Cwmparc CF42 6LD Websiste www.opendoorcentre.co.uk Tel 01443 776920 Fax 01443 772044 This centre provides family support for parents and their children, including parenting skills This is a café run within a community centre. training. The project also runs cookery sessions to The café is for the use of the whole community increase skills and encourage healthy eating. and provides lunches, snacks and refreshments Children bring in lunches and are given healthy mornings to lunchtimes during the week. snacks. Activities Community café Activities Growing food User Groups All groups Food provision User Groups Parents Children Women and children Learning disabilities

Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming •53• Rhondda Cynon Taff and Swansea

Ffaldau Farm Penrhys Partnership Training & Education Centre Contact Vic Doyle BCR, Bell Centre Contact Sian Davies 5-8 Luton Street Training & Education Centre Blaenllechau CF43 4PB Y Ffynnon Centre Tel 01443 730749 Penrhys CF43 3NS Fax 01443 730901 Tel 01443 755008 Fax 01443 735400 This is a community food-growing project aimed at disadvantaged local people, including those This is a new arm of the Penrhys Partnership. It with mental health problems. The project is offers healthy eating and cookery classes as part based in a community centre where there is a of an education programme, and targets the community café, and vegetables and herbs are whole community. There is also a community grown on community allotments. café run by another part of the Penrhys Partnership. Activities Training Community café Activities Training Growing food Community café User Groups Disadvantaged people Nutrition/health education Children User Groups Women and children Young people Unemployed Women and children Single parents Learning disabilities Mental health users Older people

SWANSEA

Glyncoch Community Enterprise Bonymaen Community Centre After Projects Ltd School Club

Contact Marolyn Way Contact Sarah Glover 66 Porcher Avenue 8 Wern Road Glynoch Landore Pontypridd CF37 3DD Swansea SA1 2PA Tel 01443 486993 Tel 01792 462322

This project provides low-cost, nutritious meals, After-school club providing play and care for 5 to sandwiches and snacks to local people through a 11-year-olds from 3.30-5.30pm, Monday to community café and a delivery service. It also Friday. Food activities include a small tea daily. provides a buffet and bereavement service for The children are involved in cooking and local people and businesses. discussions on food. There is also a Saturday morning club providing breakfasts. Activities Community café Transport/delivery Activities Breakfast club User Groups All groups Food provision User Groups Children Women and children Single parents

•54• Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming Swansea

Breakfast Club - Gors Junior School Fruit Tuck Shop - Craigfelen Primary School Contact Keith Hiekin Gors Junior School Contact Laraine McAleer Gors Avenue Craigfelen Primary School Swansea SA1 6SF Clydach Tel 01792 522202 SA6 5DP Tel 01792 843278 This is a school breakfast club providing a healthy Fax 01792843278 start to the day and encouraging children to interact socially in an informal, secure This is a fruit tuck shop in a primary school which environment. sells a variety of fruits to children at break times. Other activities have involved both pupils and the Activities Breakfast club wider community in health promotion and User Groups Primary school children education on diet, oral health and exercise.

Activities Food provision Nutrition/health education User Groups Primary school children

Fruit Tuck Shop - Gwyrosydd Junior Family Fun Day School

Contact Sue Giles Contact Mr G Williams Bonymaen Family Centre, Gwyrosydd Junior School Cefn Hengoed Community Parkhill Terrace, Treboeth Winchwen SA5 7DJ Swansea SA1 7HX Tel 01792 771125 Tel 01792 700821 Fax 01792 773336 This is a fruit tuck shop based in a junior school in Swansea. It provides a variety of fruit for Parents and pre-school children meet once a children and is open each weekday morning. week for a family fun day. They plan menus, shop & cook, go swimming together, and then Activities Growing food eat the lunch they have prepared. Food provision User Groups Children Activities After school club Luncheon club Growing food User Groups Children Women and children Single parents

Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming •55• Swansea

Fruit Tuck Shop - Plasmarl Primary School Pentrechwyth Primary School

Contact Mary Watts Contact Allison Evans Plasmarl Pentrechwyth Primary School, SA6 8LH Bonymaen Road Tel 01792 798210 Bonymaen SA1 7AP This is a fruit tuck shop in a primary school in Tel 01792 653186 Swansea. It is held during break times to encourage children to eat healthy foods. This primary school runs a fruit tuckshop, a breakfast club and an after-school cookery club to Activities Food provision encourage healthier eating and raise awareness of User Groups Primary school children hygiene and cookery skills.

Activities Breakfast club Growing food Food provision User Groups Primary school children

Gors Activity Centre Lunch Club (previously Townhill Older People's Project Lunch Club) Spark Community Café

Contact Shirley Davies Contact Carrie Mulhall 159 Geiriol Road 42-48 Dove Road Townhill Blaenymaes Swansea SA1 6QN Swansea SA5 5QD Tel 07967 858 426 Tel 01792 585538

This project aims to promote active ageing and This is a community café set up to serve the reduce social exclusion. It runs a weekly luncheon women and children who use the community club for older people and their carers (as well as centre. It hopes to expand to serve the local single parents and their children) at a local community on the surrounding council estate. activity centre on Wednesdays. Activities Community café Activities Food provision User Groups Women and children User Groups Children Older people Single parents

•56• Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming Swansea, Torfaen and Vale of Glamorgan

Swansea Young Single Homeless Project Ty Rosser Gwyn Family Centre

Contact Liz Slade Contact Ruth Parry 110 Walter Road Ty Rosser Gwyn Family Centre SA1 5QQ Ty Rosser Gwyn Road Tel 01792 537530 Varteg Fax 01792 536536 Pontypool NP4 7SQ Tel 01495 774320 This is a course for young homeless people on nutrition, food safety, shopping, meal planning This project offers community-based support for and cooking. It will be accredited via the Open families with children aged 0-4 years. It is aimed College Network and taught on a one-to-one at low-income, lone and young parents. Activities basis, or in groups. include a breakfast club, weaning group, information on healthy eating and trips to a Activities Nutrition/health education discount store. User Groups Young people Homeless people Activities Food provision Nutrition/health education User Groups Children Women and children Single parents

TORFAEN VALE OF GLAMORGAN

Sown and Sorted Get Cooking Courses, Glamorgan

Contact Patrick Graham Contact Shena Sarjeant CoStar, 6 Blenheim Square 6 Ash Grove St Dials Ystradowen Cwmbran NP44 4RS Cowbridge CF71 7TQ Tel 01633 838063 Tel 01446 774 703 Fax 01446 774 703 This project provides horticultural training for disaffected young people, growing a variety of This project has run five-day cookery courses in vegetables. It is integrated with a community conjunction with the local Women's Institute, Age farm and a recycling site which distributes Concern and local Family Centres. The courses produce in exchange for recyclable rubbish. teach basic cooking skills, budgeting & healthier eating. A longer course (five weeks) is being run Activities Growing food in conjunction with Mind in the Vale of Food provision Glamorgan. User Groups Children Single parents Activities Nutrition/health education Cookery class User Groups Sure Start Women and children Mental health users Older people Single parents

Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming •57• Vale of Glamorgan and Wrexham

Homestart - seminars on food and Pontygwaith Regeneration Project health

Contact Christina Johnson Contact Andrea Partridge Pontygwaith Community Centre Dietetic Department, Llewellyn Street The Gladstone Centre, Pontygwaith CF43 3LD Wrexham Maelor Hospital Tel 01443 757888 Wrexham LL13 7TD Fax 01443 757888 Tel 01978 727 159 Fax 01978 727 159 This is a low-cost community kitchen which started providing snacks and is hoping to extend Feasibility project examining ways of teaching to a variety of meals. cookery skills by participative learning to single parents and children referred by social services Activities Community café to attend a homestart programme. Homestart User Groups All groups leaders take a lead role with support and visits from community dietitian.

