Our Projects
We work to raise awareness about the sustainability and social justice issues surrounding the food we eat. We do that by working hand in hand with our members who are in local geographic groups. Our scope is enlarged through replicable project models, some of which were launched first in Italy, and have since been modified and adapted to the national context with input from our member groups.
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EDUCATION
The Taste Adventure: SFUK launched The Taste Adventure at the Children’s Food Festival organised by the Northmoor Trust in South Oxfordshire in June. This interactive event is aimed at educating children on the use of the five senses when we eat and enjoy good food. A series of ‘zones’ are set up to stimulate the children’s senses through ‘touchy’, ‘smelly’, ‘noisy’, ‘tasty’ and ‘seeing’ areas, where children are encouraged to squish, spy and sniff food in its natural form. Recently two member groups implemented The Taste Adventure at their local food festivals getting great feedback from participants. The Taste Adventure is being requested at festivals and events around the country.
Slow Food on Campus: Slow Food on Campus is an initiative that offers students the opportunity to influence the direction of food systems in their Universities or higher education establishments. With the support of the Slow Food UK office students can establish on Campus groups that will host events, run fundraisers and actively promote the desire for change concerning food in their universities and surrounding communities.
Slow Food Baby: The project goal is to demonstrate how real food builds bodies, brains and community by offering parents tools and practical knowledge to help them deliver real food to their families.
Slow Food Wisdom: The project objective is to rediscover the food traditions that make up a vital part of our cultural inheritance, and to create opportunities and means to pass them on.
EVENTS
Slow Food Pavilion at the BBC Good Food Show: SFUK has a partnership with the BBC Good Food Show (GFS) to prepare and manage a Slow Food Pavilion at the shows in Glasgow, London and Birmingham where UK producers are on show and taste education workshops are offered. Producers get very reduced rates and can also apply for a bursary award for a complimentary stand in the Slow Food UK Pavilion. The combined average attendance at a BBC GFS show is over 100,000 persons; thus offering a major opportunity for those small producers selected by Slow Food to display at the shows as well as bringing “taste education” to a wider public through our taste workshops which teach how to appreciate and/or cook with the products.
Terra Madre: Terra Madre (Mother Earth) is the Slow Food global network of food communities, each committed to producing quality food in a responsible, sustainable way. SFUK manages and supports the UK Terra Madre network of stakeholders and works with our international office and members groups to bring selected stakeholders, typically producers, food educators and activists, to the Terra Madre conference. The Terra Madre forum is a bi-annual conference held in Turin, Italy. Terra Madre acts as a forum for discussion and the introduction of innovative concepts in the fields of biodiversity, gastronomy, globalisation, food security and education. It is the keystone event of our third thematic area, food communities, and representative of our work in developing countries.
BIODIVERSITY
