Community Food Projects:
a directory
s u s t a i nthe alliance for
better food and farming
A directory of projects on the Food Poverty Projects Database
A P U B L I C A T I O N B Y S U S T A I N : T h e a l l i a n c e f o r b e t t e r f o o d a n d f a r m i n g
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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
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.
Danilla Armstrong - Department of Health
Audrey Bronstein - Oxfam UK Poverty ProgrammeSimon Bullock - Friends of the EarthJune Copeman - Nutrition and Elderly Health EducationUnitKath Dalmeny - The Food Commission
Liz Dowler - Department of Social Policy and Social Work,
University of Warwick
Natasha Gowman - Independent
Bill Gray - Scottish Community Diet Project
Michael Green - IndependentJayne Griffiths - Food Standards Agency Wales
Baljinder Heer - King's Fund
Ann Hobbiss - Bradford Food NetworkColette Jones - British Heart Foundation HealthPromotion Research Group Professor Tim Lang - Department of Health Managementand Food Policy, City University
Jacqui Larder - East Lindsey Primary Care GroupHeidi Livingstone - Health Development Agency
Sarah-Jean Marie - Community Nutrition GroupTim Marsh - UK Public Health AssociationNaomi Mason - IndependentMike Nelson - Family Budget UnitAodhan O'Donnell - Health Action Zone, NorthernIrelandJillian Pitt - Food Standards AgencyMaggie Sanderson - Caroline Walker TrustRobin Simpson - IndependentDavid Steed - Children's SocietyRuth Sutherland - Community Development and HealthNetworkAruna Thaker - Southwest London Community NHS Trust Jacqui Webster - Food Standards AgencySue Wilkinson - World Cancer Research Fund
Community Food Projects:a directory
s u s t a i nthe alliance for
better food and farming
A directory of projects on the Food Poverty Projects Database
Compiled by Catharine Courtauld
January 2003
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Contents
Introduction .................................................................................................................. 1
Projects on the Food Poverty Projects DatabaseEngland
Bedfordshire, Bristol ........................................................................................ 5Cheshire.......................................................................................................... 6Co Durham, Cornwall ...................................................................................... 7Cumbria, Derbyshire, Devon............................................................................ 8Dorset, East Sussex .......................................................................................... 9Essex ............................................................................................................ 11Greater London ............................................................................................ 12Hampshire.................................................................................................... 18Hertfordshire, Kent ...................................................................................... 20Lancashire ................................................................................................. .. 21Merseyside .................................................................................................. 23North Yorkshire ............................................................................................ 24Northamptonshire, Northumberland ............................................................ 25Nottinghamshire .......................................................................................... 26Oxfordshire .................................................................................................. 28Somerset, South Yorkshire ............................................................................ 29Staffordshire ................................................................................................ 31Surrey, Tyne and Wear .................................................................................. 32Warwickshire, West Midlands ........................................................................ 35West Sussex, West Yorkshire .......................................................................... 37Wiltshire ...................................................................................................... 39
ScotlandAberdeenshire, Edinburgh ............................................................................ 40Glasgow, Midlothian .................................................................................... 41North Ayrshire, North Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire............................................ 42
WalesAnglesey, Blaenau Gwent, Bridgend .............................................................. 43Caerphilly .................................................................................................... 44Cardiff .......................................................................................................... 45Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion ........................................................................ 46Conwy, Denbighshire .................................................................................... 47Flintshire, Gwynedd ...................................................................................... 48Merthyr Tydfil .............................................................................................. 49Monmouthshire ............................................................................................ 50Neath Port Talbot, Newport, Pembrokeshire .................................................. 51Powys, Rhondda Cynon Taff .......................................................................... 53Swansea ...................................................................................................... 54Torfaen, Vale of Glamorgan .......................................................................... 57Wrexham...................................................................................................... 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
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Introduction
Welcome to Community Food Projects: a directory, the first printed directory of projects on theFood Poverty Projects Database. The Database is maintained by the Food Poverty Network, partof Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming, in collaboration with the HealthDevelopment Agency. It contains a great variety of projects, all working at the local level toimprove 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 aninterest in local food initiatives, especially anyone running or trying to start a community foodproject. We hope it will encourage you to contact people already working in the field. We cannotover-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. Wehope you will find the examples here inspirational, as well as useful in giving you theinformation you need. By reading the project summaries, you should get a feel for the amount ofenergy and imagination that goes into these projects.
We have also included a list of Regional Development Agencies, Strategic Health Authorities andthe 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. Itwas launched in 1996 to enable people working on local food projects to find out about eachother, make contact and pool experience in a way that had never been possible before. There arecurrently more than 267 community food projects on the database, from across the UK and theRepublic of Ireland. Between them they carry out more than 700 activities, ranging from growingand selling food to cooking and eating it.
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What is the Food Poverty Network (FPN)?
The Food Poverty Network exists to support local food projects, and campaign on their behalf forchanges to government policy that would help to end food poverty. Food poverty can be brieflydescribed as the inability to obtain an adequate, nutritious diet. It comes as a surprise to manypeople that even in the midst of the apparent wealth and abundance of our society, the effort toeat well and feed the family is a daily struggle for millions of people. The problems they faceinclude insufficient funds, difficulty in reaching shops which sell appropriate, nutritious foods ataffordable prices, and lack of time, skills or information. Food poverty can affect many people atsome stage in their lives - for example adults and children living on benefits, lone parents, theelderly, the disabled, and students. The Food Poverty Network, whose members includemembers of local food groups, local authority workers, health workers, dietitians, nutritionistsand researchers, works to raise awareness of these issues and campaigns for policy changes thatwould alleviate them.
Besides maintaining the database, the Network produces a quarterly members’ newsletter, Let UsEat Cake!, which is also sent free to all projects on the database. It has also produced a range ofpublications (available to Network and Database members at a discount price), and organiseslocal 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 databaseonline gives access to more information than is listed in this directory, including a list of anymaterials a project produces, project opening times, how many users it has, when it started andhow it is funded, managed and evaluated. The information is also updated regularly, as newprojects are added.
There are two main ways of searching the database: by location or project type. Searching bylocation allows you to find projects in a particular county, or in a particular type of location (egall projects in inner cities). Searching by project type can either list projects by activity (eg allfood-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 bymaterial 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 databaseor obtain fuller details on a particular project, Sustain runs a telephone enquiry service on 0207837 1228.
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How To Use This Directory
We hope this directory will allow you to find out about initiatives in your region, so the projectsare listed by county. However, there are also two indices at the back showing the projects listedalphabetically by name and by activity, so you can also find all the projects which include, forexample, a breakfast club.
Each entry contains contact details, a summary of the project’s aims and activities, and usergroups.
We decided not to include email contact addresses as, apart from the problems of junk email andviruses increased by publishing email addresses, they often go out-of-date when contacts changejobs. If you have access to the internet, you can see if the project you are trying to contact has anemail 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 maytherefore find that unfortunately some projects are no longer active. Please be aware, too, thatthis directory provides an overview of the different types of work going on, but is by no means acomprehensive 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 orarrange to visit.
We hope you find the directory useful. Whatever your experience of using it, we’d like to hearfrom 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 1228Fax: 020 7837 1141
Website: www.sustainweb.orgEmail: [email protected]
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EnglandBEDFORDSHIRE
Asian Cookery Club Project
Contact Stephanie CashNutrition and Dietetic Servicec/o Luton & Dunstable Hospital Main StoresLewsey Luton LU4 0DZ
Tel 01582 497 162Fax 01582 497 361
This is a cook and eat' project specifically aimedat South Asian women. It focuses on adaptingtraditional recipes to reduce fat and salt intake.
AAccttiivviittiieess TrainingNutrition/health educationCookery class
User Groups Black and minority ethnic groups
BRISTOL
Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens
Contact Jeremy IlesThe Green HouseHereford StreetBedminsterBristol BS3 4NA
Tel 0117 923 1800Fax 0117 923 1900Website www.farmgarden.org.uk
A community gardening and city farmingfederation which supports existing communitygardens or farms and advises people who areconsidering starting one. The federationencourages food-growing and education projectsto improve health and the environment. A projectfor growing food in schools was recently started.
Activities Growing foodInformation/advice/supportTransport/Delivery
User Groups Low-income groupsHomeless Single parents
Hartcliffe Health and EnvironmentAction Group
Contact Wendy HarrisThe Gatehouse CentreHareclive RoadBristol BS13 9JN
Tel 0117 946 5285Fax 0117 935 9863
This food co-op sells wholefoods, environmentalproducts, and organic fruit and vegetables. Theproject also includes a nutrition and cookingproject, a community food-growing project and amarket garden.
Activities Growing foodInformation/advice/support
User Groups All Groups
Oasis Cafe
Contact Pat BiggsSouthville CentreBeauley RoadBristol BS3 1QG
Tel 0117 923 1039Fax 0117 907 7198
A community cafe serving the general localcommunity and users of the Southville Centre -not specifically aimed at people on a low income.
Activities Community caféUser Groups All groups
Bedfordshire and Bristol
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The Rock Community Centre
Contact Sue HaleSt Peters HallRidingleazeLawrence WestonBristol BS11 0QF
Tel 0117 938 4636Fax 0117 938 4636
This project provides a community facility for thepeople of Lawrence Weston. Activities are aimedat older and disabled people, and include a lunchclub, a gardening club and a disabled youth club.
Activities Luncheon clubUser Groups Disabled
Older people
CHESHIRE
Community Food and Health Programme
Contact Deborah WilliamsCentre for Health Promotion188 Buxton RoadStockport SK2 7AE
Tel 0161 456 3101Fax 0161 419 9499
This project aims to improve the health of theresidents of Stockport through diet. The project’sactivities include health promotion in schools,community cafes, and support for producers,markets and small and medium sized enterprisesto aid the local economy in areas of deprivation.The project also hopes to introduce a communitypurchasing group. Based in the Primary CareTrust, the project works with health advisers,nutritionists and dietitians.
Activities Community caféInformation/advice/supportNutrition/health education
User Groups Low-income groupsPractitioners/professionals
Community Food Workers (Cheshire)
Contact Lynzie PorteousHighfield HospitalHighfield RoadWidnes WA8 7DJ
Tel 0151 495 2951Fax 0151 495 2951
This project employs local residents trained ascommunity food workers, who work with localpeople to overcome barriers to healthy eatingthrough cook and taste sessions and food co-ops.Other activities will be developed depending onlocal needs.
Activities Cookery classFood co-op
User Groups All groups
Hattersley Market Garden
Contact Niamh Carey4th Floor Cheethams MillPark StreetStalybridge SK15 2BT
Tel 0161 303 1336Fax 0161 303 0985
This is an organic food and plant growing projecton a housing estate. It sells vegetables and herbsto the community and provides localemployment under the New Deal forCommunities scheme.
Activities TrainingTool libraryFood growing
User Groups All groups
Bristol and Cheshire
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Skerne Park Community Cafe
Contact Dave Appleby1 Hammond DriveSkerne ParkDarlington DL1 5TT
Tel 01325 464632Fax 01325 464632
This community café offers cheap meals andsnacks, provides a social meeting place and offersa catering service on a disadvantaged estate. Atraining budget is available for volunteers andstaff.
Activities Community caféBreakfast clubFood provision
User Groups All groups
CORNWALL
Trevithick School Breakfast Bar
Contact Stephanie ThomasTrevithick CP SchoolMount Pleasant RoadCambourne TR14 7RH
Tel 01209 713460Fax 01209 710028
This is a breakfast bar providing food during theschool term, for children and parents.
Activities Breakfast clubUser Groups Secondary school children
CO DURHAM
Hands on Health Courses
Contact Mo DobbiePark HouseStation RoadLanchester DH7 0EX
Tel 01207 529 621Fax 01207 529 619
This project plans to run cookery classes in allareas of County Durham.
Activities Cookery classUser Groups Children
Low-income groupsLearning disabilitiesOlder people
Rossy Diner
Contact Diane FraserRossmere CentreRossmere WayHartlepool TS25 5EB
Tel 01429 273 741Fax 01429 405 989
This is a lunch time facility providing healthyfood for children from nearby schools in a youthcentre during term time. Set up because duringthe school day children were mainly eating foodshigh in fat, sugar and salt, such as chips, pastries& sweets.
Activities Community caféLuncheon club
User Groups Secondary school children
Co Durham and Cornwall
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Age Concern Get Cooking!
Contact Amanda Davis20 Spencer StreetCarlisle CA1 1BG
Tel 01228 536 673Fax 01228 597 039
A cookery club for older people who have eitherlimited skills or have lost the motivation to cookfor themselves.
Activities Transport/deliveryNutrition/health educationCookery class
User Groups Older people
DERBYSHIRE
The Jericho Project
Contact Rev. Christine RowberryThe Geoffrey Allen CentreWinster MewsGamesleyGlossop SK13 OLU
Tel 01457 868740
This project runs a community cafe thatpromotes healthy eating, and a food co-operativesupplying fruit and vegetables. The project alsoprovides supported employment, andopportunities for training and community servicein conjunction with the local council.
Activities Community caféFood partnershipFood co-op
User Groups All groupsLearning disabilitiesOlder peopleSingle parents
Unstone Grange Organic Gardens
Contact Darrell Maryonc/o Unstone GrangeCrow LaneUnstone S18 5AL
Tel 01246 412 344Website www.unstonegrange.co.uk
This project involves volunteers working togethertwo days week on the restoration and use of akitchen garden and orchard. The weekly sessionsinvolve learning sustainable and organictechniques. Herbs and seed are also producedfor a local seed bank.
Activities Growing foodFood provision
User Groups All groups
DEVON
Exeter Community Umbrella Ltd
Contact Trevor Gardner3 Palace GateExeter EX1 1JA
Tel 01392 205 800Fax 01392 205 802
This is a food voucher scheme to help homelesspeople eat nutritious food by providing themwith vouchers which can be exchanged for foodat local retailers, including a take-away, asandwich bar and a day centre for homelesspeople. This is part of a national scheme run bythe Church National Housing Coalition (CNHC).
Activities Price discounts/vouchersUser Groups Homeless people
Cumbria, Derbyshire and Devon
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ACHIEVE Boscombe - Lunch Club
Contact Mary Ann RobertsIHCS Bournemouth UniversityBournemouth House, Christchurch RoadBournemouth BH1 3LG
Tel 01202 504 336
This project provides weekly, cheap, two coursehealthy lunches for families in temporaryaccommodation - children's meals are free.Service users can also learn basic foodpreparation, food hygiene and team skills as wellas enjoying eating together as a family.
Activities Food provisionNutrition/health education
User Groups ChildrenWomen and childrenHomeless peopleSingle parents
EAST SUSSEX
Brighton Agroforestry Trials
Contact Pippa JamesFlat 213 Windlernam GardensBrighton BN1 3AJ
Tel 01273 208 816
This is a sustainable food production project,growing food-producing trees alongside annualvegetables using organic and permaculturedesign.
Activities Growing foodFood provisionTransport/delivery
User Groups All groups
St Petrock's (Exeter) Ltd
Contact M GentSt Petrocks Centre10 Cathedral YardExeter EX1 1HJ
Tel 01392 422 396Fax 01392 439 758
A resource, activity, training and resettlementproject for homeless people in Exeter. Theproject also provides food, medical help, supportand luncheon vouchers.
Activities Food provisionInformation/advice/supportNutrition/health education
User Groups Low-income groupsHomeless people
St Sidwells Centre
Contact Tony BadcockSt Sidwells CentreSidwell StreetExeter EX4 6NN
Tel 01392 491 300Fax 01392 498 174Website www.stsidwells.org.uk
This Healthy Living Centre includes a communitycafe and training kitchen. The centre, whichopened in January 2001, also provides healthyeating and cooking classes. The project focuses onfamilies, young people and older people in thelocal community.
Activities Community caféLETS
User Groups ChildrenWomen and childrenOlder peopleSingle parents
Devon, Dorset and East Sussex
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Emmaus Brighton and Hove
Contact Dominic DringEmmaus, Drove RoadPortsladeBrighton BN41 2PA
Tel 01273 412 093Fax 01273 415 018
www.emmaus.org.uk/brighton.htm
This is a self-supporting community for peoplewho have been homeless and unemployed. Aswell as providing food, it recycles furniture,appliances, etc. The project is planning todevelop medium-scale horticultural activities.
Activities Community caféGrowing foodCommunity shop
User Groups All groupsHomeless people
Fresh Ideas Project
Contact Sarah DaviesFood and Health PartnershipSussex Downs and Weald PCT36-38 Friars WalkLewes BN7 2PB
Tel 01273 403 635
This project aims to develop strategic and localfood partnerships and provides support for localfood projects, including cooking groups, lunchclubs, pre-school intervention and healthy eating,kid's cafe, etc. It particularly targets low incomegroups.
Activities TrainingCommunity café
User Groups Disadvantaged peopleLow-income groups
Care Co-ops Community Farm
Contact Michael HamiltonStanmer OfficesStanmer ParkLewes RoadBrighton BN1 9SE
Tel 01273 696 153Fax 01273 571 151
The farm is used by people in the localneighbourhood and people referred from socialservices who have mental health problems andlearning difficulties. The main activity is organicfood production, using a 'beneficial horticulture'supportive approach.
Activities Growing foodNutrition/health education
User Groups Black and minority ethnic groupsWomen and childrenLearning disabilitiesUnemployedMental health usersHomeless people
Centre Café
Contact Caroline RidleyTim Jones HouseRochester GardensHove BN3 3AW
Tel 01273 205 214Fax 01273 205 371
This is a café for people over retirement age. Theproject also organises talks and activities.
Activities Community caféUser Groups Older people
East Sussex
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Becontree Organic Growers Association(BOG)
Contact Barry Ian WatsonThree Trees44 Gale StreetDagenham RM9 4NH
Tel 020 8592 8941Mobile 07931 270119WWeebbssiittee www.sbbc.co.uk/resources/new_is/
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This community garden has reclaimed a derelict,three-acre site. Workshops in techniques andpermaculture methods are given in exchange foreffort and work. The courses involve all membersof the community. The project is also a regionalcentre for Plant for a Future.
Activities TrainingComposting
User Groups All groupsRefugeesStudentsEx-offenders
Bluebell Resource Centre (Stay & Play)
Contact Julie BakerSt John's at Highwoods Community CentreHighwood SquareHighwoodsColchester CO4 9SR
Tel 01206 853 111
The Stay & Play project offers basic cookerylessons, which are aimed at parents and children,with a particular focus on low income.
Activities Nutrition/health educationCookery class
User Groups ChildrenBlack and minority ethnic groupsWomen and childrenPractitioners/professionalsSingle parents
St John Ambulance Homeless Service
Contact Charity BevanCommunity Base130 Queens RoadBrighton BN1 3XG
Tel 01273 234 761Fax 01273 234 851Website www.communitybase.org/stjohn
The project aims to address inequalities in accessto primary health care services. It provides healtheducation and promotion for homeless peopleand professionals working with them. Training innutrition education is a key component of thisproject. There are also mobile primary healthcare units with health professionals, including adietitian.
Activities TrainingNutrition/health education
User Groups Practitioners/professionalsHomeless people
Whitehawk Community Food Project
Contact Simon Powellc/o 19 St Martins PlaceBrighton BN2 3LE
Tel 01273 626 660
The project seeks to increase awareness andparticipation of local people in organic foodgrowing. It encourages active 'hands-on'involvement, coupled with informal teaching.The key target audiences are families, children,young people, unemployed and people on a lowincome.
Activities TrainingTool library
User Groups All groupsChildrenFamiliesLow-income groupsUnemployedSingle parents
East Sussex and Essex
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St Anne's Fresh Food Fayre
Contact Fay MathersColchester Borough CouncilPO Box 331Town HallColchester CO1 1GL
Tel 01206 282968Fax 01206 282916
The project provides catering and information tostatutory and voluntary groups, and is involvedwith selling fruit and vegetables on a local estate.It is currently mobile but is hoping to acquirepermanent premises.
