The Devon & Cornwall Food Association Ltd. (DCFA) is a Private Company Limited by Guarantee. Registered Company No. 07419679. Registered Charity No. - DCFA is recognised by HMRC as a Charity for tax purposes under Reference XT27083. Members of : NCVO (The National Council for Voluntary Organisations) – Membership No. MEMBERVC/13004, CASAP (Community &Social Action Plymouth), The Small Charities Coalition, And Volunteering England – Membership No.1278747.

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NEWSLETTER November - December 2011 Patron: Judi Spiers, BBC Radio Devon Spare Food is Share Food!

7 Whimple Street, Plymouth, Devon PL1 2DH Mobile: 07745819828 (text only) Email: saudigeoff@yahoo.co.uk Website: http://dcfa.webs.com

FOREWORD BY THE COMPANY CHAIR

Mrs. Christine REID

Dear Friends and Supporters,

DCFA has just held its first Annual General Meeting at the Crown Centre in Plymouth. It was an opportunity to share with our Friends and the Supporters our work the achievements of DCFA over the past for the past year. It was also a chance to look to the future. An exciting future it will be too and DCFA can now look ahead with greater confidence. We used this occasion to meet and greet Victoria HURTH, the DCFA Project Coordinator (designate). Victoria shared with us her past experiences and her plans for the future of DCFA. Our Guest Speaker was Anna HOYLE who was formerly the Strategic Development Manager of the East Cornwall Council for Voluntary Services (ECCVS). Sadly this organisation ceased trading the day before! Anna spoke of the value of communities and the involvement of committed persons in our communities. Anna said she drew her inspiration from such people. Anna was herself inspirational in her talk and I feel she instilled in us agreater confidence for the future. It was good to see so many Friends and Supporters at our first AGM and I thank you all for attending. Especial thanks to Maria MILLS and Staff of the Crown Centre for allowing us to use their newly-refurbished premises and for feeding us so well! Finally my personal thanks to all DCFA Trustees and Co-opted Members to the Board for their commitment and support to DCFA. And a big thank you too for all our DCFA Volunteers!

Christine Christine REID Chair DCFA Board of Trustees

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PERSONAL ANNOUNCEMENTS E HAVE NO Celebrations In November. Have we missed anyone?

APPY BIRTHDAY TO Dave MCCABE for Thursday, 8th

December 2011. Dave is a Friend of DCFA and a volunteer

waiting to give us help! Dave has volunteered the use of his van as and when we need it. Thanks Dave and have a lovely day!

EST WISHES FOR a Happy Birthday to Ronald G. SANDFORD for Thursday, 8

th December 2011. Ron is a one

of our Milk Team volunteers taking receipt of and delivering our milk each and every week. Thanks Ron and have a great day!

DCFA MEETINGS OVEMBER 2011 Meeting took the form of DCFA’s first Annual General Meeting and was held on Tuesday, 1

st at

The Crown Centre in Plymouth.

EXT MEETING. The next DCFA Board Meeting will be on Tuesday, 6

th December 2011 at The Shekinah Mission in

Bath Street, Plymouth. This meeting will start at 10.30 a.m. and will be followed by Christmas Drinks & Mince Pies.

UTURE MEETINGS. All meetings are scheduled to start at 10.30 a.m. at the Catherine Street Baptist Church unless

stated otherwise. But this information is subject to change at short notice! January, March, May 2012 NO MEETING

Tuesday, 7th February 2012 General Board Meeting

Tuesday, 3rd April 2012 General Board Meeting

Tuesday, 5th June 2012 General Board Meeting

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THE DCFA TRIP TO LANGAGE ENERGY PARK

EVERAL OF OUR DCFA volunteers took part in a trip to Langage Energy Park on Monday, 3

rd October 2011 where

we were joined by some members of the Plymouth Laryngectomy Club (PLC). We were given a guided tour of the plant and an extremely interesting presentation by Mr. Roy BAILEY, the Operations Manager of Centrica Energy. Roy made it a really

fun time... even though what they produce is a very serious business. That was obvious when we had to get dressed up in hard hats and fluorescent jackets.

MEDIA SPEEDMATCHING HRISTINE REID and GEOFF READ spent an evening at a Media Speedmatching Event in Exeter on Wednesday

28th

September 2011. The event was organised by the Small Charities Commission in partnership with the Media Trust.

So what is speedmatching? It’s a bit like speed-dating. Ten charities and ten media professionals from the charity and corporate sectors. Each charity gets five minutes to speak to each professional and get on-the-spot advice or ideas where possible about any kind of media / communications issue or challenge you might have, for example, getting local media coverage, improving your publicity materials or giving your charity a rebrand, etc. If a charity wants to work with a particular professional further, they’d mark this on their match card and if their professional requests to work with them too, we’ll put them in touch. All this plus drinks, nibbles and a friendly atmosphere, absolutely free of charge!

We made a few useful friends and so the networking goes on!

