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Many food projects and businesses are trying to change the food system – by promoting healthy food, selling local and organic produce or increasing people’s access to better food. Not only is this task large, but it is also hard to make these initiatives work, and be financially viable in the long term.

Students have been digging in at a Birmingham based college in order to raise awareness of the importance of diet, healthy eating and nutrition.

Three Cheshire schools have been getting their fingers dirty and growing their own grub, thanks to a £9,000 grant from Local Food.

Hinderton School, Ellesmere Port, Dorin Park School, Chester and Springfield School, Crewe, have all created their very own customised growing areas for the pupils and the wider community to learn about food growing and horticultural skills.

An innovative Local Food project based in Merseyside has won the special 2010 Year of Health and Wellbeing category in the Merseyside Innovation Awards.

An exciting Enfield based project is celebrating its entrepreneurial success, following the creation of London’s first ever commercial scale community vineyard; thanks to a £132,000 grant from Local Food.

Local Food project ‘Growing Spaces’ has won a prestigious award.

The project, run by Medina Housing Association was announced as winner of the South East region for the ‘What We Are Proud Of’ awards from the National Housing Federation, which celebrate the exciting work that is going on in local communities.

Waiting lists for allotments in Bodmin and surrounding villages have been cut thanks to a £8,700 grant from Local Food, the £50 million funding programme supported by the Big Lottery Fund.

Communities Secretary John Denham and Environment Secretary Hilary Benn outlined a package of measures to help gardeners in the community at the Local Food-funded project, ‘Skip Garden’, in King’s Cross, London.