Activities Community caféFood provisionInformation/advice/support
User Groups ChildrenBlack and minority ethnic groupsWomen and childrenLearning disabilitiesPractitioners/professionalsEx-offendersHIV/AidsOlder peopleSingle parents
GREATER LONDON
Breakfast Clubs in London
Contact Lynne TucherLondon Borough of Hammersmith & FulhamTown HallKing StreetW6 9JU
Tel 020 8753 3604Fax 020 8753 3713
This scheme provides breakfast clubs in primaryand secondary schools and schools for childrenwith learning disabilities.
Activities Breakfast clubLETSFood provision
User Groups Primary school childrenChildrenLearning disabilitiesSecondary school children
Cable Street Community Gardens
Contact J Sill101 Matilda HouseSt Katherine's WayE1 1LF
Tel 020 7480 5456Fax 020 7480 5456
This is a community garden where plot-holdersgrow a wide variety of vegetables, soft fruit andherbs for personal use and for friends, neighboursand family.
Activities CompostingGrowing food
User Groups All groupsBlack and minority ethnic groupsWomen and childrenPractitioners/professionalsOlder peopleSecondary school childrenSingle parents
Community Nutrition Project: WhiteCity Healthy Living Centre
Contact Diana HawdonShepherds Bush Healthy Living CentreWhite City Health Centre Australia Road W12 7PH
Tel 020 8846 6441Fax 020 8846 6881
This nutrition project takes a communitydevelopment approach to encourage and enablelocal residents - including all age ranges andethnic backgrounds, in particular groups who aretraditionally hard to reach - to improve their skillsfor healthy eating. Possible initiatives may includea cook and taste group, discussion group,displays, food co-ops and food provision.
Activities Community caféBreakfast clubGrowing food
Essex and Greater London
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Conservation and Urban Ecology
Contact Wanjiku KamauQueen's LodgeQueen's Wood42 Muswell Hill RoadN10 3JP
Tel 020 8444 2604Fax 020 8444 2604
This project involves renovation of a disusedkeeper’s lodge into an environmental andsustainable energy centre. There is an organicwholefood cafe where the aim is to grow muchof the food. The project also aims to take aneducational approach to food growing.
Activities Community caféCompostingGrowing food
User Groups ChildrenBlack and minority ethnic groupsWomen and childrenPractitioners/professionalsOlder peopleSingle parents
Crisis Fareshare
Contact Peter ClementsUnit 1A175 Long LaneSE1 4PN (only valid until April 03)
Tel 020 7403 8588Fax 020 7403 8656Website www.crisis.org.uk
A national charity for single homeless people,giving them access to a healthier diet bydistributing surplus, high quality, fresh food fromshops and restaurants to day centres and hostels.One project is based in London and there areseven nationwide.
Activities Food provisionTransport/delivery
User Groups Homeless people
Cultivating the Future
Contact Caroline FernandezWomen's Environmental NetworkPO Box 30326E1 1TZ
Tel 020 7481 9004Fax 020 7481 9144Website www.wen.org.uk
This project aims to encourage and develop foodgrowing projects among ethnic minority womenand school children.
Activities Growing foodInformation/advice/support
User Groups ChildrenBlack and minority ethnic groupsWomen and children
The Food Chain
Contact Nicholas Fant25 Bertram StreetN19 5DQ
Tel 020 7272 7272Fax 020 7272 2273Website www.foodchain.org.uk
The Food Chain provides nutritional services topeople who are living with HIV & Aids as well aspartners, carers and dependants. Services includeSunday meals, weekly grocery boxes andemergency hampers.
Activities Food provisionUser Groups HIV/Aids
Greater London
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Grazebrook Pupils' Treescape
Contact Pat Gannon9 Allerton RoadN16 5UJ
Tel 020 8802 4002
A project involving a "green gang" comprisingprimary school pupils, parents and local residentswhich explores many different methods for foodgrowing, including community vegetableproduction.
Activities Farmers marketCompostingGrowing food
User Groups Primary school childrenFamiliesSecondary school children
Green Ventures
Contact Margaret Jailler41 Grosvenor ParkCamberwellSE5 0NH
Tel 020 7703 1260Website www.safetycat.org/green
A box scheme providing organic fruit and veg,bread and eggs. The project’s main activity is ahome delivery service in Southwark and Lambeth,supplying low income groups in the localcommunity, including those with special dietaryrequirements and the housebound.
Activities Growing foodFood provisionTransport/delivery
User Groups Low-income groupsWomen and children
Foodlink
Contact Victoria TaylorCroydon Health Promotion12-18 Lennard RoadCroydon CR9 2RS
Tel 020 8680 2008 Ext 201Fax 020 8666 0495
The project aims to increase access to fruit andvegetables in the Shrublands area by promotinggrowing activities and redistribution mechanisms.
Activities Community caféGrowing foodTransport/delivery
User Groups ChildrenBlack and minority ethnic groupsLow-income groupsWomen and childrenSingle parents
Garrett Centre Community Lunch
Contact Julie Harris117 Mansford StreetBethnal GreenE2 6LX
Tel 020 7729 1231Fax 020 7729 1231
This project provides weekly community lunchesto improve access to healthy, cheap food forsocially excluded people. It aims to consolidateand improve the lunch provision.
Activities Luncheon clubUser Groups Disadvantaged people
Greater London
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Hackney City Farm
Contact Dee Miller1A Goldsmiths RowHackneyE2 8QA
Tel 020 7729 6381Fax 020 7729 6381Website www.hackneycityfarm.co.uk
This is a city farm garden which growsvegetables, herbs and flowers using a variedapproach within the Hackney community andTower Hamlets. It also has animals: sheep, pigs,calves, ducks, geese, turkeys, rabbits, guinea pigsand chinchillas. Admission is free.
Activities Community caféComposting
User Groups All groups
Healing Gardens
Contact Barry WatsonGroundwork Thames ValleyColne Valley Park CentreDenhamUxbridge UB9 5PG
Tel 01895 832 662Fax 01895 833 552Website www.groundwork.org.uk
This project aims to improve the everyday life ofthe chronically or terminally ill by makingmaximum use of the healing and spiritualqualities of gardens. Volunteers and beneficiarieswork together.
Activities Growing foodUser Groups Chronically and terminally ill
Disabled
Leaves of Life Health Promotion Project
Contact Sherry Nicholls28 Sandford AvenueWood GreenN22 5EH
Tel 020 8881 8865Fax 020 8881 8865Website www.leavesoflife.org
This project organises health seminars, and runsmonthly vegetarian and vegan cookingdemonstrations to promote health and naturalliving. This project also works with communitygroups in the centre of London.
Activities Information/advice/supportNutrition/health educationCookery class
User Groups Black and minority ethnic groupsLearning disabilitiesPractitioners/professionalsOlder people
NCH (National Children's Homes)
Contact Caroline Abrahams85 Highbury ParkN5 1UD
Tel 020 704 7000Fax 020 7226 2537Website www.nch.org.uk
Advice and support work on budgeting andhealth matters in 450 local level projects, most ofwhich are in family centres or community centres.
Activities Information/advice/supportUser Groups Children
Greater London
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Oasis Children's Nature Garden
Contact Joanne Brown1 Aston HouseWandsworth Road Springfield EstateSW8 4ER
Tel 020 7498 2329Fax 020 7720 4276
A nature garden for children, with organicvegetable and herbs plot.
Activities CompostingGrowing food
User Groups Secondary school children
Roots and Shoots
Contact Linda PhillipsVauxhall CentreWalnut Tree WalkSE11 6DN
Tel 020 7587 1131Fax 020 7735 0602
Training for young people (aged 16-25) withlearning disabilities, using horticulture/woodworkas practical, transferable skills.
Activities TrainingGrowing food
User Groups Black and minority ethnic groupsYoung peopleLearning disabilitiesDisabled
New Horizon Youth Centre
Contact Pauline Roberts68 Chalton StreetNW1 1JR
Tel 020 7388 5570Fax 020 7338 5848WWeebbssiittee www.newhorizonyouthcentre.org.uk
This is a drop-in centre providing food and advicefor homeless people.
Activities Food provisionNutrition/health education
User Groups Young peopleHomeless people
Newham City Farm
Contact Theresa SalmonNewham City FarmKing George AvenueE16 3HR
Tel 020 7476 1170Fax 020 7474 4960
This project works mainly with families withyoung children (under 10), school groups andadults with learning difficulties. The mainactivities are breeding and rearing livestock,growing vegetables and herbs and eggs, honeyproduction and manure.
Activities CompostingGrowing food
User Groups ChildrenWomen and childrenLearning disabilitiesSecondary school childrenSingle parents
Greater London
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Simon Community EmergencyNightshelter
Contact Jonathan BurleighPO Box 1187NW5 4HW
Tel 020 7485 6639Fax 020 7482 6305
An emergency night shelter in a homelesscommunity providing a warm meal for guestsand workers. The project also organises tea, soupand sandwich runs and a street cafe.
Activities Community caféFood provision
User Groups Homeless people
Small Change (East London)
Contact Jowanna LewisGlobal Action Plan8 Fulwood PlaceWC1V 6HG
Tel 020 7405 5633Fax 020 7831 6244
This project works with primary schools todevelop community awareness of andinvolvement in environmental issues includinghealthy eating. A pilot project works in fourschools in east London, with fruit tuck shops,resources for teachers and parents, plus cookeryskills.
Activities Tuck shopNutrition/health education
User Groups ParentsPrimary school children
Thrive, promoting therapeutichorticulture (formerly HorticulturalTherapy)
Contact Nicola ReynoldsSt Mary's GardenPO Box 13719E2 8TB
Tel 020 7739 2965Fax 020 7739 2965Website www.thrive.org.uk
This is a garden project used for training andemployment, rehabilitation, therapy and healthfor local people, disabled people and volunteers.It grows fruit, vegetables and herbs using bothorganic and conventional methods.
Activities After school clubGrowing food
User Groups Learning disabilitiesPractitioners/professionalsDisabledMental health usersOlder people
Tower Hamlets Food Co-ops
Contact Ros ThompsonEnvironmental Health, Environmental Protection Southern GrovePoplarTower HamletsE3 4PN
Tel 020 7364 6715Fax 020 7364 6779
Two fresh fruit and vegetable co-ops providingweekly orders to black and minority ethnicgroups, the elderly, women and children, andsingle parents. It is currently working on a foodaccess project in a New Deal for Communitiesarea.
Activities Nutrition/health educationFood co-op
User Groups Black and minority ethnic groupsLow-income groupsWomen and childrenOlder peopleSingle parents
Greater London
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Vauxhall City Farm Horticulture Project
Contact Amanda Rew24 St Oswalds PlaceSE11 5JE
Tel 020 7582 4204
This is a food-growing project , producing fruit,vegetables, herbs and flowers for users of thegroup to cook and eat on site or take home withthem. The project targets refugees and asylumseekers.
Activities Growing foodNutrition/health education
User Groups RefugeesBlack and minority ethnic groups
HAMPSHIRE
Breaking the Cycle
Contact Jennifer DaviesHealth Promotion ServiceOatlands HouseWinchester RoadSouthampton SO15 5NB
Tel 023 8051 5202Fax 023 8070 1489
This project was set up after research among localyoung South Asian women showed high rates ofanaemia and low- birthweight babies. Locallytrained community food assistants raiseawareness of nutrition issues and increasepeople's knowledge and healthy cooking/eatingskills through practical sessions, eg, shoppingtours, cook and taste sessions, cookery clubs.
Activities TrainingGrowing foodInformation/advice/support
User Groups Black and minority ethnic groups
Hollybush Family Centre
Contact Mo BurnsHollybush Family CentreHollybush WalkHinton HR2 6AF
Tel 01432 269 437
Based in a family centre with a teaching kitchenand community café, this project provides classes,health education and information, advice andsupport. The aim is to improve the general healthof families, and to help single parents withparenting problems related to poverty and lowincome.
Activities Community caféGrowing foodInformation/advice/support
User Groups FamiliesWomen and childrenSingle parents
Northern Point
Contact Ian Gilain2 Spur RoadCoshamPortsmouth PO6 3DY
Tel 023 9220 0413
A social club for people living in the Portsmoutharea who suffer from severe or enduring mentalhealth problem (aged 16-64yrs).
Activities Food provisionUser Groups Mental health users
Greater London and Hampshire
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Central Point
Contact Simon Summerill22-24 Kingston RoadPortsmouth PO1 5RZ
Tel 023 9229 8791Fax 023 9229 8924Website: www.rethink.org
This project runs a healthy living day centre forhomeless single people aged 18-65 yrs. Thecentre provides accommodation and benefitadvice, a healthcare surgery and subsidisedlunches, as well as training in budgeting, cookingand independent living skills.
Activities Food provisionTransport/deliveryNutrition/health education
User Groups Drug/alcohol abusersLearning disabilitiesMental health usersHomeless peopleEx-offendersHIV/Aids
Crisis Fareshare Southampton
Contact Barry Gibbons158 Windermere AvenueMillbrookSouthampton SO16 9GA
Tel 023 8051 1146
This project redistributes surplus fresh foods(from retailers and supermarkets) to homelessprojects. It also delivers to low-income groups. Itworks work with a team of volunteers, roughlyhalf of whom have been homeless themselves.
Activities Transport/deliveryUser Groups Low-income groups
Homeless people
Roberts Centre
Contact Carole Damper84 Crasswell StreetLandportPortsmouth PO1 1HT
Tel 023 9229 6919Fax 023 9234 6088WWeebbssiittee www.phagroup.org.uk/
ECRobertsCentre.htm
This is a day centre, which provides food forfamilies in crisis. It also runs literacy courses,where a meal is also provided, and holds weeklycookery classes.
Activities Food provisionTransport/deliveryNutrition/health education
User Groups Women and childrenLearning disabilitiesHomeless peopleEx-offendersSecondary school children
St George's Beneficial Breakfast &Homework Clubs
Contact Jane LoveSt Georges Beneficial C of E Primary SchoolHanover StreetPortseaPortsmouth PO1 3BN
Tel 023 9282 2886Fax 023 9282 0179
A school club providing before and after schoolcare, for 12 children in the morning and 24children after school hours. The children aresupplied with breakfast and an afternoon mealand are encouraged to take part in preparing themeals.
Activities After school clubBreakfast clubCookery class
User Groups Primary school childrenLow-income groupsSingle parents
Hampshire
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HERTFORDSHIRE
North London Organic Gardeners
Contact Sue Campbell48 Wellington RoadEnfield EN1 2PG
Tel 020 8363 3643
A local group of Henry Doubleday ResearchAssociation (HDRA) members and others whomeet to promote home growing of organic food,particularly in schools, for shows and for otherclubs.
Activities CompostingGrowing food
User Groups All groups
KENT
South Ashford Community Food Project
Contact Jilla Burgess-AllenRay Allen CentreStanhope RoadAshford TN23 5RN
Tel 01304 828 707
The project runs 'Healthy Eating on a Budget'courses. Participants prepare & eat a mealtogether each week and discuss cheap, healthyfood. The centre has a garden project (growingsensory plants, fruit, veg & herbs) and is hopingto open a community café this summer.
Activities Community caféGrowing foodFood Provision
User Groups All groupsChildrenWomen and children
St Simon's Church Meals ProvisionProgramme
Contact Louise Mant95 Devonshire AvenueSouthseaPortsmouth PO4 9ED
Tel 023 9236 0109
This project provides meals at minimal cost threedays a week (two lunches and one evening meal)to low income groups and the homeless.
Activities Food provisionInformation/advice/support
User Groups Drug/alcohol abusersHomeless peopleEx-offendersSingle parents
The Co-operative Bunch Fruit andVegetable Co-op
Contact Gulzar SharifSouthampton Environment Centre14-15 Brunswick PlaceSouthampton SO15 2AQ
Tel 023 8033 6172
This project is the umbrella organisation for twofresh fruit and vegetable co-ops which run ininner city Southampton. They sell seasonal fruitand vegetables at a reduced cost to members.The project is open to all those living andworking in the areas where the co-ops operate,and the surrounding areas. It aims to improveaccess to fruit and veg, geographically andeconomically, for those living in deprived areas.
Activities Transport/deliveryNutrition/health educationPrice discounts/vouchers
User Groups All groups
Hampshire, Hertfordshire and Kent
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LANCASHIRE
Bolton Community Nutrition
Contact Steffie El Hassan or Julie HoltLever Chambers for HealthAshburner StreetBolton BL1 1SQ
Tel 01204 360 094/5Fax 01204 360 098Website www.bolton.nhs.uk/Dietetics/
menupage.htm
This service uses trained community nutritionassistants to work on local food and health issues.
Activities Information/advice/supportNutrition/health education
User Groups All groupsPractitioners/professionalsHomeless people
Bolton Gathering of Organic Growers
Contact Jenny HallBolton Wildlife ProjectBlackburn RoadBolton BL1
Tel 01204 397 800
The project consists of a network of organicgrowers' groups, including Farnworth andKearsley, Halliwell, Westhoughton, Women’sGroup Nai Zindagi, Great Lever, Oldhams Estate,Heaton, Johnson's Fold and Breightmet.
Activities CompostingGrowing food
User Groups Low-income groups
Bolton's Food Co-ops
Contact Steffie El HassanLever Chambers Centre for HealthAshburner StreetBolton BL1 1SQ
Tel 01204 360 094/5Fax 01204 360 098
This is a network of volunteer-run co-opsproviding weekly fruit and vegetables andwholefoods. It is aimed at the elderly, low-income individuals and families.
Activities Food co-opUser Groups Families
Older people
Bolton's Growing its own Food
Contact Jenny HallLancashire Wildlife Trust125 Blackburn RoadBolton BL1 8HF
Tel 01204 361 847Fax 01204 397 800
We provide suppport to community groupsgrowing their own organic food in "communityallotments". People work the land together andshare the produce. Anyone is welcome, andsome projects target particular groups such as thesocially excluded, children and ethnic minorities.There are currently 11 projects in Bolton, one inSalford and two in Wigan.
Activities Growing foodFood Co-op
User Groups ChildrenBlack and minority ethnic groupsWomen and childrenLearning disabilitiesOlder people
Lancashire
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South and West Lancashire Food Bank
Contact Linsey Pavsic49 WestgateSandy Lane CentreSkelmersdale WN8 8LP
Tel 01695 555717Fax 01695 558073
This is a food bank which tries to prevent wastein the food industry by distributing surplus topeople in need through voluntary organisations.It is an environmentally friendly, free method ofdisposal of surplus products.
Activities Food provisionTransport/deliveryFood bank
User Groups All groupsDisadvantaged peopleLow-income groups
Werneth and Freehold Organic Herband Vegetable Project
Contact Matt FavierGroundwork Oldham & Rochdale The Environment CentreShaw RoadHigginshawOldham OL1 4AW
Tel 0161 624 1444
This is an organic herb and vegetable projectproviding practical advice on organic gardening,and on how to grow and use herbs andvegetables. The target audience is Asian womenand community groups in the Oldham area.
Activities Tool libraryGrowing foodFood provision
User Groups Black and minority ethnic groupsWomen and childrenSingle parents
MegaBite
Contact Tara GuhaChurches' National Housing CoalitionCentral Buildings, Oldham StManchester M1 1JT
Tel 0161 236 9321Fax 0161 237 5359
This project co-ordinates food voucher schemesfor homeless people in the UK. Food outletswhere vouchers can be exchanged include daycentres, where client groups can also accesssupport services.
