This is a new project which aims to celebrate, promote and encourage the use of locally grown and produced food from farmers and small food producers based in Staffordshire.

"Healthy Tots" is a new project to be delivered within 200 existing community toddler groups, in areas of disadvantage across Staffordshire, Shropshire, Birmingham, Oxford, Swindon and Cornwall.

Our rural primary school is moving to a new greenfield site in November 2010. Funding is in place for the building but does not extend to the grounds.

The school is bordered on one side by allotments and we have been given the opportunity to rent one which is currently unused and very overgrown.

The project aims to increase domestic consumption of fruit and vegetables by integrating school, community- and home-based vegetable gardening with cookery training and a local distribution scheme.

Growing Families will help people change their eating habits, attitudes and knowledge about food, fruit & vegetables thereby improving nutrition, health & wellbeing, fitness and – in the long term – preventing disease.

The Fordhall Community Growing Scheme is a new initiative for the FCLI to develop an innovative organic vegetable/fruit growing project in the grounds of England’s first community-owned farm.

This is a new Project comprising of an organic traditional community orchard of 416 fruit trees on a site of approximately 3 1/4 acres.

This is a project to educate the local community about local food and to produce local food for elderly members of the local community.

'Sow & Grow’ – Ledbury Allotment Association Development project is a new project.

This project aims to enable gardeners, allotment holders, schools and community enterprises to grow exotic crops adapted to local conditions, drawing on the knowledge and seed resources of BME communities in the East and West Midlands regions.

Bath Place Community Café “the veggie table" forms a hub for a range of food projects, which enables the development of self-help, and promotes education, training and capacity building for the community users.

The project aims to promote the use of locally produced foods and will identify opportunities and attitudes toward quality local foods.

The Bridge Education Centre has produced a firm foundation of expertise in training some of the most challenging young people in South Worcestershire in horticultural skills.

Gardening in Mind is a new project which builds on the work of a current allotment project and will provide opportunities for people with mental health problems to further develop and manage 5 allotment spaces. At these allotments they will grow food for sale and distribution to Coventry Mind residents and users, local charities and the local community thereby developing a small social enterprise.

The Grow It, Eat It project will run over four years to work with communities in areas of traditional social housing throughout the Staffordshire Moorlands. Funding will be used to employ an officer and to equip that person with suitable resources to work with people.

Castle High’s After School Club consists of children and parents who are working hard to learn about different foods and the effects on the body. The group will be making a video to promote awareness and understanding between food and healthy lifestyles.