Projects

Food Waste project will learn about our relationship to food and local diverse strategies for dealing with food waste and surplus food.

Super Chefs will use theatre as a catalyst for community action and change – to open up a wider conversation around food, food systems and sustainability for audiences in Tower Hamlets to exchange cultural cuisine conversations.

The People’s Kitchen will formally bring together a group of local legends, investing in the skills, training and networks required for a just food system.

This project will fund the co-design and construction of an accessible compost toilet in Mile End. We hope this will support a wide range of groups and individuals to access the garden, staying for longer periods of time.

Aligned with ancestral practices and seeking to restore lost roots to South American identity, this project will create new spaces for the Abya Yalan community to engage with agroecology and ancestral gastronomy.

Boil & Bubble Bowden will create a community hub for communal growing, cooking, eating and skills sharing for the community around Bowden Primary School.

This project will explore the potential of hyper-local food growing on the Burdett Estate by developing an existing community garden and delivering a programme of food-production-related activities which build the skills and confidence of local people.

The Providence Grow Urban Gardening Programme seeks to achieve a just transition in Tower Hamlets by training 24 clients (Garden Trainees) to develop the skills, confidence and positive mental health from growing fresh produce and gaining a horticulture accreditation.

‘Eat Not Waste Not’ tackles the massive food waste issue that Society Links are seeing through their community projects on the St George’s Estate. This initiative will use up waste from the community and re-use it for gardening projects, through composting, green waste for mulching, food compost, and a wormery.

Folx Farm will establish a dedicated growing space on Folx farm, growing produce for their Tower Hamlets Community partners to sell at their weekly markets.

The Community Food Growers’ Network (CFGN) have proposed a Food and Land Justice Resource Centre at Kingsley Hall to create an accessible organising space where resources, skills, support and learning can be shared and disseminated.

Misery Medicine is an in-person, immersive herb, mushroom & plant medicine program that supports queer and trans people of the global majority in learning about the herbs that grow wild all around us.

OITIJ-JO Collective wants to bring its knowledge, experience, and creative approach to this project by introducing methods and processes which are in everyday use and

Stepney City Farm is a working, educational farm, aiming to improve lives through farming. They have been managing their food growing as a social enterprise since 2017, with the aim of developing production and sales to the point of financial sustainability. 

Farming on the Barkantine is run by Seeds for Growth as part of their Greening Communities Programme. Seeds for Growth identifies underused land on social

SOURCE is pioneering a circular, zero waste approach to managing our food, waste and energy. It combines advanced waste management with smart urban farming. This

Be.Green is a programme that focusses on introducing and cultivating an understanding of the environment, climate change and social justice impacts in this space

Cranbrook Community Food Garden is a flourishing community garden, creating a space for anyone to come and help out, and be rewarded with fresh food

Limborough Hub is a thriving integrated ‘grow, cook and eat’ community food and action hub that builds power and resilience of local people with a particular focus on and near the Burdett Estate in Poplar.

The Food Co-op at St Hilda’s East Community Centre is a pop-up shop supplying healthy, affordable culturally appropriate food to local communities.

Plastic-free Poplar is a community-led project run by Sunny Jar Eco Hub , focused in reducing single use plastic in and around Poplar, East London.  

R-Urban Poplar, off Brion place on the Teviot Estate, is a community garden and re-use facility. Using shipping containers housed in a disused car park.