Community Food Projects: a directory - library.uniteddiversity.coop

Introduction
Welcome to Community Food Projects: a directory, the first printed directory of projects on the
Food Poverty Projects Database. The Database is maintained by the Food Poverty Network, part
of Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming, in collaboration with the Health
Development Agency. It contains a great variety of projects, all working at the local level to
improve access to healthy food for people on a low income.
The projects include food co-operatives, community cafés, school breakfast clubs, cooking clubs,
food growing projects and farmers’ markets. This directory will be useful for anyone with an
interest in local food initiatives, especially anyone running or trying to start a community food
project. We hope it will encourage you to contact people already working in the field. We cannot
over-emphasise the importance of networking and learning from other people's experience.
The directory gives an excellent overview of the huge range of projects currently running. We
hope you will find the examples here inspirational, as well as useful in giving you the
information you need. By reading the project summaries, you should get a feel for the amount of
energy and imagination that goes into these projects.
We have also included a list of Regional Development Agencies, Strategic Health Authorities and
the Primary Care Trusts within their remit, plus a list of other useful contacts.
What is the Food Poverty Projects Database?
The Food Poverty Projects Database was formerly called the Food and Low Income Database. It
was launched in 1996 to enable people working on local food projects to find out about each
other, make contact and pool experience in a way that had never been possible before. There are
currently more than 267 community food projects on the database, from across the UK and the
Republic of Ireland. Between them they carry out more than 700 activities, ranging from growing
and selling food to cooking and eating it.
Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming
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