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MIDDLESBROUGH Environment City
Growing Middlesbrough is a town wide initiative to improve access to local food – that is food that has been grown or produced within 50 miles of the town. It acts as a network of local food producers, retailers and enthusiasts that work together to satisfy customer demands.
The ability to buy local food is something that is becoming of more concern to everyone right now. We are starting to care about what we eat and where it actually comes from. Whether it has been grown or produced locally, whether vegetables or meat, more people want to go local for food. It doesn’t just support the local economy, but also reduces your carbon footprint significantly.
The following website can provide you with information and more on how to get involved with Growing Middlesbrough. Whether you are a grower and/or producer of good local food, or even a local caterer looking to highlight the tastes of the region, we would be more than happy to welcome you to the family.
For over 10 years Middlesbrough has been a Fairtrade Town and has ran a full range of events and campaigns. Middlesbrough successfully renewed its Fairtrade status in March 2018.
Middlesbrough Food Power is working to tackle the rising level of food insecurity across Middlesbrough, by supporting people with effective advice, useful skills and a strong support network. Creating an easy sign posting tool and confidence throughout organisations and individuals wanting to make a change throughout Middlesbrough.
The Healthy Cooking Team deliver cooking skills to the Middlesbrough community.
The service we deliver is bespoke, addressing the needs of the organisation or community group we are working in partnership with. Sessions can include cooking on a budget, healthy eating, basic cooking skills, train the trainer sessions and Level 2 accredited food safety training. We have recently delivered a slow cooker project which has proven very popular with our residents.
We work in the community, taking equipment and resources and require only a room, hot water and washing facilities to deliver our sessions.
We work in community hubs, schools, churches and with community groups across Middlesbrough. Our aim is to teach residents how to cook nutritious meals for all the family and to deliver the healthy eating messages in a relaxed and informal way. Residents get the chance to try the food, ask questions and develop new cooking skills in a friendly atmosphere.
Breastfeeding Welcome Scheme
The team are also partners for the Breastfeeding Welcome Scheme; promoting suitable venues in the Middlesbrough area for Mothers who want to breast feed their babies without prejudice.
Look out for the Breastfeeding welcome logos displayed in and around Middlesbrough.
For more information and how to be involved in this scheme please contact our team at Middlesbrough Environment city.
Latest News
Jennys Pasta is now available in social supermarkets around Middlesbrough thanks to the extraordinarily hard work and dedication from researchers from Fuse, clinicians from Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust , Teesside University and the Middlesbrough Food Partnership alongside ourselves. Together, this amazing coalition worked with people living with SMI to develop a range of nutritious recipes that can be transformed into affordable ready meals using surplus ingredients. The first batch, Lentil Bolognese, is now available in social supermarkets across Middlesbrough.
The pilot is the culmination of earlier research into food insecurity in the North of England, as well as into how people living with SMI can be supported to access healthy, affordable food, which was hosted by Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust in collaboration with Teesside University, Newcastle University , Fuse and Equally Well UK (a collaborative hosted by the Centre for Mental Health), and funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research, as part of their NIHR Research for Patient Benefit – Mental Health in the North programme.
We are proud of the hard work done by the partners and by our phenomenal Middlesbrough Food Partnership team to make a real difference to those living with SMI and tackling food insecurity. Well done, everybody: The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, and we're proud to have taken that first step alongside you all in this initiative.
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People living with Severe Mental Illness (SMI) have created a nutritious ready meal as part of a year-long research study to tackle food insecurity and improve access to quality food in Middlesbrough.Upcoming Events
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