Join pantry members and volunteers in making banners and placards for the Right to Food Campaign Hunger March on Saturday 23rd September.
Date: Wednesday 20th September
Time: 9:00am – 11:00am
Where: St Andrew’s Pantry Clubmoor, Adshead Rd, L13 0AL
Email [email protected] for more details.
Join pantry members and volunteers in making banners and placards for the Right to Food Campaign Hunger March on Saturday 23rd September.
Date: Tuesday 19th September
Time: 13:00 – 15:00
Where: Nugent Pantry, St Anne’s Church, Overbury Street L7 3HJ
Email [email protected] for more details.
Feeding Liverpool are inviting organisations providing emergency and community food support in Liverpool to join us at our Autumn Emergency Food Network Gathering. We will bring together organisations to listen, learn, share and make connections, as we work towards creating a city where everyone can eat good food
You will hear from emergency food providers and learn about their organisations, their success and any challenges they are facing. There will also be an opportunity to share your experiences and ask questions too.
This session will be focusing on how our food spaces can prepare to face the challenges of winter – a time when all of our organisations come under increased pressure as demand rises.
We would encourage each organisation providing emergency or community food support to send a representative to this session.
Teas and Coffees provided.
Who: Organisations providing emergency and community food in the City of Liverpool
When: Tuesday 17th October at 1:30pm to 3:30pm
Where: Tuebrook Hope Centre, Christ Church Buckingham Rd, Tuebrook, Liverpool, L13 8AZ
If you have any questions, please contact [email protected]
Join pantry members and volunteers in making banners and placards for the Right to Food Campaign Hunger March on Saturday 23rd September.
Date: Friday 22nd September
Time: 8:45am – 11:00am
Where: St George’s Pantry
Email [email protected] for more details.
Join the Hunger March on Saturday 23rd September, taking place at 12 noon at St George’s Hall steps!
In a country as wealthy as the UK, hunger is a political choice. Whilst many cities have copied Liverpool’s example and voted to become Right to Food Cities, there is a lack of national leadership to address food insecurity. Feeding Liverpool are joining the Right to Food Campaign in an emulation of the unemployed workers movements in the 1920s-1940s which mobilised unemployed workers, trade unions and civil society to call for national action to end hunger.
Feeding Liverpool want to support Community Food Spaces to get involved in the Right to Food Week of Action and join the march.
Ideas to get people from your food space engaged could be:
If you are interested in getting involved in the week of action, mobilising for the Liverpool Hunger March or want to find out more, check out our website or email [email protected]
Download the Right to Food Week flyer here.
This year’s RHS Flower Show Tatton Park from 19th – 23rd July will feature show-garden ‘Brickyard’: Grow, Cook, Eat’ a sustainable, creative urban-growing space that strengthens biodiversity and connects city residents with the joy of growing good food.
The show garden designed by Conal McGuire is the first public project from Conal Studio and is a collaboration with charity partners Feeding Liverpool, the city’s food alliance passionate about ensuring everyone can eat good food, and Everton in the Community, the charitable arm of Everton Football Club that tackles social issues across the city including employability, mental health, education and poverty.
After the show, the garden will be relocated to Everton in the Community’s purpose-built mental health hub, The People’s Place, forming a lasting legacy for the city.
“Feeding Liverpool is delighted to be supporting Conal Studio and Everton in the Community with the development and post-show relocation of Brickyard. The vision and values of Brickyard bring to life Liverpool’s Good Food Plan, enabling food citizenship through making urban food growing accessible for all. Our team are looking forward to welcoming visitors to the garden to showcase the intricate garden structures that provide new ways to bring food growing into inner city spaces” – Dr Naomi Maynard, Feeding Liverpool Director
Brickyard’s design is influenced by the traditional brickyards that run alongside thousands of UK terraced streets. It responds to the limitations of awkward inner city growing spaces and looks at how we can adapt them for modern living. Factors such as tenancy agreements, environmental concerns, tradition, and cost have a massive impact on how people utilise these spaces. Steel and reclaimed brick evoke the materials found in traditional brick-yards, here reimagined in a contemporary design. The ‘Granby Rock’ Terrazzo is made from the waste material of demolished Victorian terrace houses from inner-city Liverpool. It is woven through the garden, physically integrating and repurposing original material from the inspiration behind Brickyard.
During the show Brickyard will host live demonstrations from Andrea Ku of B 4 Biodiversity. Andrea will be demonstrating how the gardens unique grow-frames enable people to cultivate food organically, in awkward outdoor spaces at home, or in shared gardens. These frames will demonstrate the benefits of companion planting and will house bespoke habitats for rare species of bumblebee and other wildlife.
