FIG Mag Autumg 2010

For more information and feedback please contact:

Leon Ballin – FIG Project Officer

Food Initiatives GroupC/o Groundwork Greater Nottingham

Denman Street EastNottingham

NG7 3GX

Tel: 0115 9788212Email: [email protected]

Web: www.groundworkgreaternottingham.org.uk

FIG is supported by:

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Groundwork Greater Nottingham 2010

INSIDE

• Meat Free Mondays?• Food Advertising – The Business of Food• Farmeco – a new way to grow our food• New Voice for Community Organisations• Current Funding Opportunities• What to Eat and What to Grow• FIG Communities4Health Grants Results • And much more…….

MAGAZINE

AUTUMN2010

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eat Free Mondays

Meat Free Monday is a worldwide campaign aiming to encourage people to opt for one meat free day a week, not necessarily

a Monday!

The campaign highlights the impact that meat and dairy

production has on climate change. According to the UK’s Food Climate Research Network, food production from farm to fork is responsible for over a fifth of global green house emissions. In fact the livestock sector alone has a larger impact on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions than the transport sector.

Meat Free Monday also promotes a number of health benefits as a direct result of reducing meat consumption including lowering the risks of coronary heart disease, obesity and some forms of cancer. The campaign is not about people stopping eating meat completely; it simply asks us to reduce our meat consumption. At the same time the campaign challenges us to consider buying meat in a more sustainable manner. That might be by choosing better quality meat that has been produced locally. It highlights that a smaller amount of better quality, locally produced meat not only has health benefits but is also better for the environment and animal welfare. Not to mention supporting Nottinghamshire farmers.

Caroline Lucas, the leader of the Green Party has requested that caterers for the Houses of Parliament consider joining the Meat Free

Monday campaign. She recognises the significant impact farming livestock has on climate change and believes that Parliament should set the example by having one meat free day a week. A number of European countries have also joined the campaign and it has even reached as far as Washington DC. Numerous celebrities such as, Gwyneth Paltrow and Paul McCartney are also behind the campaign.

Campaigns such as Meat Free Monday are important as they encourage us to make changes that will enable us build a better world for the future through simple acts that don’t impact on us too much. One meat free day out of seven doesn’t seem a ‘big ask’ and may make us more imaginative when choosing our food. Meat Free Monday - have one meat free day a week and buy better, locally produced meat the rest of the time.

www.supportmfm.org/helptheplanet

www.meatfreemondays.co.uk

Autumn Guest Editor - Clare Hadway

Food advertising: legal, decent, honest & true?Legal, decent, honest & true are the standards set by the Advertising Standards Authority that all adverts must conform to – and that includes those promoting food and drink.

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) keeps an eye on the big food companies but who keeps an eye on the Advertising Standards Authority? Until very recently this vital role had been played by the Food Magazine, the publication of the independent Food Commission. Now, after over two decades of fearless campaigning the Food Magazine will no longer be published. The Food Commission intends to continue to use its websites to publish news and reports scrutinising the activities of the food industry and continuing their campaigns for healthier diets affordable to all. They will maintain their Action on Additives campaign website (see www.actiononadditives.com) and children’s food website (see www.chewonthis.org.uk) along with their Food Commission and Food Magazine websites www.foodcomm.org.uk/ and www.foodmagazine.org.uk.

Below, taken from the June/August edition, are a couple of food industry advertising practices the Food Magazine let us know about. One a successful complaint upheld by the ASA and one that was deemed not to have broken the rules. The FIG Magazine will now have a regular feature, The Business of Food, to keep a small part of the pioneering work of the Food Magazine in print, here in

Nottinghamshire.Kit-Kat for SantaThe ASA upheld a complaint about a TV advert showing Father Christmas landing his sleigh, going into a house rubbing his big belly saying ‘too many mice pies for me..’. Text underneath the cartoon read ‘May aid weight control within a balanced, calorie controlled diet.’ The ASA agreed with the complaint saying the advert implied a Kit-Kat was a healthy snack.Coco Pops twice a day?A complaint concerning a poster for Coco Pops (a high sugar food according to the UK Government’s Food Standards Agency), showed a cartoon character in school uniform with the caption ‘Ever thought of Coco Pops after school?’ The complaint suggested this might encourage children to eat a high sugar food twice a day. The complaint was NOT UPHELD by the ASA. One of the reasons for not upholding the complaint being that Coco Pops were likely to replace even more unhealthy foods and that children would most likely only eat the recommended 30g serving. Government research has found that most people, including children, usually have twice the serving of cereals than is suggested on the box.