PLYMOUTH FUNDRAISER GROUP MEETING

EOFF READ ATTENDED a Group Meeting on Tuesday, 25th

October 2011 at Routeways in Devonport. Christopher

LAING of the Big Lottery Fund was the Guest Speaker and gave a very interesting presentation. If anyone wishes to know more about this Group then please contact: Paul READ at pread@routeways.org.uk

CIEH LEVEL-2 AWARDS IN FOOD SAFETY

EVEN DCFA MEMBERS attended a course of instruction at Lanivet, Cornwall on Thursday, 27

th October 2011.

This course, which was run by the East Cornwall Council for Voluntary Services (ECCVS) was run free of charge to DCFA. The course was attended by:

Gitty ANKERS, Jackie BARNETT, Phil BARNETT, Mary CONWAY, Geoff READ, George TRICKER, and Ron SANDFORD.

Each earned a Food Hygiene Certificate... a CIEH Level-2 Award in Food Safety in Catering.

Overview Food hygiene and safety training providers have identified a growing need to make food safety learning more relevant to specific business environments to increase effectiveness. Reflecting sector-specific needs these food safety qualifications are required to address new National Occupational Standards. In line with this demand, the CIEH Level 2 Awards in Food Safety have been designed to address the food safety and hygiene needs of the catering, manufacturing and retail sectors.

Outline Programme The qualifications cover the following topics:

Legislation

Food safety and hygiene hazards

Temperature control

Refrigeration, chilling and cold holding

Cooking, hot holding and reheating

Food handling

Principles of safe food storage

Cleaning

Food premises and equipment

Congratulations to all those who attended and our especial thanks to ECCVS.

PLYMOUTH SOCIAL ENTERPRISE DAY

LYMOUTH SOCIAL ENTERPRISE Day takes place on Thursday, 17

th November 2011 from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. at

Plymouth University. There will be a small exhibition of social enterprises including:

FotoNow, North Prospect Garage Project, Memory matters, Locality, Cosmic, University of Plymouth-Business School, Devon & Cornwall Food Association, Janner Jam, Plymouth Social Enterprise Network.

There will also be a series of clinic’s that can be booked on subjects such as:

legal structures, social media for social enterprises and marketing for your social enterprise.

The Main event will include Speakers:

Hilary DUCKETT Plymouth University Business School, Julie HAWKER RISE & Project COSMIC and more…

This event is accessible to people with disabilities. For further information please contact: dave@plymsocent.org.uk

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AN ARTICLE BY HAZEL ALEXANDER DCFA Co-opted Member to the Board of Trustees

T’S AT THIS TIME of year I always put one or two extra items in my shopping trolley each week to go into my ‘Christmas

cupboard’. This, combined with food-related gifts, and that frantic last minute just-in-case shop I always feel the need to do, all add up to an awful lot of food in the house. I’m lucky because I can buy these extras, but for some, just getting the food basics is difficult. Fortunately there are some fantastic organisations working to provide subsidised food and meals in Plymouth and DCFA has been working hard to get additional supplies to these organisations and keep perfectly good food out of landfill. I know that some of this extra food I’m buying will end up in the bin, and through being a Friend of DCFA I’m now also aware of how much food manufacturers are putting in their bins. We have a range of information available to explain what’s going to waste and why, and what can be done to change that, including a website, brochures, talks and rolling presentations. Whilst we are always looking for volunteers to take on some of the practical tasks that keep DCFA going, we also need people to get the message out about food waste. Looking at some of our information and talking to friends and family about it is a little extra that you can do that can potentially add up to a lot of people knowing about what DCFA are trying to do.

Hazel ALEXANDER Co-opted Member to the DCFA Board of Trustees

A DELIGHTFUL ANALOGY HEN WE GAVE a PowerPoint Presentation to a faith group at the Hope Baptist Church in Plymouth recently,

one of them said to us... “DCFA is getting the bits of grain that fall off the wheat plant... just in the same way as the poor people used to do in biblical times!”.

So very true!

OTHER NEWS AST CORNWALL COUNCIL FOR Voluntary Services (ECCVS). DCFA was saddened to read on the ECCVS website that

they were to cease operations on Sunday, 31st October 2011.

Several DCFA volunteers have been fortunate enough to have received free courses of instruction from this very important outlet and we are so sorry to see it all end. Our sincere thanks go to Ms. Anna HOYLE, the Strategic Development Manager and also to Mr. Dave PHILLIPS, CIEH Food Safety Instructor.

HE PLYMOUTH THIRD Sector Consortium (PTSC). DCFA is a member of this consortium which has now changed

its name to Community & Social Action Plymouth (CASAP). And it changed its logo at the same time. This means that DCFA will have to update all its documentation accordingly.

EAL FOOD STORE for Plymouth City Centre? Food Plymouth partnership invite you

to join them for a Public Meeting from 6.30 to 8.30 p.m. on Tuesday, 15

th November

2011 in the Buckland Suite on the Third Floor of the Copthorne Hotel, Plymouth (next to Sainsbury’s at top of Armada Way). Refreshments will be provided.

What’s it all about? An opportunity to have your say and get involved at this initial consultation stage of developing a new community-owned, local food shop and café, at the heart of Plymouth’s city centre. The Founders of The Real Food Store in Exeter will be joining us to share their experiences.

For all enquiries please contact: Jeany ROBINSON: Mobile : 07403 984 632 jrobinson@edenproject.com, info@foodplymouth.org www.foodplymouth.org

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