Presentations

Setting up Community Food Initiatives – starting with communities
Stephanie Hayman, Chairman and Founder of Whole School Meals Ltd
Powerpoint presentation

Food for Thought - healthy eating skills for young women on low incomes
Fiona Palmer, Senior Project Worker, YWCA West Kent Young Women’s Centre.  Participants on the Food for Thought programme: Hazel Gibbs, Kaylie Coombes and Lucy Vermussche

Establishing Community Food Growing Projects
Vicky O’Riordan, Deputy Manager - Margate Children’s Centre - Powerpoint presentation
Jules Ellis, Project Manager - The Windmill Community Allotment Project
Powerpoint presentation

Help offered/Help wanted Board

Participants were invited to put details of equipment/skills/funding etc. that they were looking for or could offer on the
Help Offered/Help Wanted Board. Details were collated after the event and circulated to participants.
Download the document here.

Advice surgeries

Community Food Retail: Business Planning and Marketing.
Sean Carter, Action with Communities in Rural Kent.

Good Food for All: Setting up Community Food Businesses. 
Robin Van Creveld. Community Chef Project.
Ten Tips for Success
Useful contacts and resources
Cookery Leader Training

Advice on Funding Applications for Community Projects. 
John Jackson, Kent Community Foundation.

Funding Buddies: Funding streams available and bid writing. 
Nigel Turley and Kerry Akehurst. Funding Buddies/Action with Communities in Rural Kent.

Food Safety and Health and Safety Advice/ Food Training. 
Janet Stein, Kent County Council and Jenny Wood.
FEAST Training in Kent (PDF)
Calendar of courses coming up in Kent (PDF)

Setting Up Community Food Pilots and engaging different groups and communities.
Jo Hulks, Food in Schools Advisor. Lucy Beasley, Eastern and Coastal Kent PCT.
Setting up a Veg Bag Scheme, 5-a-Day (PDF)

Tips for Thriving.  Advice on funding, sustainability and evaluation.
Mary Shek and Joanne Wiltshire, Big Lottery Chances for Change/NHS South Coast.
Tips for Thriving (PDF)

Growing Projects: engaging communities in growing food and community allotments.
Jules Ellis. Windmill Community Allotment Project/Maidstone Children’s Centre.

Restoring and developing vegetable gardens: involving school pupils and homeless young people in growing and selling produce.
Amy Covey, Sissinghurst Farm and Joe Lloyd, Scotney Castle, Walled Garden, the National Trust.

Starting up and troubleshooting for food projects. Help offered in getting your project ducks in a row.
Johnny Denis, Fresh Ideas Network.