Activities Nutrition/health education Cookery class User Groups Secondary school children Single parents WREXHAM

Chirk Saturday Market Plas Madoc & Cefn Community Strategy

Contact Kenneth Barney Contact Kenneth Barney Economic Development, Economic Development Wrexham CBC Wrexham CBC, Crown Buildings, PO Box 1297 Crown Buildings, PO Box 1297 LL13 8ZE LL13 8ZE Tel 01978 292 453 Tel 01978 292 453 Website www.mntf.co.uk/wrexham Website www.mntf.co.uk/wrexham

This is a market providing fresh fruit, meat, This project provides fresh fruit, vegetables, meat, vegetables, clothing and household goods to local bread, clothing and household goods to local people in Chirk. people through a market.

Activities Farmers market Activities Food provision User Groups All groups User Groups All groups

•58• Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming Wrexham

Sydallt Fruit & Veg Scheme

Contact Carol-Lynn Robbins Gwersyllt Partnership Building First Avenue Gwersyllt LL11 4UF Tel 01978 757903

This project targets a small village which is isolated and has no facilities. It encourages fruit and vegetable consumption by providing an accessible supply - fruit and veg are sold for an hour and a half during a toddler group, at non- profit-making prices.

Activities Food co-op User Groups Women and children

Veg Out and Get Fruity

Contact Carol-Lynn Robbins Gwersyllt Partnership Building First Avenue Gwersyllt LL11 4UF Tel 01978 750193

This project runs cook and eat courses at mums and toddlers groups, aiming to increase fruit and vegetable consumption in families. It also runs a fruit and vegetable wholesale co-op and Veg Out and Get Fruity mornings.

Activities Growing food Food co-op User Groups Children Women and children Single parents

Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming •59• Co. Meath and Co. Westmeath

Republic of Ireland

CO MEATH

Cook It!

Contact Susanne Leech Health Promotion Department Railway Street Navan Tel +353 467 6400 Fax +353 462 8818

Cook It! is a community-based nutrition education programme aimed at low-income groups. It aims to give practical nutrition advice on how to eat healthily on a budget, over a six- week programme. It was originally developed by the Health Promotion Agency for Northern Ireland.

Activities Training Nutrition/health education Cookery class User Groups Children Young people Women and children Homeless people Older people Single parents

CO WESTMEATH

Food and Health Project

Contact Cara Gray c/o Child and Family Centre Pettiswood Mullingar Tel + 353 4447623 Fax + 353 44 44881

Food and health is a community peer-led nutrition intervention project. The project involves training local participants to teach healthy eating courses to groups in their own communities.

Activities Nutrition/health education Cookery class Contact Women Older people Single parents

•60• Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming Other Useful Contacts

Other Useful Contacts Food Justice Campaign The Food Justice Campaign, Community Action Network (CAN) 94 White Lion Street, The CAN Centre London N1 9PF Mezzanine floor Tel 020 7278 5755 Elizabeth House www.foodjustice.org.uk 39 York Road London SE1 7NQ Food Justice is the campaign for The Food Tel 020 7401 5310 Poverty (Eradication) Bill, which will put a legal duty on the UK government to ensure an end to A support network for social entrepreneurs. food poverty within 15 years.

Community Development and Health National Association of Village Shops Network (Northern Ireland) Steamer Point 30a Mill Street 29 West Street Newry. Co. Down BT34 1EY LEWES Tel 028 3026 4606 East Sussex Fax 028 3026 4626 BN7 2NZ www.cdhn.org Tel 01273 473 422 www.villageshops.org.uk A voluntary membership organisation which supports community action on health issues. Promotes the services of village shops and post offices. Plans to offer all village shops a place on Family Budget Unit their website. Department of Nutrition and Dietetics King's College London National Society of Allotment and Leisure 150 Stamford Street Gardeners London SE1 8WA O'Dell House, Tel 020 7848 4349 Hunters Road, Corby, An educational charity based at King’s College Northants NN17 5JE which researches family budgets, living standards Tel 01536 266576 and costs. Fax 01536 264509 www.nsalg.demon.co.uk Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens Scottish Community Diet Project The Greenhouse Bill Gray (National Project Officer) Hereford Street C/o Scottish Consumer Council, Bristol BS3 4NA Royal Exchange House, Tel 0117 923 1800 100 Queen Street Fax 0117 923 1900 Glasgow G1 3DN www.farmgarden.org.uk Tel 0141 226 5261 Fax 0141 221 0731 Support and networking for community gardens, Email [email protected] orchards and farms. Part of a partnership which www.dietproject.org.uk runs the Allotment Regeneration Initiative (ARI). Set up in 1996 under the auspices of the Scottish Consumer Council, the project supports and links community projects from all areas of Scotland. It also publishes a directory of Scottish community food initiatives, called Food in the Community.

Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming •61• Other Useful Contacts

The Soil Association Sustain’s Food Poverty Project Bristol House www.sustainweb.org/poverty_index.asp 40-56 Victoria Street Bristol BS1 6BY Beginner's Guide to Growing Vegetables Tel 0117 929 0661 www.thebeginnersguidetogrowingvegetables.co. Fax 0117 929 0661 uk

The campaigning and certification organisation Related Publications for organic food and farming. Holds information on organic box schemes and co-operatives. All available from Sustain Making Links: A Toolkit for Local Food The Poverty Alliance (Scotland) Projects The Poverty Alliance This pack combines information and inspiration 162 Buchanan Street, Glasgow G1 2LL for starting up or developing successful projects. Tel 0141 353 0440 Fax 0141 353 0686 Hunger from the Inside: The Experience E-mail [email protected] of Food Poverty in the UK Through the words of the participants who took Women's Environmental Network part in Sustain's Community Mapping Project. PO Box 30626 London E1 1TZ Tel 020 7481 9004 SRBs to PCTs: Understanding local Fax 020 7481 9144 structures and area-based initiatives to www.wen.org.uk tackle food poverty Do you know your Neighbourhood Renewal from Websites your Community Chest? If not, this comprehensive report is for you. It provides an Communities For Health easy-to-follow reference guide to relevant policy, www.communitiesforhealth.net agencies, funds and schemes that could support Good portal site with lots of links food poverty work at the local level.

National Federation of Community Food Poverty: Policy Options for the Organisations New Millenium www.communitymatters.org.uk Includes a review of policy developments and 120 fully referenced proposals for tackling food Community Channel poverty gathered from different groups and www.communitychannel.org.uk agencies.

Health Education Board for Scotland Reaching the Parts...Community www.hebs.com Mapping: Working together to tackle social exclusion and food poverty Local Food Links Community mapping uses participatory appraisal www.localfoodworks.org methods to enable local people to analyse their Lots of useful background information food economies and work with others to obtain a healthy diet. The process and findings of the pilot Our Healthier Nation (government site) project are outlined and how it affects different www.ohn.gov.uk groups and individuals.

