A community development approach to improving food and health brings multiple advantages, from building on a community's strengths and assets, to building more inclusive places and providing opportunities for people to work together for mutual benefit.
Sadly Tullibody Healthy Living (THL) closed its doors in 2018, although the community garden project remains open. THL was a community-led health project where tackling health inequalities was at the heart of what it did. Set up in 2003, it was based in a small ex-mining community in Clackmannanshire.
Read ‘Tullibody Healthy Living – community engagement at its heart’ here
Perth and Kinross Healthy Communities Collaborative works with older people from specific communities, and empowers them to improve health and quality of life for themselves and their peers. Their work in Birnam and Dunkeld has developed around a focus on eating well and a healthy diet.
Read ‘Perth and Kinross Healthy Communities – older people living well’ here
Granton Community Gardeners – community development in action
How a community gardening project started from a conversation between neighbours about a small piece of unused land and has grown into a local charity hosting regular community meals and events, group gardening sessions and tuition, and a number of thriving connected projects including a bakery, a chicken co-operative, and a free-shop.
Read ‘Granton Community Gardeners – community development in action’ here