As an organisation our main goal is addressing food insecurity.
Over lockdown we launched an emergency food project. Find out more about that here.
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This is our long term strategy to address food insecurity.
We aim to address the main drivers of "food poverty. "
Which are:
1 - lack of finance.
2- lack of nutrition knowledge and cooking skills.
3 -lack of access to affordable healthy food.
4 - lack of cooking facilities/ the ability to use them.
(Info: South Wales Food Poverty Alliance @FoodPowerUK)
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How we will do this:
1- Lack of finance.
Living wage jobs
Living wage work placements
Hospitality Employment skills workshops
We will provide work placements paying a living wage UK.
We currently have employed one member of staff through partnering with The Big Issue. This member of staff is now paid a living wage and is a permanent member of staff on a part time contract, this is a flexible role suiting the individuals needs outside of work.
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2.Lack of nutrition knowledge and cooking skills
-We will run a Community Food & Nutrition Skills Course and Get Cooking skills courses.
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The nutrition courses are through Cardiff & Vale UHB. Nutrition skills for Life Argoed Cymru Level 1. Lauren has attended this training in order to deliver the course through Wild Thing.
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3- Lack of access of affordable food.
We run regular community suppers increasing accessibility to healthy food. We also operate Cathays Community Fridge, which provides access to free food 7 days a week.
Our long term plan is to launch a community food shop making food shopping more affordable.
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4. - lack of cooking facilities/ the ability to use them.
We will tailor cooking skills courses to suit different kitchen facilities; such as how to cook with just a kettle or microwave. We will also use this platform to challenge current cooking facilities which are offered in different housing and accommodation - to create change!
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PARTNERS.
We are proud to be part of the National Food Service. - which is a new public service, built by and for the communities that it serves. The aim is to eliminate food insecurity and tackle the interconnected issues of social isolation and food waste.
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We are part of Food Cardiff and work towards becoming a sustainable food city and address food insecurity working with other third sector and public organisations.
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We are a member of FareShare. We use surplus food for community dinners in order to tackle food waste and food insecurity.
In August 2020 we took part n the NFS Summer Symposium. Please see below the webinar on community food projects, Lauren explains about our community food approach.
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