Social Cohesion, Community Responses to Sustainability, Food Insecurity and Alternative Food Networks. The Case of CoFarm Cambridge.
CoFarm Cambridge wins Silver Community Business of the Year Award in SME Cambridgeshire Awards.
Guardian journalist Mattha Busby approached CoFarm Cambridge for a piece which highlights communities coming together to provide food for those most at need during the pandemic.
We’re delighted that CoFarm Cambridge features so prominently in the piece and flattered to be alongside some amazing community projects all over the UK.
The national exposure has also attracted a number of enquiries about collaboration.
You can read and share the piece here.
Dear Friends,
We are delighted to announce that our agents have registered CoFarm Foundation with Companies House today - on World Food Day - to give us the best possible foundation for achieving CoFarm’s vision that, by 2030, everyone in the United Kingdom will have access to local, sustainably produced food and opportunities to enjoy growing and sharing it with others.
CoFarm Foundation - for which we will now seek charitable status by registering with the Charity Commission - will now proceed with incorporating two further wholly-owned subsidiaries:- CoFarm Cambridge - which will run the community farm off Barnwell Road in Cambridge; and CoFarm Estate Limited - which will be used to monitor and scale our collective impact across what we hope will become a rapidly growing network of community farms across the UK in the coming years.
#WorldFoodDay is important because it reminds us all that every member state of the United Nations - including the UK - has committed to eradicating hunger by 2030 - the deadline by which the Sustainable Development Goals have to be achieved if we are to ensure a sustainable future on Earth.
Hunger and malnutrition are issues that affect communities in most parts of the world, even here in Cambridge, a city celebrated for world-class innovation, economic prosperity and a thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem. Cambridge also wears another, more uncomfortable crown, as the most unequal city in the UK. This is something we can and must address together - local authorities, businesses, civil society groups and communities.
Today, we are proud to pass this important milestone in our mission to make a small contribution towards achieving #ZeroHunger and all of the other Sustainable Development Goals by our 10th Birthday in 2030.
Happy Birthday!
Love,
CoFarm Foundation
