Foodshare Postings
Food Growing in Schools Report Released
We are very pleased to annoiunce the release of the “Every School a Food-Growing School” Report which is the cumulation of 12 months work between Sustain, Foodshare, the RHS, Garden Organic and a number of other Educational and Gardening Charities. The report has been endorsed by Alan Titchmarsh who said: “Connecting children with the earth [...]
Food Growing in Schools Campaign
Foodshare have joined forces with a number of Gardening and Education charities including the RHS, Garden Organic, Sustain and Michael Morpugo’s ‘Farms for City Children’, to raising awareness to the Government about the importance of Food Growing in Schools. Why the Campaign? Direct experience of food growing can have wide ranging benefits, including: Health [...]
Ipswich School Foodshare
Read about the exciting Ipswich School Foodshare Project where they donated over 100kg shortly after lauching: Tweet This Post
BBC Online on Foodshare
“In summer 2009 Mark Desvaux and Dan Spencer were struggling with the same problem [of surplus crops]. They rang East Anglia’s Children’s Hospice at Milton, and discovered the charity would be delighted to take unwanted crops to use in their kitchen. A donation centre was set up at their allotment site, and by the end [...]
Foodshare Featured in Parents’ Pages
Here’s a lovely article about the amazing work a Foodshare School in Surrey – St Peter’s RC Primary – are doing to help feed a local day-time drop-in centre for the homeless, unemployed & socially isolated. To read more about coverage of Foodshare on the TV, Radio and in the Press, please [...]
Grow Your Own Magazine: Foodshare Cover Story
Great news! Grow Your Own, the national growing magazine has featured Foodshare as their cover story in this month’s edition. Tweet This Post
St Peter’s Primary Team up With Unilever for Foodshare
As part of the Healthy Schools programme, St Peter’s Catholic Primary School has been running a Gardening Club for the past year. They have decided to expand the Kitchen Garden and become part of Foodshare UK’s ‘Growing to Give’ project. Foodshare is being rolled out across the UK in conjunction with the RHS and other [...]
Growing Food For The Homeless
This article was printed in This is Surrey Newspaper and Online (http://www.thisissurreytoday.co.uk/Growing-food-homeless/story-12666510-detail/story.html) To read more about coverage of Foodshare on the TV, Radio and in the Press, please take a look at Foodshare in the News. Tweet This Post
ITV feature on Foodshare School – Milton Primary
ITV created this wonderful feature about Milton Primary School’s Foodshare project and how they are supporting the East Anglain Children’s Hospice (EACH) by growing over £500 of fresh produce each year for the Hospice kitchen to use to make nutrious meals for the children and their familes. The Milton Hospice is 600m from the school, [...]
Primary Times: Article on Foodshare
Primary Times Magazine has been encouraging parents and schools to get involved with Foodshare. Tweet This Post
