Community Food Projects: a directory - library.uniteddiversity.coop
Community Food Projects: a directory - library.uniteddiversity.coop
Community Food Projects: a directory - library.uniteddiversity.coop
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St John Ambulance Homeless Service<br />
Contact Charity Bevan<br />
<strong>Community</strong> Base<br />
130 Queens Road<br />
Brighton BN1 3XG<br />
Tel 01273 234 761<br />
Fax 01273 234 851<br />
Website www.communitybase.org/stjohn<br />
The project aims to address inequalities in access<br />
to primary health care services. It provides health<br />
education and promotion for homeless people<br />
and professionals working with them. Training in<br />
nutrition education is a key component of this<br />
project. There are also mobile primary health<br />
care units with health professionals, including a<br />
dietitian.<br />
Activities Training<br />
Nutrition/health education<br />
User Groups Practitioners/professionals<br />
Homeless people<br />
Whitehawk <strong>Community</strong> <strong>Food</strong> Project<br />
Contact Simon Powell<br />
c/o 19 St Martins Place<br />
Brighton BN2 3LE<br />
Tel 01273 626 660<br />
The project seeks to increase awareness and<br />
participation of local people in organic food<br />
growing. It encourages active 'hands-on'<br />
involvement, coupled with informal teaching.<br />
The key target audiences are families, children,<br />
young people, unemployed and people on a low<br />
income.<br />
Activities Training<br />
Tool <strong>library</strong><br />
User Groups All groups<br />
Children<br />
Families<br />
Low-income groups<br />
Unemployed<br />
Single parents<br />
ESSEX<br />
Becontree Organic Growers Association<br />
(BOG)<br />
Contact Barry Ian Watson<br />
Three Trees<br />
44 Gale Street<br />
Dagenham RM9 4NH<br />
Tel 020 8592 8941<br />
Mobile 07931 270119<br />
Website www.sbbc.co.uk/resources/new_is/<br />
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This community garden has reclaimed a derelict,<br />
three-acre site. Workshops in techniques and<br />
permaculture methods are given in exchange for<br />
effort and work. The courses involve all members<br />
of the community. The project is also a regional<br />
centre for Plant for a Future.<br />
Activities Training<br />
Composting<br />
User Groups All groups<br />
Refugees<br />
Students<br />
Ex-offenders<br />
Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming<br />
Bluebell Resource Centre (Stay & Play)<br />
Contact Julie Baker<br />
St John's at Highwoods<br />
<strong>Community</strong> Centre<br />
Highwood Square<br />
Highwoods<br />
Colchester CO4 9SR<br />
Tel 01206 853 111<br />
East Sussex and Essex<br />
The Stay & Play project offers basic cookery<br />
lessons, which are aimed at parents and children,<br />
with a particular focus on low income.<br />
Activities Nutrition/health education<br />
Cookery class<br />
User Groups Children<br />
Black and minority ethnic groups<br />
Women and children<br />
Practitioners/professionals<br />
Single parents<br />
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