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From Spring 2010, the Local Food Adviser Team will be running a series of nine regional events open to groups currently working on their Local Food Full Stage Applications.
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A COMMUNITY garden in Clifton has been boosted by a £50,000 lottery grant, which will be used to improve the community garden in Summerwood Lane, and to help local people grow their own produce.
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An award winning social enterprise is bringing a touch of rural life back to inner city Sheffield by transforming eight acres (3.2 hectares) of land into an urban farm. Green Estate, are working towards improving the open spaces of the deprived wards of Manor, Castle and Woodthorpe.

Sowing Seeds Oct 12, 2009

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Sowing Seeds’ is a holistic project in London that integrates weekly gardening lessons with the provision of related recipe and nutrition cards to refugees. It is a new allotment-based project which builds on the success of healthy eating classes delivered by the Refugee Council since January 2008.

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Community interest group, Stroudco is going to provide local food to local people in Stroud through a project called ‘Better Deal- Affordable Local Food for Local People’. This social enterprise will be controlled by the community that use it.

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Medina Housing Association will be engaging 150 new households on the Isle of Wight into their Growing Spaces project to encourage residents to grow their own vegetables, thanks to a £90,000 grant funded by Local Food. Local Food is a new grants programme supported by the Big Lottery Fund.

Finding the Plot Sep 23, 2009

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Fancy growing food in your city or town but can’t find a plot to get started? Then the ‘Finding the plot’ workshops being held on the 21st October in Reading could be for you.

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Bath Place Community Cafe will be helping young people to eat and cook healthily. The ‘FLAVA’ (Food, Learning and Voluntary Action) project will see the introduction of the Kiddie Kafe which will be managed by young people (aged 8-14) for young people. The participants will be involved in planning, preparing and cooking healthy food for sale.

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Due to an exceptional high level of demand, the groundbreaking Local Food programme is to suspend acceptance of new first stage applications, with effect from Friday 21 August 2009.

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Manchester residents can show their appreciation to local farmers this Valentine’s day, and at the same time become healthier and greener with the help of a pocket-sized seasonal food calendar. Ten thousand of the conveniently sized and informative calendars will be available free of charge at selected fruit & vegetable outlets across Manchester from Valentine’s Day.

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Local Food is part of the Big Lottery Fund’s Changing Spaces programme which was launched in November 2005 to help communities enjoy and improve their local environments. The programme funds a range of activities from local food schemes and farmers markets, to education projects teaching people about the local environment.

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