The Business of Food

Communities for Health FIG Small GrantsResults! FIG partnered with Nottingham City Council’s Health and Wellbeing Team, Communities for Health Project, to create additional funds for our Small Grants Scheme for food projects in Nottingham City. Grants have been awarded to four projects that support a more sustainable food system. All these innovative initiatives engage communities in food projects that promote health and social inclusion.

The four successful projects are:

The Orchard Education Project STAA will be working with the local Suretart and Mellor’s Lodge homeless project to offer child focused sessions in the St Ann’s Allotments Forest Garden. Knowledge of healthy eating and gentle exercise will benefit clients as they learn about harvesting, growing, juicing and cooking with fruit and vegetables grown on the site. FIG felt the project’s combination of healthy messages, exercise and the learning of new skills was particularly exciting.

Souper Socials All Ours runs ‘Souper Socials’ on the 2nd Sunday of the month at Sneinton Community Cafe aimed at adults who are feeling isolated and excluded, in particular those who are experiencing mental ill health. One of the aims is to promote healthy eating by providing a modest healthy 2-course meal for £1.50 as well promote health messages with support of FIG and the NHS Nottingham City Dietetics team. Many day centre facilities for adults close at 5pm and it was felt important to be open “out of hours” and to have activities that take place in a safe and welcoming environment. Nottingham Community Cafe Network This Project will create a vibrant Network that will support existing Community Cafe’s in Nottingham and help new ones establish themselves. This will include events and heavily subsidised food hygiene courses. Community Cafes can include including church cafes, luncheon clubs, community centre cafes, social enterprise cafes, and ‘people’s kitchens’. Any organisation wishing to get involved can contact David Jones on 0779 4343697 or Email [email protected].

Amazing Green Food Tube Project - Keeping Active Winter Woodwork The Work Place runs The Amazing Green Food Tube Project a foods growing project for people with learning disabilities that includes a polytunnel, to enable members to produce salads for lunch boxes. Winter is a quiet time in any garden and to keep activity levels and build on the success of increased exercise during the summer months a woodworking project will be run. Members will make raised benches, growing boxes, compost bins, crop covers, cold frames and trellis supports so that we can grow higher crops for people who find bending difficult. FIG will also be supporting a new Multi-cultural Women’s Allotment Project. This new and exciting opportunity is for Nottingham women from a range of cultural backgrounds to learn, and share knowledge, about food growing and horticulture on a city allotment plot. Women who are unemployed, in low paid low skilled part-time jobs or at risk of redundancy can also go on a 3 months environmental volunteering placement to help them into work. Anyone interested contact Dori at the Partnership Council on 0115 970 8200 or Email [email protected].

Communities for Health FIG Small Grants

New Voice for Community OrganisationsFIG Project Officer is new Nottingham Green Partnership 3rd Sector Advocate

Leon Ballin has been appointed as a Third Sector advocate on the new Nottingham Green Partnership. This partnership will help steer Nottingham, via the Nottingham Plan to 2030, to a more sustainable future.

The Nottingham Plan to 2020, our Sustainable Community Strategy, is a 10 year plan which sets out this vision of what Nottingham should look like in the future. This vision is being guided by One Nottingham which is our Local Strategic Partnership. The Nottingham Plan is a route map for organisations in the city which will help us work together with local people, our diverse communities, voluntary groups and businesses to make change happen. The Plan has 6 priorities which are:

Develop Nottingham’s international standing for science and innovation, sports and cultureTransform Nottingham’s neighbourhoodsEnsure that all children and young people thrive and achieveTackle poverty and deprivation through employmentReduce crime and anti-social behaviourImprove health and wellbeing

Cutting across these priorities are the following themes:

Green – Being environmentally sustainableAspiring – Raising aspirationsFair – Achieving fairness and equality of opportunity

To achieve the Green cross-cutting theme the Nottingham Green Partnership has been formed to move Nottingham into a lower carbon future and help us live within our environmental limits. Myself, along with others, will be representing all, not just food related, Third Sector organisations that have an interest in environmental issues.

