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To create a fruit and vegetable growing scheme within the school grounds and to predominantly run the scheme as a free after school club on a weekly basis.

Our project, working in Southwark SE17 which includes some of the most deprived areas in the country with high unemployment and health inequalities, will develop the skills and business potential of a cafe co-operative – Cafe Crypt.

The food growing and healthy eating project is a new extension to our previous successful smaller food growing projects.

The Master Gardeners programme will encourage and support people and communities to grow fruit and vegetables in their gardens and on local communal land.

The project is the development of London’s first commercial scale, community vineyard. The vineyard will be planted at Forty Hall Organic Farm in the London Borough of Enfield.

Sprout There is a new project created to support people with learning disabilities (PWLD) by providing a safe space to create an allotment-based organic box scheme.

DIG! will evoke memories of the wartime ‘Dig for Victory’ campaign by using food growing to improve socially and economically disadvantaged older people’s access to local affordable organic produce whilst also improving their social and physical wellbeing.

Sustaining Sutton is an ambitious, holistic project aiming to increase access to local food in Sutton through stimulating local production, enhancing food growing skills, reducing food waste and enabling communities to lead healthy, balanced, low impact diets as part of a ‘One Planet Lifestyle’.

This project aims to kick start and increase the quantity and quality of food growing at Culpeper Community Garden (CCG).

We will create new fruit and vegetable allotments from 100sqm of overgrown land, clear and rotovate the plots and improve the soil.

Newham is the third most deprived borough in London and the sixth most deprived in England.

The Petchey Kitchen Garden project will work with young people from the Secondary School and residents in the wider community to develop areas of the school grounds to promote the environmental, social and cultural values of growing food locally.

The ‘Growing Kitchen’ pilot was delivered by Grass Shoots on the Wenlock Barn estate in Hackney.

The project will develop 12 acres of disused Local Authority plant nursery (including 1/2 acre of glasshouses) as a community food growing enterprise.

Ethical Eats is a fledgling network of caterers in London interested in sustainability. This bid will turn Ethical Eats into an influential membership organisation to transform eating out.

The Real Bread Campaign is a new project which aims to increase the sustainability and localisation of the bread system through creating new producer-consumer relationships, and providing education, training, and networking services.

Cambridge School works with children with special needs and has, over the years, developed a number of practical projects based on food and food growing with other local organisations.

This project will create new fruit and vegetable allotments from 100sqm of overgrown land.

Aiming to address local needs for access to fresh food and the skills to grow it, and informed by market research, this new project has been developed from many years experience of successful food growing and sustainable living projects at Spitalfields City Farm.

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