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My reflections on the Lincolnshire Food Summit 2024
It’s not just the younger generations who need to be included in project creation and campaigning. When we have time, those of us with knowledge and expertise in marketing and PR should be willing to work alongside people from disadvantaged backgrounds to empower them to use their voice to get involved.
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What I learned from attending the Lincolnshire Food Summit 2023
Reflections by Matti Colley On Thursday 23rd November 2023 I was invited to attend the Lincolnshire Food Summit at the New Life Centre, Sleaford. The summit was organised by the Greater Lincolnshire Food Partnership, Acts Trust, Sleaford New Life and the Lincolnshire Co-op, and was attended by around 80 representatives from local foodbanks, community groceries…
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School food helps children thrive
Family food security in Lincoln The biggest rise in foodbank referrals in Lincoln is to households with children, according to the recent Reality of Food Poverty in Lincoln report. Children now represent 35% of food parcel recipients in Lincoln. I don’t know how that statistic makes you feel – I feel that in my stomach.…
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Thank you Ticky!
Ticky Nadal is stepping down from her role as Food Partnership Coordinator at the end of March, to focus more on her work at Board Director at Mint Lane CIC. Ticky has done so much for the Food Partnership, especially working with foodbanks and community larders across the county; reducing food waste; championing healthy diets…
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What Lincolnshire can learn from Bornholm
Bornholm, known as Denmark’s Food Island, has a remarkable and vibrant network of small food producers. I spent a week at a summer school there, thinking about food, innovation and place-making. Here are five leaves I think we could take from their book: AHeritage-Gourmet Partnership A mutually beneficial partnership between the Agricultural Museum and Gourmet…
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School Food
By Ticky Nadal Infant and Junior school meal providers, whether in house or external caterers have been supported over the last decade by a variety of effective schemes helping them to deliver healthier and more nutritious lunchtime meals. So now what about our secondary schools? Time for lunch From Year 7 onwards we see a…
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Learning to love vegetables
What’s the difference between snot and broccoli? You can’t get the kids to eat the broccoli! We’re all trying to get the kids to eat more veg, right? “You can’t go play till you’ve finished your carrots. Just try a tiny bit. There’s pudding when you’ve finished your first course.” Coaxing, rewards, punishments… We can…
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Holiday Clubs for Kids
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Willoughby Road Allotment Association
The Power of Allotments for Community, Kindness and Learning Allotments are often sites of surprising diversity, community, wellbeing and intergenerational connection. But the people of Willoughby Road Allotment Association have taken this to a whole new level, and show the incredible capacity for allotment spaces to bring diverse communities together, and to propagate kindness! I…
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Low Fulney Family Allotments
Family Services Goes Outdoors! “We were working with a group of Young People who were permanently excluded from school, and there was this one girl who told us about her trips with her Grandad to his allotment. They were good memories. So we said to ourselves, could we have an allotment, where more young young…
