Real Food Moments – My Brilliant Moment

May 17, 2016

Real Food Moments – My Brilliant Moment is a collection of short films, in which local food heroes share the moments of inspiration that galvanized their projects and encouraged them to make a difference.

Three inspirational organisations are represented in Episode 2 in which we are treated to personal accounts of “brilliant moments” in the lives  of James Smart – Co-founder of Save The Date Cafe, Maria Devereaux – project manager of Growing Health and our very own Scarlett Penn [Coordinator, WWOOF UK].

Scarlett Penn

Save the Date Cafe is East London’s first egalitarian eatery and is a member of The Real Junk Food Project. Food destined for landfill is salvaged and turned into restaurant standard cuisine which is offered on a pay-as-you-feel basis. Founded in November 2014, the Save the Date Cafe team are all volunteers (including directors) who have a passion for food and preventing waste.

Growing Health is a national project run by Garden Organic and Sustain to see how community food growing can be routinely used by the health and social care services as a way of promoting health and wellbeing.

You can watch the video on Youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cxKu8JXRhE

For further information on all the organisations mentioned in this article please follow the links below:

https://savethedate.london/

http://therealjunkfoodproject.org/

http://www.sustainweb.org/growinghealth/

http://www.sustainweb.org/

https://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/

http://www.communitychannel.org/

https://www.facebook.com/wwoofuk/

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