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Sowing Seeds for Transformation – our Schools Food Growing Programme

Our Programme has been developed in partnership with the Liverpool Diocese Education Team & their Advisory Head Teacher and supports Every Child Matters, Sustainable Schools, Eco Schools & Healthy Schools. It’s exciting and rewarding for children and staff;

• Self confidence building for children

• Provides physical exercise

• Promotes increased nutrition

• A skill for life

• Supports learning

• Involves parents and community members

We offer specialised services, tailored to meet the needs of each school community. First Steps enables staff to plan and develop a sustainable food growing partnership project with considerable support from our Projects Officer. One day Workshops for the whole school community include Sowing & Planting, African Bag Gardens and Food from Around the World. Prices range from £80 for First Steps to £200 for Workshops. Working with small scale, local organisations we can also provide practical resources including plants, raised beds and African Keyhole Gardens.

St Mark’s CE Primary, Newtown: "The support that Faiths4Change have given us in establishing the community allotment at St. Mark's has been invaluable. Without that support, I suspect the project may not have got off the ground.”

Rev. Martin Duereden (School Governor)

Additional Services & Work

We are working in partnership with a number of organisations to enable them to deliver direct benefits to local communities in the North West. We are happy to discuss work we are already doing or new opportunities to work in partnership, please contact us (email link to annie@faiths4change.org.uk)

Partners & work being delivered include:

• The Environment Agency – flood risk awareness workshops in areas at risk; sustainability audits and project planning training across the North West

• Faith in Action (Department of Communities & Local Government) – the creation of a women in faith group and support to deliver faith awareness workshops in Old Trafford, Manchester

• Food4Thought a partnership project with Asylum Link Merseyside (Target Wellbeing funded) – using food; stories, recipes, cooking & growing, to enable Asylum Seekers, Refugees & indigenous communities in Liverpool to share cultures, socialise & integrate.

• Merseyside Waste Disposal Authority – creating waste awareness – delivering swap shop events, integrating Love Food Hate Waste with our schools and growing projects & community consultation on the Waste Strategy.

• Wigan Council (WC), funded by North West Together We Can – discovering & celebrating second tier faith activity in Wigan & Leigh in partnership with WC, Wigan & Leigh Faith Network, Wigan & Leigh CVS et al.

• Trafford Primary Care Trust – developing nutritional knowledge and cookery skills linked to sustainability – the initial six week course, for 12 adults, begins on 1st October in Old Trafford

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