Plymouth Social Enterprise Network News
There is huge potential for social enterprises in Plymouth to gain investment using Social Investment Tax Relief (SITR) however, very few social enterprise have used it or are even aware…
Growing Community Abundance – Update
During the past few weeks, Food Plymouth Growing Community Abundance team members have been out and about engaging with communities and growing initiatives around the City. This has been an…
What’s on at The Clipper …
By Laura Kelly This weekend we will be joined by Grilling in the Name, a BBQ inspired vegan grill hosting pop up lunches in the South West. Carly and Damon will be…
Nudge Community Builders – The Clipper’s first birthday!
Members of the Food Plymouth core team and representatives of several food Plymouth partner organisations enjoyed The Clipper’s first birthday party on Friday 19th July. The Clipper is the flagship…
Compassionate Plymouth
Food Plymouth aim to create a more sustainable food city, working together with businesses, organisations and individuals. In order for us to collaborate and work well together there has to…
Plymouth Railway Station Redevelopment – Update
Having encouraged you to engage with the Plymouth Railway Station Redevelopment Masterplan Planning Consultation (edition #76 of this e-bulletin), Food Plymouth CIC director Ian Smith filed a submission in the CIC’s name…
Update from The Food Equality Projects July 24th Session
By Lisa Howard ” Thank you to everyone who came to Union Corner yesterday and participated in the latest Food Equality session, in particular to Barbara Hampson of Stonehouse Timebank. We…
Plymouth Food Equality Project – Opportunity to Engage
The Plymouth Food Equality Project will be at Southway Library 14th August 10 am to 1 pm for Lunch at the Library. We will have lots of creative activities and…
CATERed – Ed’s Big Summer Food Tour 5
CATERed are key, longstanding partners of Food Plymouth feeding into our Sustainable City goal through the use of fresh, seasonal, local and organic ingredients in their school menu choices, they…
Food Plymouth Partnership and Network Meeting
The latest Food Plymouth partnership and network meeting took place at the East End Development Trust, Cattedown on 17th July. In addition to updates from partners and Food Plymouth CIC,…
Bioregional Learning Centre in South Devon
Food Plymouth’s work in the Devon New Economies movement creates numerous lines of connectivity and generates some fascinating opportunities. The latest manifestation of this comes from our collaborative partnership working…
Meat Free Monday – News
Thousands take part in ‘mass lobby’ of MPs to save planet It isn’t often that Britons get to meet their MPs in person – typically only when they’re on the…
Royal Geographical Society – Conference
The 2019 Annual International Conference will be held at the Society in London, from Wednesday 28 to Friday 30 August 2019. The chair’s theme is Geographies of trouble / geographies of hope, and has been selected…
Food Research Collaboration News
NEW FOOD VOICES BLOG – Brexit Briefing Update series Pesticides and SIs: the devil in the detail In the latest blog in our Brexit Briefing Update series, Josie Cohen and her colleagues…
Sustainable Food Cities Network – Nutritional Standards
What should be the nutritional standards for school, prison and hospital food? All central government departments and their agencies must comply with the Government Buying Standards for Food and Catering…
Food Research Collaboration News
It seems self-evident that a primary objective of farming would be to support human health. Farmers’ choices about what they produce and the methods they use, and the policies that…
OUR FUTURE IN THE LAND AND NATIONAL FOOD STRATEGY
Food Plymouth has been involved in the RSA Food Farming and Countryside Commission (FFCC) from its pre-engagement phase, through to the subsequent launch, the round Britain cycle tour (we hosted…