Our ‘Seeds of Hope’ project aimed to help vulnerable people in Cardiff who are experiencing, or who are at risk of, food poverty. Based at the Leckwith Droves allotment in Cardiff, and working in partnership with referred service users and volunteers from vulnerable communities, we aimed to provide them with volunteering opportunities, with a more long term intention of growing and distributing fresh food.
Outcomes intended for our participants included: connecting vulnerable people to nature and wellbeing, growing food, learning cookery skills, increasing awareness of healthy eating, low cost cooking, sharing cookery skills and food stories, and bringing people together through the creative, growing and cooking processes.
The funding was also to purchase a poly tunnel to enable us to produce more fresh food all year round, working in collaboration with local partners for food distribution to the most vulnerable communities…
Click this link to read our full report and see more photos from the project.