Funded by our first Awards4All grant in 2008 the B2E Pilot Projects offered free training in Food Hygiene; Health & Safety in the Workplace etc. with CoNEL,( College of North East London ) and with our RIPH assessor, Ian Proctor and a professional caterer, Maria Law. On Fridays we had Community Groups cooking and learning together - and Saturdays from July 2008 we started to pilot the Tottenham Food Co-op.
Ruth's Pruning Workshop
On Saturday 19th July 2008 we had a Community Kitchen Open Day & Food Co-op Launch. In September 2008 we ran the Community Kitchen and Food Co-op as part of the Restore the Lordship Rec Festival all staffed by our volunteers and trainees. We were also asked to run healthy cooking sessions for young people, which we added to the mix in the 3rd Pilot series. We also run occasional Healthy Food Workshops for schools and local community groups and ran Community Action for Energy Training workshops for as long as we could afford to. From Autumn 2009 we started community gardening and local Food growing workshops on 3 plots at Creighton Road allotments N17. Initially these concentrated on clearing and preparing the ground with some horticultural construction for our hardier more experienced volunteers. We ran fruit tree and bush planting and pruning workshops on one of these sites with mature fruit trees and bushes. We now also run workshops at the Centre. Despite difficult weather conditions these were well-attended by enthusiastic regulars and we have had groups from 5 schools and 4 community groups come to help with teams from the Probation Service and BTCV.