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The Third Sector, that is voluntary, community and faith organisations, is worth £227 million in Nottingham. Many of these organisations promote environmental sustainability, health and social cohesion through food and other means. You can read about some good examples of Third Sector organisations in the Small Grants results feature at the beginning of this magazine. The new political landscape presents opportunities and challenges for this vital part of our economy. More will be expected from communuties - and the challenge is to ensure resources and recognition go with new responsibilities.

Any 3rd Sector organisation wanting to air an issue relating to environmental strategy for Nottingham or simply wishing to know what is going on at the strategic level of local government can contact me. I look forward to being a persuasive voice for, and a good ear to, the many and varied Third Sector organisations in Nottingham that promote environmental sustainability at a grassroots level.

Leon BallinE-mail: [email protected] Street EastNottingham NG7 3GX

New Voice for Community Organisations

NEW! Only Local Food Stall

Ecoworks are collecting surplus fruit and vegetables grown by allotment holders and selling them and at their new site on Brewsters Road. Families will be able to buy low-cost produce, which has been grown locally, and much of it grown following organic principles. Ecoworks is offering discounted produce to community cafes, charity groups and people on low incomes. The allotment holders will receive payment for contributing their produce. The Only Local Food Stall is open from 9am to 11.30am on Fridays.

Consuming locally produced food supports your local farmers and the regional economy. Locally produced foods taste better and are often of higher nutritional value to your body. Try and visit your nearest Farmers Market or use ’Big Barn’ the online ‘virtual farmers market’ who help people to find safe, good quality food from local sources. Country Markets are those that sell a range of baked goods, preserves, eggs and honey, garden produce and crafts in over 450 outlets. You can really make a difference to your community and your local region by buying local sourced food.

Find Big Barn at http://www.bigbarn.co.uk

Also. take a look at Local Food Advisor to find a range of food producers, retailers near you. All entries have been accredited in some way to ensure quality.

www.localfoodadvisor.com

Eat Local- East Midlands

Co-Op car park Trowell RoadExchange StreetBridge StreetCroquet Lawn Central AvenueMarket PlaceCity Market SquareMarket PlaceThe Buttercross MarketCo-op on Swiney WayStoney Street

Where

1st Saturday 9am3rd Saturday 9am to 2pm2nd Friday 8:30am - 2:30pm2nd & 4th Saturday 8:30am - 1:30pm3rd Thursday 9am-1pm3rd Friday and Saturday 1st Wednesday 3rd Tuesday 8am - 4pm1st Saturday 9:30am - 3pm4th Friday 9am – 2pm

When in the monthFarmers MarketsBeestonBroxtoweMansfieldNewarkNottinghamSouthwellWest BridgfordWorksopRetfordWollaton

Wednesdays before 12 noonSt Mary’s Church, off Market Place

Country MarketsBeeston, Nottingham

BinghamSouthwell

MansfieldLoughborough

Derby

Newark

Mansfield Woodhouse

Glenfield

Chesterfield

Melton Mowbray

Syston

Matlock

The Community Centre, Mickleover

Devonshire Square Buttercross Market

WI Hall, Shepherd’s Row, off Queen St

WI Hall, Station Street

Methodist Church Hall, Wollaton Road

Where

Co-Op car park Trowell Road

New Square

St Peter’s Church Centre, Church Road, The Square

Turner Hall, Church StRoad

Syston Methodist Hall, High Street,

Cattle Market, Scalford Road 1st,

Fridays 10.00 am - 11.30 am

2nd Wednesday of the month before 2.00 pm

3rd Tuesday before 3.30 pm

Saturdays before 11.30 amThursdays before 11.30

Fridays before 11.45 am

When in the month

Saturdays before 4.00


Every last Saturday of the month before 1pm

First Friday before 12am


3rd & 5th Fridays

Local Farmer Markets

Abundance NottinghamRedistributing Fruit that would otherwise go to waste

We are in the Harvest Season and Abundance is organising regular Sunday fruit picks. This will involve tree picking, fruit gathering, fruit crushing, preserving, munching, delivering and much more and Abundance ensure tea, coffee and biscuits! If you would like to get involved then please send an e-mail to: [email protected] or call 07722613715.