Partnerships Online Developing Local Networks to Tackle Food www.partnerships.org.uk Poverty A summary report covering five community Public Health Electronic Library seminars on tackling food poverty. www.phel.org.uk To see the most recent publications, please check Social Exclusion Unit the Sustain website at www.sustainweb.org www.socialexclusionunit.gov.uk

•62• Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming Regional Development Agencies

Regional Development One NorthEast Agencies Head Office, Great North House, Sandyford Road, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 8ND Tel: 0191 261 2000 Regional Development Agencies are non- www.onenortheast.com departmental public bodies that were created by the government to drive regional Scottish Enterprise economic development. 5 Atlantic Quay, 150 Broomielaw, Advantage West Midlands Glasgow G2 8LU 3 Priestly Wharf, Holt Street, Tel: 0141 248 2700 Birmingham, B7 4BN www.scottish-enterprise.com Tel: 0121 380 3500 www.advantage-westmidlands.co.uk South East England Development Agency East of England Development Agency SEEDA Headquarters The Business Centre, Station Road, Cross Lanes, Histon, Cambridge, CB4 9LQ Guildford, GU1 1YA Tel: 01233 713 900 Tel: 01483 484 200 www.eeda.org.uk www.seeda.co.uk

East Midlands Development Agency South West of England Regional Apex Court, City Link, Nottingham, Development Agency East Midlands, NG2 4LA Corporate Headquarters, Sterling House, Tel: 0115 988 8300 Dix's Field, Exeter, Devon, EX1 1QA www.emda.org.uk Tel: 01392 214 747 www.southwestrda.org.uk Highlands and Islands Enterprise Cowan House Welsh Development Agency Inverness Retail and Business Park Plas Glyndwr, Kingsway, Inverness IV2 7GF Cardiff CF10 3AH Te:l 01463 234171 Tel: 01443 845 500 www.hie.co.uk www.wda.co.uk

Invest Northern Ireland Yorkshire Forward 64 Chichester Street, Victoria House, No 2 Victoria Place, Belfast BT1 4JX Leeds, LS11 5AE Tel: 028 9023 9090 Tel: 0113 394 9600 www.investni.com www.yorkshireforward.com

London Development Agency Devon House, 58-60 St. Katharine's Way, London, E1W 1JX Tel: 020 7680 2000 www.lda.gov.uk

Northwest Development Agency PO Box 37, Kings Court, Scotland Road, Warrington, Cheshire WA1 2FR Tel: 01925 400 100 www.nwda.co.uk

Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming •63• Strategic Health Authorities

Strategic Health Cheshire and Merseyside Quayside, Wilderspool Park Authorities (England) Greenalls Avenue Stockton Heath The local health authorities in England merged Warrington into 28 new health authorities in April 2002, and WA4 6HL were re-named Strategic Health Authorities in Tel: 01925 406000 October 2002. The Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) which come under each Authority are shown in Bebbington and West Wirral, Birkenhead and Wirral, Italics. Four Health and Social Services Boards Central Cheshire, Central Liverpool, Cheshire West, assume this role in Northern Ireland, and there Eastern Cheshire, Ellesmere Port and Neston, Halton, are also 15 Health Boards in Scotland and 5 Knowsley, North Liverpool, South Liverpool, South Health Authorities in Wales. Sefton, Southport and Formby, St Helens, Warrington.

Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire County Durham and Tees Valley Jenner House Appleton House Langley Park Estate Lanchester Road Chippenham Durham Wiltshire DH1 5XZ SN15 1BP Tel: 0191 333 3232 Tel: 01249 858500 Darlington, Derwentside, Durham Dales, Durham and Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol North, Bristol Chester-Le-Street, Easington, Hartlepool, Langbaurgh, South and West, Cheltenham and Tewkesbury, Middlesbrough, North Tees, Sedgefield. Cotswold and Vale, Kennet and North Wiltshire, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, South Wiltshire, Swindon, West Gloucestershire, West Wiltshire. Coventry, Warwickshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Osprey House Albert Street Prospect Hill Tonman House Redditch 63-77 Victoria Street B97 4DE St. Albans Tel: 01527 67796 Hertfordshire AL1 3ER Coventry, Hereford, North Warwickshire, Redditch and Tel: 01727 812929 Bromsgrove, Rugby, South Warwickshire, South Worcestershire, Wyre Forrest. Bedford, Bedfordshire Heartlands, Dacorum, Hertsmere, Luton, North Herts and Stevenage, Cumbria & Lancashire Royston, Buntingford & Bishops Stortford, South East Preston Business Centre Herts, St Albans and Harpendon, Watford and Three Watling Street Road Rivers, Welwyn Hatfield. Fulwood Preston Birmingham and The Black Country PR2 8DY St. Chads Court Tel: 01772 647190 213 Hagley Road Edgbaston Blackburn with Darwen, Blackpool, Burnley, Pendle Birmingham and Rossendale, Carlisle and District, Chorley and B16 9RG South Ribble, Eden Valley, Flyde, Hyndburn and Tel:0121 695 2222 Ribble Valley, Morecambe Bay, Preston, West Cumbria, West Lancashire, Wyre. Dudley Beacon & Castle, Dudley South, East Birmingham, Greater Yardley, Heart of Birmingham, North Birmingham, Oldbury and Smethwick, Rowley, Regis and Tipton, Solihull, South Birmingham, Walsall, Wednesbury & West Bromwich, Wolverhampton City.

•64• Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming Strategic Health Authorities

Dorset & Somerset Kent & Medway Charter House, Bartec 4 Preston Hall Watercombe Lane Royal British Legion Village Lynx West Trading Estate Aylesford Yeovil Kent Somerset ME20 7NJ BA20 2SU Tel: 01622 710161 Tel: 01935 384000 Ashford, Canterbury and Coastal, Dartford Gravesham Bournemouth, Mendip, North Dorset, Poole Bay, and Swanley, East Kent Coastal, Maidstone Weald, Poole, Somerset Coast, South and East Dorset, South Medway, Shepway, South West Kent, Swale. Somerset, South West Dorset, Taunton Deane. Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Essex Rutland 8 Collingwood Road Gwendolen Road Witham Leicester Essex LE5 4QF CM8 2TT Tel: 0116 273 1173 Tel: 01376 302100 Charnwood and North Leicestershire, Daventry and Basildon, Billericay, Brentwood and Wickford, Castle South Northamptonshire, Eastern Leicestershire, Point and Rochford, Chelmsford, Colchester, Epping Hinckley and Bosworth, Leicestershire City West, Forest, Harlow, Maldon and South Chelmsford, Melton Rutland and Harborough, Northampton, Southend, Tendring, Thurrock, Uttlesford. Northamptonshire Heartlands, South Leicestershire.

Greater Manchester Norfolk, Suffolk & Cambridgeshire Gateway House Capital Park Piccadilly South Fulbourn Manchester Cambridge M60 7LP CB1 5XB Tel: 0161 236 9456 Tel: 01223 597500

Ashton Leigh and Wigan, Bolton, Bury, Central Broadland, Cambridge City, Central Suffolk, East Manchester, Heywood and Middleton, North Cambridgeshire and Fenland, Great Yarmouth, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, South Huntingdon, Ipswich, North Norfolk, North Manchester, Stockport, Tameside and Glossop, Peterborough, Norwich, South Cambridge, South Trafford North, Trafford South. Peterborough, South Waveney, Southern Norfolk, Suffolk Coastal, Suffolk West, West Norfolk. Hampshire & Isle of Wight Oakley Road North and East Yorkshire and North Southampton Lincolnshire SO16 4GX Suite 1.33, The Innovation Centre Tel: 023 8072 5400 York Science Park University Road, Heslington Blackwater Valley and Hart, East Hampshire, Eastleigh York and Test Valley, Fareham and Gosport, Gosport, Isle YO10 5DG of Wight, Mid Hampshire, New Forest, North Tel: 01904 435331 Hampshire, Portsmouth City, Southampton City. Craven, Harrogate and Rural District, East Yorkshire, Eastern Hull, Hambleton and Richmond, North East Lincolnshire, North Lincolnshire, Scarborough, Whitby and Ryedale, Selby and York, West Hull, Yorkshire Wolds and Coast.

Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming •65• Strategic Health Authorities

North Central London South East London Victory House 1Lower Marsh 170 Tottenham Court Road London London SE1 7NT W1T 7HA Tel: 020 7716 7000 Tel: 020 7756 2500 Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Lambeth, Lewisham, Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey, Islington. Southwark.

North East London South West London Aneurin Bevan House 41-47 Hartfield Road 81 Commercial Road London London SW19 3RG E1 1RD Tel: 020 8545 6000 Tel: 0207 655 6600 Kingston, Richmond and Twickenham, Sutton and Barking and Dagenham, Chingford, Wanstead and Merton, Wandsworth. Woodford, City and Hackney, Havering, Newham, Redbridge, Tower Hamlets, Walthamstow, Leyton and South West Peninsula Leytonstone. John Keay House Tregonissey Road North West London St. Austell Victory House Cornwall PL25 4NQ 170 Tottenham Court Road Tel: 01726 627900 London W1T 7HA Central Cornwall, East Devon, Exeter, Mid Devon, Tel: 020 7756 2500 North Devon, North and East Cornwall, Plymouth, South Hams and West Devon, Teignbridge, Torbay, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith and Fulham, Harrow, West Cornwall. Hillingdon, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Westminster. South Yorkshire 5 Old Fulwood Road Northumberland Tyne & Wear Sheffield S10 3TG Newcastle General Hospital Tel: 0114 271 1100 Westgate Road Newcastle Upon Tyne Barnsley, Doncaster Central, Doncaster East, Doncaster NE4 6BE West, North Sheffield, Rotherham, Sheffield South Tel: 0191 256 3100 West, Sheffield West, Soutth East Sheffield.

Gateshead, Newcastle, North Tyneside, South Surrey & Sussex Tyneside, Sunderland Teaching. York House 18-20 Massetts Road Shropshire & Staffordshire Horley Mellor House Surrey Corporation Street RH6 7DE Stafford Tel: 01293 778899 ST16 3SR Tel: 01785 252233 Adur, Arun and Worthing, Bexhill and Rother, Brighton and Hove City, Crawley, East Elmbridge and Burntwood, Lichfield and Tamworth, Cannock Chase, Mid Surrey, East Surrey, Eastbourne Downs, Guildford East Staffordshire, Newcastle-Under-Lyme, North and Waverly, Hastings and St Leonards, Horsham and Stoke, Shropshire County, South Stoke, South Western Chanctonbury, Mid Sussex, North Surrey, Woking. Staffordshire, Staffordshire Moorlands, Telford and Wrekin.

•66• Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming Alphabetical Index of Projects

Thames Valley Alphabetical Index of Jubilee House 5510 John Smith Drive Projects Oxford Business Park South Oxford A Aberfan & Merthyr Vale Y & C Project, 49 OX4 2LH Aberystwyth Farmers' Market, 46 Tel: 01865 337000 ACHIEVE Boscombe - Lunch Club, 9 African Community Involvement Association, 32 Bracknell Forest, Cherwell Vale, Chiltern and South Age Concern Get Cooking!, 8 Bucks, Milton Keynes, Newbury and Community, Age Concern Gwynedd & Mon Lunch Clubs, 48 North East Oxfordshire, Oxford City, Reading, Slough, Age Concern Lunch Centre, 35 South East Oxfordshire, South West Oxfordshire,Vale All Hallows Community Cafe Project, 37 of Aylesbury, Windsor, Ascot and Maidenhead, Antioch Food Project, 46 Wokingham, Wycombe. Arts Factory, 53 Asian Cookery Club Project, 5 Trent 1 Standard Court B Park Row Back to Roots Allotment Project, 26 Nottingham Balsam Project, 29 NG1 6GN Barri Grub - Edinburgh, 40 Tel: 0115 912 3344 Bath Place Commmunity Café, 35 Becontree Organic Growers Association (BOG), 11 Amber Valley, Ashfield, Bassetlaw, Broxtowe and Bluebell Resource Centre (Stay & Play), 11 Hucknall, Central Derby, Chesterfield, Derbyshire Bolton Community Nutrition, 21 Dales and South Derbyshire, East Lincolnshire, Bolton Gathering of Organic Growers, 21 Erewash, Gedling, Greater Derby, High Peak and Bolton's Food Co-ops, 21 Bolton's Growing its own Food, 21 Dales, Lincolnshire South West Teaching, Mansfield Bonymaen Community Centre After School Club, 54 District, Newark and Sherwood, North Eastern Breakfast Club - Gors Junior School, 55 Derbyshire, Nottingham City, Rushcliffe, West Breakfast Clubs in London, 12 Lincolnshire. Breaking the Cycle, 18 Brecknock Farmers' Market, 53 West Yorkshire Bridgend Farmers' Market, 43 Blenheim House Brighton Agroforestry Trials, 9 West One Duncombe Street Leeds C LS1 4PL Cable Street Community Gardens, 12 Caffi Blas Y Waun, 49 Tel: 0113 295 2000 Calder Food Co-operative, 40 Calderdale and Kirklees Food Futures, 38 Airedale, Bradford City, Bradford South and West, Cambuslang Health and Food Project/ Research & Calderdale, East Leeds, Eastern Wakefield, Evaluation, 41 Huddersfield Central, Leeds North East, Leeds North Care Co-ops Community Farm, 10 West, Leeds West, North Bradford, North Kirklees, Central Point, 18 South Huddersfield, South Leeds, Wakefield West. Centre Café, 10 Chichester Christian Care Association, 37 Chirk Saturday Market, 58 Church of God of Prophecy - Soup Kitchen, Oxford, 28 Colwyn Bay Farmers' Market, 47 Community Action Little London (CALLS) Vegetable Garden Project, 38 Community Caterers' Network, 28 Community Food and Health Programme, 6 Community Food Workers, 42 Community Food Workers (Cheshire), 6

Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming •67• Alphabetical Index of Projects