Activities Price discounts/vouchersUser Groups Homeless people
Offshoots
Contact Richard Jones65 Berry StreetBurnley BB11 2LF
Tel 01282 430 433Fax 01282 430 432Website www.communigate.co.uk/lancs/
offshootsgardenburnley
This is a community garden designed onpermaculture principles, producing organic foodin polytunnels and greenhouses. It also has acommunity compost site and alternative energysystems. The project is linked to a communityresource centre and aims to develop acommunity cafe.
Activities Community caféGrowing foodFood provision
User Groups All groupsMental health users
Lancashire
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Food Works - Abercromby
Contact Shirley JuddAbercromby Health CentreGrove StreetLiverpool L7 7HG
Tel 0151 708 9370Fax 0151 709 6725
Community food workers work with local groupsto promote better nutrition, increasing cookingskills & knowledge of healthy eating. The projecttargets the general community, plus singleparents and hard to reach groups, eg, asylumseekers and the homeless.
Activities After school clubNutrition/health educationCookery class
User Groups RefugeesWomen and childrenHomeless peopleSingle parents
Local Food Links (with NethertonFeelgood Factory)
Contact Pamela MitchellNetherton Feelgood Factory32 Marian SquareNethertonLiverpool L30 5QA
Tel 0151 330 5811Fax 0151 330 5820
This project promotes healthy eating andencourages development of community-led foodinitiatives, including food growing, a communitycafe, cookery classes, mother and baby weaningactivities and heart disease prevention.
Activities Community caféGrowing foodNutrition/health education
User Groups Mothers and babiesParentsYoung peopleWomen and childrenOlder people
Westhoughton Food Co-op
Contact Alan Brown5 Snydle CloseWesthoughtonBolton BL5 3EP
Tel 01942 841 356
This project provides affordable wholefoods todisadvantaged groups and holds cookingdemonstrations. It encourages people to growtheir own food by providing support andtraining.
Activities Growing foodFood co-op
User Groups All groups
World of Food Project
Contact Steffie El HassanLever Chambers Centre for HealthAshburner StreetBolton BL1 1SQ
Tel 01204 360 094/5Fax 01204 360 098
Multi-cultural cooking festivals and workshops.
Activities Cookery classUser Groups All groups
Black and minority ethnic groups
Lancashire and Merseyside
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Tots' Plots
Contact Jeff HughesCentre for Sustainable Livingc/o Manor Trust Building 79 Gorsey LaneWallasey CH44 4HF
Tel 0151 639 2121Fax 0151 639 0090Website www.cesul.org.uk
This project aims to promote healthier eating andincrease vegetable consumption among childrenin Wirral. It involves mini allotment schemes forchildren under five, in nursery schools, playgroups and primary schools.
Activities Growing foodNutrition/health education
User Groups Primary school childrenPre-school childrenLow-income groups
NORTH YORKSHIRE
East Cleveland Good Grub Clubs
Contact Frank Blenkeyc/o Lifestyle Health Link, Co-op buildingHigh StreetLoftusSaltburn-By-The-Sea TS13 4HW
Tel 01287 640 809
This project aims to promote healthy eating topeople on low incomes by demonstrating how tocook economical, healthy foods that are low infat and high in fibre. It comes under the umbrellaof the Lifestyle Health Link project, with clubs inSkinningrove, Carlin How, Brotton and Loftus.
Activities TrainingTuck shopNutrition/health education
User Groups ParentsFamiliesWomen and childrenOlder peopleSingle parents
Healthy Tuck Shop, Cleveland
Contact Wendy MartindaleDental Dept Guisborough General HospitalNorthgateGuisborough TS14 6HZ
Tel 01287 284 000Fax 01287 610 508
This project organises healthy tuckshops in localprimary schools, to increase knowledge ofhealthy eating. It comes under the umbrella ofthe Lifestyle Health Link project.
Activities Tuck shopNutrition/health education
User Groups Primary school children
Lifestyle Health Link
Contact Frank BlenkeyCo-op buildingHigh StreetLoftusSaltburn-By-The-Sea TS13 4HW
Tel 01287 640 809
Working through self-help groups, this projectaims to encourage a healthy lifestyle by providingknowledge, skills and, where appropriate,accredited qualifications. It also supports otherlocal projects, and is the umbrella organisationfor Good Grub Clubs in the area, which operatefrom the East Cleveland villages of Skinningrove,Carlin How, Brotton and Loftus. It also supports atraining group, Tastie Bites, and Walkie Talkie, ahealthy walking group.
Activities Nutrition/health educationCookery class
User Groups Women and childrenOlder peopleSingle parents
Merseyside and North Yorkshire
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Kingswood Community Cafe
Contact Ken CampbellKingswood Neighbourhood CentreAlberta CloseCorby NN18 9HU
Tel 01536 743 854Fax 01536 743 854
This community cafe provides accredited trainingin basic catering to local residents and youngpeople with learning difficulties. The client groupincludes single parents, elderly, unwaged and lowincome families.
Activities Community caféInformation/advice/supportNutrition/health education
User Groups Women and childrenLearning disabilitiesUnemployedOlder peopleSecondary school childrenSingle parents
NORTHUMBERLAND
First Step Organic Vegetable Growing
Contact Sandra Morland34 Grainger Park RoadNE4 8SA
Tel 0191 226 1213Fax 0191 238 6160Website www.firststepne.org.uk
This project provides multi-racial organicvegetable growing for women.
Activities Growing foodNutrition/health education
User Groups WomenBlack and minority ethnic groupsWomen and children
South Tees Food Project
Contact Fiona TaylorClinical Nutrition & Health Promotion, Guisborough General HospitalNorthgateGuisborough TS14 6HZ
Tel 01642 284 074Fax 01642 284 085
The local health trust has set up Good Grub clubsin the most disadvantaged areas, deliveringnutrition advice in a practical way. Clubs areopen to all and have resulted in a positive changein behaviour, as well as skills developmentthrough training, employment, projectdevelopment and sustainability.
Activities Community caféFood partnershipGrowing food
User Groups ChildrenBlack and minority ethnic groupsWomen and childrenLearning disabilitiesPractitioners/professionalsHomeless peopleOlder peopleSingle parents
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE
Daily Bread Wholefood Co-operative Ltd
Contact John ClarkeThe Old LaundryBedford RoadNorthampton NN4 7AD
Tel 01604 621 531Fax 01604 603 725Website www.dailybread.co.uk
This is a small co-op which stocks a range offoods and also caters for individuals with specialdietary requirements.
Activities Food provisionFood co-op
User Groups All groups
North Yorkshire, Northamptonshire and Northumberland
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Food For Fun
Contact Deanna ThrallMansfield District Council Civic CentreChesterfield RoadMansfield NG19 7BH
Tel 01623 463 183Fax 01623 463 900
This project aims to raise awareness of foodthrough fun activities, such as food tastingsessions, looking particularly at low-cost nutritiousfoods for children's lunch boxes.
Activities Food provisionNutrition/health educationCookery class
User Groups ChildrenWomen and childrenLearning disabilitiesHomeless peopleOlder peopleSingle parents
Food Initiatives Group - FIG
Contact Lauren KinnersleyGroundwork Greater Nottingham35-37 St Mary's GateNottingham NG7 6BB
Tel 0115 979 9227Fax 0115 950 9997Website www.foodfig.org.uk
This is a local partnership linking food, healthand the environment. It runs a local foodnetwork, publishes a newsletter, and has a smallgrant scheme for food projects. It also researchesfood security and works strategically ondeveloping local food policy.
Activities Food partnershipUser Groups Disadvantaged people
Kids' Cafe Network
Contact Nicola MatthewsonThomas Gaughan Community Centre Yelverton Pottery BankWalker NE6 3SW
Tel 0191 224 2349Fax 0191 224 2349
This is a partnership between local volunteers andagencies to highlight the importance of healthynutritious food for children and young people. Itorganises activity sessions.
Activities Community caféInformation/advice/supportNutrition/health education
User Groups Primary school childrenChildrenYoung peopleFamiliesSingle parents
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
Back to Roots Allotment Project
Contact Shayasta TasRadford Health CentreIlkeston RoadRadford Nottingham NG7 3GW
Tel 0115 942 0360Fax 0115 942 2672
This project aims to reduce diabetes amongmembers of the Asian community by promotinghealthy eating and physical exercise.
Activities Growing foodNutrition/health education
User Groups Black and minority ethnic groups
Northumberland and Nottinghamshire
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Health Development
Contact Teresa JacksonGroundwork Ashfield & MansfieldCattlemarket TavernNottingham RoadMansfield NG18 1BJ
Tel 01623 635 334Fax 01623 427 352
This project supports community allotments,healthy eating in schools and an educationalproject linking farms and schools, called TheFood and Farming Challenge.
Activities Growing foodNutrition/health educationFood co-op
User Groups All groupsChildren
Health Development in Newark/Sherwood
Contact Jabran AhmadGroundwork Ashfield & Mansfield The Cattlemarket TavernNottingham RoadMansfield NE18 1BJ
Tel 01623 635 334Fax 01623 427 352
This project consists of community gardens andcomposting groups, and plans to link with otherprojects, including health walks (group exercisefor cardiovascular disease).
Activities Growing foodNutrition/health educationCookery class
User Groups ChildrenWomen and childrenEx-offendersOlder peopleSingle parents
Nottingham Homelessness Project
Contact Sue SmithNottingham Community Health261 Beechdale RoadNottingham NG8 3EY
Tel 0115 942 6000
This project produced a survival guide, 'EatingWell When Homeless'. Although the pack is nolonger available, the project can still providebasic information, including some recipes.
Activities Information/advice/supportUser Groups Homeless people
Radford Bottle and Dummy Dump
Contact Jenny SethRadford Heath CentreIlkestone Road RadfordNottingham NG7 3GW
Tel 0115 9420360Fax 0115 942 2672
This is a campaign to stress the dietary, dental,speech and language implications of extendedbottle and dummy use. Expert advice is at hand,and there are prizes for children who dump theirdummies. The project has produced an award-winning leaflet used in Nottingham healthcentres.
Activities Information/advice/supportNutrition/health education
User Groups Mothers and babiesPre-school childrenLow-income groupsWomen and children
Nottinghamshire
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OXFORDSHIRE
Church of God of Prophecy - SoupKitchen
Contact Mrs Smith4 Kelburne RoadCowleyOxford OX4 3SJ
Tel 01865 772479
This is a soup kitchen providing meals forhomeless people in the Asian culture centre oncea week on Wednesdays.
Activities Food ProvisionUser Groups All groups
Homeless peopleSingle parents
Community Caterers' Network
Contact MaggieDentHealth Promotion, Oxford City Council3rd Floor St Aldates Chambers St. AldatesOxford OX1 1DF
Tel 01865 252373Fax 01865 252662
Regular meeting place for those involved inproviding low or no-cost foods. Included in thenetwork are 3 family centres, 3 homeless centres,2 day centres for minority ethnic older people, 1day centre for children/carers and 2 communitycafes.
Activities Community CaféFood PartnershipGrowing food
User Groups Black and Minority Ethnic GroupsLow-income groupsWomen and childrenLearning disabilitiesPractitioners/professionalsHomeless peopleOlder peopleSecondary school childrenSingle parents
Oxford Food Hygiene Cooking SkillsCourse
Contact MaggieDentHealth Promotion, Oxford City Council3rd FloorSt Aldates Chambers St AldatesOxford OX1 1DF
Tel 01865 252373Fax 01865 252344
This project provides one day courses giving acertificate in basic food hygiene. It is run throughthe Environmental Health Department. Freeplaces are provided for charities and voluntaryorganisations. The project also intermediate andadvanced courses.
Activities Nutrition/health educationUser Groups All groups
Women and childrenSingle parents
Rainbow House Drop-in Centre
Contact Isabelle TamsWesley Memorial ChurchNew Inn Hall StreetOxford OX1 2DH
Tel 01865 243216Fax 01865 247706
A voluntary organisation which gives valuablework experience in a warm and friendlyenvironment to people from all walks of life.
Activities Food provisionInformation/advice/supportNutrition/health education
User Groups FamiliesLearning disabilitiesSingle parents
Oxfordshire
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SOUTH YORKSHIRE
Crisis Fareshare South Yorkshire
Contact Kathryn ElliottUnit 19Grange Lane Industrial EstateCarrwood Road, StairfootBarnsley S71 5AS
Tel 01226 213 255Fax 01226 213 282Website www.crisisfareshare.co.uk
Crisis Fareshare collects surplus food fromretailers and other food outlets in refrigeratedvans and redistributes it to 35 projects fordisadvantaged people in South Yorkshire.
Activities Food provisionTransport/deliveryNutrition/health education
User Groups Disadvantaged peopleBlack and minority ethnic groupsFamiliesDisabledHomeless peopleEx-offendersOlder peopleSingle parents
Fruit and Vegetable DistributionNetwork
Contact Alison JohnsonSheffield Wildlife Trust HQ37 Stafford RoadSheffield S2 2SF
Tel 0114 263 335Fax 0114 263 4345
This project was set up to provide local shopswith fresh fruit and vegetables. It currentlysupplies five small shops, two sandwich shops,three youth clubs, two school tuck shops, andolder people who meet at a community centre.The project also grows some vegetables, thoughmost produce is bought wholesale.
Activities Growing foodFood provisionNutrition/health education
User Groups All groups
SOMERSET
Balsam Project
Contact Sue PlaceThe Balsam CentreBalsam ParkWincanton BA9 9HB
Tel 01963 31842Fax 01963 31857
This is a community development organisationbidding to become a Healthy Living Centre,which will include a community cafe. The projectincludes a pilot organic food co-op for people onlow incomes or with mental health problems.There are also therapeutic horticulture projects.
Activities CompostingGrowing foodNutrition/health education
User Groups Disadvantaged peopleYoung peopleWomen and childrenLearning disabilitiesMental health usersEx-offendersSingle parents
Southside Food Co-op
Contact Viv TalbotEnvolveGreen Park StationGreen Park RoadBath BA1 1JB
Tel 01225 787 924Fax 01225 460840
This co-op sells vegetables, fruit & eggs tomembers at cost price. The project also offers a£2.50 mixed bag of fruit & veg, most of which isgrown locally. It works closely with localcommunity projects such as nurseries, communitycentres, sheltered housing, etc. The project runsbasic cookery sessions, targeting young people.
Activities Transport/DeliveryCookery ClassFood Co-op
User Groups Single parentsWomen and childrenOlder people
Somerset and South Yorkshire
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Heeley City Farm
Contact David GrayRichards RoadSheffield S2 3DT
Tel 0114 258 0482Fax 0114 255 0244
www.heeleyfarm.org.uk
Heeley City Farm is a community based and ledtraining, employment and youth projectemploying 33 people, mostly local andpreviously unemployed, on a range ofenvironmental food and farming basedenterprises. The project has a community caféand also runs organic gardening classes,horticultural training.
Activities Community caféFood partnershipGrowing food
User Groups All groups
Heeley Community Allotment Project(previously Heeley Health Project)
Contact Zoy GreavesHeeley Green Centre344 Gleadless road, HeeleySheffield S2 3AJ
Tel 0771 771 858
This is a community allotment project where localpeople come together 1 or 2 days per week togrow food organically, learn horticulturaltechniques, widen taste experiences, and find outhow to use different vegetables and herbs.
Activities Growing foodFood provisionNutrition/health education
User Groups All groupsWomenLow-income groups
Green Peppers
Contact Columba Timmins108 Heavygate RoadSheffield S10 1PF
Tel 0114 266 1411Fax 0114 271 6039
Linking food growing to food tasting and ahealthy diet. Includes fruit/vegetable tasting ateach meeting and simple growing projects(potatoes, strawberries and beans for example).Aims for education through activity. The targetaudience is school pupils at Key stage 2 (8-11year olds).
Activities Growing foodNutrition/health education
User Groups ParentsPrimary school childrenPractitioners/professionals
Healthy Bites Food Co-op & Café
Contact Lorraine HeadenAthersley Cares St Helen's Church HallLaithes LaneAthersley, Barnsley S71 3AF
Tel 01226 779444
This is a food co-op and community cafe run by9 volunteers whose activities are aimed at peopleon low incomes. There is a creche facility for thevolunteers whilst working at the project.
Activities Community CaféNutrition/Health EducationCookery Class
User Groups ChildrenWomen and childrenSingle parents
South Yorkshire
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LEAF (Local Enterprises Around Food)
Contact Rose TannerCommunity RoomSouthey Library, Moonshine LaneSheffield S5 8RB
Tel 0114 245 0200
This community group promotes healthy eatingand growing in North Sheffield. Initiatives includeCooking on a Budget and a communityallotments project. It aims to involve localpeople/groups in community development.
Activities Community caféBreakfast clubFood partnership
User Groups Primary school childrenChildrenWomen and childrenLearning disabilitiesPractitioners/professionalsMental health usersEx-offendersHIV/AidsOlder peopleSingle parents
Positive Health Action ThroughGardening & EnvironmentalDevelopment (PHAGED)
Contact Duncan RhuddDearne Valley Community Mental Health Team,16 School Street, OakfieldBarnsley S73 9ET
Tel 01226 752839
The project aims to develop a disused piece ofland for food growing by a group of mentalhealth service users. Initially the food will beconsumed by the group, but the intention is todevelop other land and grow vegetables for othermarginalised groups.
Activities Growing foodNutrition/health education
User Groups Mental health users
STAFFORDSHIRE
Healthy Tuck HAZ Project
Contact Marie BarleyDirectorate of Health Promotion79 London RoadStoke ST4 7PZ
Tel 01782 400545Fax 01782 745107
This project aims to improve access andavailability of healthier foods and drinks inprimary school tuck shops. The schools chosenare those where pupils have high rates of toothdecay. The approach used is based on the healthpromoting schools scheme.
Activities Tuck shopFood partnershipNutrition/health education
User Groups Primary school childrenChildren
Stoke Community Foods
Contact Ann CollettArch Day Centre53 Regent RoadHanley ST1 3BT
Tel 01782 266 016Fax 01782 265 336
This is a food delivery service, providing non-perishable foods and fresh fruit and vegetables topeople on low incomes and homeless people.The food is delivered two days after beingordered.
Activities Food provisionTransport/deliveryNutrition/health education
User Groups All groupsChildrenLow-income groupsHomeless peopleEx-offendersOlder peopleSingle parents
South Yorkshire and Staffordshire
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African Community InvolvementAssociation
Contact Mohammed KikambiEagle Court224 London RoadMitcham CR4 3HD
Tel 020 8687 2400Fax 020 8646 4363
This is a support programme to improve thequality of life for black and minority ethnicgroups living with HIV/Aids in London. Itprovides advice on healthy eating, assistance withshopping, meal preparation in people's homes,and is planning a delivery service. The projectalso provides information and organises peersupport for users.
Activities Community caféInformation/advice/supportTransport/delivery
User Groups Black and minority ethnic groupsHIV/Aids
TYNE AND WEAR
Community Regeneration Trust N.E.(formerly Cleadon Community Project)
Contact Ian Stimpson3 Robinson StreetSouth Shields NE33 4PR
Tel 0191 424 5460Fax 0191 427 7709
www.crtne.org.uk
This project runs a food co-op supplying fruit andveg to the elderly, gives free fruit to school clubsand others in need, runs cookery classes foryoung single parents, and is starting an organicallotment. It also provides job creation andtraining.
Activities Breakfast clubGrowing food
User Groups Disadvantaged peopleChildrenOlder peopleSingle parents
Cornerstone - Benwell Christian ShopProject
Contact Kit Tapscott64 Armstrong RoadBenwellNewcastle Upon Tyne NE4 7TU
Tel 0191 2260941Fax 0191 238 6426
This is a Christian drop-in centre with acommunity cafe. The project is targeted atgeneral members of the community, andpromotes cooking skills.