Arkwright Community Gardens

Educational Days Monthly; April 2010 - October 2011

Why not book ahead for some fun outdoor learning for your school.

AMC Gardens Schools provide educational day for children aged 4 to 11. These days are individually designed to meet the learning needs of the school group.Contact AMCG, Arkwright Meadows, Kirkby Gardens, The Meadows (next to Surestart) on 0115 9867777

www.amcgardens.co.uk

Autumn Events St. Ann’s Heritage Gardens

STAA runs a Community Orchard on a collection of plots on the St Ann’s Allotments. It is a lively hub of educational and community life centered on local children and families including supervised nursery session on the Community Orchard

STAA currently employs two highly trained members of staff who have skills in teaching and playworking within the Forest Schools philosophy. They develop and maintain the Community Orchard to ensure it continues to evolve as a thriving educational and community resource.

STAA also run Creative Learning Programmes for schools.

The next activity day is Sunday 21 November 2010

Call 0115 9110207 for more info.

www.staa-allotments.org.ukDig In Community Allotment Stapleford

Autumn Events

Stonebridge City Farm

Green Street

‘Green Street’ is a program to help and encourage those interested in food growing and more. The program offers advice on growing food at home both indoors and outdoors including a chance to have a visit from a growing Outreach Advisor. ‘Green Street’ will even supply plantlets to get you started.

The program also runs a beekeeping course for those wanting to have their own bees and honey or just want to help out with the farm’s hives. The food growing programme at Stonebridge also offers ‘Green Talk’ a food growing forum and chances to volunteer on the farm.

Contact Stonebridge on 0115 9505113www.stonebridgecityfarm.com.

HealthLiveability (Physical environment)HousingCrime

Maximum £5,000 and applicants must be local, constituted groups.

ContactNottinghamshire Community Foundation on 01623 620202or Nottingham Community and Voluntary Service Helpdesk who can help with applications form or signpost you to other sources of funding if you aren’t eligible for these particular grants. 0115 934 9548 [email protected].

Healthy Hearts Grants

Heart Research UK has announced its next funding round for July 2010. Heart Research UK Healthy Heart Grants support innovative projects designed to promote heart health and to prevent or reduce the risks of heart disease in specific groups or communities. Grants of up to £10,000 are available to community groups, voluntary organisations and researchers who are spreading the healthy heart message. Forms and guidance will be available to download from from November 2010 to submit during January and February 2011.

www.heartresearch.org.uk/healthy_heart_grants.htm

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will prioritise the enjoyment and experience of food rather than its production and we seek to enable as many people in the UK as possible to access, prepare and eat nutritious, sustainable food.www.esmeefairbairn.org.uk/funding/food.html

The Plunkett Foundation

Provides funding and support for rural communities looking to set up and run a community-owned shop.http://www.plunkett.co.uk/whatwedo/rcs/ruralcommunityshops.cfm

Community Matters

Initiative from Waitrose. Every month each store will have £1,000 to divide between three local organisations. Ask your local store for a nomination form if you wish your project or organisation to be considered.

One Nottingham Neighbourhood

Renewal Small Grants SchemeGrants are still available across the city but will be required to help the most deprived neighbourhoods. Projects should also seek to be helping the most marginalised communities.

You must also show what impact your project will have on national Floor Targets in at least one of six key areas:

EmploymentChildren’s Services

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Current Funding OpportunitiesCurrent Funding Opportunities

Second Round – Autumn 2010 Communities for Health FIG Small Grants

Additional Funding for Nottingham City Food Initiatives!

FIG has partnered with Nottingham City Council’s Health and Wellbeing Team to create an additional Small Grants Scheme for food projects in Nottingham City.

Grants of up to £1000 will be available to support the development of projects that support a more sustainable food system. This might be by encouraging food growing, cooking or healthy eating. We are particularly interested in initiatives that connect all three. Any innovative initiatives that engage communities in food projects that also promote physical activity are encouraged to apply.

