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Community Food Projects: a directory - library.uniteddiversity.coop
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Simon <strong>Community</strong> Emergency<br />
Nightshelter<br />
Contact Jonathan Burleigh<br />
PO Box 1187<br />
NW5 4HW<br />
Tel 020 7485 6639<br />
Fax 020 7482 6305<br />
An emergency night shelter in a homeless<br />
community providing a warm meal for guests<br />
and workers. The project also organises tea, soup<br />
and sandwich runs and a street cafe.<br />
Activities <strong>Community</strong> café<br />
<strong>Food</strong> provision<br />
User Groups Homeless people<br />
Small Change (East London)<br />
Contact Jowanna Lewis<br />
Global Action Plan<br />
8 Fulwood Place<br />
WC1V 6HG<br />
Tel 020 7405 5633<br />
Fax 020 7831 6244<br />
This project works with primary schools to<br />
develop community awareness of and<br />
involvement in environmental issues including<br />
healthy eating. A pilot project works in four<br />
schools in east London, with fruit tuck shops,<br />
resources for teachers and parents, plus cookery<br />
skills.<br />
Activities Tuck shop<br />
Nutrition/health education<br />
User Groups Parents<br />
Primary school children<br />
Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming<br />
Thrive, promoting therapeutic<br />
horticulture (formerly Horticultural<br />
Therapy)<br />
Contact Nicola Reynolds<br />
St Mary's Garden<br />
PO Box 13719<br />
E2 8TB<br />
Tel 020 7739 2965<br />
Fax 020 7739 2965<br />
Website www.thrive.org.uk<br />
This is a garden project used for training and<br />
employment, rehabilitation, therapy and health<br />
for local people, disabled people and volunteers.<br />
It grows fruit, vegetables and herbs using both<br />
organic and conventional methods.<br />
Activities After school club<br />
Growing food<br />
User Groups Learning disabilities<br />
Practitioners/professionals<br />
Disabled<br />
Mental health users<br />
Older people<br />
Tower Hamlets <strong>Food</strong> Co-ops<br />
Contact Ros Thompson<br />
Environmental Health,<br />
Environmental Protection<br />
Southern Grove<br />
Poplar<br />
Tower Hamlets<br />
E3 4PN<br />
Tel 020 7364 6715<br />
Fax 020 7364 6779<br />
Two fresh fruit and vegetable co-ops providing<br />
weekly orders to black and minority ethnic<br />
groups, the elderly, women and children, and<br />
single parents. It is currently working on a food<br />
access project in a New Deal for Communities<br />
area.<br />
Activities Nutrition/health education<br />
<strong>Food</strong> co-op<br />
User Groups Black and minority ethnic groups<br />
Low-income groups<br />
Women and children<br />
Older people<br />
Single parents<br />
Greater London<br />
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