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Funding for Demonstration Programme of Community Food Initiatives

Healthy Food for All and safefood are establishing a sf_rgbDemonstration Programme on Community Food Initiatives and are looking for funding applications from eligible groups and organisations. As the programme has an all-island focus, a minimum of two projects will be selected from both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Between five and seven CFIs will be funded, receiving a maximum of €75,000 (£60,000) over a three year period.

Closing date for applications is 30thSeptember 2008.

The purpose of this funding is to establish a Demonstration Programme of Community Food Initiatives (CFIs) on the island of Ireland. CFIs are projects that improve the availability and accessibility of healthy food for low-income groups at a local level, using a community development approach. Each CFI will receive annual funding over a period of three years to set up, manage and sustain a project. Funding will be provided on an incremental basis over the three year period.

Questions and Answers – Essential Information on the Demonstration Programmes of CFIs

Application Form

Applications should, where possible, be completed in typescript. Any addition or supporting documents should be enclosed and posted with application form. Please answer all the questions as fully as possible.

Applications should, where possible, be completed in typescript. Any addition or supporting documents should be enclosed and posted with application form. Please answer all the questions as fully as possible.

If you require assistance on completing any aspect of this application form please do not hesitate to contact Healthy Food for All on +353 (01) 8360011 or by email info@healthyfoodforall.com

Healthy Food for All – Funding for Demonstration Programme of Community Food Initiatives.

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Growing Awareness: Local Food Production Day – West Cork

This year An Sanctoir has begun to look at community food-growing activities and is taking part in this year’s Growing Awareness farm walk programme. The guided walk will take in the An Sanctoir’s ‘Nature Trail’ which supports a wide variety of wildlife and habitat areas, and will finish in the new Forest Garden Project begun this spring. The full days’ programme will include a selection of speakers, demonstrations and activities on topics such as: Beekeeping; Working Horses: Community and Schools Gardens; Allotments and Vegetable Box Schemes; Fruit and Nut Growing; Basket Making; Seed Saving and much more.

An Sanctoir Holistic Community Centre West Cork Ireland – Workshop To Power.

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A Taste of Dear Old Skibbereen « Food Culture West Cork

A Taste of Dear Old Skibbereen

September 8, 2008 by ivanmcc

My journey to work this morning was considerably enriched by Sinead O’Connor’s beautifully direct and unadorned rendition of Dear Old Skibbereen. I had been trying to gather my thoughts on the town’s upcoming A Taste of West Cork festival and the hopelessness of the famine time as captured in the song really struck home how appropriate it is that now each year the people of Skibbereen put their hearts and hands into celebrating their food. The famine will never be forgotten but I feel that from a culinary point of view West Cork can now rightly be claimed “a pleasant place wherein a prince might dwell”, as the reminiscing father in the song recalls.

A Taste of Dear Old Skibbereen « Food Culture West Cork.

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Organic Farming Can Feed the World

A great article in the New Scientist magazine shows how Organic Farming Could Feed the World better than ‘conventional agriculture’. In particular it shows how organic farming works very well in poor countries, dispelling the myth that organic food is necessarily more expensive.

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Job: Teacher of Sustainable Development

Part-time position, for a person with experience in global agricultural production and wider sustainability issues.

Contact An tIonad Glas the Organic College Dromcollogher Co Limerick immediately. Phone 06383604 email oifig@organiccollege.com.

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