The Food Co-op at St Hilda’s East Community Centre was a pop-up shop which served around 80 customers a week. It supplied healthy, affordable culturally appropriate food to local communities, including fresh and nutritious fruit and vegetables. It also increases access to produce that is organic, locally sourced and packaging free.
Through Just FACT they shared their model with others through training and mentoring, which resulted in Food Coops being set up in the borough – at the Teviot Centre and Limehouse Town Hall.
The Teviot and Limehouse Food Coops joined a pilot with Sustain called Bridging the Gap – which aimed to enable people on a low incomes to access climate and nature friendly food. The below diagram shows how the Teviot Food Coop made connections with other local projects – exemplifying how a localised food system could work.
Learn more:
- Read St Hildas end of project report
- Read the ‘Appetite For Organic’ report