Community Nutrition Project White City Healthy Living Fruit Tuck Shop - Plasmarl Primary School, 56 Centre, 12 Fruit Tuck Shops - Ebbw Vale, 43 Community Regeneration Trust N.E. (previously Funky Food Project, Pembrokeshire, 51 Cleadon Community Project), 32 Community Family Initiative (formerly Healthy Mothers & Babies), 35 G Conservation and Urban Ecology, 13 Gardening for Health, 38 Cook It!, 60 Garrett Centre Community Lunch, 14 Cornerstone - Benwell Christian Shop Project, 32 Get Cooking - Pembrokeshire, 52 Craigneuk Food Co-op, 42 Get Cooking - Stowbridge, 36 Crisis Fareshare London, 13 Get Cooking Courses, Glamorgan, 57 Crisis Fareshare South Yorkshire, 29 Get Cooking! (Cardiff), 45 Crisis Fareshare Southampton, 18 Get Cooking! (Gwent), 50 Cultivating the Future (WEN), 13 Get Cooking! (Wiltshire), 39 Cwm Harry Land Trust, 43 Glyncoch Community Enterprise Projects Ltd, 54 Cwmparc Community Café, 53 Gorebridge Food Co-op, 41 Cymdeithas Tai Eryri, 49 Gors Activity Centre Lunch Club (previously Townhill Older People's Project Lunch Club), 56 Govan Healthy Eating Project, 41 Grazebrook Pupils' Treescape, 14 D Green Peppers, 30 Daily Bread Wholefood Co-operative Ltd, 25 Green Ventures, 14 Denbigh Market, 47 Growing Opportunities, 36 Drift Permaculture at Scotswood Community Garden, 32 H Hackney City Farm, 15 E Hands on Health Courses, 7 East Cleveland Good Grub Clubs, 24 Hartcliffe Health and Environment Action Group, 5 East End Community Health Project Food Initiatives, Hattersley Market Garden, 6 33 Healing Gardens, 15 Edinburgh Community Food Initiative, 40 Health Development, 27 Emmaus Brighton and Hove, 10 Health Development in Newark/Sherwood, 27 Exeter Community Umbrella Ltd (ECU), 8 Healthy Bites Food Co-op & Café, 30 Healthy Castlemilk, 41 Healthy Eating - Llandogo Primary School, 50 Healthy Tuck HAZ Project, 31 F Healthy Tuck Shop, Cleveland, 24 Family Fun Day, 55 Heart of Flintshire, 48 Farmers' Market Network (Rhwydwaith Marchnad Heartlink, 45 Ffermyr Cyf), 43 Heeley City Farm, 30 Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens, 5 Heeley Community Allotment Project (previously Feel Good Project, 44 Heeley Health Project), 30 Ffaldau Farm, 54 Hollybush Family Centre, 19 First Step Organic Vegetable Growing, 25 Homestart - seminars on food and health, 58 Fitness & Health Day, 50 Food and Health Project, 60 Food Bank, 39 J Food Chain The, 13 Jericho Project The, 8 Food For Fun, 26 John 14:10, 46 Food Fuel, 44 Food Initiatives Group - FIG, 26 Food Net Project, 35 Food Works - Abercromby, 23 K Foodlink, 14 Kids' Cafe Network, 26 Foodworks, 38 Kingswood Community Cafe, 25 FRESH LOAF (Ferguslie), 42 From Concrete to Coriander, 36 Fruit and Vegetable Distribution Network, 29 Fruit Days, 48 Fruit Tuck Shop - Craigfelen Primary School, 55 Fruit Tuck Shop - Gwyrosydd Junior School, 55

•68• Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming Alphabetical Index of Projects

L Primary and Community Care Nutrition Project, Lampeter Food Festival, 47 Newport, 51 LEAF (Local Enterprises Around Food), 31 Leaves of Life Health Promotion Project, 15 Lifestyle Health Link, 24 R Llysiau Lleu, 49 Radford Bottle and Dummy Dump, 27 Local Food Links (with Netherton Feelgood Factory), Rainbow House Drop-in Centre, 28 23 Ready Steady Cook!, 44 Local Foods for Local People (Bridgend), 44 Renfrewshire Food Federation - Scotland, 42 Local Organic Agricultural Facilities (LOAF), 36 Riddings Garden Project, 39 Riverside Real Food Market, 45 Roberts Centre, 19 M Rock Community Centre The, 6 MegaBite, 22 Roots and Shoots, 16 Rossy Diner, 7

N NCH (National Children's Homes), 15 S Neath Cancer & Nutrition Project, 51 S.N.A.G. (Schools Nutrition Action Group), Mold, 48 New Horizon Youth Centre, 16 Simon Community Emergency Nightshelter, 17 Newcastle Nutrition Community Dietitians, 33 Skerne Park Community Cafe, 7 Newham City Farm, 16 Slim Swim Healthy Eating Course, 50 North London Organic Gardeners, 20 Small Change (East London), 17 North Solihull LETSystem, 37 South and West Lancashire Food Bank, 22 North Tyneside Cooking Pack, 33 South Ashford Community Food Project, 20 Northern Initiative on Women and Eating, 33 South East Wales Association of Farmers Markets, 51 Northern Point, 19 South Tees Food Project, 25 Nottingham Homelessness Project, 27 Southside Food Co-op, 29 Now You're Cooking - Aberdeen, 40 Sown and Sorted, 57 Nutrition Skills Training for Volunteers and Spark Community Café, 56 Development Workers, 34 St Anne's Fresh Food Fayre, 12 St George's Beneficial Breakfast & Homework Clubs, 19 O St John Ambulance Homeless Service, 11 Oakleigh Gardens, 34 St Mellons Healthy Living Project, 45 Oasis Cafe, 5 St Petrock's (Exeter) Ltd, 9 Oasis Children's Nature Garden, 16 St Sidwells Centre, 9 Offshoots, 22 St Simon's Church Meals Provision Programme, 20 Open Door Family Centre, 53 Statement on Food & Health in Schools, 52 Oxford Food Hygiene Cooking Skills Course (Pilot), 28 Stoke Community Foods, 31 Sure Start Midwifery Project, Ely, 46 Swansea Young Single Homeless Project, 57 P Sydallt Fruit & Veg Scheme, 59 Pembrokeshire Food in Mind, 52 Penrhys Partnership Training & Education Centre, 54 Pentrechwyth Primary School, 56 T Plas Madoc & Cefn Community Strategy, 58 The Co-operative Bunch Fruit and Vegetable Co-op, 20 Playtime Snacks Award, 52 Thrive, promoting therapeutic horticulture, 17 Playworkers Pack, 34 Tots' Plots, 24 Pontygwaith Regeneration Project, 58 Tower Hamlets Food Co-ops, 17 Porlock Nursery, 34 Trevithick School Breakfast Bar, 7 Positive Health Action Through Gardening & Ty Rosser Gwyn Family Centre, 57 Environmental Development - PHAGED, 31

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U Fresh Ideas Project, 10 Unstone Grange Organic Gardens, 8 Fruit Days, 48 Urban Oasis & Tropical Allotments, 39 Gorebridge Food Co-op, 41 LEAF (Local Enterprise Action Around Food), 31 Local Foods for Local People (Bridgend), 44 V Pentrechwyth Primary School, 56 Vauxhall City Farm Horticulture Project, 18 Skerne Park Community Cafe, 7 Veg Out and Get Fruity, 59 St George's Beneficial Breakfast/Homework Clubs, 19 St Mellons Healthy Living Project, 45 Trevithick School Breakfast Bar, 7 W Ysgol Tan Y Marian Breakfast Bar, 47 Werneth and Freehold Organic Herb and Vegetable Project, 22 Westhoughton Food Co-op, 23 Community Cafés Whitehawk Community Food Project, 11 Aberfan & Merthyr Vale Y & C Project, 49 Wolverhampton Food Co-ops Umbrella Ltd, 37 African Community Involvement Association, 32 World of Food Project, 23 Age Concern Lunch Centre, 35 All Hallows Community Cafe Project, 37 Bath Place Commmunity Café, 35 Y Caffi Blas Y Waun, 49 Ysgol Tan Y Marian Breakfast Bar, 47 Centre Café, 10 Community Caterers' Network, 28 Community Food and Health Programme, 6 Index Of Projects By Community Nutrition: White City Healthy Living, 10 Conservation and Urban Ecology, 13 Activity Cornerstone - Benwell Christian Shop Project, 32 Cwmparc Community Café, 53 Most projects involve more than one East End Community Health Food Initiatives, 33 activity. Wherever possible we have Emmaus Brighton and Hove, 10 updated this information, but please note Ffaldau Farm, 54 that in some cases projects may not be Foodlink, 14 currently running all the activities they Foodworks, 38 have listed. Fresh Ideas Project, 10 From Concrete to Coriander, 36 Glyncoch Community Enterprise Projects Ltd, 54 After School clubs Govan Healthy Eating Project, 41 Bonymaen Community Centre After School Club, 54 Hackney City Farm, 15 Family Fun Day, 55 Healthy Bites Food Co-op & Café, 30 Food Works - Abercromby, 23 Heeley City Farm, 30 Gorebridge Food Co-op, 41 Hollybush Family Centre, 19 St George's Beneficial Breakfast/Homework Clubs, 19 Jericho Project The, 8 Thrive, promoting therapeutic horticulture, 17 John 14:10, 46 Kids' Cafe Network, 26 Kingswood Community Cafe, 25 Breakfast clubs LEAF (Local Enterprise Action Around Food), 31 Bath Place Commmunity Café, 35 Local Food Links (Netherton Feelgood Factory), 23 Bonymaen Community Centre After School Club, 54 Local Organic Agricultural Facilities (LOAF), 36 Breakfast Club - Gors Junior School, 55 Neath Cancer & Nutrition Project, 51 Breakfast Clubs in London, 12 Newcastle Nutrition Community Dietitians, 33 Community Nutrition: White City Healthy Living, 12 Oasis Cafe, 5 Community Regeneration Trust N.E., 32 Offshoots, 22 Food Bank, 39 Penrhys Partnership Training & Education Centre, 54 Food Net Project, 35 Pontygwaith Regeneration Project, 58 Foodworks, 38 Riddings Garden Project, 39