Feeding Liverpool, Everton in the Community and B 4 Biodiversity are not the only Liverpool-based charities heading to the RHS Tatton Park Flower Show this year. Our friends at Faiths4Change and Myerscough College will be at the show as part of the Northern Star Show Garden, and The Gateway Collective and Taking Root will also be bringing their garden back to Bootle after the show.
Feeding Liverpool’s team will be at the RHS Flower Show Tatton Park on Thursday 20th July and Saturday 22nd July. Do come say hello!
Feeding Liverpool are inviting organisations in Liverpool providing emergency and community food support to join us at our next quarterly emergency food providers network gathering. We will bring together organisations to listen, learn, share and make connections, as we work towards creating a city where everyone can eat good food
You will hear from emergency food providers, connect and share your experiences, updates and ask questions.
This session will have a focus on Mental Health. More details tbc.
We would encourage each organisation providing emergency or community food support to send a representative to this session.
Teas and Coffees provided.
Who: Organisations providing emergency and community food in the City of Liverpool
When: 1:30pm to 3:30pm, Thursday 20th July 2023
Where: Quaker Meeting House, 22 School Lane, Liverpool, L1 3BT
If you have any questions please contact [email protected]
Join Feeding Liverpool and Liverpool Food Growers Network to network and find out how your organisation can establish a community food growing project
This afternoon session will be an opportunity for community food spaces (food pantries, food hubs, community markets) across the Liverpool City Region to network, meet community growers, and find out how they can establish and develop their own community food growing projects.
We welcome organisations who are also interested in growing herb and flower gardens for their community, and anyone with growing experience who would like to support these organisations.
Refreshments and a light plant-based lunch will be provided by Eat Up Gud.
You will hear from speakers from Kensington Fields Community Association, Grow-Wellbeing and Alchemic Kitchen talking about their experiences of setting up and running community growing projects across the region.
There will also be discussion time focusing on the following topics:
Who: Community Food Spaces, Community Growers and anyone interested in this topic
When: 12:30pm – 3pm, Wednesday 21st June
Where: Kensington Fields Social Club, 24 Hall Lane, L7 8TQ
How: Register via Eventbrite
For more information, please contact:
Elena Vacca, Feeding Liverpool Project Manager on [email protected]
Minna Alanko-Falola, Liverpool Food Growers Network Chair on [email protected]
Feeding Liverpool is the City of Liverpool’s Food Alliance, connecting and equipping people and organisations to work towards good food for all. Building on our work since 2015 tackling hunger and food insecurity, Feeding Liverpool is developing and driving forward Liverpool’s Good Food Plan in partnership with communities and organisations across the city.
Liverpool Food Growers Network supports food growing projects across the Liverpool city region. Their aim is to increase the amount of fresh fruit and vegetables grown by communities ensuring fair access to all. They believe that community food growing can have a significant, positive impact on our communities and can make our city a fairer, greener and more sustainable place to live and thrive.
Tuesday 9th May 1:30-3:30pm
Feeding Liverpool, in partnership with St Andrews Community Network and Imagine If, are hosting a strategic conversation about the long-term sustainability and direction of emergency and community food provision in the region.
The aim of this initial conversation is to identify options for a more coordinated approach to food supplies and food provision in the months and years ahead, and to develop a working group to explore the feasibility of these options in greater depth.
We would like for all who attend to actively participate in this discussion, and we may ask you to prepare thoughts and ideas on this topic beforehand.
The discussion will take place at Frontline Centre,147 Lawrence Road, Wavertree, Liverpool L15 3HA.
If you are interested and able to attend this conversation please contact Gentian on [email protected].
Since 2021 we’ve been listening to people across Liverpool as they have answered this question: “What does Good Food mean to you?”
For many, it means eating our cultural food.
We’ve also heard how the traditions surrounding cultural food are important to our wellbeing through our sense of shared identity, community, and heritage.
This year, working with local photographer Emma Case and community groups across Liverpool, through photographs and interviews, we’ve began building a collection of food stories.
Join us at The Black-E, Saturday 20th May from 12pm to 3pm, for Good Food; Our Food, the launch of a travelling exhibition of photographs and stories celebrating the relationship between food, culture, identity, and how important this is for our wellbeing.
What to expect:
We are grateful for the support of our project funders Torus Foundation and National Lottery Community Fund, and our project partners Merseyside Polonia for making Good Food; Our Food possible.