Activities Community caféLuncheon clubInformation/advice/support
User Groups Women and childrenEx-offendersOlder peopleSecondary school childrenSingle parents
Drift Permaculture at ScotswoodCommunity Garden
Contact Ken BradshawJohn Marley CentreMuscott GroveNewcastle NE15 6TT
Tel 0191 200 4706Fax 0191 200 4729
This food-growing project promotes cooking andgardening skills to encourage project users tolearn how to cook the food they grow. Theproject aims to involve children, students, theunemployed, the elderly and people withlearning disabilities.
Activities TrainingLETSGrowing food
User Groups ChildrenBlack and minority ethnic groupsLearning disabilitiesStudentsUnemployedOlder people
Surrey and Tyne and Wear
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East End Community Health ProjectFood Initiatives
Contact Kath Bellc/o East End Community Health ProjectYelverton Crescent, Pottery BankNewcastle upon Tyne NE6 3SW
Tel 0191 276 0595
This is a community development projectconsisting of research into food choice in eastNewcastle. It runs three food co-ops incommunity settings and five healthy tuck shops inprimary schools. It also works with parent groupsin schools on food issues. Initially the targetaudience was elderly, but now covers all ages.
Activities Community caféLuncheon club
User Groups ParentsPrimary school childrenOlder people
Newcastle Nutrition CommunityDietitians
Contact Louise SmithRoyal Victoria InfirmaryQueen Victoria RoadNewcastle-upon-Tyne NE1 4LP
Tel 0191 282 5930Fax 0191 282 4419
www.newcastlefood.co.uk
Five community dietitians, nutrition workers anda food initiative co-ordinator work on a range ofcommunity food initiatives, targeting groups indisadvantaged areas. There are a range ofactivities, including Food and Play for children,and Get Cooking for young people and families.It has links with food co-ops and kids cafes.
Activities Community caféFood partnershipGrowing food
User Groups Sure StartBlack and minority ethnic groupsWomen and childrenOlder peopleSingle parents
North Tyneside Cooking Pack
Contact Anita AttalaSir GB Hunter Memorial HospitalThe GreenWallsend NE28 7PB
Tel 0191 220 5945Fax 0191 220 5946
This is a resource pack for practitioners/professionals wanting to run Get Cooking sessionsfor people on low incomes, including homelesspeople. There is also information on foodhygiene and how to obtain funding for courses.
Activities Information/advice/supportNutrition/health education
User Groups FamiliesWomen and childrenLearning disabilitiesPractitioners/professionalsHomeless peopleOlder peopleSingle parents
Northern Initiative on Women andEating
Contact Anne-Marie Norman2nd Floor1 Pink LaneNewcastle NE1 5DW
Tel 0191 221 0233Fax 0191 221 2669
This project exists to offer support andtherapeutic group work to people (primarilywomen) who have difficulties with food andaround food issues.
User Groups All groups
Tyne and Wear
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Playworkers Pack
Contact Brenda MilsomSir GB Hunter Memorial HospitalThe GreenWallsend NE28 7PB
Tel 0191 220 5945Fax 0191 220 5946
This is a resource pack for play-scheme and youthclub leaders to address issues around food andnutrition in a fun and interesting way. The packis used with secondary school children attendingout-of-school clubs.
Activities Information/advice/supportNutrition/health education
User Groups Secondary school children
Porlock Nursery
Contact Lionel HehirGroundwork South TynesideThe Eco Centre, Windmill WayHebburn NE31 1SR
Tel 0191 428 1144Fax 0191 428 1155
This project, growing soft fruit, vegetables andbedding plants, provides placements and workexperience for volunteers, including those withmental health problems, and is also used byschools. The food grown is mainly organic.
Activities Growing foodFood provision
User Groups All groupsChildrenLearning disabilitiesMental health users
Nutrition Skills Training for Volunteersand Development Workers
Contact Anita AttalaSir GB Hunter Memorial HospitalThe GreenWallsend NE28 7PB
Tel 0191 220 5945Fax 0191 220 5946
Accredited courses on nutrition and how to runcooking groups for volunteers, developmentworkers and practitioners/professionals who thendisseminate the information to local groups.
Activities Information/advice/supportUser Groups All groups
Practitioners/professionals
Oakleigh Gardens
Contact Lionel HehirGroundwork South TynesideThe Eco Centre, Windmill WayHebburn NE31 1SR
Tel 0191 428 1144Fax 0191 428 1155
This vegetable-growing project has recentlyachieved organic status. It is situated close to ahousing estate, and provides work experience forlocal community volunteers.
Activities Growing foodFood provision
User Groups All groups
Tyne and Wear
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WARWICKSHIRE
Bath Place Community Café
Contact RichardClarkBath Place Community VentureBath PlaceLeamington Spa CV31 3AQ
Tel 01926 338421
This project aims to promote healthy eating andencourage volunteering in low-incomecommunities. It also aims to be an educationalgroup.
Activities Community caféBreakfast clubCookery class
User Groups All groupsBlack and minority ethnic groupsWomen and childrenLearning disabilitiesHomeless peopleOlder peopleSecondary school childrenSingle parents
WEST MIDLANDS
Age Concern Lunch Centre
Contact Kenneth Buckler50 Lower Hall LaneWalsall WS1 1RJ
Tel 01922 638 825Fax 01922 615 713
This is a community cafe/lunch club providinglunches for elderly people in Walsall.
Activities Community caféLuncheon club
User Groups Older people
Community Family Initiative (formerlyHealthy Mothers & Babies)
Contact Vicki FitzgeraldFernbank Surgery508-516 Alum RoadBirmingham B8 3HX
Tel 0121 685 6723
This project promotes health for women and pre-school children, with a strong emphasis onnutrition education through advice to individualsand group activities.
Activities Information/advice/supportNutrition/health educationCookery class
User Groups Mothers and babiesPregnant womenBlack and minority ethnic groupsFamiliesWomen and childrenSingle parents
Food Net Project
Contact Eleanor McGeeDietetic Department Fernbank Medical Centre508-516 Alum Rock RoadWard End B8 3HX
Tel 0121 678 3872Fax 0121 678 3859
This project aims to prevent coronary heartdisease by promoting healthy eating. It runspractical cookery sessions, has links with andsupports food growing and buying schemes, andworks with food retailers.
Activities Breakfast clubGrowing foodNutrition/health education
User Groups ChildrenBlack and minority ethnic groupsWomen and childrenPractitioners/professionalsHomeless peopleEx-offendersHIV/AidsSingle parents
Warwickshire and West Midlands
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Growing Opportunities
Contact Veronica BarryIdeal For All Independent Living Centre100 Oldbury Road, SmethwickB66 1JE
Tel 0121 565 7925Fax 0121 565 7964
This project seeks to promote independence andhealthy living through sustainable horticultureand food projects, with a focus on the needs ofdisabled and excluded people. Two projects arebeing established - Malthouse, a therapeutichorticulture project, and Salop Drive, a food-producing market garden.
Activities Food partnershipGrowing food
User Groups Disadvantaged peopleLearning disabilitiesPractitioners/professionalsDisabledMental health usersOlder people
Local Organic Agricultural Facilities(LOAF)
Contact Paul MasonWolverhampton Environment Centre, Westacre Crescent, FinchfieldWolverhampton WV39AY
Tel 01902 766 199Fax 0121 530 5501
This project uses greenhouses at the newenvironment centre to grow fruit and vegetablesusing organic methods. The food is thensupplied to local communities through food co-operatives. The project encourages the long-termunemployed to grow and distribute the food.
Activities Community caféFood partnershipGrowing food
User Groups Low-income groups
From Concrete to Coriander
Contact Irena IwegonCSV EnvironmentSt. Peter's College, SaltleyBirmingham B8 3TE
Tel 0121 328 3400Fax 0121 322 2008WWeebbssiittee www.csv.org.uk
The project involves growing vegetables onallotments and running a community garden atSmall Heath Park. The project is an all-women'sgroup, and includes a food co-op and catering aswell as healthy lifestyle activities.
Activities Community caféGrowing foodNutrition/health education
User Groups Black and minority ethnic groupsWomen and childrenPractitioners/professionalsOlder peopleSingle parents
Get Cooking - Stowbridge
Contact Trish BussellDudley Health Improvement Team, Shousters House,Ridge Hill, Brierley Hill RoadStourbridge DY8 5ST
Tel 01384 244 489Fax 01384 755 594
The project focuses on cooking in the community,concentrating on fish, fruit and vegetables withinpriority neighbourhoods.
Activities Food ProvisionNutrition/health educationCookery class
User Groups All groupsLow-income groups
West Midlands
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WEST SUSSEX
Chichester Christian Care Association
Contact Michael JonesSt Joseph'sHunston RoadChichester PO20 1NP
Tel 01243 537 934Fax 01243 839 214
Aims to help people on low incomes and thehomeless by offering food, shelter, advice andsupport, and helping to finding accommodation.The project also runs a new day centre in BognorRegis, open three days a week.
Activities Food provisionCookery class
User Groups Learning disabilitiesHomeless peopleEx-offendersHIV/Aids
WEST YORKSHIRE
All Hallows Community Cafe Project
Contact Ray GastonAll Hallows Vicarage24 Regent TerraceLeeds LS6 1NP
Tel 0113 242 2205Fax 0113 225 2125
This is a community cafe providing affordable,nourishing food. It is open on Wednesdays andThursdays from 9am to 3pm. The ethos of theproject is to feed the mind, body and spirit.
Activities Community caféInformation/advice/supportNutrition/health education
User Groups Low-income groupsWomen and childrenHomeless peopleOlder peopleSecondary school childrenSingle parents
North Solihull LETSystem
Contact Valerie Egan14 Arran WaySmithswoodBirmingham B36 0QG
Tel 0121 770 8889www.wmlets.org.uk
This is a Local Exchange Trading System (LETS)where members exchange skills and services witheach other. Food is not currently an importantaspect, but may develop into one later. Theproject targets a general audience.
Activities LETSInformation/advice/support
User Groups All groups
Wolverhampton Food Co-ops UmbrellaLtd
Contact Melanie Heywood92 Stanley RoadWolverhampton WV10 9EL
Tel 01902 556 632Fax 01902 556 632
A project to support and develop food-relatedenterprises, fresh food co-ops and healthy eatingin Wolverhampton. The project is open toanyone, particularly those on low incomes.
Activities Growing foodFood co-op
User Groups All groupsLow-income groupsUnemployed
West Midlands, West Sussex and West Yorkshire
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Foodworks
Contact Pam WaltersAction for HealthWhiterose House, West ParadeWakefield WF1 1LT
Tel 01924 213 163
Foodworks is a Neighbourhood Renewal Fundproject designed to tackle community food issuesin the Wakefield district. It is led by a team ofcommunity food development workers. So far thework has included teaching cooking skills tochildren and adults, forging direct links betweenfood producers and consumers, setting upprojects in schools, and working with healthvisitors and Sure Start.
Activities Community caféBreakfast club
User Groups All groupsMothers and babiesPrimary school childrenLow-income groups
Gardening for Health
Contact Shahnaz BegunBradford Community EnvironmentProjectUnit 14, Carlisle Business Centre, 60 Carlisle RoadBradford BD8 8BD
Tel 01274 223 236Fax 01274 223 353
A food-growing project to reduce coronary heartdisease in Bangladeshi communities acrossBradford. The project involves Bangladeshiwomen in food growing on communityallotments.
Activities Growing foodInformation/advice/support
User Groups Black and minority ethnic groupsLow-income groups
Calderdale and Kirklees Food Futures
Contact Anna Watsonc/o Health Promotion UnitPrincess Royal Health CentreGreenhead RoadHuddersfieldHD1 4EW
Tel 01484 344 286Fax 01484 344 281
www.foodfutures.org.uk
This project aims to bring together local farmers,community groups, retailers, health officers, andlocal authority officers in order to developsustainable local food initiatives. Funding isavailable for community groups in disadvantagedareas.
Activities Food partnershipGrowing foodNutrition/health education
User Groups Black and minority ethnic groupsSingle parentsOlder peopleWomen and children
Community Action Little London(CALLS) Vegetable Garden Project
Contact Jenny Whelan2 Lovell Park HillLeeds LS7 1DF
Tel 0113 225 2591
This project aims to grow vegetables, fruit andherbs for the local community, including the localprimary school in Little London, using mainlyorganic methods.
Activities TrainingGrowing foodFood provision
User Groups Primary school childrenChildrenBlack and minority ethnic groups
West Yorkshire
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WILTSHIRE
Food Bank
Contact Patrick WoodwardPO Box 2020Salisbury SP4 6RF
Tel 01722 411 244Fax 01722411 244WWeebbssiittee www.trusselltrust.org
This project collects dried and canned food anddistributes it to individuals, families or institutionsfor short-term crisis intervention.
Activities Breakfast clubFood provision
User Groups People in crisis
Get Cooking! (Wiltshire)
Contact Stephen WebsterWiltshire Health Promotion ServiceGreenways Centre Malmesbury RdChippenham SN15 5LN
Tel 01249 454270Fax 01249 454271
The project ran a training course forpractitioners/professionals to run Get Cookingclasses and provide nutrition and healtheducation. The training resource pack is stillavailable, and some cookery classes are stillrunning.
Activities Nutrition/health educationCookery class
User Groups Practitioners/professionals
Riddings Garden Project
Contact Shirley Brown7 Browning RoadDeightonHuddersfield HD2 1HU
Tel 01484 519 694
The project runs a community café and aims toestablish a fruit and veg co-op.
Activities Community caféFood provision
User Groups All groupsLow-income groups
Urban Oasis & Tropical Allotments
Contact Anthony MilroyArid Lands InitiativeMacpelah Works, Burnley RoadHebden Bridge HX7 8AU
Tel 01422 843807Fax 01422 842 241
This is a food-growing partnership between alow-income, ethnic minority Asian communityand an international environmental organisationinvolving children, the unemployed and thegeneral community.
Activities Growing foodUser Groups Children
Black and minority ethnic groupsLow-income groupsWomen and children
West Yorkshire and Wiltshire
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Now You're Cooking - Aberdeen
Contact Caroline ComerfordHealth Promotions181 Union StreetAberdeen AB11 6BB
Tel 01224 589 901Fax 01224 840 953
www.health-promotions.com
This project is a practical food skills coursetargeting those living on a low income. Thecourse comprises eight sessions, each lasting twohours.
Activities Nutrition/health educationCookery class
User Groups ChildrenWomen and childrenLearning disabilitiesHomeless peopleOlder peopleSingle parents
EDINBURGH
Barri Grub - Edinburgh
Contact Marilyn BeagleyHealth Hut3 West Pilton ParkEdinburgh EH4 4EL
Tel 0131 332 0871
This award-winning project encourages andpromotes healthy eating by providing cookeryskills and information on healthy eating.
Activities Transport/deliveryNutrition/health educationPrice discounts/vouchers
User Groups All groups
Calder Food Co-operative
Contact Senga NightingaleCalder Community Centre9 Calder ParkEdinburgh EH11 4JN
Tel 0131 453 2654Fax 0131 453 2654
This food co-op aims to improve access to andsupply of groceries and fresh fruit and veg to theelderly, the homeless, single parents, HIV/Aidssufferers and people with learning disabilities.
Activities Transport/deliveryFood co-op
User Groups Learning disabilitiesHomeless peopleHIV/AidsOlder peopleSingle parents
Edinburgh Community Food Initiative
Contact John Brennan22 Tennant StreetEdinburgh EH6 5ND
Tel 0131 467 7326Fax 0131 467 7325
Using a community development approach, theproject aims to encourage and supportcommunity food initiatives which improvepeople's access to a balanced diet. It serves eightfood co-ops in deprived areas throughoutEdinburgh, in addition to several short-termprojects. The initiative also houses Snack Attack, ascheme providing fruit to primary schools.
Activities Transport/deliveryNutrition/health educationFood co-op
User Groups Primary school childrenChildren
Aberdeenshire and Edinburgh
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Healthy Castlemilk
Contact Jacqui McGinley22 Arnprior QuadrantCastlemilkGlasgow G45 9EY
Tel 0141 6342679
A community health project to develop initiativesaround food poverty and health (such as cookeryclasses) with existing groups and serviceproviders.
Activities Information/advice/supportNutrition/health educationPrice discounts/vouchers
User Groups All groupsDrug/alcohol abusersWomen and childrenSecondary school childrenSingle parents
MIDLOTHIAN
Gorebridge Food Co-op
Contact Cathy HamiltonBrown Building80 Hunterfield RoadGorebridge EH23 4TT
Tel 01875 823 922Fax 01875 823 922
This is a small fruit, veg and dried goods co-oprun by two part-time workers, providing food tomembers. The co-op currently has five venues inMidlothian and delivers to primary schools,nurseries, the elderly as well as a breakfast cluband an after school club
Activities After school clubBreakfast clubTransport/delivery
User Groups ChildrenWomen and childrenLearning disabilitiesOlder peopleSingle parents
GLASGOW
Cambuslang Health & Food Project/Research & Evaluation
Contact Lynn BrennanUnit 5, BBRC57 Belmont RoadCambuslang G72 8PG
Tel 0141 641 6777Fax 0141 641 3777
This is a community health project in Cambuslangand Rutherglen, an area granted social inclusionpartnership status. Current projects include foodco-operatives and an oral health programme.
Activities Growing foodInformation/advice/support
User Groups All groupsChildrenYoung peopleOlder peopleSingle parents
Govan Healthy Eating Project
Contact John McKechniec/o Concierge59 Iona Court, GovanGlasgow G51 2XU
Tel 0141 445 2329/1200Fax 0141 445 2742
An urban programme to support, establish anddevelop initiatives such as a community café andshop, cookery classes, a food co-op and a foodpartnership. The project addresses food povertyfor school pupils, students and homeless people.
Activities Community caféFood partnershipGrowing food
User Groups Women and childrenStudentsHomeless peopleOlder peopleSecondary school childrenSingle parents
Glasgow and Midlothian
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RENFREWSHIRE
FRESH LOAF (Ferguslie ResearchEnquiry into Shopping & Health LocalOrganisation Around Food)
Contact Annette BeattieFresh Loaf, 1 Lyon RoadFoxbarPaisley PA2 0NA
Tel 0141 889 2455
This project is a voluntary food issues groupwhich is involved in community development.
Activities Food partnershipFood provisionCommunity shop
User Groups All groupsChildrenWomen and childrenPractitioners/professionalsOlder peopleSingle parents
Renfrewshire Food Federation -Scotland
Contact Doreen PolsonFoxbar Rivers Community BuildingSpey AvenuePaisley PA2 0PA
Tel 01505 814953
This is an umbrella organisation for communityfood groups throughout Renfrewshire. They usethe community development model working inpartnership with all social inclusion groups in thearea.
Activities Food provisionFood co-opTransport/deliveryNutrition/health education
User Groups ChildrenWomen and childrenPractitioners/professionalsOlder peopleSingle parents
NORTH AYRESHIRE
Community Food Workers
Contact Jane JacksonAryshire Central HospitalKilwinning RoadIrvine KA12 8SS
Tel 01294 323130Fax 01294 312446
The project provides training and support forsessional community food workers.
Activities Information/advice/supportCookery class
User Groups All groups
NORTH LANARKSHIRE
Craigneuk Food Co-op
Contact Josephine Cope53 Meadowhead RoadCraigneukWishaw ML2 7UX
Tel 01698 359068Fax 01698 375 122
This is a community-based food co-op, which isopen three days a week. It offers a deliveryservice to the elderly and housebound. It alsoruns a low-cost cuisine competition.
