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Sign Posting The Orchard
Horton Community Farm Shared Learning Exchange Visit 25th And 26th April 2013
Product Development - Apple Curd
From Soup To Salad!!
Welcome to Local Food
Local Food is a £59.8 million programme that distributes grants from the Big Lottery Fund to a variety of food-related projects that are helping to make locally grown food accessible and affordable to local communities.
Local Food is now closed to all new applications, but you can keep up to date with all our news here on the website.
Click on the box to the left to read the latest updates from our funded projects, or click here to read and leave your comments on our new Local Food team blog.
You can also keep up with us on Twitter and Facebook by clicking on the links in the box on the bottom left, read our latest news below, or sign up for our enewsletter.
Vote for your Local Food Hero 2013 today!
Ordinary people doing extraordinary things
Local Food Heroes 2013 is an initiative to give our projects the chance to recognise and celebrate the outstanding people who work hard to make their project a success.
All Local Food projects were invited to nominate a group or an individual who they believe is worthy of the title Local Food Hero 2013. We’ve shortlisted these, and it is now up to you – the public – to decide on the winners. We’re looking for 9 Local Food Heroes – one for each region of England.
Click here to read about each of our shortlisted nominees and vote for your favourite! You may vote in as many or as few regions as you would like – but please bear in mind that you will only be able to vote once per region with any one email address.
The voting process is quick and easy, but should you require any assistance please contact Matthew Layton on 01636 670056 or mlayton@rswt.org
Voting closes at 5pm on Monday 1st July, so don’t delay – vote today!
Local Food: 101 inspirations & aspirations
A recent academic evaluation of the Local Food programme found that it is building communities and improving lives in many different ways, by supporting hundreds of projects around the country (see links below).
But we've also been busy asking the people involved in the projects what it is that inspires them about the Local Food programme, and what their aspirations are for the future.
Take a look at 101 things that inspire people about Local Food, and 101 aspirations for the future to read a selection of short comments from the people on the ground who run our projects day to day, who have the local insight and hands-on expertise to inform their views about the Local Food programme and its future.
Please note this document is best viewed in Google Chrome or Firefox.
Local Food - More than just the veg
At an event at City Hall in London on 18 October, we launched the interim findings of an academic evaluation of Local Food.
The report, called "More than just the veg - Growing community capacity through Local Food projects", shows how Local Food projects are going beyond their aim of making local food more accessible and affordable, and are building community capacity across England.
Click here to read the report. A longer version is also available here.
At the event, delegates saw three films which demonstrate how Local Food is growing community capacity by building material capacity, building personal capacity, and building cultural capacity. Click here to see them, and join the discussion on our Twitter page #morethanjusttheveg. You can also read more about the event, including a summary of key comments, by clicking here.
Local Food's Big Review
Take a look at 'Local Food's Big Review', our online community which is built up entirely of Local Food projects. From farmers' markets to allotments, beekeeping to a community cafe, this inspiring landscape will give you a taster of the areas and projects where Local Food is having a positive impact.
Show your support for local food and get connected to the Local Food Network on Facebook or follow us on Twitter .
