The annual get-together for members of WEN’s Taste of a Better Future food network will have a different flavour this year. It will feature the launch of a directory of network members and presentations by some of the groups about their activities. The Local Food Networking Day is on Wednesday 8 October at the Brady Centre, East London. Presentations cover food access projects, composting food waste on an inner-city estate, transforming ‘from concrete to coriander’ and Tower Hamlets’ biodiversity plan.

Green Dreams Bromley-By-Bow Centre, East London Organic Gardeners and The Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens are among those providing stalls and displays, while Daintynak After School club will perform their latest dances and acts. Food will still feature, courtesy of members of the Coriander Club who are providing a simple lunch of vegetable curry and rice using vegetables grown by members of the network. There will also be a visit to a local food-growing garden at Spitalfields City Farm.

Taste of a Better Future Network helps ethnic minority women’s groups and other community groups and schools to develop organic food growing and composting skills. WEN’s food project is lottery-funded by the New Opportunities Fund through the Social, Economic and Environmental Development (SEED) Programme, primarily for work in Tower Hamlets.

For more information visit www.wen.org.uk/local_food or contact Caroline Fernandez, Local Food Co-ordinator, on 020 7481 9004 Fax: 020 7481 9144 or email food@wen.org.uk

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Notes to editors:
1. WEN is a national charity and membership organisation, which campaigns on environmental and health issues from a women’s perspective. It educates, informs and empowers women and men who care about the environment.

2. The WEN Local Food Networking Day is on Wednesday 8 October 10am-4.30pm at the Brady Centre, 192-196 Hanbury St. East London, E1 5HU.

3. Funding towards the event has come from The Wakefield Trust.

4. The 15.3 million SEED Programme distributes national lottery money on behalf of the New Opportunities Fund. It is managed by the Royal Society for Nature Conservation (RSNC) visit www.rsnc.org/seed

5. Reporters and photographers are welcome to attend. The best time for photos will be 10.30am for the launch of the directory, which will be followed by presentations from the groups.