•70• Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming Index of Projects By Activity

Rossy Diner, 7 Food and Health Project, 60 Simon Community Emergency Nightshelter, 17 Food For Fun, 26 Skerne Park Community Cafe, 7 Food Works - Abercromby, 23 South Ashford Community Food Project, 20 Foodlink, 14 South Tees Food Project, 25 Foodworks, 38 Spark Community Café, 56 Fresh Ideas Project, 10 St Anne's Fresh Food Fayre, 12 Get Cooking - Stowbridge, 36 St Mellons Healthy Living Project, 45 Get Cooking Courses, Glamorgan, 57 St Sidwells Centre, 9 Get Cooking! (Cardiff), 45 Get Cooking! (Gwent), 50 Get Cooking! (Wiltshire), 39 Community Shops Gorebridge Food Co-op, 41 Caffi Blas Y Waun, 49 Govan Healthy Eating Project, 41 Community Nutrition: White City Healthy Living, 12 Hands on Health Courses, 7 Emmaus Brighton and Hove, 10 Hartcliffe Health and Environment Action Group, 5 Ffaldau Farm, 54 Health Development in Newark/Sherwood, 27 FRESH LOAF (Ferguslie), 42 Healthy Bites Food Co-op & Café, 30 Govan Healthy Eating Project, 41 Healthy Castlemilk, 41 Heeley City Farm, 30 Hollybush Family Centre, 19 Homestart - seminars on food and health, 58 Kids' Cafe Network, 26 Composting Projects Kingswood Community Cafe, 25 Balsam Project, 29 Leaves of Life Health Promotion Project, 15 Becontree Organic Growers Association (BOG), 11 Lifestyle Health Link, 24 Bolton Gathering of Organic Growers, 21 Local Food Links (Netherton Feelgood Factory), 23 Cable Street Community Gardens, 12 Local Organic Agricultural Facilities (LOAF), 36 Conservation and Urban Ecology, 13 Newcastle Nutrition Community Dietitians, 33 Grazebrook Pupils' Treescape, 14 Now You're Cooking - Aberdeen, 40 Hackney City Farm, 15 Penrhys Partnership Training & Education Centre, 54 Newham City Farm, 16 Roberts Centre, 19 North London Organic Gardeners, 20 Small Change (East London), 17 Oasis Children's Nature Garden, 16 South Tees Food Project, 25 Southside Food Co-op, 29 St George's Beneficial Breakfast/Homework Clubs, 19 Cookery Classes St Sidwells Centre, 9 African Community Involvement Association, 32 World of Food Project, 23 Age Concern Get Cooking!, 8 All Hallows Community Cafe Project, 37 Arts Factory, 53 Farmers Markets Asian Cookery Club Project, 5 Aberystwyth Farmers' Market, 46 Barri Grub - Edinburgh, 40 Brecknock Farmers' Market, 53 Bath Place Commmunity Café, 35 Bridgend Farmers' Market, 43 Bluebell Resource Centre (Stay & Play), 11 Chirk Saturday Market, 58 Breaking the Cycle, 18 Colwyn Bay Farmers' Market, 47 Chichester Christian Care Association, 37 Denbigh Market, 47 Community Caterers' Network, 28 Farmers' Market Network (Rhwydwaith Marchnad Community Family Initiative, 35 Ffermyr Cyf), 43 Community Food and Health Programme, 6 Grazebrook Pupils' Treescape, 14 Community Food Workers, 42 Riverside Real Food Market, 45 Community Food Workers (Cheshire), 6 South East Wales Association of Farmers Markets, 51 Community Regeneration Trust N.E., 32 Cook It!, 60 Food Banks Cornerstone - Benwell Christian Shop Project, 32 South and West Lancashire Food Bank, 22 East Cleveland Good Grub Clubs, 24

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Food Co-ops Community Action Little London (CALLS), 38 Balsam Project, 29 Community Caterers' Network, 28 Bath Place Commmunity Café, 35 Community Nutrition: White City Healthy Living, 12 Bolton's Food Co-ops, 21 Community Regeneration Trust N.E., 32 Bolton's Growing its own Food, 21 Conservation and Urban Ecology, 13 Bridgend Farmers' Market, 43 Cultivating the Future (WEN), 13 Calder Food Co-operative, 40 Cwm Harry Land Trust, 43 Cambuslang Health & Food Project/Research, 41 Drift Permaculture Scotswood Community Garden, 32 Community Food Workers (Cheshire), 6 Emmaus Brighton and Hove, 10 Community Nutrition: White City Healthy Living, 12 Family Fun Day, 55 Community Regeneration Trust N.E., 32 Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens, 5 Craigneuk Food Co-op, 42 Feel Good Project, 44 Daily Bread Wholefood Co-operative Ltd, 25 Ffaldau Farm, 54 East End Community Health Food Initiatives, 33 First Step Organic Vegetable Growing, 25 Edinburgh Community Food Initiative, 40 Fitness & Health Day, 50 Farmers' Market Network (Rhwydwaith Marchnad Food Fuel, 44 Ffermyr Cyf), 43 Food Net Project, 35 Food Net Project, 35 Foodlink, 14 Foodlink, 14 Fresh Ideas Project, 10 Foodworks, 38 From Concrete to Coriander, 36 Fresh Ideas Project, 10 Fruit and Vegetable Distribution Network, 29 From Concrete to Coriander, 36 Fruit Tuck Shop - Gwyrosydd Junior School, 55 Gorebridge Food Co-op, 41 Gardening for Health, 38 Govan Healthy Eating Project, 41 Get Cooking - Pembrokeshire, 52 Hartcliffe Health and Environment Action Group, 5 Govan Healthy Eating Project, 41 Health Development, 27 Grazebrook Pupils' Treescape, 14 Healthy Bites Food Co-op & Café, 30 Green Peppers, 30 Jericho Project The, 8 Green Ventures, 14 Local Organic Agricultural Facilities (LOAF), 36 Growing Opportunities, 36 Newcastle Nutrition Community Dietitians, 33 Hackney City Farm, 15 Renfrewshire Food Federation - Scotland, 42 Hartcliffe Health and Environment Action Group, 5 Southside Food Co-op, 29 Hattersley Market Garden, 6 St Mellons Healthy Living Project, 45 Healing Gardens, 15 Sydallt Fruit & Veg Scheme, 59 Health Development, 27 The Co-operative Bunch Fruit and Veg Co-op, 20 Health Development in Newark/Sherwood, 27 Tower Hamlets Food Co-ops, 17 Healthy Eating - Llandogo Primary School, 50 Veg Out and Get Fruity, 59 Heeley City Farm, 30 Westhoughton Food Co-op, 23 Heeley Community Allotment Project, 30 Wolverhampton Food Co-ops Umbrella Ltd, 37 Hollybush Family Centre, 19 LEAF (Local Enterprise Action Around Food), 31 Food Growing Projects Llysiau Lleu, 49 Aberystwyth Farmers' Market, 46 Local Food Links (Netherton Feelgood Factory), 23 Back to Roots Allotment Project, 26 Local Foods for Local People (Bridgend), 44 Balsam Project, 29 Local Organic Agricultural Facilities (LOAF), 36 Becontree Organic Growers Association (BOG), 11 Neath Cancer & Nutrition Project, 51 Bolton Gathering of Organic Growers, 21 Newcastle Nutrition Community Dietitians, 33 Bolton's Growing its own Food, 21 Newham City Farm, 16 Breaking the Cycle, 18 North London Organic Gardeners, 20 Brighton Agroforestry Trials, 9 Oakleigh Gardens, 34 Cable Street Community Gardens, 12 Oasis Children's Nature Garden, 16 Caffi Blas Y Waun, 49 Offshoots, 22 Calderdale and Kirklees Food Futures, 38 Open Door Family Centre, 53 Cambuslang Health & Food Project/Research, 41 Pentrechwyth Primary School, 56 Care Co-ops Community Farm, 10 Porlock Nursery, 34

