East London Food Access
Unit 5, The Print House, 18 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL see
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020 7254 1829
East London Food Access (ELFA) is a network of co-ops, projects and
organisations involved in facilitating or promoting access to affordable
healthy food, in particular fresh fruit and vegetables.
ELFA was instigated in 2001, with support from Sustain (The Alliance
for Better Food and Farming) and City & Hackney Primary Care Trust
(Health Improvement), as an umbrella organisation aiming to represent
the interests of projects in City & Hackney and Tower Hamlets. The
Newham Food Access Partnership has been very instrumental in the development
of ELFA. We are able to benefit from their considerable knowledge and
experience.
ELFA also aims to help develop new food access projects and support
our existing members by providing information, outreach work, administrative
support, encouraging collaborative working and by tackling the key issue
of produce purchasing and delivery.
ELFA is setting up a social enterprise to offer a central produce purchasing
and delivery service for food co-ops, community food projects and school-based
initiatives (e.g. fruit tuck shops, free-fruit schemes).
Health Action Zone Funding (2002) has enabled ELFA to finance a part-time
Development Worker, Kate Smith. We are in the process of becoming more
formally constituted, as we move into the next stage of our work.
If you want more information about ELFA or to attend one of our monthly
meetings, please contact Kate on:
020 7254 1829 or
e-mail: katesmith@mailbox.co.uk
