Wen coordinates the Tower Hamlets Food Partnership and Just FACT. It also champions community food growing projects as well as running a local Food Hub – creating a fairer, healthier and more sustainable food system.
SUSTAINABLE FOOD
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What Wen is doing
JUST FACT – a just food and climate transition
Just FACT is a five year programme, creating a blueprint for a climate-friendly food system that works better for the happiness, health and wellbeing of communities in Tower Hamlets.
limborough community food hub
Wen runs Limborough Food Hub, an integrated cook, grow and eat, community food and action hub. It empowers local people to cook, grow and eat in a way which is healthy for people and planet.
Tower Hamlets Food PARTNERSHIP
Wen coordinates a cross-sector partnership of community organisations, schools, businesses and the council. We campaign and take action so everyone in Tower Hamlets can enjoy fairer, healthier and more sustainable food system. We believe that food lies at the heart of some of the Tower Hamlets’ greatest problems and that improving our food system will be a vital part of the solution.
Tower Hamlets Food Growers
Wen has run the Tower Hamlets Food Growing Network for over 10 years, bringing together local people, landlords and community groups and gardens. Local food growing offers a more sustainable and often cheaper source of food, bringing people together in a shared attempt to reconnect with nature in an urban environment. This involves running our famous seasonal gatherings and facilitating the community seed library.
food lives programme
Wen and University of Sussex are running a 5 year research programme on the St George’s Estate, Shadwell called Food Stories Tower Hamlets. It’s all about the role food plays in our lives and the importance of history, culture and heritage to our food habits.
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Tower Hamlets Food PARTNERSHIP
Our Partnership is creating a fairer, healthier and more sustainable food system
LIMBOROUGH FOOD HUB
Limborough Food Hub, based in Poplar, East London is a thriving integrated cook, grow and eat, community food and action hub.
tower hamlets food growers
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just fact
Find out about our new programme, supporting community-led solutions for a sustainable and socially just urban food system.
food lives
Find out about this 5 year research programme working with communities towards a fairer food system in Tower Hamlets.
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Team
ELLE MCALL
JULIE YIP
REBECCA EVANS-MERRITT
SAJNA MIAH
han smith
SHAZNA HASSAIN
SHAHEDA AZIZ
Beth Summers
HUSSINA RAJA
