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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...

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...

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...