Activities Food provisionFood co-op
User Groups All groupsOlder people
North Ayreshire, North Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire
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Fruit Tuck Shops - Ebbw Vale
Contact Shan HamerBlaenau Gwent Health Promotion, Ebbw Vale HospitalHillsideEbbw Vale NP23 5YA
Tel 01495 302121Fax 01495 303887
This project involves school fruit tuck shops set upby teachers through the Welsh National HealthySchools scheme. Set up in primary schools, withfruit delivered through either a local grocer orschool catering supply service.
Activities Tuck ShopUser Groups Primary school children
Children
BRIDGEND
Bridgend Farmers' Market
Contact Mike Pett21 Sycamore CloseLitchardBridgend CF31 1QS
Tel 01656 658 963Website www.bridgendfarmersmarket.co.uk
This organisation runs monthly markets sellinglocally produced food.
Activities Farmers marketFood co-op
User Groups All groups
WalesANGLESEY
Farmers' Market Network(Rhwydwaith Marchnad Ffermyr Cyf)
Contact Joanna Robertsonc/o Tyddyn AddaLlanddaniel Fab, GaerwenYnys Mon LL60 6HB
Tel 01248 490578
The farmers' market network aims to developsustainable/organic practices based on theprinciple of "local food for local people". Theproducers bring their own produce for sale directto the public, the produce is free from plasticpackaging and has a low food-mile count. As wellas contributing to the local economy, the marketencourages environmentally friendly productionpractices and is open to all local farmers.
Activities Farmers marketFood provisionFood co-op
User Groups All groups
BLAENEAU GWENT
Cwm Harry Land Trust
Contact Richard NorthridgeLower Cwm HarryTegynonNewtown SY16 3ES
Tel 01686 650231Fax 01686 650606Website www.cwmharrylandtrust.org.uk
This is a community composting scheme inconjunction with a community-supportedagriculture scheme. Vegetables and soft fruit aregrown for local people and ex-offenders workingon a smallholding.
Activities Growing foodUser Groups All groups
Ex-offenders
Anglesey, Blaenau Gwent and Bridgend
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Feel Good Project
Contact Janet CarrDerwendeg Primary SchoolHengoed RoadCefn Hengoed CF82 7HP
Tel 01443 813138Fax 01443 813274
This project runs Get Cooking! - practical hands-on cooking sessions for 9-11 year olds. Thesessions involve preparing a healthy meal,cooking and eating it together. Support has beenprovided by Gwent Health Promotion and theschool dental service.
Activities Growing foodFood provision
User Groups Primary school childrenChildren
Ready Steady Cook!
Contact Annette BarrettLewis Girls SchoolOakfield Street,Ystrad MynachHengoed CF82 7WW
Tel 01443 813168Fax 01443 862538
This project is targeted at secondaryschoolchildren (aged 11-18). The Ready SteadyCook! club aims to promote healthy eatingthrough a weekly cookery club. The project alsoincludes the establishment of an organic gardenand an orchard growing fruit & veg.
Activities Growing foodUser Groups Secondary school children
Food Fuel
Contact Rosalyn WilliamsOgmore Centre TrustMain RoadOgmore-by-Sea CF32 0PW
Tel 01656 880646Fax 01656 881091
This is a residential education centre providingcourses for the arts, sports and education tochildren from deprived areas. It provideshealthy, balanced meals throughout the coursesand includes nutrition education.
Activities Growing foodInformation/advice/support
User Groups Children
Local Foods for Local People (Bridgend)
Contact Natasha LadePlanning Services, Civic OfficesAngel StreetBridgend CF314WB
Tel 01656 643179Fax 01656 683190
This is an allotment- and school-based project topromote growing and consumption of local foodsby local people. It is part of a wider project witha farmers' market, breakfast clubs and tuckshops.
Activities Breakfast clubFood partnershipGrowing food
User Groups All groupsChildrenLearning disabilitiesEx-offenders
Bridgend and Caerphilly
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Get Cooking! (Cardiff)
Contact Rhian ConnickNFWI Wales Office19 Cathedral RoadCardiff CF11 9HA
Tel 029 20 221712Fax 029 20 387236
Fun cookery classes available to children, theelderly, ex-offenders, women and children, singleparents and people with learning disabilities.
Activities Information/advice/supportNutrition/health educationCookery class
User Groups Women and childrenLearning disabilitiesEx-offendersOlder peopleSecondary school childrenSingle parents
Heartlink
Contact Debbie LavelleHeartlink ProjectMarine ChambersAnson CourtAtlantic WharfCF10 4AL
Tel 02920 444 410
This is a three-year project which works toprevent diabetes and coronary heart disease inblack and ethnic minority communities in south-east Cardiff. Training is carried out with thePrimary Care Trust and clinics, and screening andinformation days are held in temples andcommunity centres. The project aims to work inpartnership with communities to make simplechanges. The project is working closely alongsidethe local Healthy Living Project and BarefootWorkers.
Activities TrainingInformation/advice/supportNutrition/health education
User Groups Black and minority ethnic groupsPractitioners/professionals
Riverside Real Food Market
Contact Steve Garrett35 Beauchamp StreetCardiff CF11 6AX
Tel 02920 227982Fax 02920 216318Website www.riversidemarket.org.uk
This is a community market selling local produce.It was developed from a local festival, andprovides an outlet for small-scale local producers.It has increased access to healthy food for thecommunity in the disadvantaged area ofRiverside. It also runs an ESF-funded local foodpoverty project.
Activities Food provisionUser Groups All groups
St Mellons Healthy Living Project
Contact Shirley Doyle1 Newent RdSt MellonsCardiff CF3 0BL
Tel 02920 417332Fax 02920 417339
This is a five-year, community-based projectwhich is using a community developmentapproach to develop a nutrition strategy for StMellons. The project targets all sections of thecommunity, including a large percentage ofyoung people (under 25s).
Activities TrainingCommunity caféBreakfast club
User Groups ChildrenBlack and minority ethnic groupsWomen and childrenSingle parents
Cardiff
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Aberystwyth Farmers' Market
Contact Jan FennerEDUT, Lisburne HouseTerrace RoadAberystwyth Y23 2AG
Tel 01970 633 066Fax 01970 626 566
A monthly farmers' market selling locallyproduced food to the community, and helpinglocal producers to sell direct to the public andoffer added value, quality and freshness. It alsoprovides the opportunity for producers andcustomers to interact and get advice.
Activities Farmers marketGrowing food
User Groups All groupsChildrenWomen and childrenOlder peopleSingle parents
John 14:10
Contact Jackie Harris14 Marine TerraceAberystwyth SY23 1AZ
Tel 01970 617080
This is a café serving the general public butprimarily supports the homeless and people withdrug/alcohol related issues. A broad range offood is available.
Activities Community caféPrice discounts/vouchers
User Groups Women and childrenLearning disabilitiesHomeless peopleEx-offendersHIV/AidsOlder peopleSingle parents
Sure Start Midwifery Project, Ely
Contact Nichola Michele Saundersc/o Parkview Health CentreCowbridge RoadWest Ely CF5 5XE
Tel 02920 576087Fax 02920 576087
This is a multi-disciplinary project involving amidwife working with vulnerable groups toprovide antenatal outreach, to reduce thenumber of low birthweight infants. The midwifepromotes good nutritional practices, includingmeal planning and budgeting.
Activities Nutrition/health educationUser Groups Mothers and babies
Pregnant womenWomen and childrenSingle parents
CARMARTHENSHIRE
Antioch Food Project
Contact Deborah ChapmanAntioch CentreCopperworks RoadLlanelli SA15 2NE
Tel 01554 758080Fax 01554 741674
A small, community project which distributesfood parcels to the socially disadvantaged andpeople on low incomes. Recipients are identifiedthrough social workers, health visitors, churchand community members. Food parcels are madeup and distributed to those in need.
Activities Food provisionUser Groups All groups
Drug/alcohol abusersFamiliesWomen and childrenEx-offendersOlder peopleSingle parents
Cardiff, Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion
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Ysgol Tan Y Marian Breakfast Bar
Contact Glenda E HughesYsgol Tan Y Marian, Swn Y Don RoadLlysfaen, Old ColwynColwyn Bay LL29 9LL
Tel 01492 517060
The project provides a daily breakfast to juniorschool children. It is supported by parentvolunteers. It came about following a recentsurvey showing around half the pupils were noteating any breakfast. It aims to be self-sustainingin the future.
Activities Breakfast clubGrowing food
User Groups Children
DENBIGHSHIRE
Denbigh Market
Contact Sue HeygarthEconomic Regeneration TeamTrem Clwyd, RuthimolDenbigh LL15 1QA
Tel 01824 708 083
This is a monthly market which came about toassist in the regeneration of the town centre, andwas developed with support from a local businessgroup. It sells local produce such as yogurt,cheese, other homemade produce, gifts and bric-a-brac.
Activities Farmers marketFood provision
User Groups All groups
Lampeter Food Festival
Contact Hazel Thomas17 Harford SquareLampeter SA48 7HE
Tel 01570 423981Fax 01570 422133
The Lampeter Food Festival aims to provide ashop window for Welsh food products and toboost local food and farming by increasingawareness of the range and quality of locallyproduced foodstuffs.
User Groups All groups
CONWY
Colwyn Bay Farmers' Market
Contact Gavin Hughesc/o Bayview Shopping CentreSeaview Road, Colwyn BayConway LL29 8DG
Tel 01492 531 764Fax 01824 531 596
The farmers' market brings together local farmersto sell meat, veg and other local produce directlyto local people, working towards reducing foodmiles. It allows farmers to add value to theirproduce, and consumers to ask about productionand get a direct answer.
Activities Farmers marketUser Groups All groups
Ceredigion, Conwy and Denbighshire
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S.N.A.G. (Schools Nutrition ActionGroup), Mold
Contact Kathy FlintAlun SchoolWrexham RoadMold CH7 1EP
Tel 01352 750755Fax 01352 707131
A working group of staff, parents, governors,caterers and students are looking at improvingthe provision of healthier food in the school.Among other initiatives, it will introduce snackbags and healthier choices in vending machines.
Activities Food partnershipFood provisionNutrition/health education
User Groups Children
GWYNEDD
Age Concern Gwynedd & Mon LunchClubs
Contact Audrey JenningsTy SeiontSt Helens RoadCaernarfon LL55 2YD
Tel 01286 677711Fax 01286 674389
www.age-concern-gwynedd-a-mon.sagenet.co.uk
This project runs lunch clubs for the over-60s,providing a three-course meal and anopportunity to socialise in various venues (villagehalls and hotels) in Gwynedd and Anglesey.
Activities Food ProvisionUser Groups Older people
Fruit Days
Contact Rhadri EvansYsgol Y LlysPrinces AvenuePrestatyn LL19 8RW
Tel 01745 853019
This is a fruit tuck shop in a primary schoolselling a variety of fruit to 4- to 11-year-olds. Itis open during morning break times twice a weekand aims to encourage healthy eating. Theschool also runs a breakfast club daily.
Activities Breakfast clubFood provision
User Groups Primary school childrenChildren
FLINTSHIRE
Heart of Flintshire
Contact Lee Parry-WilliamsSocial Inclusion UnitFlintshire County Council,County HallMold CH7 6NB
Tel 01352 701 431Fax 01352 701 490
This project takes a community developmentapproach to tackle the problem of coronary.heart disease. The project will focus on lifestyleissues of smoking, exercise/physical activity andhealthy eating. It targets two deprivedpopulations within the county of Flintshire.
Activities Nutrition/health educationUser Groups All groups
Denbighshire, Flintshire and Gwynedd
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Llysiau Lleu
Contact Ben GregoryCymdeithas Tai EryriTy SilynPenygroes LL54 6LY
Tel 01286 881588Fax 01286 881141
Llysiau Lleu is a community project which workswith people, especially those on low incomes, inDyffryn Nantlle, Gwynedd. The aim of theproject is to encourage more organic vegetablegrowing in people's own gardens, as a means ofpromoting healthier eating and physical exercise.
Activities Growing foodUser Groups Low-income groups
MERTHYR TYDFIL
Aberfan & Merthyr Vale Y & C Project
Contact Ian BenbowTrinity ChapelMerthyr Vale CF48 4RS
Tel 01443 692 020Fax 01443 692 904WWeebbssiittee www.telinco.co.uk/aberfan
This is a community regeneration project whichhas developed a community café, youth clubs,and an after-school club, and also provides ITtraining.
Activities Community caféUser Groups All groups
Caffi Blas Y Waun
Contact Menna JonesAntur WaunfawrBryn Pistyll, WaunfawrCaernarfon
Tel 01286 650721Fax 01286 650059
This is a community-based work experience andtraining project, involving people with learningdisabilities. A café and healthy living project ispart of a wider environmental project, includingrecycling, a nature park, a nursery and craft work.
Activities Community caféGrowing foodFood provision
User Groups ChildrenWomen and childrenOlder people
Cymdeithas Tai Eryri
Contact Dewi Llwyd EvansTy SilynPenygroes LL54 6LY
Tel 01286 889212Fax 01286 881 141WWeebbssiittee www.taieryri.co.uk
Cymdeithas Tai Eryri is a housing associationoperating in Gwynedd and Anglesey. It isinvolved in a variety of anti-poverty and socialinclusion projects in disadvantaged areas, and inresearching the provision of cheaper services andproducts to its tenants, including food andenergy.
User Groups All groups
Gwynedd and Merthyr Tydfil
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Get Cooking! (Gwent)
Contact Heather HyrapietRebrac HouseLlandogo NP25 4TW
Tel 01594 530116Fax 01594 530116
The project runs cookery courses which teachbasic food preparation and how to eat well on alow budget. The project aims to improve healththrough a better diet and provides socialinteraction in the community.
Activities Nutrition/health educationCookery class
User Groups ChildrenWomen and childrenLearning disabilitiesHomeless peopleOlder peopleSingle parents
Healthy Eating - Llandogo PrimarySchool
Contact Mrs G RobertsLlandogo Primary SchoolHolmfield driveLlandogo NP25 4TJ
Tel 01594 530388
This project involves school children in growingfood, and provides nutrition and healtheducation to get children to think about whatthey eat and have a more balanced diet. It alsouses break surveys and assemblies to get themessage across.
Activities Growing foodUser Groups Primary school children
Fitness & Health Day
Contact Ann EvansYsgol Santes TudfulQueen's RoadTwynrodyn CF4
Tel 01685 722212
This project promotes healthy eating andencourages participants to try sports. The schoolalso has a fruit tuck shop run by three pupils.
Activities Growing foodFood provision
User Groups Children
Slim Swim Healthy Eating Course
Contact Malcolm WardHealth Promotion Department, Merthyr Local Health Mountain Ash General Hospital, Mountain AshCF45 4DE
Tel 01685 872411Fax 01443 473133
Slim Swim aims to help women overcome weightproblems through healthy eating advice, exerciseand a fitness programme. It provides a three-daycourse training leisure and educationprofessionals and community volunteers to runthe healthy eating component.
Activities Nutrition/health educationUser Groups Women and children
Merthyr Tydfil and Monmouthshire
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Primary and Community Care NutritionProject, Newport
Contact Glenys PhelpsteadNewport Local Health GroupWentwood Ward,St. Cadoc's HospitalCaerleon NP18 3XQ
Tel 01633 436 216Fax 01633 436 229
The project aims to reduce the incidence ofcoronary heart disease risk factors in the localpopulation through the promotion of goodnutrition. This will be achieved by developing anew partnership between those involved in foodand nutrition, focusing on coronary heart diseasewhere there is evidence of deprivation or socialdisadvantage.
Activities Food partnershipNutrition/health education
User Groups Black and minority ethnic groupsWomen and childrenHomeless peopleOlder peopleSingle parents
PEMBROKESHIRE
Funky Food Project, Pembrokeshire
Contact Lynne PerryPembrokeshire Health Promotion Centre, PenffynnonHawthorne RiseHaverfordwest SA61 2AZ
Tel 01437 766119Fax 01437 767529
A multi-school School Nutrition Action Group(SNAG) has been formed involving four primaryschools. Pupils survey & discuss with their peerspossible alternatives that they would like to seeto the lunch time meal provided at school.
Activities Food provisionNutrition/health education
User Groups Primary school children
South East Wales Association ofFarmers Markets
Contact Stephen ShearmanRose CottageWatery Lane, LlanishenChepstow NP16 6QT
Tel 01600 860 730
This project co-ordinates local farmers' markets,helping to develop the local food economy, aswell as supporting farm diversification. It is alsoinvolved in developing a direct marketingstructure.
Activities Farmers marketGrowing foodTransport/delivery
User Groups All groups
NEATH PORT TALBOT
Neath Cancer & Nutrition Project
Contact Amina JamalHealth Promotion ServiceSuite C, Britannic House, Britannic Way, LlandarcyNeath SA10 6EL
Tel 01792 326516Fax 01792 326501
This is a project on cancer & nutrition whichstarted in October 2001. It works with targetgroups in communities throughout Neath andplans various activities such as a community caféand nutrition & health education.
Activities Community CaféGrowing foodTransport/delivery
User Groups Women and childrenOlder people
Monmouthshire, Neath Port Talbot, Newport and Pembrokeshire
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Playtime Snacks Award
Contact Lynne PerryPembrokeshire Health Promotion CentrePenffynon, Hawthorne RiseHaverfordwest SA61 2AZ
Tel 01437 766119Fax 01437 767529
This project consists of fruit tuck shops in schools,and also encourages fruit provision from homefor primary school children. Awards are given forthe type of tuck provision, food from home, orboth. Training is provided for school staff.
Activities Tuck shopNutrition/health education
User Groups Primary school childrenPractitioners/professionals
Statement on Food & Health in Schools
Contact Lynne PerryPembrokeshire Health Promotion Centre, PenffynnonHawthorne RiseHaverfordwest SA61 2AZ
Tel 01437 766119Fax 01437 767529
This is a publication including aims, objectives,action plans for schools on food and health in thecurriculum, food safety, snack provision, drinksand vending, and school meals. It uses a wholeschool approach, and targets all schools inPembrokeshire.
Activities Nutrition/health educationUser Groups Children
Get Cooking - Pembrokeshire
Contact Rebecca ReesHealth Promotion Service, Merlins CourtWinch LaneHaverfordwest SA61 1SB
Tel 01437 771 233
This is a partnership project encouraging parentsof children and young people to prepare andcook healthy, nutritious meals. It trains workersin health education and nutrition to run courses.
Activities Growing foodUser Groups Children
Women and childrenSingle parents
Pembrokeshire Food in Mind
Contact Pete IrvineOld Wool MarketQuay StreetHaverfordwest SA61 1BG
Tel 01437 769982
This is a user-led lunch club, aimed at those withmental health problems, working together toprovide a nutritious meal one day a week.
Activities Food provisionUser Groups Low-income groups
Mental health users
Pembrokeshire
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RHONDDA CYNON TAFF
Arts Factory
Contact Christine PringUnit 11Highfield Industrial EstateFerndale CF43 4SX
Tel 01443 757 954Fax 01443757525WWeebbssiittee www.artsfactory.co.uk
This is an award-winning communityorganisation, aiming to build a strongercommunity through enterprise schemes, skillinglocal people and providing facilities. Activitiesinclude arts, job search and advisory services.Various food activities are planned.
Activities Nutrition/health educationCookery class
User Groups Low-income groupsLearning disabilitiesHomeless peopleEx-offenders
Cwmparc Community Café
Contact Jackie ProsserCCWA Parc HallParc RoadCwmparc CF42 6LD
Tel 01443 776920Fax 01443 772044
This is a café run within a community centre.The café is for the use of the whole communityand provides lunches, snacks and refreshmentsmornings to lunchtimes during the week.
