Very proud to annnouce that Deirdre Woods (far left) who volunteers at CFGN-member Granville Community Kitchen has been shortlisted for BBC Cook of the Year. Find out more about Granville Community Kitchen here. The BBC article is here. And radio show is here.
HIRING: Delivery Lead – Community Gardener and Cook May Project Gardens is seeking a highly dedicated individual with experience working with local communities using food growing as a tool for personal transformation. Contract: 6 hours/week for 6 months (with the possibility of more) Pay rate: £15/hr Application: CV and cover letter OR video (no longer…
Just Space is developing proposals for what should be in the next London Plan – a vision and planning policies for London for the next 20 years. All the London Plans since the GLA was created in 2000 have been drafted by the Mayor and Londoners have only been able to comment, not initiate proposals. This time London’s community groups are insisting that they influence the formative stages: identifying London’s problems and needs and formulating policies. Just Space will be submitting a draft plan to the new Mayor during their first days in office in May 2016.
This time last year UCL students working with Just Space approached different organisations to research what policies should be in the ‘Food Production’ section of the draft plan. These included organisations such as the Community Food Growers Network, Capital Growth, Federation of City Farms and Gardens, Women’s Environmental Network, the London Permaculture group and Friends of the Earth.
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CFGN member ‘Audacious Veg’ is running a crowd funder which you can find out more and support through this link, and also some info below
It only costs £21 pounds to change a refugee’s life with a seven-day bus pass – donate today!
Here at Audacious Veg, we wanted to find a way to make newly-arrived refugees feel welcome in London, and make their lives a tiny bit easier. We asked ourselves- “how can a tiny food growing project make a big difference to people seeking asylum in the UK?”
Refugees seeking to claim asylum in the UK are not legally allowed to work, and often struggle to survive on less than £5 a day. This makes London’s high transport costs unaffordable, leaving many refugees isolated and unable to access support services. You can help change this.
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