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While we may all recognise the importance of eating healthily, putting nutritious, home-cooked meals on the table is more challenging for some than others. Low...

Lewes District Food Partnership was pleased to attend the Sustain Annual Conference 2025, which brought together people across the nation working in sustainable food systems...

Community psychologist, Adur & Worthing Food Partnership Director and founding member of the Alliance for Dignified Food Support Carl Walker and team have shared with...

The Pamoja After School & Weekend Youth Club is an exciting new initiative launching in April 2025 in Lewes. The youth club is designed to provide...

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We had the absolute pleasure of welcoming four fabulous volunteers from the Hillcrest Wood Creatives last Thursday who came to our Community Garden and made...

Building Communities through Gardening and Volunteering The Growing Community Toolkit is a project helping local groups and volunteers across East Sussex. The online resources, written...

Friends of Bishopstone Station at the Community Rail Awards In March, Friends of Bishopstone Station received two awards at the National Community Rail 25th annual...

Roughly one-third of food produced for human consumption globally is wasted. Food waste is generated at different stages of the food process – on the...

Pinch Points is a participatory research project focused on improving support services for residents of Lewes District facing financial challenges including food insecurity. It puts...

Seedy Saturday, the annual seed-swapping event in Lewes, took place on 1 February 2025, coinciding with Imbolc: the Celtic festival that marks the beginning of...

Lewes District Food Partnership would like to introduce our Project Support Officer, Jay, who has been working across several projects including the Alliance for Dignified...

This October, Good Food East Sussex took the county by storm for the second year running. There were a huge range of events, workshops, volunteer...

Lewes District Food Partnership is delighted to introduce Holly, a student at the University of Sussex, who has joined us for her Global Work Experience...

Lewes District Food Partnership is delighted to introduce Holly, a student at the University of Sussex, who has joined us for her Global Work Experience...

Lewes District Food Partnership is delighted to introduce Holly, a student at the University of Sussex, who has joined us for her Global Work Experience...

Community Chef Robin Van Creveld and other volunteers plating up the soup course of the zero-waste feast held at Lewes Town Hall in collaboration with...

Lewes’ food story comes alive in “Grown in Lewes”, a vibrant new book celebrating our town’s rich horticultural heritage and community spirit. From historic markets...

Across the country, groups of citizens have been getting together to discuss what they really think about the food system and their priorities for change....

On the 21st October, over 50 people from different organisations and local food businesses across East Sussex came together at Longbridge Regenerative to celebrate local...

On Wednesday 13th November, Lewes District Food Partnership Stef joined food partnerships from across the country in Westminster to show decision-makers the innovative ways that...

Earlier in the month, two residents of Lewes District joined with voices from across the UK to call for people’s experiences of poverty to be...

In late September, a diverse group of researchers, community organizations, policymakers, and citizens gathered in Montpellier, France, to share learnings from projects and research inspired...

We are delighted to introduce an incredible range of community projects, activists, researchers and local people making a difference to the face of food in...

Good Food East Sussex Month kicks off! Join us and like-minded foodies across the county as we celebrate all the ways we create a Good...

Over the last 6 months, Lewes District Food Partnership have awarded grants to local groups fighting food insecurity by building community capacity. In this guest...

Lewes District Food Partnership and Ouse Valley Climate Action are coming together for a day of food and climate action and celebration. WHEN? Wednesday 9th...

Over the last 6 months, Lewes District Food Partnership have awarded grants to local groups fighting food insecurity by building community capacity. In this guest...

Composting closes the loop from field to fork. Through composting we can to use our waste to rebuild the living web of nutrients and microorganisms...

People on low incomes in Lewes District will have a key role in a new project to combat financial hardship, thanks to a £100,000 grant...

We are delighted to announce another round of grants available to local groups. Following the success of previous rounds, we will once again be offering...

On Thursday, Lewes District Food Partnership coordinator Nancy and members of  our networks attended a packed-out hustings at King’s Church to hear how candidates for...

With the general election coming up on the 4th July, Lewes District Emergency Food network have written to candidates to ask what they’ll do if...

Over the last 6 months, Lewes District Food Partnership has awarded grants to projects building local food security by developing a Good Food Movement. This...

Are you passionate about making sure local residents have access to the support they need?  Do you want to be part of a movement to...

To help us better navigate today’s oftentimes disorienting food landscape, Bee Wilson and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall shared their Food Wisdom in a packed-out tent at the...

Over the last 6 months, Lewes District Food Partnership have awarded grants to local groups fighting food insecurity by building community capacity. In this guest...

Nestled on a slope with views of the downs and the sea beyond, Rodmell Forest Garden is open every Wednesday to volunteers to learn more...

From a community pantry sharing surplus food, to a courtyard bursting with seedlings looking for loving homes, a visit to to the SEA Climate Hub...

Coordinator Nancy had the chance to meet some of the youngest – and most enthusiastic – members of the Good Food Movement in Lewes District....

On a sunny Monday in March, over 50 people came together at Montague Farm on the Pevensey Levels to reimagine shorter, more human and tastier...

By Gemma McFarlane, Grow Cook Eat network coordinator When we invited people to join us gardening at Lewes Football Club last week, some were a...

Since 2022, Hospitable Environment has been bringing people of all ages and backgrounds together for a community meal and conversations around the central question “what...