Activities Community caféUser Groups All groups
POWYS
Brecknock Farmers' Market
Contact Fiona JonesNeuadd BrycheiniogCambrian WayBrecon LD3 7HR
Tel 01874 612 276Fax 01874 612 339
This market enables local producers to sell theirproduce to visitors and townspeople, promotinghome-produced meats, fruit, vegetables, juices,cakes, bread, chutneys, etc..Activities Farmers marketUser Groups All groups
Open Door Family Centre
Contact Jane SteedmanHowell DriveWelshpool SY21 7AT
Tel 01938 556 238WWeebbssiissttee www.opendoorcentre.co.uk
This centre provides family support for parentsand their children, including parenting skillstraining. The project also runs cookery sessions toincrease skills and encourage healthy eating.Children bring in lunches and are given healthysnacks.
Activities Growing foodFood provision
User Groups ParentsChildrenWomen and childrenLearning disabilities
Powys and Rhondda Cynon Taff
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Penrhys Partnership Training &Education Centre
Contact Sian DaviesTraining & Education CentreY Ffynnon CentrePenrhys CF43 3NS
Tel 01443 755008Fax 01443 735400
This is a new arm of the Penrhys Partnership. Itoffers healthy eating and cookery classes as partof an education programme, and targets thewhole community. There is also a communitycafé run by another part of the PenrhysPartnership.
Activities TrainingCommunity caféNutrition/health education
User Groups Women and childrenUnemployedSingle parents
SWANSEA
Bonymaen Community Centre AfterSchool Club
Contact Sarah Glover8 Wern RoadLandoreSwansea SA1 2PA
Tel 01792 462322
After-school club providing play and care for 5 to11-year-olds from 3.30-5.30pm, Monday toFriday. Food activities include a small tea daily.The children are involved in cooking anddiscussions on food. There is also a Saturdaymorning club providing breakfasts.
Activities Breakfast clubFood provision
User Groups ChildrenWomen and childrenSingle parents
Ffaldau Farm
Contact Vic DoyleBCR, Bell Centre5-8 Luton StreetBlaenllechau CF43 4PB
Tel 01443 730749Fax 01443 730901
This is a community food-growing project aimedat disadvantaged local people, including thosewith mental health problems. The project isbased in a community centre where there is acommunity café, and vegetables and herbs aregrown on community allotments.
Activities TrainingCommunity caféGrowing food
User Groups Disadvantaged peopleChildrenYoung peopleWomen and childrenLearning disabilitiesMental health usersOlder people
Glyncoch Community EnterpriseProjects Ltd
Contact Marolyn Way66 Porcher AvenueGlynochPontypridd CF37 3DD
Tel 01443 486993
This project provides low-cost, nutritious meals,sandwiches and snacks to local people through acommunity café and a delivery service. It alsoprovides a buffet and bereavement service forlocal people and businesses.
Activities Community caféTransport/delivery
User Groups All groups
Rhondda Cynon Taff and Swansea
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Breakfast Club - Gors Junior School
Contact Keith HiekinGors Junior SchoolGors AvenueSwansea SA1 6SF
Tel 01792 522202
This is a school breakfast club providing a healthystart to the day and encouraging children tointeract socially in an informal, secureenvironment.
Activities Breakfast clubUser Groups Primary school children
Family Fun Day
Contact Sue GilesBonymaen Family Centre, Cefn Hengoed Community WinchwenSwansea SA1 7HX
Tel 01792 700821Fax 01792 773336
Parents and pre-school children meet once aweek for a family fun day. They plan menus,shop & cook, go swimming together, and theneat the lunch they have prepared.
Activities After school clubLuncheon clubGrowing food
User Groups ChildrenWomen and childrenSingle parents
Fruit Tuck Shop - Craigfelen PrimarySchool
Contact Laraine McAleerCraigfelen Primary SchoolClydachSA6 5DP
Tel 01792 843278Fax 01792843278
This is a fruit tuck shop in a primary school whichsells a variety of fruits to children at break times.Other activities have involved both pupils and thewider community in health promotion andeducation on diet, oral health and exercise.
Activities Food provisionNutrition/health education
User Groups Primary school children
Fruit Tuck Shop - Gwyrosydd JuniorSchool
Contact Mr G WilliamsGwyrosydd Junior SchoolParkhill Terrace, TreboethSA5 7DJ
Tel 01792 771125
This is a fruit tuck shop based in a junior schoolin Swansea. It provides a variety of fruit forchildren and is open each weekday morning.
Activities Growing foodFood provision
User Groups Children
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Pentrechwyth Primary School
Contact Allison EvansPentrechwyth Primary School, Bonymaen RoadBonymaenSA1 7AP
Tel 01792 653186
This primary school runs a fruit tuckshop, abreakfast club and an after-school cookery club toencourage healthier eating and raise awareness ofhygiene and cookery skills.
Activities Breakfast clubGrowing foodFood provision
User Groups Primary school children
Spark Community Café
Contact Carrie Mulhall42-48 Dove RoadBlaenymaesSwansea SA5 5QD
Tel 01792 585538
This is a community café set up to serve thewomen and children who use the communitycentre. It hopes to expand to serve the localcommunity on the surrounding council estate.
Activities Community caféUser Groups Women and children
Fruit Tuck Shop - Plasmarl PrimarySchool
Contact Mary WattsPlasmarlSA6 8LH
Tel 01792 798210
This is a fruit tuck shop in a primary school inSwansea. It is held during break times toencourage children to eat healthy foods.
Activities Food provisionUser Groups Primary school children
Gors Activity Centre Lunch Club(previously Townhill Older People'sProject Lunch Club)
Contact Shirley Davies159 Geiriol RoadTownhillSwansea SA1 6QN
Tel 07967 858 426
This project aims to promote active ageing andreduce social exclusion. It runs a weekly luncheonclub for older people and their carers (as well assingle parents and their children) at a localactivity centre on Wednesdays.
Activities Food provisionUser Groups Children
Older peopleSingle parents
Swansea
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Swansea Young Single Homeless Project
Contact Liz Slade110 Walter RoadSA1 5QQ
Tel 01792 537530Fax 01792 536536
This is a course for young homeless people onnutrition, food safety, shopping, meal planningand cooking. It will be accredited via the OpenCollege Network and taught on a one-to-onebasis, or in groups.
Activities Nutrition/health educationUser Groups Young people
Homeless people
TORFAEN
Sown and Sorted
Contact Patrick GrahamCoStar, 6 Blenheim SquareSt DialsCwmbran NP44 4RS
Tel 01633 838063
This project provides horticultural training fordisaffected young people, growing a variety ofvegetables. It is integrated with a communityfarm and a recycling site which distributesproduce in exchange for recyclable rubbish.
Activities Growing foodFood provision
User Groups ChildrenSingle parents
Ty Rosser Gwyn Family Centre
Contact Ruth ParryTy Rosser Gwyn Family Centre Ty Rosser Gwyn RoadVartegPontypool NP4 7SQ
Tel 01495 774320
This project offers community-based support forfamilies with children aged 0-4 years. It is aimedat low-income, lone and young parents. Activitiesinclude a breakfast club, weaning group,information on healthy eating and trips to adiscount store.
Activities Food provisionNutrition/health education
User Groups ChildrenWomen and childrenSingle parents
VALE OF GLAMORGAN
Get Cooking Courses, Glamorgan
Contact Shena Sarjeant6 Ash GroveYstradowenCowbridge CF71 7TQ
Tel 01446 774 703Fax 01446 774 703
This project has run five-day cookery courses inconjunction with the local Women's Institute, AgeConcern and local Family Centres. The coursesteach basic cooking skills, budgeting & healthiereating. A longer course (five weeks) is being runin conjunction with Mind in the Vale ofGlamorgan.
Activities Nutrition/health educationCookery class
User Groups Sure StartWomen and childrenMental health usersOlder peopleSingle parents
Swansea, Torfaen and Vale of Glamorgan
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Pontygwaith Regeneration Project
Contact Christina JohnsonPontygwaith Community CentreLlewellyn StreetPontygwaith CF43 3LD
Tel 01443 757888Fax 01443 757888
This is a low-cost community kitchen whichstarted providing snacks and is hoping to extendto a variety of meals.
Activities Community caféUser Groups All groups
WREXHAM
Chirk Saturday Market
Contact Kenneth BarneyEconomic Development, Wrexham CBCCrown Buildings, PO Box 1297LL13 8ZE
Tel 01978 292 453Website www.mntf.co.uk/wrexham
This is a market providing fresh fruit, meat,vegetables, clothing and household goods to localpeople in Chirk.
Activities Farmers marketUser Groups All groups
Homestart - seminars on food andhealth
Contact Andrea PartridgeDietetic Department, The Gladstone Centre,Wrexham Maelor HospitalWrexham LL13 7TD
Tel 01978 727 159Fax 01978 727 159
Feasibility project examining ways of teachingcookery skills by participative learning to singleparents and children referred by social servicesto attend a homestart programme. Homestartleaders take a lead role with support and visitsfrom community dietitian.
Activities Nutrition/health educationCookery class
User Groups Secondary school childrenSingle parents
Plas Madoc & Cefn Community Strategy
Contact Kenneth BarneyEconomic Development Wrexham CBC,Crown Buildings, PO Box 1297LL13 8ZE
Tel 01978 292 453Website www.mntf.co.uk/wrexham
This project provides fresh fruit, vegetables, meat,bread, clothing and household goods to localpeople through a market.
Activities Food provisionUser Groups All groups
Vale of Glamorgan and Wrexham
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Sydallt Fruit & Veg Scheme
Contact Carol-Lynn RobbinsGwersyllt Partnership BuildingFirst AvenueGwersyllt LL11 4UF
Tel 01978 757903
This project targets a small village which isisolated and has no facilities. It encourages fruitand vegetable consumption by providing anaccessible supply - fruit and veg are sold for anhour and a half during a toddler group, at non-profit-making prices.
Activities Food co-opUser Groups Women and children
Veg Out and Get Fruity
Contact Carol-Lynn RobbinsGwersyllt Partnership BuildingFirst AvenueGwersyllt LL11 4UF
Tel 01978 750193
This project runs cook and eat courses at mumsand toddlers groups, aiming to increase fruit andvegetable consumption in families. It also runs afruit and vegetable wholesale co-op and Veg Outand Get Fruity mornings.
Activities Growing foodFood co-op
User Groups ChildrenWomen and childrenSingle parents
Wrexham
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Republic of IrelandCO MEATH
Cook It!
Contact Susanne LeechHealth Promotion DepartmentRailway StreetNavan
Tel +353 467 6400Fax +353 462 8818
Cook It! is a community-based nutritioneducation programme aimed at low-incomegroups. It aims to give practical nutrition adviceon how to eat healthily on a budget, over a six-week programme. It was originally developed bythe Health Promotion Agency for NorthernIreland.
Activities TrainingNutrition/health educationCookery class
User Groups ChildrenYoung peopleWomen and childrenHomeless peopleOlder peopleSingle parents
CO WESTMEATH
Food and Health Project
Contact Cara Grayc/o Child and Family CentrePettiswoodMullingar
Tel + 353 4447623Fax + 353 44 44881
Food and health is a community peer-lednutrition intervention project. The projectinvolves training local participants to teachhealthy eating courses to groups in their owncommunities.
Activities Nutrition/health educationCookery class
Contact WomenOlder peopleSingle parents
Co. Meath and Co. Westmeath
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Other Useful Contacts
Community Action Network (CAN)The CAN Centre Mezzanine floor Elizabeth House39 York RoadLondon SE1 7NQTel 020 7401 5310
A support network for social entrepreneurs.
Community Development and HealthNetwork (Northern Ireland)30a Mill StreetNewry. Co. Down BT34 1EYTel 028 3026 4606Fax 028 3026 4626www.cdhn.org
A voluntary membership organisation whichsupports community action on health issues.
Family Budget UnitDepartment of Nutrition and Dietetics King's College London 150 Stamford Street London SE1 8WA Tel 020 7848 4349
An educational charity based at King’s Collegewhich researches family budgets, living standardsand costs.
Federation of City Farms and CommunityGardens The Greenhouse Hereford Street Bristol BS3 4NA Tel 0117 923 1800Fax 0117 923 1900 www.farmgarden.org.uk
Support and networking for community gardens,orchards and farms. Part of a partnership whichruns the Allotment Regeneration Initiative (ARI).
Food Justice Campaign The Food Justice Campaign, 94 White Lion Street, London N1 9PFTel 020 7278 5755www.foodjustice.org.uk
Food Justice is the campaign for The FoodPoverty (Eradication) Bill, which will put a legalduty on the UK government to ensure an end tofood poverty within 15 years.
National Association of Village Shops Steamer Point29 West StreetLEWESEast SussexBN7 2NZ Tel 01273 473 422www.villageshops.org.uk
Promotes the services of village shops and postoffices. Plans to offer all village shops a place ontheir website.
National Society of Allotment and LeisureGardenersO'Dell House, Hunters Road,Corby, Northants NN17 5JE Tel 01536 266576 Fax 01536 264509www.nsalg.demon.co.uk
Scottish Community Diet Project Bill Gray (National Project Officer)C/o Scottish Consumer Council, Royal Exchange House, 100 Queen Street Glasgow G1 3DN Tel 0141 226 5261 Fax 0141 221 0731 Email [email protected] www.dietproject.org.uk
Set up in 1996 under the auspices of the ScottishConsumer Council, the project supports and linkscommunity projects from all areas of Scotland. Italso publishes a directory of Scottish communityfood initiatives, called Food in the Community.
Other Useful Contacts
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The Soil Association Bristol House 40-56 Victoria Street Bristol BS1 6BY Tel 0117 929 0661 Fax 0117 929 0661
The campaigning and certification organisationfor organic food and farming. Holds informationon organic box schemes and co-operatives.
The Poverty Alliance (Scotland) The Poverty Alliance162 Buchanan Street, Glasgow G1 2LL Tel 0141 353 0440Fax 0141 353 0686E-mail [email protected]
Women's Environmental NetworkPO Box 30626 London E1 1TZTel 020 7481 9004Fax 020 7481 9144www.wen.org.uk
Websites
Communities For Healthwww.communitiesforhealth.net Good portal site with lots of links
National Federation of CommunityOrganisationswww.communitymatters.org.uk
Community Channelwww.communitychannel.org.uk
Health Education Board for Scotlandwww.hebs.com
Local Food Linkswww.localfoodworks.orgLots of useful background information
Our Healthier Nation (government site)www.ohn.gov.uk
Partnerships Onlinewww.partnerships.org.uk
Public Health Electronic Librarywww.phel.org.uk
Social Exclusion Unitwww.socialexclusionunit.gov.uk
Other Useful Contacts
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Sustain’s Food Poverty Projectwww.sustainweb.org/poverty_index.asp
Beginner's Guide to Growing Vegetableswww.thebeginnersguidetogrowingvegetables.co.uk
Related Publications
All available from Sustain
Making Links: A Toolkit for Local FoodProjectsThis pack combines information and inspirationfor starting up or developing successful projects.
Hunger from the Inside: The Experienceof Food Poverty in the UKThrough the words of the participants who tookpart in Sustain's Community Mapping Project.
SRBs to PCTs: Understanding localstructures and area-based initiatives totackle food povertyDo you know your Neighbourhood Renewal fromyour Community Chest? If not, thiscomprehensive report is for you. It provides aneasy-to-follow reference guide to relevant policy,agencies, funds and schemes that could supportfood poverty work at the local level.
Food Poverty: Policy Options for theNew MilleniumIncludes a review of policy developments and120 fully referenced proposals for tackling foodpoverty gathered from different groups andagencies.
Reaching the Parts...CommunityMapping: Working together to tacklesocial exclusion and food povertyCommunity mapping uses participatory appraisalmethods to enable local people to analyse theirfood economies and work with others to obtain ahealthy diet. The process and findings of the pilotproject are outlined and how it affects differentgroups and individuals.
Developing Local Networks to Tackle FoodPovertyA summary report covering five communityseminars on tackling food poverty.
To see the most recent publications, please checkthe Sustain website at www.sustainweb.org
Regional DevelopmentAgencies
Regional Development Agencies are non-departmental public bodies that were createdby the government to drive regionaleconomic development.
Advantage West Midlands3 Priestly Wharf, Holt Street,Birmingham, B7 4BNTel: 0121 380 3500www.advantage-westmidlands.co.uk
East of England Development AgencyThe Business Centre, Station Road,Histon, Cambridge, CB4 9LQTel: 01233 713 900www.eeda.org.uk
East Midlands Development AgencyApex Court, City Link, Nottingham,East Midlands, NG2 4LATel: 0115 988 8300www.emda.org.uk
Highlands and Islands EnterpriseCowan HouseInverness Retail and Business ParkInverness IV2 7GFTe:l 01463 234171www.hie.co.uk
Invest Northern Ireland64 Chichester Street,Belfast BT1 4JXTel: 028 9023 9090www.investni.com
London Development AgencyDevon House, 58-60 St. Katharine's Way,London, E1W 1JXTel: 020 7680 2000www.lda.gov.uk
Northwest Development AgencyPO Box 37, Kings Court, Scotland Road,Warrington, Cheshire WA1 2FRTel: 01925 400 100www.nwda.co.uk
One NorthEastHead Office, Great North House, Sandyford Road,Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 8NDTel: 0191 261 2000www.onenortheast.com
Scottish Enterprise5 Atlantic Quay, 150 Broomielaw, Glasgow G2 8LUTel: 0141 248 2700 www.scottish-enterprise.com
South East England DevelopmentAgencySEEDA HeadquartersCross Lanes,Guildford, GU1 1YATel: 01483 484 200www.seeda.co.uk
South West of England RegionalDevelopment AgencyCorporate Headquarters, Sterling House,Dix's Field, Exeter, Devon, EX1 1QATel: 01392 214 747www.southwestrda.org.uk
Welsh Development AgencyPlas Glyndwr, Kingsway,Cardiff CF10 3AHTel: 01443 845 500www.wda.co.uk
Yorkshire ForwardVictoria House, No 2 Victoria Place,Leeds, LS11 5AETel: 0113 394 9600www.yorkshireforward.com
Regional Development Agencies
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Cheshire and Merseyside Quayside, Wilderspool Park Greenalls Avenue Stockton Heath Warrington WA4 6HLTel: 01925 406000
Bebbington and West Wirral, Birkenhead and Wirral,Central Cheshire, Central Liverpool, Cheshire West,Eastern Cheshire, Ellesmere Port and Neston, Halton,Knowsley, North Liverpool, South Liverpool, SouthSefton, Southport and Formby, St Helens, Warrington.
County Durham and Tees Valley Appleton House Lanchester Road Durham DH1 5XZTel: 0191 333 3232
Darlington, Derwentside, Durham Dales, Durham andChester-Le-Street, Easington, Hartlepool, Langbaurgh,Middlesbrough, North Tees, Sedgefield.
Coventry, Warwickshire, Herefordshireand Worcestershire Osprey House Albert Street Prospect Hill Redditch B97 4DETel: 01527 67796
Coventry, Hereford, North Warwickshire, Redditch andBromsgrove, Rugby, South Warwickshire, SouthWorcestershire, Wyre Forrest.
Cumbria & Lancashire Preston Business Centre Watling Street Road Fulwood Preston PR2 8DY Tel: 01772 647190
Blackburn with Darwen, Blackpool, Burnley, Pendleand Rossendale, Carlisle and District, Chorley andSouth Ribble, Eden Valley, Flyde, Hyndburn andRibble Valley, Morecambe Bay, Preston, WestCumbria, West Lancashire, Wyre.
Strategic HealthAuthorities (England)
The local health authorities in England mergedinto 28 new health authorities in April 2002, andwere re-named Strategic Health Authorities inOctober 2002. The Primary Care Trusts (PCTs)which come under each Authority are shown inItalics. Four Health and Social Services Boardsassume this role in Northern Ireland, and thereare also 15 Health Boards in Scotland and 5Health Authorities in Wales.
Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire Jenner House Langley Park Estate Chippenham Wiltshire SN15 1BPTel: 01249 858500
Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol North, BristolSouth and West, Cheltenham and Tewkesbury,Cotswold and Vale, Kennet and North Wiltshire, NorthSomerset, South Gloucestershire, South Wiltshire,Swindon, West Gloucestershire, West Wiltshire.
Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Tonman House 63-77 Victoria Street St. Albans Hertfordshire AL1 3ERTel: 01727 812929
Bedford, Bedfordshire Heartlands, Dacorum,Hertsmere, Luton, North Herts and Stevenage,Royston, Buntingford & Bishops Stortford, South EastHerts, St Albans and Harpendon, Watford and ThreeRivers, Welwyn Hatfield.
Birmingham and The Black Country St. Chads Court 213 Hagley Road Edgbaston Birmingham B16 9RGTel:0121 695 2222
Dudley Beacon & Castle, Dudley South, EastBirmingham, Greater Yardley, Heart of Birmingham,North Birmingham, Oldbury and Smethwick, Rowley,Regis and Tipton, Solihull, South Birmingham, Walsall,Wednesbury & West Bromwich, Wolverhampton City.
Strategic Health Authorities
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Dorset & Somerset Charter House, Bartec 4 Watercombe Lane Lynx West Trading Estate Yeovil Somerset BA20 2SU Tel: 01935 384000
Bournemouth, Mendip, North Dorset, Poole Bay,Poole, Somerset Coast, South and East Dorset, SouthSomerset, South West Dorset, Taunton Deane.
Essex 8 Collingwood Road Witham Essex CM8 2TT Tel: 01376 302100
Basildon, Billericay, Brentwood and Wickford, CastlePoint and Rochford, Chelmsford, Colchester, EppingForest, Harlow, Maldon and South Chelmsford,Southend, Tendring, Thurrock, Uttlesford.
Greater Manchester Gateway House Piccadilly South Manchester M60 7LP Tel: 0161 236 9456
Ashton Leigh and Wigan, Bolton, Bury, CentralManchester, Heywood and Middleton, NorthManchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, SouthManchester, Stockport, Tameside and Glossop,Trafford North, Trafford South.
Hampshire & Isle of Wight Oakley Road Southampton SO16 4GX Tel: 023 8072 5400
Blackwater Valley and Hart, East Hampshire, Eastleighand Test Valley, Fareham and Gosport, Gosport, Isleof Wight, Mid Hampshire, New Forest, NorthHampshire, Portsmouth City, Southampton City.
Kent & Medway Preston Hall Royal British Legion Village Aylesford Kent ME20 7NJ Tel: 01622 710161
Ashford, Canterbury and Coastal, Dartford Graveshamand Swanley, East Kent Coastal, Maidstone Weald,Medway, Shepway, South West Kent, Swale.
Leicestershire, Northamptonshire andRutland Gwendolen Road Leicester LE5 4QF Tel: 0116 273 1173
Charnwood and North Leicestershire, Daventry andSouth Northamptonshire, Eastern Leicestershire,Hinckley and Bosworth, Leicestershire City West,Melton Rutland and Harborough, Northampton,Northamptonshire Heartlands, South Leicestershire.
Norfolk, Suffolk & Cambridgeshire Capital Park Fulbourn Cambridge CB1 5XB Tel: 01223 597500
Broadland, Cambridge City, Central Suffolk, EastCambridgeshire and Fenland, Great Yarmouth,Huntingdon, Ipswich, North Norfolk, NorthPeterborough, Norwich, South Cambridge, SouthPeterborough, South Waveney, Southern Norfolk,Suffolk Coastal, Suffolk West, West Norfolk.
North and East Yorkshire and NorthLincolnshire Suite 1.33, The Innovation Centre York Science Park University Road, Heslington York YO10 5DG Tel: 01904 435331
Craven, Harrogate and Rural District, East Yorkshire,Eastern Hull, Hambleton and Richmond, North EastLincolnshire, North Lincolnshire, Scarborough, Whitbyand Ryedale, Selby and York, West Hull, YorkshireWolds and Coast.
Strategic Health Authorities
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South East London 1Lower Marsh London SE1 7NT Tel: 020 7716 7000
Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Lambeth, Lewisham,Southwark.
South West London 41-47 Hartfield Road London SW19 3RG Tel: 020 8545 6000
Kingston, Richmond and Twickenham, Sutton andMerton, Wandsworth.
South West Peninsula John Keay House Tregonissey Road St. Austell Cornwall PL25 4NQ Tel: 01726 627900
Central Cornwall, East Devon, Exeter, Mid Devon,North Devon, North and East Cornwall, Plymouth,South Hams and West Devon, Teignbridge, Torbay,West Cornwall.
South Yorkshire 5 Old Fulwood Road Sheffield S10 3TG Tel: 0114 271 1100
Barnsley, Doncaster Central, Doncaster East, DoncasterWest, North Sheffield, Rotherham, Sheffield SouthWest, Sheffield West, Soutth East Sheffield.
Surrey & Sussex York House 18-20 Massetts Road Horley Surrey RH6 7DE Tel: 01293 778899
Adur, Arun and Worthing, Bexhill and Rother,Brighton and Hove City, Crawley, East Elmbridge andMid Surrey, East Surrey, Eastbourne Downs, Guildfordand Waverly, Hastings and St Leonards, Horsham andChanctonbury, Mid Sussex, North Surrey, Woking.
North Central London Victory House 170 Tottenham Court Road London W1T 7HA Tel: 020 7756 2500
Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey, Islington.
North East London Aneurin Bevan House 81 Commercial Road London E1 1RD Tel: 0207 655 6600
Barking and Dagenham, Chingford, Wanstead andWoodford, City and Hackney, Havering, Newham,Redbridge, Tower Hamlets, Walthamstow, Leyton andLeytonstone.
North West London Victory House 170 Tottenham Court Road London W1T 7HA Tel: 020 7756 2500
Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith and Fulham, Harrow,Hillingdon, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea,Westminster.
Northumberland Tyne & Wear Newcastle General Hospital Westgate Road Newcastle Upon Tyne NE4 6BE Tel: 0191 256 3100
Gateshead, Newcastle, North Tyneside, SouthTyneside, Sunderland Teaching.
Shropshire & Staffordshire Mellor House Corporation Street Stafford ST16 3SR Tel: 01785 252233
Burntwood, Lichfield and Tamworth, Cannock Chase,East Staffordshire, Newcastle-Under-Lyme, NorthStoke, Shropshire County, South Stoke, South WesternStaffordshire, Staffordshire Moorlands, Telford andWrekin.
Strategic Health Authorities
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Thames Valley Jubilee House 5510 John Smith Drive Oxford Business Park South Oxford OX4 2LH Tel: 01865 337000
Bracknell Forest, Cherwell Vale, Chiltern and SouthBucks, Milton Keynes, Newbury and Community,North East Oxfordshire, Oxford City, Reading, Slough,South East Oxfordshire, South West Oxfordshire,Valeof Aylesbury, Windsor, Ascot and Maidenhead,Wokingham, Wycombe.
Trent 1 Standard Court Park Row Nottingham NG1 6GN Tel: 0115 912 3344
Amber Valley, Ashfield, Bassetlaw, Broxtowe andHucknall, Central Derby, Chesterfield, DerbyshireDales and South Derbyshire, East Lincolnshire,Erewash, Gedling, Greater Derby, High Peak andDales, Lincolnshire South West Teaching, MansfieldDistrict, Newark and Sherwood, North EasternDerbyshire, Nottingham City, Rushcliffe, WestLincolnshire.
West Yorkshire Blenheim House West One Duncombe Street Leeds LS1 4PL Tel: 0113 295 2000
Airedale, Bradford City, Bradford South and West,Calderdale, East Leeds, Eastern Wakefield,Huddersfield Central, Leeds North East, Leeds NorthWest, Leeds West, North Bradford, North Kirklees,South Huddersfield, South Leeds, Wakefield West.
Alphabetical Index ofProjectsAAberfan & Merthyr Vale Y & C Project, 49Aberystwyth Farmers' Market, 46ACHIEVE Boscombe - Lunch Club, 9African Community Involvement Association, 32Age Concern Get Cooking!, 8Age Concern Gwynedd & Mon Lunch Clubs, 48Age Concern Lunch Centre, 35All Hallows Community Cafe Project, 37Antioch Food Project, 46Arts Factory, 53Asian Cookery Club Project, 5
BBack to Roots Allotment Project, 26Balsam Project, 29Barri Grub - Edinburgh, 40Bath Place Commmunity Café, 35Becontree Organic Growers Association (BOG), 11Bluebell Resource Centre (Stay & Play), 11Bolton Community Nutrition, 21Bolton Gathering of Organic Growers, 21Bolton's Food Co-ops, 21Bolton's Growing its own Food, 21Bonymaen Community Centre After School Club, 54Breakfast Club - Gors Junior School, 55Breakfast Clubs in London, 12Breaking the Cycle, 18Brecknock Farmers' Market, 53Bridgend Farmers' Market, 43Brighton Agroforestry Trials, 9
CCable Street Community Gardens, 12Caffi Blas Y Waun, 49Calder Food Co-operative, 40Calderdale and Kirklees Food Futures, 38Cambuslang Health and Food Project/ Research &Evaluation, 41Care Co-ops Community Farm, 10Central Point, 18Centre Café, 10Chichester Christian Care Association, 37Chirk Saturday Market, 58Church of God of Prophecy - Soup Kitchen, Oxford, 28Colwyn Bay Farmers' Market, 47Community Action Little London (CALLS) VegetableGarden Project, 38Community Caterers' Network, 28Community Food and Health Programme, 6Community Food Workers, 42Community Food Workers (Cheshire), 6
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Fruit Tuck Shop - Plasmarl Primary School, 56Fruit Tuck Shops - Ebbw Vale, 43Funky Food Project, Pembrokeshire, 51
GGardening for Health, 38Garrett Centre Community Lunch, 14Get Cooking - Pembrokeshire, 52Get Cooking - Stowbridge, 36Get Cooking Courses, Glamorgan, 57Get Cooking! (Cardiff), 45Get Cooking! (Gwent), 50Get Cooking! (Wiltshire), 39Glyncoch Community Enterprise Projects Ltd, 54Gorebridge Food Co-op, 41Gors Activity Centre Lunch Club (previously TownhillOlder People's Project Lunch Club), 56Govan Healthy Eating Project, 41Grazebrook Pupils' Treescape, 14Green Peppers, 30Green Ventures, 14Growing Opportunities, 36
HHackney City Farm, 15Hands on Health Courses, 7Hartcliffe Health and Environment Action Group, 5Hattersley Market Garden, 6Healing Gardens, 15Health Development, 27Health Development in Newark/Sherwood, 27Healthy Bites Food Co-op & Café, 30Healthy Castlemilk, 41Healthy Eating - Llandogo Primary School, 50Healthy Tuck HAZ Project, 31Healthy Tuck Shop, Cleveland, 24Heart of Flintshire, 48Heartlink, 45Heeley City Farm, 30Heeley Community Allotment Project (previouslyHeeley Health Project), 30Hollybush Family Centre, 19Homestart - seminars on food and health, 58
JJericho Project The, 8John 14:10, 46
KKids' Cafe Network, 26Kingswood Community Cafe, 25
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Community Nutrition Project White City Healthy LivingCentre, 12Community Regeneration Trust N.E. (previouslyCleadon Community Project), 32Community Family Initiative (formerly HealthyMothers & Babies), 35Conservation and Urban Ecology, 13Cook It!, 60Cornerstone - Benwell Christian Shop Project, 32Craigneuk Food Co-op, 42Crisis Fareshare London, 13Crisis Fareshare South Yorkshire, 29Crisis Fareshare Southampton, 18Cultivating the Future (WEN), 13Cwm Harry Land Trust, 43Cwmparc Community Café, 53Cymdeithas Tai Eryri, 49
DDaily Bread Wholefood Co-operative Ltd, 25Denbigh Market, 47Drift Permaculture at Scotswood Community Garden,32
EEast Cleveland Good Grub Clubs, 24East End Community Health Project Food Initiatives,33Edinburgh Community Food Initiative, 40Emmaus Brighton and Hove, 10Exeter Community Umbrella Ltd (ECU), 8
FFamily Fun Day, 55Farmers' Market Network (Rhwydwaith MarchnadFfermyr Cyf), 43Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens, 5Feel Good Project, 44Ffaldau Farm, 54First Step Organic Vegetable Growing, 25Fitness & Health Day, 50Food and Health Project, 60Food Bank, 39Food Chain The, 13Food For Fun, 26Food Fuel, 44Food Initiatives Group - FIG, 26Food Net Project, 35Food Works - Abercromby, 23Foodlink, 14Foodworks, 38FRESH LOAF (Ferguslie), 42From Concrete to Coriander, 36Fruit and Vegetable Distribution Network, 29Fruit Days, 48Fruit Tuck Shop - Craigfelen Primary School, 55Fruit Tuck Shop - Gwyrosydd Junior School, 55
LLampeter Food Festival, 47LEAF (Local Enterprises Around Food), 31Leaves of Life Health Promotion Project, 15Lifestyle Health Link, 24Llysiau Lleu, 49Local Food Links (with Netherton Feelgood Factory),23Local Foods for Local People (Bridgend), 44Local Organic Agricultural Facilities (LOAF), 36
MMegaBite, 22
NNCH (National Children's Homes), 15Neath Cancer & Nutrition Project, 51New Horizon Youth Centre, 16Newcastle Nutrition Community Dietitians, 33Newham City Farm, 16North London Organic Gardeners, 20North Solihull LETSystem, 37North Tyneside Cooking Pack, 33Northern Initiative on Women and Eating, 33Northern Point, 19Nottingham Homelessness Project, 27Now You're Cooking - Aberdeen, 40Nutrition Skills Training for Volunteers andDevelopment Workers, 34
OOakleigh Gardens, 34Oasis Cafe, 5Oasis Children's Nature Garden, 16Offshoots, 22Open Door Family Centre, 53Oxford Food Hygiene Cooking Skills Course (Pilot), 28
PPembrokeshire Food in Mind, 52Penrhys Partnership Training & Education Centre, 54Pentrechwyth Primary School, 56Plas Madoc & Cefn Community Strategy, 58Playtime Snacks Award, 52Playworkers Pack, 34Pontygwaith Regeneration Project, 58Porlock Nursery, 34Positive Health Action Through Gardening &Environmental Development - PHAGED, 31
Primary and Community Care Nutrition Project,Newport, 51
RRadford Bottle and Dummy Dump, 27Rainbow House Drop-in Centre, 28Ready Steady Cook!, 44Renfrewshire Food Federation - Scotland, 42Riddings Garden Project, 39Riverside Real Food Market, 45Roberts Centre, 19Rock Community Centre The, 6Roots and Shoots, 16Rossy Diner, 7
SS.N.A.G. (Schools Nutrition Action Group), Mold, 48Simon Community Emergency Nightshelter, 17Skerne Park Community Cafe, 7Slim Swim Healthy Eating Course, 50Small Change (East London), 17South and West Lancashire Food Bank, 22South Ashford Community Food Project, 20South East Wales Association of Farmers Markets, 51South Tees Food Project, 25Southside Food Co-op, 29Sown and Sorted, 57Spark Community Café, 56St Anne's Fresh Food Fayre, 12St George's Beneficial Breakfast & Homework Clubs,19St John Ambulance Homeless Service, 11St Mellons Healthy Living Project, 45St Petrock's (Exeter) Ltd, 9St Sidwells Centre, 9St Simon's Church Meals Provision Programme, 20Statement on Food & Health in Schools, 52Stoke Community Foods, 31Sure Start Midwifery Project, Ely, 46Swansea Young Single Homeless Project, 57Sydallt Fruit & Veg Scheme, 59
TThe Co-operative Bunch Fruit and Vegetable Co-op, 20Thrive, promoting therapeutic horticulture, 17Tots' Plots, 24Tower Hamlets Food Co-ops, 17Trevithick School Breakfast Bar, 7Ty Rosser Gwyn Family Centre, 57
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Fresh Ideas Project, 10Fruit Days, 48Gorebridge Food Co-op, 41LEAF (Local Enterprise Action Around Food), 31Local Foods for Local People (Bridgend), 44Pentrechwyth Primary School, 56Skerne Park Community Cafe, 7St George's Beneficial Breakfast/Homework Clubs, 19St Mellons Healthy Living Project, 45Trevithick School Breakfast Bar, 7Ysgol Tan Y Marian Breakfast Bar, 47
Community CafésAberfan & Merthyr Vale Y & C Project, 49African Community Involvement Association, 32Age Concern Lunch Centre, 35All Hallows Community Cafe Project, 37Bath Place Commmunity Café, 35Caffi Blas Y Waun, 49Centre Café, 10Community Caterers' Network, 28Community Food and Health Programme, 6Community Nutrition: White City Healthy Living, 10Conservation and Urban Ecology, 13Cornerstone - Benwell Christian Shop Project, 32Cwmparc Community Café, 53East End Community Health Food Initiatives, 33Emmaus Brighton and Hove, 10Ffaldau Farm, 54Foodlink, 14Foodworks, 38Fresh Ideas Project, 10From Concrete to Coriander, 36Glyncoch Community Enterprise Projects Ltd, 54Govan Healthy Eating Project, 41Hackney City Farm, 15Healthy Bites Food Co-op & Café, 30Heeley City Farm, 30Hollybush Family Centre, 19Jericho Project The, 8John 14:10, 46Kids' Cafe Network, 26Kingswood Community Cafe, 25LEAF (Local Enterprise Action Around Food), 31Local Food Links (Netherton Feelgood Factory), 23Local Organic Agricultural Facilities (LOAF), 36Neath Cancer & Nutrition Project, 51Newcastle Nutrition Community Dietitians, 33Oasis Cafe, 5Offshoots, 22Penrhys Partnership Training & Education Centre, 54Pontygwaith Regeneration Project, 58Riddings Garden Project, 39
UUnstone Grange Organic Gardens, 8Urban Oasis & Tropical Allotments, 39
VVauxhall City Farm Horticulture Project, 18Veg Out and Get Fruity, 59
WWerneth and Freehold Organic Herb and VegetableProject, 22Westhoughton Food Co-op, 23Whitehawk Community Food Project, 11Wolverhampton Food Co-ops Umbrella Ltd, 37World of Food Project, 23
YYsgol Tan Y Marian Breakfast Bar, 47
Index Of Projects ByActivity
Most projects involve more than oneactivity. Wherever possible we haveupdated this information, but please notethat in some cases projects may not becurrently running all the activities theyhave listed.
