Conference: Getting Down to Business

The speakers are listed below

How to make your community food growing project economically viable.

A national conference to explore what steps can be taken to help community food growing projects generate income and become economically viable. Experts on community food growing will discuss their work, alongside presentations on hot topics such as selling and buying produce, diversifying income and business support.

Join us for talks, presentations, networking,stalls and a delicious lunch and refreshments.

Speakers include:

• Julie Brown (founder of Growing Communities, a successful social enterprise in Hackney, East London)
• Adam York (member of the Organic Growers Alliance and of Unicorn, Manchester’s Co-operative Grocery)
• Richard Snow (consultant for Enterprise Support, part of Making Local Food Work)

Morning and afternoon sessions will focus on:

• Successful models and replication
• Increasing the scale of food production
• Diversifying your income from a range of activities
• Formalising your project
• Finding support in the community

Further Information

• Polly, polly@sustainweb.org
• or call 020 7837 1228

Organised by Local Action on Food, London Food Link and the SOAS Food Studies Centre.

• Sustain : The alliance for better food and farming
• Good Food for Camden : the healthy and sustainable food programme
• Capital Growth : the campaign for 2,012 new food growing spaces for London

Organiser: Centres & Programmes Office