•72• Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming Index of Projects By Activity

Positive Health Action Through Gardening & Chichester Christian Care Association, 37 Environmental Development-PHAGED, 31 Church of God of Prophecy Soup Kitchen, Oxford, 28 Ready Steady Cook!, 44 Community Action Little London (CALLS), 38 Roots and Shoots, 16 Community Regeneration Trust N.E., 32 South Ashford Community Food Project, 20 Craigneuk Food Co-op, 42 South East Wales Association of Farmers Markets, 51 Crisis Fareshare London, 13 South Tees Food Project, 25 Crisis Fareshare South Yorkshire, 29 Sown and Sorted, 57 Daily Bread Wholefood Co-operative Ltd, 25 St Mellons Healthy Living Project, 45 Denbigh Market, 47 St Sidwells Centre, 9 Farmers' Market Network (Rhwydwaith Marchnad Thrive, promoting therapeutic horticulture, 17 Ffermyr Cyf), 43 Tots' Plots, 24 Feel Good Project, 44 Unstone Grange Organic Gardens, 8 Fitness & Health Day, 50 Urban Oasis & Tropical Allotments, 39 Food Bank, 39 Vauxhall City Farm Horticulture Project, 18 Food Chain The, 13 Veg Out and Get Fruity, 59 Food For Fun, 26 Werneth & Freehold Organic Herb and Veg, 22 Fresh Ideas Project, 10 Westhoughton Food Co-op, 23 FRESH LOAF (Ferguslie), 42 Whitehawk Community Food Project, 11 Fruit and Vegetable Distribution Network, 29 Wolverhampton Food Co-ops Umbrella Ltd, 37 Fruit Days, 48 Ysgol Tan Y Marian Breakfast Bar, 47 Fruit Tuck Shop - Craigfelen Primary School, 55 Fruit Tuck Shop - Gwyrosydd Junior School, 55 Fruit Tuck Shop - Plasmarl Primary School, 56 Food Partnerships Funky Food Project, Pembrokeshire, 51 Calderdale and Kirklees Food Futures, 38 Get Cooking - Stowbridge, 36 Community Caterers' Network, 28 Gors Activity Centre Lunch Club, 56 Food Initiatives Group - FIG, 26 Green Ventures, 14 Foodworks, 38 Growing Opportunities, 36 Fresh Ideas Project, 10 Heeley City Farm, 30 FRESH LOAF (Ferguslie), 42 Heeley Community Allotment Project, 30 Govan Healthy Eating Project, 41 Local Foods for Local People (Bridgend), 44 Growing Opportunities, 36 Local Organic Agricultural Facilities (LOAF), 36 Healthy Tuck HAZ Project, 31 New Horizon Youth Centre, 16 Heeley City Farm, 30 Northern Point, 19 Jericho Project The, 8 Oakleigh Gardens, 34 LEAF (Local Enterprise Action Around Food), 31 Offshoots, 22 Local Foods for Local People (Bridgend), 44 Open Door Family Centre, 53 Local Organic Agricultural Facilities (LOAF), 36 Pembrokeshire Food in Mind, 52 Newcastle Nutrition Community Dietitians, 33 Pentrechwyth Primary School, 56 Primary and Community Care Project, Newport, 51 Plas Madoc & Cefn Community Strategy, 58 S.N.A.G. (Schools Nutrition Action Group), Mold, 48 Porlock Nursery, 34 South Tees Food Project, 25 Rainbow House Drop-in Centre, 28 Renfrewshire Food Federation - Scotland, 42 Riddings Garden Project, 39 Food Provision Roberts Centre, 19 ACHIEVE Boscombe - Lunch Club, 9 S.N.A.G. (Schools Nutrition Action Group), Mold, 48 Age Concern Gwynedd & Mon Lunch Clubs, 48 Simon Community Emergency Nightshelter, 17 Antioch Food Project, 46 Skerne Park Community Cafe, 7 Bolton Gathering of Organic Growers, 21 South and West Lancashire Food Bank, 22 Bonymaen Community Centre After School Club, 54 South Ashford Community Food Project, 20 Breakfast Clubs in London, 12 Sown and Sorted, 57 Brighton Agroforestry Trials, 9 St Anne's Fresh Food Fayre, 12 Caffi Blas Y Waun, 49 St Petrock's (Exeter) Ltd, 9 Central Point, 18 St Simon's Church Meals Provision Programme, 20

Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming •73• Index of Projects By Activity

Stoke Community Foods, 31 Lunch Clubs Ty Rosser Gwyn Family Centre, 57 Age Concern Lunch Centre, 35 Unstone Grange Organic Gardens, 8 Cornerstone - Benwell Christian Shop Project, 32 Werneth & Freehold Organic Herb and Veg, 22 East End Community Health Project Food Initiatives, 33 Family Fun Day, 55 Information/Advice/Support Garrett Centre Community Lunch, 14 Projects Rock Community Centre The, 6 African Community Involvement Association, 32 Rossy Diner, 7 All Hallows Community Cafe Project, 37 Bolton Community Nutrition, 21 Breaking the Cycle, 18 Nutrition/Health Education Cambuslang Health & Food Project/Research, 41 Projects Community Family Initiative, 35 ACHIEVE Boscombe - Lunch Club, 9 Community Food and Health Programme, 6 African Community Involvement Association, 32 Community Food Workers, 42 Age Concern Get Cooking!, 8 Cornerstone - Benwell Christian Shop Project, 32 All Hallows Community Cafe Project, 37 Cultivating the Future (WEN), 13 Arts Factory, 53 Drift Permaculture, Scotswood Community Garden, 32 Asian Cookery Club Project, 5 East End Community Health Food Initiatives, 33 Back to Roots Allotment Project, 26 Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens, 5 Balsam Project, 29 Food Fuel, 44 Barri Grub - Edinburgh, 40 Gardening for Health, 38 Bluebell Resource Centre (Stay & Play), 11 Get Cooking! (Cardiff), 45 Bolton Community Nutrition, 21 Govan Healthy Eating Project, 41 Bolton Gathering of Organic Growers, 21 Hartcliffe Health and Environment Action Group, 5 Breakfast Clubs in London, 12 Healthy Castlemilk, 41 Breaking the Cycle, 18 Heartlink, 45 Calderdale and Kirklees Food Futures, 38 Hollybush Family Centre, 19 Cambuslang Health & Food Project/Research, 41 Kids' Cafe Network, 26 Care Co-ops Community Farm, 10 Kingswood Community Cafe, 25 Central Point, 18 Leaves of Life Health Promotion Project, 15 Community Action Little London (CALLS), 38 NCH (National Children's Homes), 15 Community Family Initiative, 35 North Solihull LETSystem, 37 Community Food and Health Programme, 6 North Tyneside Cooking Pack, 33 Community Nutrition Project: White City Healthy Nottingham Homelessness Project, 27 Living Centre, 12 Nutrition Skills Training, 34 Cook It!, 60 Playworkers Pack, 34 Crisis Fareshare South Yorkshire, 29 Radford Bottle and Dummy Dump, 27 East Cleveland Good Grub Clubs, 24 Rainbow House Drop-in Centre, 28 Edinburgh Community Food Initiative, 40 St Anne's Fresh Food Fayre, 12 Family Fun Day, 55 St Petrock's (Exeter) Ltd, 9 Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens, 5 St Simon's Church Meals Provision Programme, 20 Ffaldau Farm, 54 Unstone Grange Organic Gardens, 8 First Step Organic Vegetable Growing, 25 Food and Health Project, 60 Food For Fun, 26 LETS (Local Exchange Trading Food Net Project, 35 Food Works - Abercromby, 23 Systems) Foodlink, 14 Breakfast Clubs in London, 12 Foodworks, 38 Drift Permaculture at Scotswood Community Garden, Fresh Ideas Project, 10 32 From Concrete to Coriander, 36 North Solihull LETSystem, 37 Fruit and Vegetable Distribution Network, 29 St Sidwells Centre, 9 Fruit Tuck Shop - Craigfelen Primary School, 55

