Events

The morning session will see new and existing members learning what's going on in the world of climate and nature in the west of Cumbria, with updates from Growing Well, Rebuild, Green Community Hubs, Friends of the Earth and Cumberland Council's Licence to Grow.

Following a complimentary lunch, Cumberland Council's waste reduction team will provide an interactive training on tackling issues around food waste at home, building on the ‘Love food, hate waste’ campaign with sessions around planning your meals, shopping, date labels, storage, batch cooking and tips for using up leftovers. This will be useful for anyone working with local communities on saving money, eating well, planning meals and reducing waste, for instance those working in adult education, community development workers, health and wellbeing officers, social prescribers, care navigators within the health service with the aim for learning to be cascaded to other organisations / individuals. Printed materials will be provided / pdfs circulated for people to use as reference materials to use in the community as part of Cumberland's sustainable food agenda. These resources could also be useful for small businesses, community centres, village halls etc.