The 2023 evaluation report for the Peacehaven & Newhaven Community Supermarkets reflects on the challenges and opportunities of alternative models of community food support.  SCDA...

LDFP are delighted to welcome a guest contribution from Lunch Positive Project Coordinator Jim Stanford. Read on to find out more about the community connections...

Lewes District Food Partnership have kicked off the New Year with celebrations of our Sustainable Food Places Bronze award. The award is a national, evidence-based...

Our new edition of the Grow Cook Eat Network’s newsletter is a one stop shop for anything to do with growing, cooking, sharing, preserving and...

In May and June of this year we ran a project called Feeling the Pinch: Have Your Say! which aimed to amplify the voices of...

Read the Joint Letter from the Cost of Living Partners Action Group 90% of low-income households on Universal Credit are currently going without essentials. Some...

The Lewes District Emergency Food Network is a network of projects across the district that collectively support over 500 households to access food. The rising...

In between two very wet, dull days, we were lucky to get a beautiful sunny Friday for a Grow Cook Eat Network visit to Lovebrook...

Now is the time to reflect on what a brilliant event the Food Summit was. Over 80 of you showed up to join the discussion...

Lewes District Food Partnership have achieved a bronze award from Sustainable Food Places for work achieved locally on building better food systems for people and...

Last week, members of the community were invited to the community hub at Bishopstone station to join in with Stir up Sunday.  We had 15...

Lunch Positive’s Seahaven Social is a peer led support group for people living with HIV.  We aim to overcome social isolation and loneliness, creating a...

The Friends of Sutton Downs (FoSD) formed in the winter of 2020 with the aim of renaturing around the Downs Leisure Centre in Seaford. Coming...

Feeling the Pinch: Have Your Say Report published Feeling the Pinch: Have Your Say Report 2023 ‘Feeling the Pinch! Have Your Say’ is an innovative...

The Seaford Head School Vegetable Garden   I began helping with the Seaford Head school gardening group in April. The students planted lots of vegetable...

I love finding out more about the projects in the Grow Cook Eat Network and learning about how they work. Last month I offered to...

Are you interested in local food security and sustainability? Join us at this years Lewes District Annual Food Summit which will be held at Plumpton College...

Seahaven Community Food is SCDA’s Community Food Team; they run two community supermarkets in Newhaven and Peacehaven as well as a Community Kitchen, a Community...

Category A: up to £400 for Community Food Events to help celebrate Good Food East Sussex Month this October.  These grants aim to support events...

In October 2023, organisations and communities across East Sussex will be coming together to hold the first ever Good Food East Sussex Month.  There will...

Chef John from Table Talk Foundation came along to Christ Church in Lewes to show us how to make our own fresh kebabs. With the...

Fitzjohns Food Bank has been running in it’s current form since 2017, located out of Christ Church on Prince Edwards Road in Lewes it is...

In November ’22 Friends of Bishopstone Station (FOBs) brought this Art Deco listed station building into use as a community hub. Every Monday FOBs run...

I take every opportunity I can to visit Lovebrook Farm in Kingston Nr Lewes, it’s a wonderful place with a deep connection to nature. Hannah...

Ruby Makepeace Somerville, Coordinator of LDFP and Jane Perry, independent social researcher, have been running Lewes District Food Partnership’s ‘Feeling the Pinch: Have Your Say!’...

Stef Lake, Chair of Lewes District Food Partnership, spoke at the premier of a short film made by Sarah Clifford from InRoads production about Lewes...

Recently I was lucky enough to be shown around Newhaven Harbour by David Guy, the site manager and Secretary of the Newhaven Fish & Flake...

In May, Stef Lake Chair of Lewes District Food Partnership, was invited to speak as part of a panel exploring food justice, at the Extinction...

We chatted to Lucie Simon from Feel Good Food about the project she is working on at Lewes Football Club. Here’s what she had to...

Seaford Head school chose to use Healthy Eating week to promote a healthier lunch menu and provide other healthy food activities to raise awareness about...

Gemma Mcfarlane from Incredible Edible Seaford, who works with our Grow Cook Eat network went to visit Peverells Community Garden in Seaford. Here’s a bit...

There are endless disturbing facts and figures around how much food is wasted every day in the UK, these numbers are usually accompanied by some...

We’ve written before about the incredible community food projects and support in Landport, Lewes.  The estate is a great example of the impact joined-up thinking...

Sustainable Food Places is an alliance of three charities: Soil Association, Food Matters & Sustain: The Alliance for Better Food & Farming.  The Sustainable Food...

Ovesco are a community owned renewable energy company in East Sussex with a vision in which “100% of our energy needs are generated locally from...

What’s it really like to live through the Cost-of-Living Crisis? Time to get your views heard. Is the cost-of-living crisis affecting your household budget? Do you...

On a frosty morning in December I ventured out to investigate what I’d been hearing people refer to as ‘Brad’s Pit’. I was keen to...

Lewes District Emergency Food Network is made up of 10 community food projects that are tackling poverty across the district. They partnered up for a...

On the 10th of December, Human Nature held its first Dinner with Purpose and auction event in a repurposed warehouse on the Phoenix Industrial Estate...

The first Lewes District Food Summit took place on October 11th at the Linklater Pavilion in Lewes. Organised by Lewes District Food Partnership, the event...

Food security can’t be achieved on a ‘one size fits all’ basis. The beauty of community food projects is that they are typically ultra-local, run...