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COMMUNITY-LED FOOD ENTERPRISES ARE UP FOR THE CHALLENGE OF CLIMATE CHANGE SAYS NEW REPORT LAUNCHED TODAY

Community food enterprises can play a role in helping to tackle the challenge of climate change through empowering local people and communities to take action. This is the main message from a new report launched this week [Wednesday 5th May] at a major national conference in Manchester.The report ‘Local food and climate change – the role of community food enterprises ’ identified the potential for communities on a local level across England to take action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in every part of the food chain, including transport. Peter Couchman, Director of Making Local Food

Rural shops throughout England are being urged to sell more locally produced food by Making Local Food Work, a five year, lottery funded programme.

The Look for Local scheme is inviting rural, local shops, including those that are community-owned, to sign-up for free, to a dedicated shop advisor, branded point of sale material and training workshops worth up to £1000, to improve their local food offering and to get connected with more local producers. Many shops already on the scheme have increased their food sales by up to 20 per cent.Nicole Hamilton, Project Manager for the scheme says: “Through Look for Local we want to increase availability and demand of local food, by promoting it to local shops in villages and rural areas.

LOCAL SHOPS ENCOURAGED TO SELL MORE LOCAL FOOD BY MAKING LOCAL FOOD WORK LOTTERY FUNDED PROGRAMME

Rural shops throughout England are being urged to sell more locally produced food by Making Local Food Work, a five year, lottery funded programme to encourage and promote locally produced food in urban and rural areas.The Look for Local scheme is inviting small, local shops, including those that are community-owned, to sign-up for free, to a dedicated shop advisor, branded point of sale material and training workshops worth up to £1000, to improve their local food offering and to get connected with more local producers. Some shops already on the scheme have increased their food sales by up

Community Shops Online Network to Launch

A new online network dedicated to community-owned shops is being officially launched on Friday 12 March by the Plunkett Foundation at Thorncombe Community Shop in West Dorset, 11-12.30pm. Oliver Letwin MP, who in addition to being a Thorncombe’s local MP is a volunteer in Thorncombe community shop, will officially launch the new service.The Community Shops Network (www.plunkett.net.uk) enables communities to access specialist advisory support on a range of issues and factual information relating to setting up a community-owned shop, including legal, financial and retailing advice and Post

Rural Communities Programme Hailed a Success

A two-year project supporting rural communities in the Northwest of England has created or safeguarded 70 jobs and supported 57 social enterprises. Strengthening Rural Communities across the North West was set up in July 2007 to improve the services available in rural area and increase productivity.Operating across Lancashire, Cheshire and Cumbria the £826,000 programme targeted those rural areas which most needed help. The result was 57 social enterprises being supported across a wide range of services including childcare, health and social care, retail and recycling where there had

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