Past Events July - Dec 07
Setting Up A Community Group - Tuesday 27 November 2007
Sedum House, Doncaster - Tutor: Beverley Taylor
This event identifies all the elements needed to set up an environmental or community group, including planning and involvement techniques, legal, finance requirements and communicating with the public. It is aimed at anyone involved in setting up a group, development workers who support groups, and those in similar roles whether paid or voluntary.
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Free Healthy Schools Meals: The Hull Experience Second Annual Conference: Friday 16 November 2007 - 9am - 4.30pm. Please click below for further information.
Free Healthy School Meals Flyer - Free Healthy School Meals Flyer.pdf
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Free Healthy School Meals Programme - Free Healthy Schools Meals Programme of Events.pdf
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Setting Up An Allotment Project - Thursday 15 November, Meanwood Valley Urban Farm, Leeds - Tutor Bethan Stagg
Are you planning to set up a project on an allotment site? You may be working with schools, promoting healthy eating, or be a social service or training provider, for example. This very popular event will help to get you started. It will introduce legal and other essential information, health and safety and risk assessments related to allotments, choosing the right plot and planning a design, working out equipment needs from shed to spade, look at costs, grants and fundraising, and provide tips on keeping the project going, come rain or shine. An in-depth handbook is provided as part of the course.
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Engaging with Sustainable Supply Chains - A Share to Supply Event
FREE One Day Conference on Sustainable Food Procurement
7th November 2007, 10am – 3.30pm
Shrewsbury Football Ground
Do you want a greater understanding of sustainable food procurement? Are you keen to make changes but don’t know where to start?
Shropshire County Council, EFFP and The West Midlands Centre of Excellence have come together to demonstrate changes which have been made in food procurement across the country and to give you a chance to find out how you can start by making a commitment to instigate change.
Please click below for further details and booking form.
Footd Event Flier and Booking Form - food-event-flier-and-booking-form.pdf
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One Day Conference - Food Health & Older People - Thursday 15th November, Glasgow. To download the flyer please click below.
Food, Health & Older People Conference - Food Health and Older People Conference.pdf
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Barnsley Food Network Meeting - The next Barnsley Food Network meeting will be held on Wednesday 24th October at 10:00am - 12:30 noon at Wigfield Farm, Haverlands Lane, Worsbrough, Barnsley, S70 5NQ. A lunch will be provided.
The guest speaker will be Lisa Wilson - Food Access Network Co-ordinator, of the Alliance for Better Food and Farming and she will address the group on "Food Access in the Community"
National Obesity Forum Conference 2007 - Monday 15th and Tuesday 16 October 2007. Please click here for further information and to download a booking form.
3rd Annual Healthy Eating in Schools Conference - Wednesday 10th October 2007, The Barbican Conference Centre, London, EC2
For more details please download the attached document
3rd Annual Healthy Eating in Schools Conference - 3rd Annual Healthy Eating Conference.pdf
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Food Works! - A 2 day workshop in participation skills, 27th - 28th September 2007. for further information click below.
Food Works Flyer - Food Works Flyer.pdf
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Working With Schools On Citizenship Education - Tuesday 25 September Doncaster - Please click here for details
Greening Your Workforce - Tuesday 18 September 2007 Doncaster - Please click here for details
Motivating Communities To Take Action - Wednesday 12 September 2007 Doncaster - Please click here
Food for Life partnership Stakeholders Meeting - Wednesday 5th September at Government Office, Leeds.
The Food for Life Partnership is a five-year Lottery-funded initiative, led by the soil association, to transform food culture in schools and communities across England, bringing together the practical expertise of the Focus on Food Campaign, Garden Organic and the Health Education Trust.
The Food for Life Partnership will select 180 flagship schools (20 in every region in England) that are willing to go through a rapid process of food culture transformation and share their learning with other schools and communities. Flagship schools will be chosen to reflect a diverse range of community and school situations. Please see the attached flyer for information on how to get involved in the Food for Life Partnership, and please feel free to distribute this flyer to schools and communities as appropriate.
All interested schools and communities in Yorkshire and the Humber must express interest via the attached short form by the 28th September 2007, or soon after this.
For further information contact Amanda Donnelly, Food for Life Partnership Regional Coordinator,Soil Association @ adonnelly@soilassociation.org , mobile 07824 635810, website www.foodforlife.org.uk
Flagship School Recruitment Flyer - FlagshipSchoolRecruitmentFlier.pdf
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Expression of Interest Form - ExpressionofInterestform.pdf
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Future Events
If you have any information about upcoming events or would like to tell us about past events you have been involved in, please contact Anne Pridgeon on 01226 770285 or email.