After School clubsBonymaen Community Centre After School Club, 54Family Fun Day, 55Food Works - Abercromby, 23Gorebridge Food Co-op, 41St George's Beneficial Breakfast/Homework Clubs, 19Thrive, promoting therapeutic horticulture, 17
Breakfast clubsBath Place Commmunity Café, 35Bonymaen Community Centre After School Club, 54Breakfast Club - Gors Junior School, 55Breakfast Clubs in London, 12Community Nutrition: White City Healthy Living, 12Community Regeneration Trust N.E., 32Food Bank, 39Food Net Project, 35Foodworks, 38
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Rossy Diner, 7Simon Community Emergency Nightshelter, 17Skerne Park Community Cafe, 7South Ashford Community Food Project, 20South Tees Food Project, 25Spark Community Café, 56St Anne's Fresh Food Fayre, 12St Mellons Healthy Living Project, 45St Sidwells Centre, 9
Community ShopsCaffi Blas Y Waun, 49Community Nutrition: White City Healthy Living, 12Emmaus Brighton and Hove, 10Ffaldau Farm, 54FRESH LOAF (Ferguslie), 42 Govan Healthy Eating Project, 41Heeley City Farm, 30
Composting ProjectsBalsam Project, 29Becontree Organic Growers Association (BOG), 11Bolton Gathering of Organic Growers, 21Cable Street Community Gardens, 12Conservation and Urban Ecology, 13Grazebrook Pupils' Treescape, 14Hackney City Farm, 15Newham City Farm, 16North London Organic Gardeners, 20Oasis Children's Nature Garden, 16
Cookery ClassesAfrican Community Involvement Association, 32Age Concern Get Cooking!, 8All Hallows Community Cafe Project, 37Arts Factory, 53Asian Cookery Club Project, 5Barri Grub - Edinburgh, 40Bath Place Commmunity Café, 35Bluebell Resource Centre (Stay & Play), 11Breaking the Cycle, 18Chichester Christian Care Association, 37Community Caterers' Network, 28Community Family Initiative, 35Community Food and Health Programme, 6Community Food Workers, 42Community Food Workers (Cheshire), 6Community Regeneration Trust N.E., 32Cook It!, 60Cornerstone - Benwell Christian Shop Project, 32East Cleveland Good Grub Clubs, 24
Food and Health Project, 60Food For Fun, 26Food Works - Abercromby, 23Foodlink, 14Foodworks, 38Fresh Ideas Project, 10Get Cooking - Stowbridge, 36Get Cooking Courses, Glamorgan, 57Get Cooking! (Cardiff), 45Get Cooking! (Gwent), 50Get Cooking! (Wiltshire), 39Gorebridge Food Co-op, 41Govan Healthy Eating Project, 41Hands on Health Courses, 7Hartcliffe Health and Environment Action Group, 5Health Development in Newark/Sherwood, 27Healthy Bites Food Co-op & Café, 30Healthy Castlemilk, 41Hollybush Family Centre, 19Homestart - seminars on food and health, 58Kids' Cafe Network, 26Kingswood Community Cafe, 25Leaves of Life Health Promotion Project, 15Lifestyle Health Link, 24Local Food Links (Netherton Feelgood Factory), 23Local Organic Agricultural Facilities (LOAF), 36Newcastle Nutrition Community Dietitians, 33Now You're Cooking - Aberdeen, 40Penrhys Partnership Training & Education Centre, 54Roberts Centre, 19Small Change (East London), 17 South Tees Food Project, 25Southside Food Co-op, 29St George's Beneficial Breakfast/Homework Clubs, 19St Sidwells Centre, 9World of Food Project, 23
Farmers MarketsAberystwyth Farmers' Market, 46Brecknock Farmers' Market, 53Bridgend Farmers' Market, 43Chirk Saturday Market, 58Colwyn Bay Farmers' Market, 47Denbigh Market, 47Farmers' Market Network (Rhwydwaith Marchnad Ffermyr Cyf), 43Grazebrook Pupils' Treescape, 14Riverside Real Food Market, 45South East Wales Association of Farmers Markets, 51
Food BanksSouth and West Lancashire Food Bank, 22
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Community Action Little London (CALLS), 38Community Caterers' Network, 28Community Nutrition: White City Healthy Living, 12Community Regeneration Trust N.E., 32Conservation and Urban Ecology, 13Cultivating the Future (WEN), 13Cwm Harry Land Trust, 43Drift Permaculture Scotswood Community Garden, 32Emmaus Brighton and Hove, 10Family Fun Day, 55Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens, 5Feel Good Project, 44Ffaldau Farm, 54First Step Organic Vegetable Growing, 25Fitness & Health Day, 50Food Fuel, 44Food Net Project, 35Foodlink, 14Fresh Ideas Project, 10From Concrete to Coriander, 36Fruit and Vegetable Distribution Network, 29Fruit Tuck Shop - Gwyrosydd Junior School, 55Gardening for Health, 38Get Cooking - Pembrokeshire, 52Govan Healthy Eating Project, 41Grazebrook Pupils' Treescape, 14Green Peppers, 30 Green Ventures, 14Growing Opportunities, 36Hackney City Farm, 15Hartcliffe Health and Environment Action Group, 5Hattersley Market Garden, 6Healing Gardens, 15Health Development, 27Health Development in Newark/Sherwood, 27Healthy Eating - Llandogo Primary School, 50Heeley City Farm, 30Heeley Community Allotment Project, 30Hollybush Family Centre, 19LEAF (Local Enterprise Action Around Food), 31Llysiau Lleu, 49Local Food Links (Netherton Feelgood Factory), 23Local Foods for Local People (Bridgend), 44Local Organic Agricultural Facilities (LOAF), 36Neath Cancer & Nutrition Project, 51Newcastle Nutrition Community Dietitians, 33Newham City Farm, 16North London Organic Gardeners, 20Oakleigh Gardens, 34Oasis Children's Nature Garden, 16Offshoots, 22Open Door Family Centre, 53Pentrechwyth Primary School, 56Porlock Nursery, 34
Food Co-opsBalsam Project, 29Bath Place Commmunity Café, 35Bolton's Food Co-ops, 21Bolton's Growing its own Food, 21Bridgend Farmers' Market, 43Calder Food Co-operative, 40Cambuslang Health & Food Project/Research, 41Community Food Workers (Cheshire), 6Community Nutrition: White City Healthy Living, 12Community Regeneration Trust N.E., 32Craigneuk Food Co-op, 42Daily Bread Wholefood Co-operative Ltd, 25East End Community Health Food Initiatives, 33Edinburgh Community Food Initiative, 40Farmers' Market Network (Rhwydwaith Marchnad Ffermyr Cyf), 43Food Net Project, 35Foodlink, 14Foodworks, 38Fresh Ideas Project, 10From Concrete to Coriander, 36Gorebridge Food Co-op, 41Govan Healthy Eating Project, 41Hartcliffe Health and Environment Action Group, 5Health Development, 27Healthy Bites Food Co-op & Café, 30Jericho Project The, 8Local Organic Agricultural Facilities (LOAF), 36Newcastle Nutrition Community Dietitians, 33Renfrewshire Food Federation - Scotland, 42Southside Food Co-op, 29St Mellons Healthy Living Project, 45Sydallt Fruit & Veg Scheme, 59The Co-operative Bunch Fruit and Veg Co-op, 20Tower Hamlets Food Co-ops, 17Veg Out and Get Fruity, 59Westhoughton Food Co-op, 23Wolverhampton Food Co-ops Umbrella Ltd, 37
Food Growing ProjectsAberystwyth Farmers' Market, 46Back to Roots Allotment Project, 26Balsam Project, 29Becontree Organic Growers Association (BOG), 11Bolton Gathering of Organic Growers, 21Bolton's Growing its own Food, 21Breaking the Cycle, 18Brighton Agroforestry Trials, 9Cable Street Community Gardens, 12Caffi Blas Y Waun, 49Calderdale and Kirklees Food Futures, 38Cambuslang Health & Food Project/Research, 41Care Co-ops Community Farm, 10
Index of Projects By Activity
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Positive Health Action Through Gardening & Environmental Development-PHAGED, 31Ready Steady Cook!, 44Roots and Shoots, 16South Ashford Community Food Project, 20South East Wales Association of Farmers Markets, 51South Tees Food Project, 25Sown and Sorted, 57St Mellons Healthy Living Project, 45St Sidwells Centre, 9Thrive, promoting therapeutic horticulture, 17Tots' Plots, 24Unstone Grange Organic Gardens, 8Urban Oasis & Tropical Allotments, 39Vauxhall City Farm Horticulture Project, 18Veg Out and Get Fruity, 59Werneth & Freehold Organic Herb and Veg, 22Westhoughton Food Co-op, 23Whitehawk Community Food Project, 11Wolverhampton Food Co-ops Umbrella Ltd, 37Ysgol Tan Y Marian Breakfast Bar, 47
Food PartnershipsCalderdale and Kirklees Food Futures, 38Community Caterers' Network, 28Food Initiatives Group - FIG, 26Foodworks, 38Fresh Ideas Project, 10FRESH LOAF (Ferguslie), 42 Govan Healthy Eating Project, 41Growing Opportunities, 36Healthy Tuck HAZ Project, 31Heeley City Farm, 30Jericho Project The, 8LEAF (Local Enterprise Action Around Food), 31Local Foods for Local People (Bridgend), 44Local Organic Agricultural Facilities (LOAF), 36Newcastle Nutrition Community Dietitians, 33Primary and Community Care Project, Newport, 51S.N.A.G. (Schools Nutrition Action Group), Mold, 48South Tees Food Project, 25
Food ProvisionACHIEVE Boscombe - Lunch Club, 9Age Concern Gwynedd & Mon Lunch Clubs, 48Antioch Food Project, 46Bolton Gathering of Organic Growers, 21Bonymaen Community Centre After School Club, 54Breakfast Clubs in London, 12Brighton Agroforestry Trials, 9Caffi Blas Y Waun, 49Central Point, 18
Chichester Christian Care Association, 37Church of God of Prophecy Soup Kitchen, Oxford, 28Community Action Little London (CALLS), 38Community Regeneration Trust N.E., 32Craigneuk Food Co-op, 42Crisis Fareshare London, 13Crisis Fareshare South Yorkshire, 29Daily Bread Wholefood Co-operative Ltd, 25Denbigh Market, 47Farmers' Market Network (Rhwydwaith Marchnad Ffermyr Cyf), 43Feel Good Project, 44Fitness & Health Day, 50Food Bank, 39Food Chain The, 13Food For Fun, 26Fresh Ideas Project, 10FRESH LOAF (Ferguslie), 42Fruit and Vegetable Distribution Network, 29Fruit Days, 48Fruit Tuck Shop - Craigfelen Primary School, 55Fruit Tuck Shop - Gwyrosydd Junior School, 55Fruit Tuck Shop - Plasmarl Primary School, 56Funky Food Project, Pembrokeshire, 51Get Cooking - Stowbridge, 36Gors Activity Centre Lunch Club, 56Green Ventures, 14Growing Opportunities, 36Heeley City Farm, 30Heeley Community Allotment Project, 30Local Foods for Local People (Bridgend), 44Local Organic Agricultural Facilities (LOAF), 36New Horizon Youth Centre, 16Northern Point, 19Oakleigh Gardens, 34Offshoots, 22Open Door Family Centre, 53Pembrokeshire Food in Mind, 52Pentrechwyth Primary School, 56Plas Madoc & Cefn Community Strategy, 58Porlock Nursery, 34Rainbow House Drop-in Centre, 28Renfrewshire Food Federation - Scotland, 42Riddings Garden Project, 39Roberts Centre, 19S.N.A.G. (Schools Nutrition Action Group), Mold, 48Simon Community Emergency Nightshelter, 17Skerne Park Community Cafe, 7South and West Lancashire Food Bank, 22South Ashford Community Food Project, 20Sown and Sorted, 57St Anne's Fresh Food Fayre, 12St Petrock's (Exeter) Ltd, 9St Simon's Church Meals Provision Programme, 20
Index of Projects By Activity
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Lunch ClubsAge Concern Lunch Centre, 35Cornerstone - Benwell Christian Shop Project, 32East End Community Health Project Food Initiatives,33Family Fun Day, 55Garrett Centre Community Lunch, 14Rock Community Centre The, 6Rossy Diner, 7
Nutrition/Health EducationProjectsACHIEVE Boscombe - Lunch Club, 9African Community Involvement Association, 32Age Concern Get Cooking!, 8All Hallows Community Cafe Project, 37Arts Factory, 53Asian Cookery Club Project, 5Back to Roots Allotment Project, 26Balsam Project, 29Barri Grub - Edinburgh, 40Bluebell Resource Centre (Stay & Play), 11Bolton Community Nutrition, 21Bolton Gathering of Organic Growers, 21Breakfast Clubs in London, 12Breaking the Cycle, 18Calderdale and Kirklees Food Futures, 38Cambuslang Health & Food Project/Research, 41Care Co-ops Community Farm, 10Central Point, 18Community Action Little London (CALLS), 38Community Family Initiative, 35Community Food and Health Programme, 6Community Nutrition Project: White City HealthyLiving Centre, 12Cook It!, 60Crisis Fareshare South Yorkshire, 29East Cleveland Good Grub Clubs, 24Edinburgh Community Food Initiative, 40Family Fun Day, 55Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens, 5Ffaldau Farm, 54First Step Organic Vegetable Growing, 25Food and Health Project, 60Food For Fun, 26Food Net Project, 35Food Works - Abercromby, 23Foodlink, 14Foodworks, 38Fresh Ideas Project, 10From Concrete to Coriander, 36Fruit and Vegetable Distribution Network, 29Fruit Tuck Shop - Craigfelen Primary School, 55
Stoke Community Foods, 31Ty Rosser Gwyn Family Centre, 57Unstone Grange Organic Gardens, 8Werneth & Freehold Organic Herb and Veg, 22
Information/Advice/SupportProjectsAfrican Community Involvement Association, 32All Hallows Community Cafe Project, 37Bolton Community Nutrition, 21Breaking the Cycle, 18Cambuslang Health & Food Project/Research, 41Community Family Initiative, 35Community Food and Health Programme, 6Community Food Workers, 42Cornerstone - Benwell Christian Shop Project, 32Cultivating the Future (WEN), 13Drift Permaculture, Scotswood Community Garden, 32East End Community Health Food Initiatives, 33Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens, 5Food Fuel, 44Gardening for Health, 38Get Cooking! (Cardiff), 45Govan Healthy Eating Project, 41Hartcliffe Health and Environment Action Group, 5Healthy Castlemilk, 41Heartlink, 45Hollybush Family Centre, 19Kids' Cafe Network, 26Kingswood Community Cafe, 25Leaves of Life Health Promotion Project, 15NCH (National Children's Homes), 15North Solihull LETSystem, 37North Tyneside Cooking Pack, 33Nottingham Homelessness Project, 27Nutrition Skills Training, 34Playworkers Pack, 34Radford Bottle and Dummy Dump, 27Rainbow House Drop-in Centre, 28St Anne's Fresh Food Fayre, 12St Petrock's (Exeter) Ltd, 9St Simon's Church Meals Provision Programme, 20Unstone Grange Organic Gardens, 8
LETS (Local Exchange Trading
Systems)Breakfast Clubs in London, 12Drift Permaculture at Scotswood Community Garden,32North Solihull LETSystem, 37St Sidwells Centre, 9
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Funky Food Project, Pembrokeshire, 51Get Cooking - Stowbridge, 36Get Cooking Courses, Glamorgan, 57Get Cooking! (Cardiff), 45Get Cooking! (Gwent), 50Get Cooking! (Wiltshire), 39Govan Healthy Eating Project, 41Green Peppers, 30Growing Opportunities, 36Hartcliffe Health and Environment Action Group, 5Health Development, 27Health Development in Newark/Sherwood, 27Healthy Bites Food Co-op & Café, 30Healthy Castlemilk, 41Healthy Tuck HAZ Project, 31Healthy Tuck Shop, Cleveland, 24Heart of Flintshire, 48Heartlink, 45Heeley City Farm, 30Heeley Community Allotment Project, 30Hollybush Family Centre, 19Homestart - seminars on food and health, 58Kids' Cafe Network, 26Kingswood Community Cafe, 25LEAF (Local Enterprise Action Around Food), 31Leaves of Life Health Promotion Project, 15Lifestyle Health Link, 24Local Food Links (Netherton Feelgood Factory), 23Local Foods for Local People (Bridgend), 44Local Organic Agricultural Facilities (LOAF), 36New Horizon Youth Centre, 16Newcastle Nutrition Community Dietitians, 33North Tyneside Cooking Pack, 33Now You're Cooking - Aberdeen, 40Offshoots, 22Oxford Food Hygiene Cooking Skills Course, 28Penrhys Partnership Training & Education Centre, 54Playtime Snacks Award, 52Playworkers Pack, 34Positive Health Action Through Gardening & Environmental Development-PHAGED, 31Primary and Community Care, Newport, 51Radford Bottle and Dummy Dump, 27Rainbow House Drop-in Centre, 28Renfrewshire Food Federation - Scotland, 42Roberts Centre, 19S.N.A.G. (Schools Nutrition Action Group), Mold, 48Skerne Park Community Cafe, 7Slim Swim Healthy Eating Course, 50Small Change (East London), 17South Ashford Community Food Project, 20South Tees Food Project, 25St Anne's Fresh Food Fayre, 12St John Ambulance Homeless Service, 11
St Mellons Healthy Living Project, 45St Petrock's (Exeter) Ltd, 9St Sidwells Centre, 9Statement on Food & Health in Schools, 52Stoke Community Foods, 31Sure Start Midwifery Project, Ely, 46Swansea Young Single Homeless Project, 57The Co-operative Bunch Fruit and Veg Co-op, 20Tots' Plots, 24Tower Hamlets Food Co-ops, 17Ty Rosser Gwyn Family Centre, 57Unstone Grange Organic Gardens, 8Vauxhall City Farm Horticulture Project, 18Werneth & Freehold Organic Herb and Veg, 22
Price Discounts/Voucher SchemesBarri Grub - Edinburgh, 40East Cleveland Good Grub Clubs, 24Exeter Community Umbrella Ltd (ECU), 8Foodlink, 14Gorebridge Food Co-op, 41Govan Healthy Eating Project, 41Healthy Castlemilk, 41Heeley City Farm, 30John 14:10, 46MegaBite, 22St Petrock's (Exeter) Ltd, 9St Sidwells Centre, 9The Co-operative Bunch Fruit and Veg Co-op, 20
Tool LibrariesHattersley Market Garden, 6Werneth and Freehold Organic Herb and Veg, 22Whitehawk Community Food Project, 11
Training ProjectsAsian Cookery Club Project, 5Becontree Organic Growers Association (BOG), 11Breaking the Cycle, 18Community Action Little London (CALLS), 38Community Regeneration Trust N.E., 32Cook It!, 60Drift Permaculture at Scotswood Community Garden,32East Cleveland Good Grub Clubs, 24Ffaldau Farm, 54Fresh Ideas Project, 10Hattersley Market Garden, 6Heartlink, 45Penrhys Partnership Training & Education Centre, 54Roots and Shoots, 16
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St John Ambulance Homeless Service, 11St Mellons Healthy Living Project, 45Whitehawk Community Food Project, 11
Transport/Delivery of FoodAfrican Community Involvement Association, 32Age Concern Get Cooking!, 8Barri Grub - Edinburgh, 40Brighton Agroforestry Trials, 9Calder Food Co-operative, 40Central Point, 18Community Regeneration Trust N.E., 32Crisis Fareshare London, 13 Crisis Fareshare South Yorkshire, 29Crisis Fareshare Southampton, 18East End Community Health Food Initiatives, 33Edinburgh Community Food Initiative, 40Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens, 5Foodlink, 14Foodworks, 38Glyncoch Community Enterprise Projects Ltd, 54Gorebridge Food Co-op, 41Govan Healthy Eating Project, 41Green Ventures, 14Heeley City Farm, 30Local Organic Agricultural Facilities (LOAF), 36Neath Cancer & Nutrition Project, 51Renfrewshire Food Federation - Scotland, 42Roberts Centre, 19South and West Lancashire Food Bank, 22South Ashford Community Food Project, 20South East Wales Association of Farmers Markets, 51Southside Food Co-op, 29Stoke Community Foods, 31The Co-operative Bunch Fruit and Veg Co-op, 20
Tuck ShopsEast Cleveland Good Grub Clubs, 24East End Community Health Food Initiatives, 3Fruit Tuck Shops - Ebbw Vale, 43Healthy Tuck HAZ Project, 31Healthy Tuck Shop, Cleveland, 24Playtime Snacks Award, 52Small Change (East London), 17
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