The closing date for applications is 5th November 2010 at 5pm. Please get in touch to receive an application pack:

Leon Ballin - FIGGroundwork Greater NottinghamDenman Street EastNottinghamNG7 3GX

Email [email protected]

Funding GuideSources of funding for food related

initiatives and application advice from the Food Standards Agency. www.food.gov.uk/multimedia/pdfs/enforcement/enfe08040guidance.pdf

Regional Funding Resource

The East Midlands Funding Index is a searchable snapshot of funding and investment opportunities that will support local community based projects. www.fundingindex.co.uk

Awards for All

The Awards for All England programme aims to help improve local communities and the lives of people most in need. If you are planning a project and you need between £300 and £10,000 then Awards for All may be able to help you. Sometimes quite small sums of money can have a big impact. The application form is short and simple, and you will find out if you are successful within six weeks.This is an ongoing programme.Contact: 0845 4102030general.enquiries@awardsforall.org.ukwww.awardsforall.org.uk

Esmee Fairbairn Foundation

Food Strand which aims to promote an understanding of the role of food in enhancing quality of life. It

Current Funding Opportunitiesmany people in the UK as possible to access, prepare and eat nutritious, sustainable food.www.esmeefairbairn.org.uk/funding/food.html



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many people in the UK as possible to access, prepare and eat nutritious, sustainable food.www.esmeefairbairn.org.uk/funding/food.html



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Seasonal Summer Food

Apples BeetrootSquashCarrotsLeeksPotatoes (maincrop)SweetcornPearsChestnuts

Apples in Abundance

Abundance fruit harvesting and redistribution is underway. See the events page for more details. You could start your own group. Abundance is a project to harvest the seasonal glut of local fruit like apples, pear and plums. Each year hundreds of fruit trees go unpicked either because people don’t notice them, may not be physically able to harvest them or there are just too many fruits at one time. Abundance are volunteers (anyone) who want to help harvest city fruit and redistribute the surplus to the community on a non-profit basis - to community cafes, nurseries, Surestarts and individuals. Abundance Sheffield has produced a Handbook as a guide to community urban harvesting.

Abundance Handbookwww.growsheffield.com/pages/groshefhandb.html

Abundance Nottingham [email protected] or call 07722613715

What to eat, what to grow

FIG & Abundance at The Bellamy Rd Estate Big Lunch day in Mansfield

What to eat, what to grow

FIG & Abundance at The Bellamy Rd Estate Big Lunch day in Mansfield

All the ingredients are available at your local shops but try finding apples growing around your own area – they are everywhere in Nottinghamshire once you start looking!

Method:

Peel and core the apples and cut into 2 cm slices as this will reduce whilst cooking. Peel and chop the onion.Place the onions, apples, raisins and spices into a pan with the vinegar. On a low heat setting stew the ingredients until they become tender. Remove the muslin bag and add the ginger.Add the sugar, stir until it has dissolved. Bring to the boil. Boil until the chutney is thick.Pour into hot, clean, sterilized jars immediately and put the lids on.Label with contents once fully cooled.Best after a week or so!

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Good food made easy Abundance Chutney

Time: Approx. 90 minutesMakes about 4 lbs (1.8 kg) of AppleChutney

What you will need:• Clean Glass Jars with lids• Thick oven mitts• Labels for your jars

Preparation of JarsHeat the oven to 350°F/180°C/Gas 4 - don’t be tempted to heat the oven any higher or you may risk the glass breaking. Lay a double layer of newspaper on each oven shelf but not the floor of the oven. Arrange the jars on the shelf making sure the jars are not touching each other. Close the oven door and sterilize the jars for about 20 minutes. Using thick oven mitts, remove each jar from the oven as needed onto a heatproof mat or heat pad, making sure you fill while the jam or preserve is hot as are the jars. Do NOT add cold chutney to hot jars, or hot food to cold jars.

Ingredients:• 2 lb (900 g) cooking apples• 8 oz (225 g) onions• 1½ pints (900 ml) vinegar (ideally cider vinegar)• 1 lb (450 g) brown sugar• 2 oz (56 g) mixed spice• 8 oz (225 g) raisins or sultanas• 2 teaspoons ground ginger

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