Duke of Cornwall Hotel Thursday 09th May 2019 Thrive Plymouth Year 5 – ‘People Connecting through Food’. The overall focus for Year 5 is supporting Plymouth to achieve the Sustainable Food Cities (SFC)…
News from Jay Tompt, a good friend and collaborative partner of Food Plymouth: CTRLshift: An Emergency Summit for Change 2 will take place this year in Stoke on Trent over 8-10…
Baked have recently hosted a great workshop with the positive people programme, a project run by PLUSS. The workshop was designed around the idea of ‘cupboard cooking’ food on a budget and healthy ‘junk…
Tamar Grow Local are a Community Interest Company (CIC) whose interests focus on three main areas: Community,Education and Commercial. Their latest venture – The Market Garden Cafe – certainly ticks all three boxes,…
The Inspectors appointed to ensure sound planning policies in Plymouth have given their blessing to the provision of space for community food growing and the control of hot food takeaways.…
As a founding member of the Sustainable Food Cities (SFC) Network and one of the first cities to achieve bronze back in 2015, Food Plymouth has been a mainstay of the SFC movement. With…
Confirmed speakers/activities include Bob Mahew of the Apricot Centre in Dartington who will explain how Biodynamics works and will have some of their wonderful food on offer. Chris Marsh who will share…
Having hosted the RSA Food Farming and Countryside Commission cycle tour of the UK in Plymouth with Food Plymouth colleagues and partners in September 2018, Ian Smith was delighted to…
Livewell Southwest know the importance of good health and wellbeing, and not just that of their patients. The Livewell staff are supported and encouraged to consider their own health and…
Techstars Startup Weekend has come to Plymouth, with a theme of ‘Health & Wellbeing’ – an issue which affects us all! The first ever Plymouth Techstars Startup Weekend is taking place…
17th April 2019 The Food Power south west regional learning network meeting took place at Buzz Lockleaze, Bristol on 17th April. Representatives from Food Power Alliances from Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole,…
Our next All Ways Apples Festival planning meeting will be on Wednesday 8th May at 2pm at Devonport Library. Please see the latest Food Plymouth e-bulletin for the update from the last meeting…
Food Plymouth’s Dig for Devonport Community Explorers initiative is one of nine community projects to win funding from the Great Western Railway (GWR) community improvement fund. This project is part of Food Plymouth’s…
Food Plymouth and several of our partners, including Plymouth Community Homes, Tamar Grow Local, and lead organisation the Tamar Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (TVAONB), has been engaging with…
Stephen Keighley, one of Tamar Grow Local’s farm-start tenants at Mill Lane Acres in Metherell will be starring in the new series Devon and Cornwall produced by True North TV…
Throughout last years’ Sugar Smart Plymouth Campaign Dr Clare Pettinger delivered 4 Ambassador training sessions to people from all over Plymouth. Thrive Plymouth launched year 5 last October with a…
Plymouth Social Enterprise Network News Food Plymouth contributes to and benefits from active membership of many different networks. This includes membership of the dynamic Plymouth Social Enterprise Network (PSEN) which…
CROPS (Keyham Green Places) is making available its kitchen, fridge and freezer to the local community in most need for FREE. We will take canned donations (in date) and also make…
By Tess Wilmot In addition on Sunday 5th May Ian Smith and Tess Wilmot are opening their garden near Ivybridge. This is a chance to visit their ‘Resourceful Permaculture Garden’…
By Jane Hutton Exciting times ahead for our Growing Together group! After Easter Jane Hutton The Functional Foodie is going to be running a specially written course for our young people, Grow Your Health.…
One of the many benefits arising from the Thrive Plymouth : Food Plymouth collaboration helping to deliver Thrive Plymouth Year 5 is a closer working relationship between Food Plymouth and…
4th April 2019 The Thrive Plymouth Network is a great platform for connecting people from a wide range of organisations and businesses whose chief commonality is improving health and wellbeing…
Food Plymouth presents an annual review of its activities during its Spring quarterly partnership and network meeting in March of each year. Last Wednesday saw representatives from all over Plymouth…
Livewell Southwest know the importance of good health and wellbeing, and not just that of their patients. The Livewell staff and supported and encouraged to consider their own health and…
Those of us with a long-standing involvement with Food Plymouth will recall our work to inform what was then the Plymouth Plan strategic spatial planning process. This led to the…
Food Plymouth supported the Local Impact Lab launch in February 2019. Food Plymouth’s Ian Smith is following up on this by taking part in today’s Impact Lab: Plymouth City Challenge…
Food Plymouth applauds this week’s unanimous decision by Plymouth City Council to respond positively to the Climate Emergency and all which this entails, notably around achieving carbon neutrality by 2030. Our Sustainable…
Spaces and Places for Food – Update By Claire Turbutt Food Plymouth, Transforming Plymouth Together and Thrive Plymouth met following the January Spaces and Places for Food Expo. At the Expo a…
The Thrive Plymouth health inequalities initiative and the cross-sector collaborative partnership behind it was shortlisted for the Public Health award at the Local Government Chronicle (LGC) Awards 2019. This award…
The first Food Plymouth social economy and enterprise symposium took place on Thursday 21st March. This was a follow-up to January’s Feeding the City programme workshop which we delivered in…
First event success By Tess Wilmot The first Growing Community Abundance gathering took place on Sunday 17th March at Devonport Park Activity Centre. More than 25 community growers participated in…
Planning is underway for the All Ways Apples Festival and Fringe 2019. The Festival’s main event will take place on Wednesday 23rd October at Devonport Guildhall. This year marks the…
Ben Richardson and Jack Winkler have recently written an article for the Food Research Collaboration about sugar reduction in Post-Brexit UK. The new briefing argues that supply-side policies that reduce the…