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...
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Stir Up Sunday with Friends of Bishopstone Station
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...
Read MoreLunch Positive’s Seahaven Social
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...
Read MoreThe Friends of Sutton Downs Growing Project
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...
Read MoreFeeling the Pinch: Have Your Say full report published
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...
Read MoreThe Seaford Head school vegetable garden
The Seaford Head School Vegetable Garden I began helping with the Seaford Head school gardening group in April. The students planted lots of vegetable...
Read MoreHelping out in the SCDA community kitchen
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...
Read MoreLewes District Annual Food Summit this October
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...
Read MoreEvaluation of the Seahaven Community Food ‘Community Supermarket’ model
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...
Read MoreGrants for Community Food Projects & Events in Lewes District
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...
Read MoreThis October is Good Food East Sussex Month
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...
Read MoreMake Your Own Kebab Workshop with Table Talk Foundation
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...
Read MoreCommunity Cafe at Fitzjohns Food Bank
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...
Read MoreCommunity Food at Friends of Bishopstone Station
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...
Read MoreLovebrook Farm – regenerative food production and community well-being
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...
Read MoreFeeling the Pinch: Have Your Say – Lewes District Residents talk about their experiences of Food Insecurity
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!’...
Read MoreVideo: One Extra Item – The Lewes Food Bank Story
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...
Read MoreA visit to Newhaven Harbour
Recently I was lucky enough to be shown around Newhaven Harbour by David Guy, the site manager and Secretary of the Newhaven Fish & Flake...
Read MoreFood Justice at the Extinction or Regeneration Conference
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...
Read MoreGrow Cook Eat & Compost at Lewes Football Club
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...
Read MoreHealthy Eating Week at Seaford Head School
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...
Read MoreA visit to Peverells Community Garden in Seaford
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...
Read MoreWasting sausages is the Wurst – working together to save food from landfill
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...
Read MoreLandport Community Cafe – article in the Lewesian
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...
Read MoreCase Study: East Sussex Food Partnerships – The Cost-of-Living Crisis
Sustainable Food Places is an alliance of three charities: Soil Association, Food Matters & Sustain: The Alliance for Better Food & Farming. The Sustainable Food...
Read MoreA Conversation with: Ovesco Energy Champions
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...
Read MoreFeeling the Pinch: Have Your Say!
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...
Read MoreA visit to Lewes FC Community Kitchen Garden ‘Brad’s Pit’
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...
Read MoreLewes District Emergency Food Network Christmas Appeal
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...
Read MoreHuman Nature Fundraising Dinner
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...
Read MoreLewes District Food Summit
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...
Read MoreLandport Estate, Lewes
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...
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