•74• Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming Index of Projects By Activity

Funky Food Project, Pembrokeshire, 51 St Mellons Healthy Living Project, 45 Get Cooking - Stowbridge, 36 St Petrock's (Exeter) Ltd, 9 Get Cooking Courses, Glamorgan, 57 St Sidwells Centre, 9 Get Cooking! (Cardiff), 45 Statement on Food & Health in Schools, 52 Get Cooking! (Gwent), 50 Stoke Community Foods, 31 Get Cooking! (Wiltshire), 39 Sure Start Midwifery Project, Ely, 46 Govan Healthy Eating Project, 41 Swansea Young Single Homeless Project, 57 Green Peppers, 30 The Co-operative Bunch Fruit and Veg Co-op, 20 Growing Opportunities, 36 Tots' Plots, 24 Hartcliffe Health and Environment Action Group, 5 Tower Hamlets Food Co-ops, 17 Health Development, 27 Ty Rosser Gwyn Family Centre, 57 Health Development in Newark/Sherwood, 27 Unstone Grange Organic Gardens, 8 Healthy Bites Food Co-op & Café, 30 Vauxhall City Farm Horticulture Project, 18 Healthy Castlemilk, 41 Werneth & Freehold Organic Herb and Veg, 22 Healthy Tuck HAZ Project, 31 Healthy Tuck Shop, Cleveland, 24 Heart of Flintshire, 48 Price Discounts/Voucher Schemes Heartlink, 45 Barri Grub - Edinburgh, 40 Heeley City Farm, 30 East Cleveland Good Grub Clubs, 24 Heeley Community Allotment Project, 30 Exeter Community Umbrella Ltd (ECU), 8 Hollybush Family Centre, 19 Foodlink, 14 Homestart - seminars on food and health, 58 Gorebridge Food Co-op, 41 Kids' Cafe Network, 26 Govan Healthy Eating Project, 41 Kingswood Community Cafe, 25 Healthy Castlemilk, 41 LEAF (Local Enterprise Action Around Food), 31 Heeley City Farm, 30 Leaves of Life Health Promotion Project, 15 John 14:10, 46 Lifestyle Health Link, 24 MegaBite, 22 Local Food Links (Netherton Feelgood Factory), 23 St Petrock's (Exeter) Ltd, 9 Local Foods for Local People (Bridgend), 44 St Sidwells Centre, 9 Local Organic Agricultural Facilities (LOAF), 36 The Co-operative Bunch Fruit and Veg Co-op, 20 New Horizon Youth Centre, 16 Newcastle Nutrition Community Dietitians, 33 North Tyneside Cooking Pack, 33 Tool Libraries Now You're Cooking - Aberdeen, 40 Hattersley Market Garden, 6 Offshoots, 22 Werneth and Freehold Organic Herb and Veg, 22 Oxford Food Hygiene Cooking Skills Course, 28 Whitehawk Community Food Project, 11 Penrhys Partnership Training & Education Centre, 54 Playtime Snacks Award, 52 Playworkers Pack, 34 Training Projects Positive Health Action Through Gardening & Asian Cookery Club Project, 5 Environmental Development-PHAGED, 31 Becontree Organic Growers Association (BOG), 11 Primary and Community Care, Newport, 51 Breaking the Cycle, 18 Radford Bottle and Dummy Dump, 27 Community Action Little London (CALLS), 38 Rainbow House Drop-in Centre, 28 Community Regeneration Trust N.E., 32 Renfrewshire Food Federation - Scotland, 42 Cook It!, 60 Roberts Centre, 19 Drift Permaculture at Scotswood Community Garden, S.N.A.G. (Schools Nutrition Action Group), Mold, 48 32 Skerne Park Community Cafe, 7 East Cleveland Good Grub Clubs, 24 Slim Swim Healthy Eating Course, 50 Ffaldau Farm, 54 Small Change (East London), 17 Fresh Ideas Project, 10 South Ashford Community Food Project, 20 Hattersley Market Garden, 6 South Tees Food Project, 25 Heartlink, 45 St Anne's Fresh Food Fayre, 12 Penrhys Partnership Training & Education Centre, 54 St John Ambulance Homeless Service, 11 Roots and Shoots, 16

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St John Ambulance Homeless Service, 11 St Mellons Healthy Living Project, 45 Whitehawk Community Food Project, 11

Transport/Delivery of Food African Community Involvement Association, 32 Age Concern Get Cooking!, 8 Barri Grub - Edinburgh, 40 Brighton Agroforestry Trials, 9 Calder Food Co-operative, 40 Central Point, 18 Community Regeneration Trust N.E., 32 Crisis Fareshare London, 13 Crisis Fareshare South Yorkshire, 29 Crisis Fareshare Southampton, 18 East End Community Health Food Initiatives, 33 Edinburgh Community Food Initiative, 40 Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens, 5 Foodlink, 14 Foodworks, 38 Glyncoch Community Enterprise Projects Ltd, 54 Gorebridge Food Co-op, 41 Govan Healthy Eating Project, 41 Green Ventures, 14 Heeley City Farm, 30 Local Organic Agricultural Facilities (LOAF), 36 Neath Cancer & Nutrition Project, 51 Renfrewshire Food Federation - Scotland, 42 Roberts Centre, 19 South and West Lancashire Food Bank, 22 South Ashford Community Food Project, 20 South East Wales Association of Farmers Markets, 51 Southside Food Co-op, 29 Stoke Community Foods, 31 The Co-operative Bunch Fruit and Veg Co-op, 20

Tuck Shops East Cleveland Good Grub Clubs, 24 East End Community Health Food Initiatives, 3 Fruit Tuck Shops - Ebbw Vale, 43 Healthy Tuck HAZ Project, 31 Healthy Tuck Shop, Cleveland, 24 Playtime Snacks Award, 52 Small Change (East London), 17

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