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Comment on Jubilee jubilation – Food4families by Local Food team

Local Food team — Wed, 30 May 2012 13:14:54 +0000

Food4Families is a great project – it was one of the first to receive funding from Local Food, the BIG Lottery Fund scheme that is all about making local food accessible and affordable to communities (www.localfoodgrants.org)

We awarded the project £240,000 in 2009 to help it create food growing gardens for parents and children; to give people an understanding of the principles of food growing and the ability to put them into practice; to increase awareness of the connections with healthy eating and the sustainability aspects of food growing; to establish robust arrangements at both community and school-based sites to ensure the engagement of staff, parents and pupils in supporting the gardens in the longer term; and to develop an active network of food growing groups with web-based resources and forums for participants to use.

The committed people at Food4Families have done a great job delivering on these outcomes and we were delighted to see them win further funding from the BIG Lottery’s Jubilee People’s Millions competition last year. Keep up the good work!

To read more about inspiring projects like this one, take a look at our website: http://www.localfoodgrants.org

The Local Food team

Comment on Peter Wanless responds to a Sunday Telegraph article on Lottery-funded protesters by Robin Grey (@rgrey)

Robin Grey (@rgrey) — Mon, 28 May 2012 19:57:02 +0000

Dear Sir/Madame

I am a regular volunteer at organiclea and will vouch that your money is being well spent there.

I have never in all my years found a more inspiring and brilliant group of people and I trust that pathetic muck stirring article in the Sunday Telegraph will not affect all of the brilliant community food growing work carried out with your support there and elsewhere around the country.

Best wishes

Robin

Comment on The BIG catchup – what’s next for the young people’s investment team by annabel hodgson

annabel hodgson — Thu, 17 May 2012 13:43:00 +0000

At No Limits youth info, advice & counselling service we work with several hundred NEET young people every year, offering practical help with jobsearch, training and job applications, advice about any issue they have and support (eg counselling, anger management, help finding housing, independent living skills training) to help them overcome any barriers they have with getting into or maintaining education or employment. Through our drop in centre’s they can access other agencies like the FE colleges, Princes Trust or Careers Advisors who can link them up with training or work experience.
Many young people we are working with are really down and frustrated that they cannot find work that they have put effort into training for, only badly paid part time jobs. Increasingly we are seeing young people who are losing their tenancies through becoming unemployed and unable to pay the rent.

Comment on Making common sense common practice by Early action and prevention – the urgency of now « The Big Lottery Fund Blog

Thu, 17 May 2012 11:50:31 +0000

[...] shared a platform with BIG at the recent Wisdom of Prevention conference, hosted by the New Economics Foundation (nef) where BIG outlined its future funding ambitions in [...]

Comment on The BIG catchup – what’s next for the young people’s investment team by Young people explain how social media worked in co-designing with BIG | socialreporters

Wed, 16 May 2012 10:27:03 +0000

[...] Reanna’s blog has been great in allowing the team to give their own perspective, while utilising BIG’s wide audience to shout about the significance of this process. The posts have received some lovely comments and been viewed by hundreds of people. [...]

Comment on Making common sense common practice by Rob

Rob — Fri, 11 May 2012 12:29:14 +0000

Is there any suggestion that stopping threatening the world might lead to fewer wars perhaps?

Comment on First BIG grants to help VCS groups plan for more sustainable future by pathways21

pathways21 — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:56:34 +0000

We are carrying out a Benchmarking Analysis for Voluntary Action Lewisham and we are seeking VCS organisations that may wish to take part. If you want to find out more please contact me on 0208 320 1440 or mail director@pathways21.net

Much obliged!

Comment on A sunny weekend in London – young people define priorities for BIG’s new investment by Lotto Results

Lotto Results — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:31:44 +0000

Not all the lottery players realise how big their contribution to good causes are. It is really heartwarming to see these good initiatives.

Comment on A sunny weekend in London – young people define priorities for BIG’s new investment by Alessia

Alessia — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 07:03:07 +0000

Always good to see lottery proceeds going to good causes. Very heartwarming and decent initaitive. Good Work!

Comment on A sunny weekend in London – young people define priorities for BIG’s new investment by David Wilcox (@davidwilcox)

David Wilcox (@davidwilcox) — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 16:53:41 +0000

This looks like a terrific co-design process, with some great blogging. I hope we can link up with the exploration Tim Davies and I are doing with Nominet Trust into how digital technologies can support young people to engage socially and economically with their communities. I've made the connection in this post on socialreporters.net. Reanna - or anyone in the group - we could be delighted if you would like to blog a piece for us.